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	<title>MacFocus Magazine &#187; iPods</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The App Store: A Place of Great Potential</title>
		<link>http://www.macfocusmagazine.com/2008/06/the-app-store-a-place-of-great-potential/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Flauaus</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Applications]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iPod Touch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iPods]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[App Store]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MarsEdit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The iPhone/iPod touch App Store. Talk about a place of so much potential. It could very well be where iPod users go to get in debt, along with the iTunes store. I mean, think about it: A bunch of useful (and useless) applications to go on your iPhone or iPod touch ranging from productivity to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The iPhone/iPod touch App Store. Talk about a place of so much potential. It could very well be where iPod users go to get in debt, along with the iTunes store. I mean, think about it: A bunch of useful (and useless) applications to go on your iPhone or iPod touch ranging from productivity to games. While most see it as a simple thing, I see it with one major change: Integration with your current Macs.</p>
<div class="captionleft"><a href='http://www.macfocusmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/twit.jpg'><img src="http://www.macfocusmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/twit.jpg" alt="" title="twit" width="125" height="125" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-181" /></a></div>
<p>Iconfactory recently showed of Twitterrific for the iPhone and it&#8217;s currently available on the Mac. What if there were the possibility that for $20, you could get both applications ad-free? That would be a hit because you&#8217;d essentially get the iPhone app for $5. You could then synchronize the settings on one to be on the other. If you&#8217;re on the go and don&#8217;t like how your iPhone displays the tweets, change it on the fly and the changes will automatically adapt to your Mac.</p>
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<p>Another possibility in my mind would be the marvelous blogging app, MarsEdit. If Red Sweater Software were to release an iPhone application, you could easily write articles on the go. In the car and have a random thought? Just grab your iPhone or iPod touch. If you have connectivity (whether it be GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, or WiFi), you can instantly post to your blog. Perhaps your in a keynote conference and you want to do a live-blog? This could be an excellent way of blogging instead of having to lug around your laptop.</p>
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<p>A final idea would be the oh-so-interesting game, Spore. This may very well be planned out, but if you could sync your creatures and worlds between your iPhone and Mac, you could very well have the next Nintendo DS or Tamogachi on your hands. Continuing your virtual evolution with your creature on the go could be very addictive and cause more people to run into streetlights. While it&#8217;s not a possibility yet, if the iPhone/iPod touch were able to create an ad-hoc network over WiFi, your characters could roam around to other Spore Mobile users&#8217; worlds and others come into your worlds. The possibility is there, the technology just needs to be put in place.</p>
<p>The App Store is a very cool thing that will definitely be big and something to follow once it&#8217;s released. Let&#8217;s just hope that developers play their cards right.</p>
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		<title>New iTunes ad is just as awesome as usual</title>
		<link>http://www.macfocusmagazine.com/2008/06/new-itunes-ad-is-just-as-awesome-as-usual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Holat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[iPods]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iTunes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iTunes Store]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Coldplay Ad]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iPod]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iPod Commercial]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[iTunes Song]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Viva La Vida]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apple released another iTunes ad this week, and this time it features Coldplay&#8217;s new song Viva La Vida (Live the Life).  As usual, this song was almost instantly sent to the top of the charts in iTunes, with only two of the American Idol David Cook&#8217;s songs above it.  This ad is one of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apple released another iTunes ad this week, and this time it features Coldplay&#8217;s new song Viva La Vida (Live the Life).  As usual, this song was almost instantly sent to the top of the charts in iTunes, with only two of the American Idol David Cook&#8217;s songs above it.  This ad is one of the best I have ever seen, not just because of the song choice, but because it has some awesome graphical displays.  There are a lot of colors as usual, but this time the effects introduce more pop, such as some cool smoke effects.</p>
<p>The strength iTunes possesses in the digital media market place is growing every day.  It seems like almost every time a certain song is featured in a hip new iTunes ad, that song instantly sells thousands of more copies.  I don&#8217;t know what it is, but that takes a strong user base and high attention to achieve if you ask me.  Congratulations to Coldplay for getting their song in this new ad, I hope they are enjoying all the money they made off of this, I know I would be!</p>
<p>Link to &#8220;Viva la Vida&#8221; iTunes Ad: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgCHb4hBiRI">Click here</a></p>
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		<title>Review: iPod Shuffle</title>
		<link>http://www.macfocusmagazine.com/2008/05/review-ipod-shuffle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 05:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris G</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Shuffle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iPods]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iPod]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As some of you may know, I have given my mom a shiny new Purple iPod Shuffle! So I figured I could do a quick Review on it from her view.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy Mother&#8217;s day to everyone! As some of you may know, I have given my mom a shiny new Purple iPod Shuffle! So I figured I could do a quick Review on it from her view.</p>
<p>First of all, she loved the fact where there wasn&#8217;t a screen, which made everything a ton less complicated. We also, figured out, that the iPod Headphones that come with it, give a greater sound quality then my iLuv Headphones. So if you don’t want to pay $100 for Bose headphones, stick with the original white headphones because their probably the best quality you can get for cheapo headphones.</p>
<div class="captionleft"><a href="http://www.macfocusmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/ipod-shuffle-001.jpg"></a><a href="http://www.macfocusmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/ipod-shuffle-004.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-95" src="http://www.macfocusmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/ipod-shuffle-004-300x200.jpg" alt="My Mom\'s new Purple iPod Shuffle!" width="300" height="200" /></a></div>
<p>Second, the clip-on idea is great for working out or On-The-Go. It&#8217;s very functional and easy. It&#8217;s also great for cooking, cleaning, driving, or whatever!  Also, the colors are very nice, chill, relaxing, and soothing.</p>
<p>One of the things that wasn&#8217;t very enjoyable was there was no Repeat which kind of sucked. Every time you want to keep a song repeating, you have to press the back button. Though, you do get used to it pretty quickly.</p>
<p>Over all, the iPod Shuffle is great if you’re always on the go. It’s very simple just to clip on and go! The Prices are cheap and have gone down. The iPod shuffle is also very great for those of you who don’t really know how to work an iPod or aren’t very Technical. Out of 5 stars, I give the iPod Shuffle a 5!</p>
<p>I uploaded a video to YouTube but it&#8217;s not up yet but it&#8217;s a video of me Unboxing the iPod Shuffle so click here and look for the video.</p>
<p>Look for the video here:<a href="http://www.youtube.com/ichrisproductions">www.youtube.com/ichrisproductions</a></p>
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		<title>The iPod Shuffle</title>
		<link>http://www.macfocusmagazine.com/2008/05/the-ipod-shuffle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 05:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris G</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Shuffle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iPods]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iPod]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iPod Shuffle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The new and improved, iPod Shuffle. At first, Apple introduced the long and skinny White Only iPod Shuffle. Then they squished it a bit and made it the aluminum or metallic type material and the color was changed to silver. Also, it was upgraded from 500 MB to 1 GB. And now, there is a variety of colors, 2 GB, and a Price Drop?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The new and improved, iPod Shuffle. At first, Apple introduced the long and skinny White Only iPod Shuffle. Then they squished it a bit and made it the aluminum or metallic type material and the color was changed to silver. Also, it was upgraded from 500 MB to 1 GB. And now, there is a variety of colors, 2 GB, and a Price Drop?</p>
<p>Yep! There has been a Price Drop on the 1 GB and now the new 2 GB! The 1 GB was dropped from $80 to $50 and the 2 GB is now $70. The 1 GB Shuffle holds 240 Songs and the 2 GB Shuffle holds 500 Songs. Perfect for a jog, working out, school, work, whatever!</p>
<p>The iPod Shuffle and the iPod Nano are the currently only iPods that come with more than 2 colors. The iPod Shuffle comes in many cool and relaxing metallic colors such as silver, light blue, light green, light purple, and the darkish red (&#8221;Product (RED)&#8221;).</p>
<p>One of the new features on the new Shuffles instead of the very first one is that it is a small clip-on iPod so you can cling it on to your purse, pants, collar, nose, or whatever! There is also a new shuffle switch so you can just switch it when you want to shuffle your songs or have it play all the playlists/albums the way you synced them on iTunes,</p>
<p>So now you know some cool facts about the iPod Shuffle. Enjoy.</p>
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		<title>Why the iPod touch?</title>
		<link>http://www.macfocusmagazine.com/2008/04/why-the-ipod-touch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Fellows</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[iPod Touch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iPods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When the iPhone was released, its claim to fame was enormous--greater than that of any other mobile device that I've ever seen. Now, as a non-AT&#38;T mobile user, the iPod touch is my main mobile device. I use it even more often than I use my cell phone, which is definitely making a statement. Here are just two main points of why the iPod touch has made my life easier all around.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">When the iPhone was released, its claim to fame was enormous&#8211;greater than that of any other mobile device that I&#8217;ve ever seen. Now, as a non-AT&amp;T mobile user, the iPod touch is my main mobile device. I use it even more often than I use my cell phone, which is definitely making a statement. Here are just two main points of why the iPod touch has made my life easier all around.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Firstly, I can access the web from virtually anywhere. Now, obviously saying that I can access it anywhere would be false, because there isn’t an open Wi-Fi network regardless of where you are. But, I’m fortunate enough to almost always be near a free wireless connection, which allows me to reach into my pocket to check my email, read feeds, get movie times, or do pretty much anything without having to yank out my laptop and spend a few extra minutes firing it up and shutting it down. Convenience is key, and I find myself having extra time for working and socializing when I don’t have to waste time fiddling with gadgets that I really don’t need. The iPod is quick and simple; even if it saves me only a few minutes every day, those are a few minutes that didn’t go to waste.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Secondly, its calendar is much more handy and accessible than my mobile phone’s. I’m a Windows user by circumstance, so my enV on Verizon is not the most convenient device in the world if I’m in need of accessing dates and events online or on my laptop. Instead, I use the iPod touch. Most people are bound to say, “Why on Earth would you need a calendar on your iPod?” but they obviously don’t own an iPod touch. Syncing with Outlook is a snap—especially since the calendar function is the only feature of Outlook that I use—and syncing Outlook with Google Calendar is just as easy, thanks to Google’s <a href="http://www.macfocusmagazine.com" target="_blank">program</a>. Not having to carry around a giant agenda with me at all times is an experience that I’d never like to go through again, especially when I’ve got an absurd number of due dates and appointments to keep track of. The two devices that no one will ever catch me without are my mobile phone and iPod, so why wouldn’t it be perfectly natural to both have a calendar feature?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, aside from the gorgeous interface and obvious thinness of it, these are my two main reasons for paying $399 plus tax—a fortune for many people— for a 16GB device… excluding, of course, the really fantastic people that I meet based on conversations that start with, “Oh my gosh… that’s really pretty. Is that one of those iPods?”</p>
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