7 Hidden Features of iPod Touch

iPod is the most popular gadget in the recent years. This is well known fact that people use iPod for listening music and watching video and pictures. But there are other smart hidden features that you can use to enhance the experience of iPod.

1.If you have old machine that does not have DVD drive, you can use you iPod as an extended hard drive. You will be able to transfer documents, music and video files, photos, shared software and so much more. iPod can be loaded with system software and used as a startup disk for your Mac or to install system software on your Mac. iPod cannot be used to start up a PC.
2.Usually, I use iPod periodically to sync music files with iTune. The steps are following:
a.Open iTunes if it doesn't automatically open.
b.Select the iPod icon in the Source pane.
c.Click the Summary tab.
d.Select "Enable disk use" or "Manually manage music and videos." Either one will allow you to use iPod as a drive. If you select "Manually manage music and videos," iTunes won't automatically update iPod with the iTunes library. If you want iTunes to automatically update your iPod, select "Enable disk use" instead.
e.The iPod disk icon pops up on the desktop in Finder windows, and in My Computer/Computer in Windows. Just double-click the icon and drag files to or from iPod to your computer.
3.Your iPod can freeze if you start you computer while your iPod is connected or disconnected without taking it out from iTunes. You need to reboot the device as per the reboot instruction.
4.If you come across with any problem of your iPod, you can run diagnostic test to figure out the problems. If you are smart enough, you will be able to solve the problem.
5.The other cool feature is renaming your iPod. Select the iPod on the left hand side of the iTunes window, below Devices. Click its name again. iPod's name is highlighted. You can type a new name and hit 'Enter'.
6.The iPod contains something called Accelerometer. This lets the device know whether the disk is moving and in which direction. This is used in many games, say, to tip a ball in a certain direction. It is also used in other applications like shaking the device in order to activate some function.
7.You will be able to adjust any image in real time using iPods Motion Sensing. When you move the Ipod, the image also moves, just as your finger would if you were to slide it across, and the image gets bigger by moving the ipod closer as it would if you did the 2 finger zoom function.

My 2010 Technology Wish List

Here’s a list of some of the things I’d like to see tech-wise this year:

1. A tool that deletes profiles from all those Web 2.0 services that I’ve checked out but rarely, if ever, used over the past few years.

2. An upgrade to the iPhone’s OS that enables easy switching from app to app like the Palm Pre.

3. A new search engine that comes out of nowhere to rival Google, and doesn’t under-deliver such as Cull or Powerset.

4. New Canadian copyright laws that strike a fair balance between owners and users.

5. A lot less talk (aka hype) about Twitter, and a lot more walk (e.g. a business plan)

6. New sources of early-stage funding for Canadian high-tech entrepreneurs.

7. Some real discussion and exploration about the rise of “publicy” and the demise of “privacy”. While everyone seems to have accepted the fact that everything is now public, no one seems to really be looking at the social implications.

8. The continued emergence of alternative/green energy given Jeff Rubin’s book “Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization” has me completely spooked.

9. The end of “2.0′ or “3.0″ for anything.

10. Newspapers and magazines discover a way to stay viable so they can continue to create high-quality content and employ all the journalists who provide material used by millions of bloggers and social network users. Maybe the Kindle will be the newspaper industry’s salvation.

Finally, all the best for everyone in 2010!