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iPod Touch: Pros and Cons

Leyla Useini — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:07:28 +0000

The new ipod touch is something that is good to have in your purse. It’s no longer just a media player as the “ipod” name suggests, it’s further more than that, it represents an Apple’s handheld computing platform, supported by a huge and still growing third- party community. Thanks to Apple’s iTunes Apps Store this device turned into a full-fledged mobile computer with tens of thousands and more third-party applications available. But nothing is perfect, so lets see the pros and cons of this device, according to the users of the iPod :

Pros:

• Least expensive entry to revolutionary mobile Apple platform

• Huge apps ecosystem; works as PDA, Wi-Fi wielding media player, game and application platform

• Very good performance

• Speaker and volume controls

• Graphics enhancements, improved accessibility, higher capacity, a faster processor

• Attractive, your friend will desire one too, it will entertain you, nice to touch

• Light weight, convenient, quite powerful, can do must of the stuff that you need on a laptop

• Tons of features, lots of apps and accessories, superb screen and touch capabilities, good sound, excellent selection of cases, carriers and accessories

• Offers great quality on the video and games, the game console itself its genius, its like a computer with billions keyboards

• Web access and dead easy hook up to wireless hotspots, great web browser

Cons :

• Incompatible with many older ipod accessories

• Lacks camera

• Bluetooth very limited

• Lack of refinements to its audio quality, hardware design, and video playback live just a little bit uninspired

• Very inconvenient to move things around

• Battery life can be improved

• Cant watch videos from most sites other than youtube

• No video flash

• No radio

• The price

What is for sure, is that you can enjoy playing your favorite ipod touch games with great quality. We introduce you the top 10 free and amazing games for your ipod: 1. Pac-Man Lite, 2.Jelly Car, 3.Tap Tap Revenge 2, 4. iBowl, 5.Cannon Challenge, 6.Labyrinth Lite Edition, 7.Lux Touch, 8.Tic Tac Free, 9.Sol Free Solitaire,10. Brain Toot Free.

The great choice of games and the finding that the ipod touch is the only device than the iPhone that works on Apple’s mobile application platform is a reason more to bye one.

Cheapest iPod Shuffles

paknetsolutions — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:38:28 +0000

Cheapest iPod Shuffles
What do you look for in an iPod shuffle ? It could be that you value the brand name more than anything else. It could also be that its color holds the greatest appeal to you; whichever the case, you need to get this few facts right before you go shopping your next one.
The greatest merits of the iPod shuffle include the voice over feature – which announces what you are listening to – and the many colors from which you can make your pick. The feature from which it derives its name enables it to compile a shuffled playlist from your music library; choosing your favorite need not pose a problem they all are your favorites. It is the tiniest mp3 player available and also the lightest in weight; you could hang it around your neck and enjoy your choice tunes as you go about your activities.
It offers the best solution to anyone whose main interest in an iPod is music but also provides support for podcasts and audio books. It also comes with remote control on the headphone cable.
The sleek gadget will only set you back a few pounds and an iPod price comparison could see you get the best bargain.
If you compare iPod shuffle to other gadgets of the same caliber, you realize that it not only offers superior eye appeal; it also gives you much better quality sound. The iPod shuffle 1 GB can store about 120 songs and may cost you from as little as £39.
Compared to other models of iPods, this one comes with greater ease of portability. How? Think of it this way, the iPod is meant to be a portable entertainment unit; but when you have spent so much on it, you may prefer to leave it at home or place it aside during activities that pose a risk to it. It becomes so precious to you that its portability is greatly limited. But with this low cost iPod shuffle, carrying it all the time won’t be that much of a problem.
When you set out to buy one, you definitely want a store that offers you the entire range of iPod shuffles in terms of capacity and otherwise; whether you want the green color iPod shuffle or any other of the 6 available colors, you should be able to get it from your chosen consumer electronics store.

Reiner Knizia Games On iPod Touch

Leyla Useini — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:24:20 +0000

Reiner Knizia is a German games designer who has won numerous awards and is known for having developed his first game at the tender age of six. He has designed well over 500 games; he is highly acclaimed as a designer, having won the Deutscher Spiele Preis four times. Knizia has also designed various game applications specifically for the iPhone & iPod touch, including Monumental, Roto and Robot Master.

Knizia is truly a versatile game designer, with having designed games from most categories like: small two-player card games, children’s games, simple games, sophisticated games, and even a live-action roleplaying game.

Most of Knizia’s games tend not to try to model a specific environment, but instead try to invoke the thought and decision-making processes that are key to the theme. In this game-world the players are always attempting to price risk.

Some of his most famous games are: Amun-Re winner of the Deutscher Spiele Preis 2003, Kingdoms Winner of the Origins Award for Best Abstract Board Game of 2002, Blue Moon, Keltis winner of the Spiel des Jahres 2008, Lord of the Rings winner of the Spiel des Jahres 2001 special prize for best use of literature in a game, Lost Cities winner, International Gamers Award 2000 for Best 2-player strategy game and many more.

But let’s get back to Knizia’s ipod touch games:

Monumental

On a first sight this game seems simple enough, the goal in this game is to complete each horizontal row with matching tiles like: the same symbol, the same color, a perfect pair of two out of three tiles and the same number of symbols, the more of these you match in a row the more points you get.

Roto

The rules here are simple to understand so anyone can play, but mastering all the challenges and planning ahead to use the best possible combinations is harder than it may seem. You can pause and resume whenever it suits you.

Robot Master

Take turns placing numbered cards down on a 5 x 5 grid to score lines both vertically and horizontally. The scores for each line are determined by the sum of the cards.

At the end the one thing you need to remember, is that Reiner Knizia’s games are a lot let simple then you give them credit.