Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The Ipod Nano 3rd Generation Review

Evolution and not revolution is to be considered in the case of the nano video 8GB blue; this winning gadget has conquered the current market and every user is no stranger when it comes to this amazing device. One can also have a glimpse of all the existing changes that are coming along the new device that feels as being a little mouse when compared to the previous gadgets. Every user will start marveling at all the little touches that are required in order to make this device work according to its own instructions; its slideshow is cool and every viewer will allow himself to watch the drifting images. The images can be drifted slowly in order for the viewer to see everything. A substantial redesign was provided in order for the iPod to accommodate the video playback and the new games. Despite all these changes, the IPod nano 3rd generation review states that the iPod remains one of the thinnest and smallest devices. Its MP3 player is designed in an exquisite manner too. I t is also one of the most affordable devices that are to be found on the current market.

The redesign of the nano video 8Gb blue has its own amount of criticism; many detractors are likely to call it chubby. The device is also blamed for looking squat and awkward; but all this reservation is not to be taken too seriously because the latest iPod makes the previous one look like a real skyscraper. Its brighter screen is one of its best features because the users have always searched for larger screens that can provide them with a full display of the main menu. The menu system has been changed; one striking change resides in the split-screen menu that allows the user to have a full display of images and information. The iPod can also be used as a support for the video playback; despite its small size, this phone can support different features that are to be found in larger devices that are twice its size. The video games may have their own support thanks to the new features that have been added to the iPod. Handy ways of spending the spare time will be provided to t he user but he should not expect his iPod to compete with major play stations.

The IPod nano 3rd generation review shows that the latest iPod may include all the small touches that can be easily missed; the music shuffle function is also included on this list because it has a experienced a subtle evolution. The user will be let to easily engage and disengage from the existent shuffle function; few presses will be needed in order to achieve that and the user will have to use the center button of the iPod. All the shuffle setting alternatives and options are placed in every songs window thus giving you the possibility to randomize all the songs until you have found the desired one. This may be considered as a true lazy listeners dream and this dream has become true.

But the audio file format has not been changed; but the copy-protected files are supported regardless of the purchased iPod. The iPod has unique requirements when it comes to the files management but the manual addition is also allowed. You can add or even delete the files you want without having to face the hassles that is usually related to the play list syncing. Some additional features are planned for the models to come. The future iPod will include some unique abilities such as the one that regards the use of the headphone jack. The headphone jack will be used as a video output with composite features. Videos and photos will be played right to the users television set without the need of having the third-party interface. Eventually, the little used features will be removed in order to reduce the construction costs.

The sound quality when it comes to the nano video 8Gb blue is questionable; it still sounds as if the iPod is in the middle of the road. The sound quality is quite middling but this does not seem the affect the number of sales. On the contrary, the latest iPod remains one of the best selling products. Every user will notice that the video performance of this device has actually stolen the entire show; but he is likely to prefer watching the full-length movie on larger screens. Still, the video experience that is provided by the iPod must be enjoyed. All the existent features may convince you to upgrade your present iPod; the latest model is likely to satisfy all your needs when it comes to the video possibilities that have been designed in order to make all the small touches available to you.





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Monday, April 29, 2013

How to switch from webOS to iPhone and iPad

While HP may not have killed webOS when it cancelled webOS hardware, it certainly stuck the knife in it and twister really, really hard and every webOS user, Palm loyalist, and PreCentral.net reader felt it. Some might choose to stick with it, to see if HP's incompetence can somehow be turned around by a forward thinking, hardware genius licensor, but others might have finally had enough. If you're one of those, the dedicated, the abused, we think Apple's iOS and iPhone and iPad hardware might be the perfect thing to salve your wounds and restore your sense of gadget wonder.

We've got 960640 retina displays, easy-peasy FaceTime video calling, high quality 5 megapixel, back-illuminated camera that shoots 720p 30fps video, the massive update that's iOS 5 just down the road. And hey, if you're worried about moving over your personal data like contacts, finding apps, getting used to the differences, and wondering where to get help Relax. You're in the the right place. Here's everything you need to know (more properly, everything the TiPb iPhone Forums have taught us) about switching to iPhone and iPad.

webOS to iPhone home coming

When half of Apple's original iPhone team left for Palm to make the webOS, maybe you went with them? Or maybe you're a loyalist who stuck with Palm from Treo to Pre or Centro to Pixi or Veer and never even considered an iPhone until now? No worries. You'll feel right at home. Mostly.

The biggest similarity between iOS and webOS is that they both share a sense of design of taste and elegance, of great user interface and experience. webOS certainly handles many things better, including the brilliant Card and Stack metaphors, but overall iOS is clean, consistent, and arguably has the best fit and finish in the business.

But taste only matters if you can get your stuff done.

Moving over contacts, calendars, and email

Hopefully if you're using something called webOS your personal info is all store up in the cloud. If so, you should have no trouble getting it onto your iPhone. Just like the pioneering Pre, iOS 4 can handle multiple ActiveSync accounts, including Exchange proper as well as Google Sync's implementation for Gmail. Just tap the Settings icon on the Home Screen, tap Mail, Contacts, and Calendars, choose Exchange, and enter your credentials.

If ActiveSync isn't to your fancy, you can tap Other and set up pretty much any POP3 or IMAP account you have in your collection, and MobileMe, Yahoo!, AOL, Hotmail, and anything else you can think of.

You can also load up any webmail account you like in the Safari web browser, including gmail.com, if that's how you want to roll.

And you can access all of it in iOS 4s unified inbox and threaded email client.

What about Synergy and Cards?

There's nothing as stupendous as Synergy built into iOS yet. Though the previously mentioned Exchange, Google, and MobileMe contacts, calendars, and email can live together in quasi-synergistic fashion, they're still all masters of their own separate domains. If you install the Facebook app you can get some contact sync going on there as well (as can LinkedIn and other social apps). Other apps, like Orbitcan pull together your Facebook, Twitter, SMS, email, etc. contacts and let you assign different "volumes" to them so you can manage the level of interruption.

iOS has a highly abstracted version of multitasking that, for mainstream users, would be indistinguishable from the real thing were it not for the great battery life and overall snappiness. Rather than Cards, you double click the Home button and the fast app switcher UI appears so you can quickly get to other apps (which can now save state so you go back to where you left them). But hey, if you find yourself missing Cards, just launch the Safari browser and hit the icon for Page view. It's visually almost identical, though it lacks the ability to flick a page away to remove it.

And yes, since iOS 4, navigation, VoIP, and streaming music Pandora or Slacker-style can all multitask away blissfully in the background.

Finding other apps (and games)

HPwebOS is the most developer friendly platform in the business bar none. They make Google seem closed and stodgy by comparison. But what Apple lacks in free-as-in-speech open App Store gates, they make up for in sheer tonnage of free-as-in-beer App Store goodness. And often at dollar store prices. Sure, there's a lot of CrApps in with those apps, but with hundreds of thousands and growing there's also a huge amount of incredibly good, incredibly native, apps and games.

As Steve Jobs himself will tell you, Apple also supports HTML5 as a second, completely open platform. And they support it better than any other platform you can even add them as icons to the iOS Home Screen so they're full on first class citizens, complete with no browser chrome and offline cashing. If you can't find something in the App Store, chances are you can find it as a web app for the iPhone.

Root meet Jailbreak

There's no manufacturer supported rooting on iPhone, and no ultra-cool Konami code to enter developer mode, and no encouraged patching of any kind. (Apple says "stop it" and would give the EFF noogies if they could.)

If you want to get into the root jail of your iPhone, you need to break it hence, Jailbreak. If you want to side load apps outside the App Store, you need to use the Jailbreak app store, Cydia. Now, if you don't understand what any of this means, just skip along to the next section, we'll be there waiting. If you're a diehard themer and patcher, you'll want to keep your eyes peeled to our Jailbreak section, and more importantly our Jailbreak Help Forum, and Jailbreak Apps, Games, and Themes Forum.

No. More. Keyboard.

You won't be able to shave or cut cheese with the iPhone keyboard because it's virtual. If you believe the urban legend, former Palm CEO, Jon Rubenstein, back when he was still a VP at Apple, vigorously disagreed with Steve Jobs about the iPhone not having a physical keyboard. Hence, the Pre and Veer both have physical keyboards.

And that's okay. Just not on the iPhone. Apple likes their keys virtual so they go away when you don't need them (without creaking, oreo'ing, popping batteries, or coming to the rescue when virtual keyboards just won't do). On the plus side, if you're multilingual or international, the iPhone keyboard can easily be switched to any alphabet, script, stroke, or pictographic symbol you want to use. It can also become optimized for numbers, games, or pretty much anything you (technically, a developer) can think of.

Best of all, if you really miss your physical keyboard,you can tether up a Bluetooth one and knock email and yourself out.

Welcome back, iTunes

Remember back when Palm was trying and ultimately failing to hack the Pre into iTunes? Us neither. Anyway, with iPhone, you're a first (and only) class citizen with full keys to Apple's media kingdom. Enjoy.

Oh, hi iCloud

You may have dismissed iOS before because of the iTunes tether. Come October, Apple's cutting the cord to iTunes.

Now you'll still be able to tether up for re-charging, or syncing giant movie files, but you don't have to. Everything, from activation to backup, storing files to push them out, will happen transparently with batteries-company.com.

If that's not enough, you can find apps that let you access your Google Docs, DropBox, Box.net, and other online storage. You can even convert and stream content on the fly with apps like Air Video.

Combine that with the built in AirPlay and an Apple TV and you won't believe what you can do

Notification Center

webOS rules the roost with their elegant, non-interuptive, notification system. Compared to that utopia, iOS 4 notifications are some bizarre UI hell we'll likely be immolating in until the next major OS update.

But iOS 5 is on it's way, and its bringing with it Notification Center which should ease your transition a lot. (Hey, Apple stole the guy who invented webOS notifications to work on it!) If you're switching today, you'll have a few weeks of pain, but then things will get better.





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Sunday, April 28, 2013

When New Apple TV Meets PowerPoint Presentation

As its description defined by Wikipedia, "Apple TV is a digital media receiver made and sold by Apple Inc. It is a small form factor network appliance designed to play digital content originating from the iTunes Store, Netflix, YouTube, Flickr, MobileMe or any Mac OS X or Windows computer running iTunes onto an enhanced-definition or high-definition widescreen television."

As the second-generation Apple TV was unveiled together with new iPod nano, iPod touch, and iPod shuffle during the Apple press conference in September of 2010, the definition of Apple TV will be re-defined again.

Comparing with the original Apple TV, the new device has been redesigned to be about 80 percent smaller than the previous generation. The price of the new model is $99, less than half of the older price. In addition, it is newly equipped with a built-in power supply, but stays cool without a fan, so it's a noise-proof device.

After downloading the Remote app free from the App Store, you can control Apple TV using your iPhone or iPod touch. After a short while, you can stream music, photos, and video all from your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch with AirPlay.

On the other hand, video rendering capability on the new device has been cut down to 720p from 1080p, which may annoy quite a lot of long time users. Local and USB storage have been removed from the new device, and the whole process will work over cloud. Therefore, the new Apple TV will now require you to keep your computer or Wi-Fi turned on the whole time when you watch your movie on TV.

Just with the power cord plugged into the wall and Apple TV connected to your widescreen TV using an HDMI cable, HD movie and TV show rentals play over the Internet to your widescreen TV. You can also browse and play YouTube videos, watch your favorite HD podcasts, and listen to Internet radio through your home entertainment speakers. Apple TV even lets you access Flickr photos and MobileMe galleries.

What's more, you can add some life to the party with a photo slideshow. Select an album, pick a slideshow theme, and finish it off with a soundtrack featuring music from your iTunes library.

You can also create a PowerPoint presentation on your PC first, select exquisite PowerPoint templates, insert background narration, music and pictures as necessary, add transitions and animations to the sides peculiar to PowerPoint. And then, you can convert the slideshow to video or burn it to DVD with some professional PowerPoint converters (for example, Moyea PPT to DVD Burner, which integrate PPT to Video, PPT to DVD and PPT to HD DVD applications in one set.) to share your happy times with your family and friends.

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Saturday, April 27, 2013

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Friday, April 26, 2013

IPhone 5 Unlock and iPhone 5 Jailbreak solution

One should know all the necessary precautions before he goes in for the iphone 5 jailbreak, as it will help you to save a lot of money.

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

IPhone 5 Jailbreak To Be Demonstrated Live By ‘p0sixninja' At MyGreatFest When It Release's This Fall

In accordance to Craig Fox, planner of MyGreatFest, a London-based iPhone-related festival, iPhone 5 jailbreak could perhaps be brought out the instant the festival commences, on September seventeenth, if the progressive handset is indeed announced in August, as it was disclosed originally.The modern iPhone 5 jailbreak shall supposedly be made by Joshua Hill, commonly known as @p0sixninja on Twitter, the developer of the GreenPois0n tool.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

IPhone 5 Jailbreak - Jailbreak Your iPhone 5 Now!

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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

IPod With Multi Touch 64Gb

You maybe ask your self, how is that possible to get free stuff on the internet. Well, here is the short and simple explanation... Apple is paying on lot of sites to advertise them, so that sites(like peerfly.com ...) take the money, and they make offers for their users who actualy advertise apple (people like me). You can say that i am actualy working for PeerFly, but i just spreading the news about Apple`s products, and when the people click over my link, i get bonus (about 1,5-3$ for each click), and You get iPhone, iPod, iPad, iMac, or whatever you choose... I get the money from peerfly, peerfly get the money from Apple, and Apple gives free a few phones and computer, but thet products become famous and in the next few years they sell a million of that products (iPhone, iPod, iMac and stuff like that...)!

I hope this helps! This offer won`t take for a long time, it`s just couple of months from now! So take your chance now, you just have to click on the link below and submit your e-mail! And thas it! Apple will sent you an email with detailed information how to take yours, in this case, new Apple iPod!
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About iPod Touch:

iPod touch has an all-new design that makes it the thinnest, lightest, most amazing iPod touch ever. Holding one is all the proof you need. With its curved design, iPod touch is now a mere 7.2 millimeters thin. Its engineered glass front and stainless steel back feel sleek and smooth in your hand. Turn it on, and you're instantly blown away by the brilliant Retina display. iPod touch is the perfect combination of stunning design and revolutionary technology -- brilliant from the outside in.

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Monday, April 22, 2013

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You maybe ask your self, how is that possible to get free stuff on the internet. Well, here is the short and simple explanation... Apple is paying on lot of sites to advertise them, so that sites(like peerfly.com ...) take the money, and they make offers for their users who actualy advertise apple (people like me). You can say that i am actualy working for PeerFly, but i just spreading the news about Apple`s products, and when the people click over my link, i get bonus (about 1,5-3$ for each click), and You get iPhone, iPod, iPad, iMac, or whatever you choose... I get the money from peerfly, peerfly get the money from Apple, and Apple gives free a few phones and computer, but thet products become famous and in the next few years they sell a million of that products (iPhone, iPod, iMac and stuff like that...)!

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About iPod Nano:

Your greatest hits. And taps. And swipes
The best things in life have a soundtrack, and that's where iPod nano shines. The Multi-Touch display lets you experience your music in a new way. Tap to play anything you want to hear. Swipe the Home screen to browse your music by songs, albums, artists, playlists, genres, or composers. You can even rearrange the icons on your Home screen so your music is organized just how you like.

Clip on some tunes
With the new built-in clip, you can walk, run, ride, or dance with your favorite songs on your sleeve (or pocket, jacket, or bag). The album art of the song you're listening to fits perfectly on the display.
Play all day. And all night.
The built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery gives you up to 24 hours of nonstop music. So when you clip on an 8GB or 16GB iPod nano, you'll have plenty of tunes to make it through your commute, your workout, and beyond.

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Sunday, April 21, 2013

iPhone and iPad Application Development: Applications and Designs Suiting the Modern Business

Nowadays, mobile sets are not a medium of telecommunication, but have become one of the potential tools having additional functionalities. Customized iphone Application can be developed using iPhone SDK platform. This has greatly improved the performance of iPhones. iPhone OS is the most powerful & advanced mobile operating system for developing powerful iPhone applications.

There are many firms which are involved in making iPhone Applications to make them customized iPhones. Advanced mobile applications provide the users with a number of friendly applications suiting the modern business requirements and satisfying them to the optimum extent. With leveraging technology, the expert developers make innovative iPhone applications that connect the idea to business. With sophisticated iPhone Application Development tools we can create world-class applications and design optimized web sites for iPhone. iPhone Mobile Application Development include iPhone Web Application Development, iPhone Business Development, iPhone Games Development, iPhone SDK Development, iPhone Social Networking Development and iPhone CMS Development. They successfully completed the industry projects within the defined time limits with their proven efficiency.

They tend to build the world's most innovative mobile operating system with easy user-interface design and develop scalable iPhone applications. iPhone Application Development that proves to be a big success to the users with a fine set of feasible solutions & latest applications.

iPad has proved as a revolutionary device which has launched in the mobile market. It is re-named as the larger version of iPhone as it has a wide look of the multi-touch screen. This screen gives its users, huge display of the features and applications turning it to an exclusive new device. The in-built apps of ipad give to users. iPad Application Development has been a brilliant invention. It supports a lot many new applications and works just the same as a modern desktop computer. The users get the wide touch screen while it takes the concept of computer to next level.

Different applications are made using the distinctive features of iPad are:

iPad Games Applications Development

iPad Multimedia Applications Development

iPad Travel Applications Development

iPad Utility Applications Development

iPad Entertainment Applications Development

iPad E-Books Application Development

iPad Social Networking Application Development

iPad's talented developers extend it's application architecture and built a complete user-friendly application for the ease of users. It comes with simple and quick business applications with huge number of technical apps. As iPad is a target for apps starting from desktop applications to iPhone applications, the developers design highly creative iPad applications with the changing needs of audience. iPad Application developers have profound experience in making apps related to various fields such as business, entertainment, games, web connectivity, email, ebooks, publishing videos, etc.

Along with iPhone Application & iPad Application Development, the application development companies also make BlackBerry Application Development, Symbain Application Development, Windows Mobile Application Development, J2ME based Mobile Application Development and Android Application Developer . All these mobile are also built with new applications from simple application level to complex application levels. By receiving the best and topmost quality apps, users get excellent applications to explore through various devices.





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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Will there be any iSync replacement for Mac OS X Lion?

As you probably know, Mac OS X Lion has been released recently. This was a great upgrade with numerous new options and features. Mac users all over the world were eagerly waiting for this release. But Mac OS X Lion lacks one plugin - good old iSync.

If you are one of those, who used iSync to sync data between Mac and your mobile - you may ask - "Will there be any iSync replacement for Mac OS X Lion?"

Our answer is "Yes"! There are numerous sync tools offered on the web, but today we would like to highlight SyncMate (mac.eltima.com/sync-mac.html).

This handy sync tool by Eltima allows syncing your Mac with Android 1.x and 2.x mobiles and tablets, Windows Mobile 5, 6, 6.1 and 6.5 phones and Pocket PCs, Nokia S40 running phones. So, if your mobile runs any mentioned above operating system, you will be able to sync data in it with your Mac even if it is running Mac OS X 10.7.

Multiple tests proved that SyncMate is compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 so you can check out its Free edition which syncs contacts and calendars between your Mac and any of the mentioned above devices. Expert options may differ for each device (depends on OS your device is running) and allow syncing images, videos, music, folders, Notes, Tasks, bookmarks, manage SMS messages on Mac, installing applications on your mobile directly from your Mac and lots more.

Besides mentioned above mobiles, SyncMate also allows syncing your Mac with iPhones, iPods, iPads, Dropbox or Google accounts, other Mac or Windows computers, any mounted storage devices, Sony PSP and offers online storage for backing up your vital data.

All of these devices are synced within one app and you do not need to purchase several sync solutions for each device.

As you can see, one SyncMate can replace several synchronization tools for Mac as offers numerous sync options for different devices. It will help you keep your data up to date between Mac and your mobile, online account or portable devices.

System Requirements:
SyncMate is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 and higher. Device compatibility: Android 1.x, 2.x; Windows Mobile 5.0, 6.0, 6.1, 6.5; series 40-based Nokia (phones with Bluetooth only); PSP (running Firmware 2.7.1 or higher); Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 running MS Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010, iPod Nano (tested with 3rd and 5th generations), iOS 3 and iOS 4 (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad).





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Friday, April 19, 2013

Music Players FAQ

!??iPod Touch sound out??!?
Does anyone know if apple are planning on releasing more applications for the ipod touch? They released some in january which I bought (eg communication, notes, map, stocks, weather) but I was wondering if they would do this again and bring out games etc. Also, are nearby any specific web apps that you'd recommend for the ipod touch? Thanks

!Need help out transfering flash drive music to ipod!?
i'm computer illiterite so ill try to construct this short. i put in the flash drive, i open up the file near the songs in chronicle form. Then i hit import on my itunes, a box comes up and i open out up the file from the f drive, adjectives the songs are listed in that but here's where i'm lost, i cant chose any function save for "open" from the box, it wont import to itunes. within the past ive select "play" and i believe it add to itunes but following when i try to play the song it states cannot f ind. i hope this makes sense, call for advice please

$65 worth of itunes for Dutch auction!?
i have received a $15 and $50 itunes card for gifts. but i no longer hold an ipod, it broke. now i hold an MP3 player and have no want for the cards. Im willing to get rid of them for a very cheap price of $20. Anyone know where on earth or how i could do that?

<Ipod Nano 3G owners only> Is this a adjectives problem?
I imported 3 songs from a compact disc, and the song name comes up on the Ipod, as in good health as the Album (In those menus), but when I go to the artist menu after I cannot find them. Any particular idea why? And how to fix it?

"Designed By apple contained by California-?
Assembled in China" Don't you regard they should have put the china entity in a different spot? Lol

"other" member of my ipod hardrive?
i just synced my ipod just about 20 mins ago and suddenly its coming up that i have used 5.99gb on "other" what does that include? and i own added nothing more than a few songs thankfulness

"unprotect" iTunes songs?
how do you do that? i know that you make an audio compact disc... but what do you do after that? [please be detailed in your answer!]

(iPod Help Needed) What do I do from here ?
I downloaded some of my favorite eposodes of scrubs contained by the right file format for ipods. I use a PC not a Mac and I dragged them into iTunes surrounded by the movie section I plugged my ipod within. How do I get them onto my ipod?

**iPOD HELP** PLEASE ANSWER!! =)?
Can someone please tell me if you switch to another username (you know when you log within on the computer) and use that itunes library (which i've been using the one lower than my username, so i wanna switch to another) Will it synch?? Will it recognize my ipod?? Will it mess up anything??

*-.-*iPod Touch Games Question?*-.-*?
how do i get this? http://www.apple.com/webapps/games/4inar... how do i gain it onto my iPod? i dont know how

...Another MP3 question(has to do beside my computer too)?
My MP3 has worked a short time ago fine with downloading songs until in a minute... I connect it to my computer, and go to the 'my computer' statue. Everything works just fine until I click on MP3. I can click on the Sansa Icon, and be in motion to media, after I click on music, and it shows up with the MP3 folder. I hold to wait longer than usual for the folder to nouns, but when it finally goes to the subsequent page, nothing is nearby! Its like I never downloaded anything! I don't suppose I have to hang around for the songs, cause they should already be here like they other are, and it shows that its done loading. So when I disconnect my MP3, I still h ave adjectives the songs...they just won't show up on the computer...so minister to me? i don't know whats wrong with it. Also, if I put alien songs into the folder when it loads, will I erase my other songs since I can't see them? ....Thank you so much! P.S. I have Sansa e250 MP3 PLAYER 2GB model.
..My ipod broke And i dont know how 2 fix it Culd someone assistance me please?? :]]] i woild really appreaciat?
appreciate itt =]] ok so like i turn on my ipod (shuffle) and the lantern goes from green to washed out and it does tht back and forth for similar to 5 seconds and afterwards it shuts off automaticallly.. i dont presently what is wrong with it i plug it into the computer and it say i still have my music on near i;m really worried could someone help me please :]]]] kthnx =]

.flv to any video format applicable for mac and window?
please i need a free and non-trial journal. thanx.

.VOC converter?
I recorded my lectures and would close to to put them on my mp3 player so I can listen to them anywhere. Unfortunately I've had little luck finding a converter that works next to .voc files. Does anyone know of a good .voc converter? Yahoo hunt didn't have any well brought-up opti ons. I won't be using this program after this semester because I'll be graduate so I don't want to pay too much for it any. Thanks!

:zune::?
i got a 80gb zune concluding week.. the problem is that all my music is save on my brothers itunes. (i had an ipod in the past, and used his mac) so how am i supposed to get my music onto my hot zune? thank you... :]

??Help Downloading MUSIC??
Pleeze help me i don't know where on earth to get music to download music to my mp3....my friend said she get her music from utube.com..but they only own videos...pleezejust agree to me know where u download music....p.s i already know something like Limewire.com by tha way

+ surrounded by itunes?
what do the plus signs next to the songs surrounded by the itunes store mean.

1 GB Ipod Shuffle Broken?
i've had this ipod for over a year which method there's no more w arranty. The battery is fully charged because when i unplug it out of the charger it blinks green for charged. The ipod is not on hold or anything and does not blink when i turn it on or bad. Is this fixable and what's wrong with it?

10 pts. is within an ipod charger u dont enjoy to plug contained by?
i am going on a trip to chicago and riding the bus for 6 hours. after about an hour my ipod will travel dead and i be wondering if there be a charger that u diodnt have to plug contained by and was portable but not big?

10 straightforward points!?
i need exact instructions more or less how you get music on your mp3 player and know how to listen to it!and i also need a free website where on earth i can download mp3 music free

160 Gb iPod Classic ?~~16 Gb iPod Touch?
I am so confused well i own 2.04 Gb of Songs And I am so confused i am scared that i will regret and removal of mem ory coz just $50 for a 100 Gb plus but no touch peak ! so which one first to help and most complete and full definition i will bequeath best answer thx a lot guyz!

2 ipod question ! answer plz?
First of all and most importantly i would resembling to know if ipod touch is the same point as an iphone except without the phone? also i would close to to know if my ipod will work correctioly or work at all, i gone it in pockets and it get washed it be a ipod nano 3rd generation? it can turn on presently but it looks like it have water surrounded by the screen? tyvm for your time

2 ipods on one computer?
Okay, so I have two ipods, one Ipod Video (30GB) and One ipod Touch (16 GB). I newly got a strange computer and a new ipod. I want to use both of my ipods on matching computer but i don't know how. My old computer that holds adjectives the stuff for my IPod Video doesn't work so I want to add on beside my new compu ter. How do i do that? Please backing! it's greatly appriciated!

2 question give or take a few zune and zune leave behind?
First, I wanted to know which is better, the Ipod 3rd gen nano or the zune 2? The ultimate thing I required to know is if i buy the zune 1 month card for $15. after 1 month will all my songs be erased.

30 gb zune..?
how much do 30gb zunes cost and are they worth buying?

32gb Ipod touch..is it worth it?
Im thinking about buying a 32 Gb ipod touch from walmart..its around $498....i reckon thats alot of money..but i also think its amazing everything the touch can do...I one and only take my ipod(i enjoy the old click gearstick 20gb now) to the gym to workout or sometimes when im just sitting around the house...my fundamental concerns were..how reliable is the touch eyeshade..is the unit itself fragile...and will it ever come down surrounded by price and is it worth the money...?

32gig iPod touch ver. 1.1.4- can I put inside break?
I already tried JailBreakMe but that's for ver. 1.1.1 firmware. Any help is appreciated and yes gratitude I know I'm really a NooB at this hack.

3rd contemporaries ipod nano keep freezing??
my new ipod nano (3rd generation) freezes every time i plug it into my computer. my first one be freezing too so i had to clutch it back and achieve a new one, and very soon this one is doing it too. my sister has matching kind and hers never freezes. whats wrong beside mine? is there any style i can stop it from freezing?

3rd equals iPod/sound dock compatibility?
I have a 3G iPod (the out-of-date skool one with four buttons across the top, which does not enjoy a click-wheel) and I am trying to find a sound dock which is compatible near it. I bought the JBL Radial, which doesn't charge the iPod and it won't play t hrough my music (plays one song and freezes, won't advance). Just got the iH8 iHome, and that have the same issue (but obviously didn't tell me on any box that it wouldn't play my iPod version!). Does anyone know of a nouns dock that will charge my 3G iPod and play music correctly on it? Thanks! (I just bought an iPod Touch to use as my prevalent one, and am trying to find a dock so I can keep my feeble iPod permanently on it to listen to within bed, etc.)

4 GB iPod not recharge...?
I plugged it in and it said "connect to power". I rebooted my notebook. Same thing. Unplugged iPod and plugged fund in, still same point. Pc is not even recognizing the iPod. Any concept on what to do?? Thanks...

5th age group ipod video av cable?
basically i want to connect my ipod to my tv. i know within is apple composite video cables but they are nearly lb15 and i want to know if anyone knows exacly where on earth to get them , ie website and if they definitly work next to my ipod.

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

The History Of Ipod

One of the popular devices for listening to music is the iPod. It was released by Apple which not only revolutionized the way of listening to music but also how people buy their music. There are a lot of personal music players, none had such an impact on culture and music business.

Digital players were being created in the late 1990s and early next century. While millions of people discovered the joy of mp3 each year, many had realized that it was not possible to carry around hard drive containing music. Rio and Creative created the first mp3 players and they began to realize the real capabilities of a personal digital music player. The storage capacity of the first mp3 players was 32 MB and 64 MB. Additionally, the device looked more like a Sony Walkman because of the user interface. However, Tony Fadell was the man who saw the real potential of personal digital music players.

Much of the existing mp3 players relied on expensive compact flash style storage at the time and Fadell realized that the new quarter sized hard drives having 5 GB storage could be utilized for offering an entire library of music the consumer.

With the arrival of Napster and legal processes, Fadell visualized that his new player would easily link to the internet with a media service where customers could easily and legally purchase new music and download them to the player. With this idea, he met media and electronic companies in 2000 for selling it. He contacted RealNetworks which was one of the leaders of online media. Unfortunately, RealNetworks drew back at the idea finding it difficult because the media they were selling was successful. Fadell also contacted Phillips and again was turned down.
Tony Fadell finally approached Apple and they got excited about Tony Fadell's idea regarding a personal digital music player. Apple gave Tony Fadell the green light to start on his project in early 2001 and also gave him a team of nearly 30 people and a one year deadline to create the player.

Despite the green signal, Tony Fadell still didn't had confidence in Apple that they would want to create and develop a player. So he decided to look for other companies that had already created a player. He found a company called PortalPlayer that had alreadt made a player but was not launched. Their player was not very up-to-date and had poor features.

Fadell and PortalPlayer put together the hardware for the new iPod in a time of 8 months while Apple the interface and the scroll wheel. This product was ready for launch in October 2001.

The original iPod was release for sale on 23rd October 2001. The second generation iPod saw a few major changes but nothing revolutionary to the already successful first generation iPod. The third generation iPod was a complete redesign of the product. It helped propel sales of the iPod into the stratosphere. With the success of the iPod in full momentum, the fourth generation iPod was released in 2004. It had additional features and the styling was refurbished with a slimmer case. The later classic iPods including the 5th generation and 6th generation mainly stayed the same with little changes in hardware and firmware.

Other range of iPods are the iPod Mini released in 2004 to wide acclaim, the iPod Nano which were smaller size iPods, 2G iPod Nano which was released in September of 2006 came in several colors, 3G iPod Nano which was redesigned to give it a more bulky look, 4G iPod Nano which was a return to its original form with slight changes, and iPod Shuffle released in September 2006.

The latest technology is the iPhone which become very popular included a fully featured player with a large screen, flash memory and variety of bells. The iPod Touch is this creation, the Touch offers those that like the touch screen of the iPhone and it also has video playback and wifi including the Safari browser. It has a vast storage of 8 GB, 16 GB or 32 GB.





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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Rumors Of Ipod Touch 5th Generation Release Date

It's all over the news and there are many gossips regard the exact ipod touch 5th generation release date. If one were to log into the official iPod website, the latest updates are said to be announced directly to those who have their own Twitter and Facebook accounts. You can subscribe to their RSS account. All the message and feeds you will be getting are up to date. What are the latest gossips about this product?

It has been said that the exact release date of this product is on September 2011. That's it. There is no specific date and there is no confirmation either. As with the title goes, it is nothing but rumors but the source of this gossip is nothing but reliable. On the other side of the story, rumor has it that another invention of Apple is set for release this year as well, the iPad 3. With this, many igadgets fanatics wanted to get a hold of this new breed of Apple products.

Rumor has it, once again, that part of the features of this 5th generation iPod, is the touch home button and a staggering 128GB storage. This is a good feature for who would have ever believed that all those songs is stored in such a beautiful, thin, and handy gadget. This is if ever the 5th gen iPod can surpass the features of its predecessors. If given the time that these features are accurate, one can really truly tell is when the iPod will likely be out this September 2011.

This is if the Apple corporation are able to surpass the rumors when this new igadget will be released. There are hundreds of pictures that foretell the possible new look of iPod 5th gen. There has been gossips as well that the new generation will be as beautiful and elegant as its predecessors and these gadgets are out there in their experimental stage. We can really never confirm or deny if all these gossips are true. Why is this gadget such a big deal in the gadget community?

The Apple corporation made this such a fuzz to create it a media frenzy so that the curious customers will line up on the different istores. If all of us will believe in this rumors, we can expect that this marketing strategy is going to be a successful one just as before.





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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

All about remote vibrators

The modern world has given us almost everything in all segments, even going up to the point of giving us extreme tech gadgets for sex or said as toys and vibrators. The excitation that comes with remote vibrators cant be matched with any other sexual activity. One can easily change vibes at any pace when they want, if the user needs fast or bolted vibrations just switch on the button and vice versa. Remote vibrators can be combined with butterfly vibrators and waterproof vibrators. How to buy remote vibrators? Purchasing remote vibrators is an easy task if user has some idea about it. The primary query comes to your thought is where can you can get or buy remote vibrators. The first is internet which strikes in your mind. True, cyberspace has numerous online marketing websites that advertize many types of remote vibrators, butterfly vibrators and waterproof vibrators. People not only buy remote vibrators, but also waterproof vibrators and butterfly vibrators as they also come with remote. Doesnt matter from where you purchase, just make sure you get best deal on remote vibrators. Now the next step you have to determine the size you wish for your remote vibrator. The size varies from small to extra large. After using couple of them, only then you can decide which range suits you or which would be the best one for maximum pleasure. Dont forget to try waterproof vibrators and butterfly vibrators as they are remote controlled too. The most important thing to consider while buying remote vibrators, butterfly vibrators or waterproof vibrators is the price. Dont be misguided in believing that remote vibrators are a costly affair. They are pretty cheap and affordable. You will find numerous brands at the stores that could be expensive but their operations; quality is all most the same as any other normal remote vibrators available in the stores. So its best to inquire and get the best one which is cheaper. But make sure it gives the extreme sexual s atisfaction. They also have other two variants wire and wireless. Wireless remote vibrator is more popular as its easy to move around with it else you will be entangled with wires. Just make sure whichever vibrator among remote vibrators, butterfly vibrators or waterproof vibrators you are buying, it should be made of good plastic as poor quality vibrators can do more damage rather than giving any pleasure to you. No doubt, remote vibrators are the best way for self sexual satisfaction.

The modern world has given us almost everything in all segments, even going up to the point of giving us extreme tech gadgets for sex or said as toys and vibrators. The excitation that comes with remote vibrators cant be matched with any other sexual activity. One can easily change vibes at any pace when they want, if the user needs fast or bolted vibrations just switch on the button and vice versa. Remote vibrators can be combined with butterfly vibrators and waterproof vibrators.

How to buy remote vibrators?

Purchasing remote vibrators is an easy task if user has some idea about it. The primary query comes to your thought is where can you can get or buy remote vibrators. The first is internet which strikes in your mind. True, cyberspace has numerous online marketing websites that advertize many types of remote vibrators, butterfly vibrators and waterproof vibrators. People not only buy remote vibrators, but also waterproof vibrators and butterfly vibrators as they also come with remote. Doesnt matter from where you purchase, just make sure you get best deal on remote vibrators.

Now the next step you have to determine the size you wish for your remote vibrator. The size varies from small to extra large. After using couple of them, only then you can decide which range suits you or which would be the best one for maximum pleasure. Dont forget to try waterproof vibrators and butterfly vibrators as they are remote controlled too.

The most important thing to consider while buying remote vibrators, butterfly vibrators or waterproof vibrators is the price. Dont be misguided in believing that remote vibrators are a costly affair. They are pretty cheap and affordable. You will find numerous brands at the stores that could be expensive but their operations; quality is all most the same as any other normal remote vibrators available in the stores. So its best to inquire and get the best one which is cheaper. But make sure it gives the extreme sexual satisfaction. They also have other two variants wire and wireless. Wireless remote vibrator is more popular as its easy to move around with it else you will be entangled with wires.

Just make sure whichever vibrator among remote vibrators, butterfly vibrators or waterproof vibrators you are buying, it should be made of good plastic as poor quality vibrators can do more damage rather than giving any pleasure to you. No doubt, remote vibrators are the best way for self sexual satisfaction.





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Monday, April 15, 2013

How To Convert Flip Video To Apple Tv On Mac?

Free download Mac flip video to Apple TV converter to convert flip video footages to Apple TV video H.264 720X480 (MP4), Apple TV video MPEG-4 512X384 (MP4), Apple TV video MPEG-4 720x432 (MP4) for playing on Apple TV. Flip video to Apple TV Mac converter has installed numerous codec provided for various Apple products, Apple TV, iPod, iPhone and differed editing tools, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express.

The main features of Apple TV?

Apple TV gives you access to an easy-to-navigate world of entertainment. Rent HD movies. Buy HD movies and get iTunes Extras. Buy HD TV shows. Listen to your iTunes music and Internet radio. Even show off your photos. Connect one HDMI cable and, just like that, your TV becomes more than just a TV. Therefore, Apple TV becomes more and more popular in the world.

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During the process of converting flip video to Apple TV, what's the main problem?

Sometimes, you may have the right formats after converting but you still cannot import videos into Apple TV. Why? For one thing, you do not have proper codec to compress the formats, for another, you do not have right screen size and resolution parameters.

With Mac flip video to Apple TV converter, neither issue will exist anymore for its built in codec and advanced settings. You may define the appropriate video Encoder, Resolution, Frame Rare, Bit Rate and audio Encoder, Sample Rate, Channel, Bite Rate to fit for different playing definitions in the process of converting!
Mac OS program flip video to Apple TV converter supports to input all popular formats for converting MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, FLV, SEF, MKV, MPG, 3GP ,DV to Apple TV for importing into iPod, iPhone, PSP, Creative Zen, Wii, iRiver, BlackBerry, Gphone and Nexus One. Flip video to Apple TV Mac converter can easily rip audio from videos for your preference and save them as MP3, M4A, MKA, WMA, AIFF, FLAC, AAC, AC3, AMR.

Converting flip video to Apple TV with powerful editing features to play video files on Apple TV/iPod/iPhone on snow leopard X10.6.

1. Supported video input:
MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, FLV, SEF, MKV, MPG, 3GP, DV

2. Support audio input:
MP3, M4A, MKA, WMA, AIFF, FLAC, AAC, AC3, AMR

3. Support portable device:
iPod, iPod touch, iPhone, PSP, Creative Zen, Wii, iRiver, BlackBerry, Gphone?Nexus One.

4. Join files:
Combine several files into one

5. Take snapshot:
Capture favored images in JPG, BMP and PNG formats

6. Defines video setting:
Encoder, Bite Rite, Frame Rate, Resolution

7. Crop:
Cut off unnecessary objects and subtitles

8. Trim:
Clip time length video segments

9. Add effects:
Select Brightness, Contrast, Saturation

10. Rotate videos:
Flip videos upside down and left to right

Mac flip video to Apple TV converter has no problem to run on the Intel-based Mac version and Power PC-based Mac version. No virus and pop-ups attached!

Learn to convert flip video to Apple TV with Mac flip video to Apple TV converter step by step

Step one: Connect flip video camcorder with you Mac and transfer flip videos onto Mac
Step two: Download flip video to Apple TV converter and install
Step three: Load flip videos into flip video to Apple TV Mac converter
Step four: Trim and edit flip videos
Step five: Select Apple TV output formats and output destination
Step six: Define advanced video Encoder, Resolution, Frame Rate and Bit Rate
Step seven: Start converting flip video to Apple TV





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Sunday, April 14, 2013

How to Convert and Stream AVI to Apple TV to Play AVI Files on Apple TV?

This article will explain why we failed to play AVI on Apple TV as well as introduce a step by step guide on how to convert AVI to Apple TV format for streaming and playing AVI on Apple TV. Moreover, this guide also applies to how to play AVI on iPhone/iPad/iPod/iTunes.

Why Failed to Stream AVI to Apple TV?

Though Apple TV can stream your video files from computers, it has video format limitation. It only support H.264 or MPEG-4 video format. If you attempt to sync unsupported video format like AVI to Apple TV, it will draw an error message from iTunes.

How to Successfully Stream and Play AVI on Apple TV?

In order to stream AVI video files to Apple TV successfully, we need to convert these AVI movies to a format compatible with iTunes and Apple TV. Bigasoft Total Video Converter is just the ideal AVI to Apple TV and iTunes converter. It can easily convert AVI to Apple TV compatible MP4 or H.264 format. Then it is just easy to stream the converted AVI to Apple TV for play AVI files on Apple TV.

Guide on How to Convert AVI to Apple TV Format for Streaming and Playing

The following will introduce a step by step guide on how to convert AVI to Apple TV supported format on Mac or Windows with the help of Bigasoft Total Video Converter. Then it is just easy to stream and play AVI on Apple TV 2 or Apple TV.

Make Preparation:Run Bigasoft Total Video Converter

Free download the professional AVI to Apple TV Converter - Bigasoft Total Video Converter (Mac Version, Windows Version), install and launch it, the following interface will pop up.

Step 1Add AVI video file

Click "Add File" button to import AVI video file. Or you can also drag your AVI file directly to the main interface of Bigasoft Total Video Converter.


Step 2Set Apple TV compatible video format

Click the drop-down button on the right side of the "Profile" to select Apple TV supported MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4) from "General Video" Category.

Step 3Convert AVI to Apple TV supported format

Click "Convert" button to finish converting AVI to Apple TV supported video format.

Stream and Play AVI Files on Apple TV

After finishing the AVI to Apple TV format conversion, just drag and drop the converted AVI to iTunes for streaming to Apple TV! Then it is just easy to play AVI on your widescreen Apple TV. Wait no more, just free download the powerful AVI to Apple TV conversion software to have a free try.

Moreover, this Total Video Converter also enables to convert AVI to iPhone/iPad/iPod video formats. It even can convert other video formats including MKV, MPEG, 3GP, WMV, FLV, MOD, TOD, WTV, WebM, F4V, BIK, M4B, 720p, 1080p, 1080i HD, Xvid, DivX, AVCHD to iTunes compatible video MP4, MOV, M4V.

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Saturday, April 13, 2013

How to get songs and videos from iPod, iPhone to Mac/iTunes for free

iTunes can help you sync music to your iPod or iPhone easily while it just don't allow you to transfer ipod music to iTunes or transfer iPhone videos to mac free. That makes it really annoying when you accidently delete your iTunes Library, have a hard disc reformat, or move iPod content from on computer to another. In these occasion, You need a third-party program to do the task and FreeSync is a totally free program that meets your needs.

How to transfer iPod/iPhone music and videos to iTunes on Mac

1.Launch iSkysoft FreeSync and then connect iPod or iPhone to Mac.

2.Click "Music" or "Movies" playlist and then tick the file you want to export.

Note: If you want Recover music and movies from iPod or iPhone to iTunes directly, SyncPod will meet your needs!

3.Click "iPod To Mac" to start transferring your music or movies file to your Mac.

4.Select a destination folder to save your iPod or iPhone content and click "OK"

Now you are ready to import Music or Movies to iTunes. Launch iTunes, and you can either drag the output folder of you iPod/iPhone content to the "Library" icon and let iTunes to classify your music and movies, or go to "File" pane and select "Add to Library" to navigate to output iPod/iPhone content and add it to iTunes.

Note: If you want to transfer iPod movies to mac free or transfer songs from iPhone to iTunes (iTunes 9 included), SyncPod will meet your needs! SyncPod supports iPhone 3GS, iPhone OS 3.0, iPod touch upgrade to 3.0, and the new iPods released on Apple "Rock and Roll" media event.





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Friday, April 12, 2013

The new MacBook Pro notebooks - How to resist your iPad 2 craving

I won't name names, but we have an editor here in the office, who, every time a new Apple product comes out, says he isn't going to get it. He had the iPhone 3GS and said he was going to wait for the iPhone 5 and not get the iPhone 4. Two weeks later, he had the iPhone 4 and had given his 3GS to his wife.

I said, "Dude, where's your discipline?"

"I know, I know," he replied sheepishly. "But I wanted it. I couldn't resist."

He's got an iPad, the original. I know he's going to get an iPad 2, even though he says he isn't. How do I know? Because the moment Steve Jobs got up on stage and showed his first slide, he said, "Gee, that looks pretty nice." He had him at hello.

The iPad 2 Symbol 21-61261-01 batterydidn't look any different from what we expected it to look like--and it didn't look all that different from the original iPad. But suddenly there on stage in the flesh it had taken on a new, irresistible sheen. Not the Charlie kind of Sheen. Just the Apple kind.

"Dude," I said, "Buckle down. You've got a kid, you live in a small, overpriced New York apartment that you can't really afford on your editor's salary. Save your money. You don't need another iPad."

"I know, I know," he muttered again. "But those graphics, the games..." And then he got that I-can-rationalize-this-purchase look in his eyes. It was the look that had sent his older-generation iPhone packing to his wife. Little did she realize she was about to inherit his so-last-year tablet.

I decided there was only one thing to do: tempt him with the future to kill the present temptation. There were other Apple products worth holding out for, I said. Four to be exact. Or four that I could think of anyway.

I offered to write a column about it and put the products in a nice, bullet-pointed list. Like this:

MacBook Air with Intel Sandy Bridge: Sure the iPad 2 is nice, but a lot of Apple lovers have their eyes on the MacBook Air. CNET Editor Dan Ackerman has given the latest-generation Air high marks, saying that despite its limited connectivity options, it's now "powerful enough to use as a mainstream laptop." But there are plenty of folks who think the Air's still a little underpowered and are waiting for it to get a processor upgrade to the Intel Sandy Bridge chips that are now in the new MacBook Pro notebooks.

Sure, some people can afford an iPad 2 Bosch 2 607 335 264 batteryand a next-generation Air, but many can't. And given the choice, if I had an original iPad (which I do), I'd rather take the dough I'd spend on an iPad 2 and apply it toward a next-generation Air, which after all, is a full-fledged machine that supports Flash (yes, truth be told, I'm becoming increasingly irritated that I cannot access Flash content from my iPad).

Of course, the big question is when will Apple upgrade the Air line? It took its time going from gen-1 to gen-2 and I suspect it may be a few months (Brooke Crothers says June), before it gets the performance bump. It's worth the wait, however.

iPhone 5: In June, Apple is due to roll out its fifth-generation iPhone. Rumors have been all over the map, with some suggesting that multiple models will be available and that we might even see Apple go with a larger 4-inch screen and a design more reminiscent of the iPad 2. Opinion is divided over whether it will have true 4G support or not, but the one thing you can rest assured on is that it will have the new dual-core A5 processor in it.

My fellow editor, who owns the iPhone 4, suggested that if he caved and bought the iPad 2, he wouldn't get the next iPhone. I told him, "Wouldn't it be better to wait for the next iPhone before you make that decision?" He grudgingly agreed that I might have a point.

iPad Mini: OK, here's the product I'm personally holding out for. You can call it what you want: A jumbo iPod Touch, an iPad Nano, an iPad Mini, whatever. It's basically Apple's version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab or Barnes & Noble Nook Color. Steve Jobs says going smaller with the iPad has big drawbacks and Apple won't do it, but the fact is, it makes a lot of sense. Critics of tablets with a 7-inch screens describe them as "tweener" devices, but I actually like the form factor of a 7-inch tablet and I expect we'll start seeing a lot more Android tablets in such sizes. I also wouldn't be at all surprised if Apple heads them off at the pass--despite Jobs' claims to the contrary.

Ideally, of course, such a device, if it were to come into being, would start at $300 (for a 16GB version)--and that's probably doable for Apple. As for possible launch dates, I'd target this one to coincide with Apple's launch of its new iPods in September. Just a guess, but with the iPod Panasonic EY9021B batteryTouch pretty full-baked (sure, it could use a high-resolution camera and faster processor, but what else?), it might be a good idea to extend that line to include a larger Touch.

iPad 3: I always argue that when it comes to Apple's mobile products, it's good idea to skip a generation. For what most people are doing with the iPad (e-mail, Web surfing, reading books, streaming video, and playing games like Angry Birds), you can make do just fine for another year with the original iPad. OK, so you won't be able to conduct FaceTime video chats, but it's not the end of the world. You know the next 9.7-inch iPad, which will most likely be released in March 2012, will be thinner, lighter, have a faster process, and a better screen. And you only have to wait 365 days to get it.

Bonus selection: It's worth noting that Apple will eventually add the iPad 2 to its list of refurbished products. In October of last year, Apple started offering refurbished iPads for $50 off, then dropped the price a bit more in December. Now it's offering the original 16GB base model for $350 or $150 off its initial price (of course, you can also go the used route on eBay or Amazon).

My nameless colleague probably won't listen to any of this, of course. In which case I might have to resort to Plan B. Lock him in a room for 24 hours with five Android fanboys. Or at least threaten to lock him in a room with five Android fanboys. That should do the trick.

What do you guys think? Any other upcoming Apple products you'd rather put your money toward instead of an iPad 2? Yeah, I said "Apple products," but if you've got anything else to suggest, I'm game, too.





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Digital Rights Management

Introduction



DRM technologies attempt to control use of digital media by preventing access, copying or conversion to other formats by end users. Long before the arrival of digital or even electronic media, copyright holders, content producers, or other financially or artistically interested parties had business and legal objections to copying technologies. Examples include: player piano rolls early in the 20th century, audio tape recording, and video tape recording (e.g. the "Betamax case" in the U.S.). Copying technology thus exemplifies a disruptive technology.



The advent of digital media and analog/digital conversion technologies, especially those that are usable on mass-market general-purpose personal computers, has vastly increased the concerns of copyright-dependent individuals and organizations, especially within the music and movie industries, because these individuals and organizations are partly or wholly depe ndent on the revenue generated from such works. While analog media inevitably loses quality with each copy generation, and in some cases even during normal use, digital media files may be duplicated an unlimited number of times with no degradation in the quality of subsequent copies. The advent of personal computers as household appliances has made it convenient for consumers to convert media (which may or may not be copyrighted) originally in a physical/analog form or a broadcast form into a universal, digital form (this process is called ripping) for location- or timeshifting. This, combined with the Internet and popular file sharing tools, has made unauthorized distribution of copies of copyrighted digital media (so-called digital piracy) much easier.



Although technical controls on the reproduction and use of software have been intermittently used since the 1970s, the term 'DRM' has come to primarily mean the use of these measures to control art istic or literary content.[citation needed] DRM technologies have enabled publishers to enforce access policies that not only disallow copyright infringements, but also prevent lawful fair use of copyrighted works, or even implement use constraints on non-copyrighted works that they distribute; examples include the placement of DRM on certain public-domain or open-licensed e-books, or DRM included in consumer electronic devices that time-shift (and apply DRM to) both copyrighted and non-copyrighted works.



DRM is most commonly used by the entertainment industry (e.g. film and recording). Many online music stores, such as Apple's iTunes Store, as well as many e-book publishers, have imposed DRM on their customers. In recent years, a number of television producers have imposed DRM mandates on consumer electronic devices, to control access to the freely-broadcast content of their shows, in connection with the popularity of time-shifting digital video r ecorder systems such as TiVo.



Technologies



DRM and film



An early example of a DRM system was the Content Scrambling System (CSS) employed by the DVD Forum on film DVDs since ca. 1996. CSS used a simple encryption algorithm, and required device manufacturers to sign license agreements that restricted the inclusion of features, such as digital outputs that could be used to extract high-quality digital copies of the film, in their players. Thus, the only consumer hardware capable of decoding DVD films was controlled, albeit indirectly, by the DVD Forum, restricting the use of DVD media on other systems until the release of DeCSS by Jon Lech Johansen in 1999, which allowed a CSS-encrypted DVD to play properly on a computer using Linux, for which the Alliance had not arranged a licensed version of the CSS playing software.



Microsoft's Windows Vista contains a DRM system c alled the Protected Media Path, which contains the Protected Video Path (PVP). PVP tries to stop DRM-restricted content from playing while unsigned software is running in order to prevent the unsigned software from accessing the content. Additionally, PVP can encrypt information during transmission to the monitor or the graphics card, which makes it more difficult to make unauthorized recordings.



Advanced Access Content System (AACS) is a DRM system for HD DVD and Blu-Ray Discs developed by the AACS Licensing Administrator, LLC (AACS LA), a consortium that includes Disney, Intel, Microsoft, Matsushita (Panasonic), Warner Brothers, IBM, Toshiba and Sony. In December 2006 a process key was published on the internet by hackers, enabling unrestricted access to AACS-restricted HD DVD content. After the cracked keys were revoked, further cracked keys were released.



DRM and television



The CableCard st andard is used by cable television providers in the United States to restrict content to services to which the customer has subscribed.



The broadcast flag concept was developed by Fox Broadcasting in 2001 and was supported by the MPAA and the FCC. A ruling in May 2005 by a US Court of Appeals held that the FCC lacked authority to impose it on the TV industry in the US. It required that all HDTVs obey a stream specification determining whether or not a stream can be recorded. This could block instances of fair use, such as time-shifting. It achieved more success elsewhere when it was adopted by the Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB), a consortium of about 250 broadcasters, manufactures, network operators, software developers, and regulatory bodies from about 35 countries involved in attempting to develop new digital TV standards.



An updated variant of the broadcast flag has been developed in the Content Protection an d Copy Management (DVB-CPCM). It was developed in private, and the technical specification was submitted to European governments in March 2007. As with much DRM, the CPCM system is intended to control use of copyrighted material by the end-user, at the direction of the copyright holder. According to Ren Bucholz of the EFF, which paid to be a member of the consortium, "You won't even know ahead of time whether and how you will be able to record and make use of particular programs or devices". The DVB supports the system as it will harmonize copyright holders' control across different technologies and so make things easier for end users. The CPCM system is expected to be submitted to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute in 2008.



DRM and music



Audio CDs



Discs with digital rights management schemes are not legitimately standards-compliant Compact Discs (CDs) but are rather CD-ROM me dia. Therefore they all lack the CD logotype found on discs which follow the standard (known as Red Book). Therefore these CDs could not be played on all CD players. Many consumers could also no longer play purchased CDs on their computers. PCs running Microsoft Windows would sometimes even crash when attempting to play the CDs.



In 2002, Bertelsmann (comprising BMG, Arista, and RCA) was the first corporation to use DRM on audio CDs.[citation needed] In 2005, Sony BMG introduced new DRM technology which installed DRM software on users' computers without clearly notifying the user or requiring confirmation. Among other things, the installed software included a rootkit, which created a severe security vulnerability others could exploit. When the nature of the DRM involved was made public much later, Sony initially minimized the significance of the vulnerabilities its software had created, but was eventually compelled to recall millions of CDs, and rel eased several attempts to patch the surreptitiously included software to at least remove the rootkit. Several class action lawsuits were filed, which were ultimately settled by agreements to provide affected consumers with a cash payout or album downloads free of DRM.



Sony's DRM software actually had only a limited ability to prevent copying, as it affected only playback on Windows computers, not on other equipment. Even on the Windows platform, users regularly bypassed the restrictions. And, while the Sony DRM technology created fundamental vulnerabilities in customers' computers, parts of it could be trivially bypassed by holding down the "shift" key while inserting the CD, or by disabling the autorun feature. In addition, audio tracks could simply be played and re-recorded, thus completely bypassing all of the DRM (this is known as the analog hole). Sony's first two attempts at releasing a patch which would remove the DRM software from users' co mputers failed.



In January 2007, EMI stopped publishing audio CDs with DRM, stating that "the costs of DRM do not measure up to the results." Following EMI, Sony BMG was the last publisher to abolish DRM completely, and audio CDs containing DRM are no longer released by the four record labels.



Internet music



Many online music stores employ DRM to restrict usage of music purchased and downloaded online. There are many options for consumers wishing to purchase digital music over the internet:



The iTunes Store, run by Apple Inc., allows users to purchase a track online for $0.99 US. The tracks purchased use Apple's FairPlay DRM system. Apple later launched iTunes Plus, which offered higher quality DRM-free tracks for a higher price. On October 17, 2007, iTunes Plus became available at the usual $0.99 price, replacing the non-Plus tracks. On January 6, 2009 Apple announce d at its Macworld Expo keynote that iTunes music would be available completely DRM free by the end of the month. Videos sold and rented through iTunes, as well as mobile software sold through the iTunes App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch, continue to use Apple's FairPlay DRM to inhibit casual copying.



Napster music store, which offers a subscription-based approach to DRM alongside permanent purchases. Users of the subscription service can download and stream an unlimited amount of music transcoded to Windows Media Audio (WMA) while subscribed to the service. But when the subscription period lapses, all of the downloaded music is unplayable until the user renews his or her subscription. Napster also charges users who wish to use the music on their portable device an additional $5 per month. In addition, Napster gives users the option of paying an additional $0.99 per track to burn it to CD or for the song to never expire. Music bought through N apster can be played on players carrying the Microsoft PlaysForSure logo (which, notably, do not include iPods or even Microsoft's own Zune). As of June 2009 Napster is giving DRM free MP3 music, which can be played on iPhones and iPods.



Wal-Mart Music Downloads, another online music download store, charges $0.94 per track for all non-sale downloads. All Wal-Mart, Music Downloads are able to be played on any Windows PlaysForSure marked product. The music does play on the SanDisk's Sansa mp3 player, for example, but must be copied to the player's internal memory. It cannot be played through the player's microSD card slot, which is a problem that many users of the mp3 player experience.



Sony operated an online music download service called "Connect" which used Sony's proprietary OpenMG DRM technology. Music downloaded from this store (usually via Sony's SonicStage software) was only playable on computers running Windows and Sony hardware (including the PSP and some Sony Ericsson phones).



Kazaa is one of a few services offering a subscription-based pricing model. However, music downloads from the Kazaa website are DRM-protected, and can only be played on computers or portable devices running Windows Media Player, and only as long as the customer remains subscribed to Kazaa.



The various services are currently not interoperable, though those that use the same DRM system (for instance the several Windows Media DRM format stores, including Napster, Kazaa and Yahoo Music) all provide songs that can be played side-by-side through the same player program. Almost all stores require client software of some sort to be downloaded, and some also need plug-ins. Several colleges and universities, such as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, have made arrangements with assorted Internet music suppliers to provide access (typically DRM-restricted) to music fil es for their students, to less than universal popularity, sometimes making payments from student activity fee funds. One of the problems is that the music becomes unplayable after leaving school unless the student continues to pay individually. Another is that few of these vendors are compatible with the most common portable music player, the Apple iPod. The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property (to HMG in the UK; 141 pages, 40+ specific recommendations) has taken note of the incompatibilities, and suggests (Recommendations 812) that there be explicit fair dealing exceptions to copyright allowing libraries to copy and format-shift between DRM schemes, and further allowing end users to do the same privately. If adopted, some of the acrimony may decrease.



Although DRM is prevalent for Internet music, some online music stores such as eMusic, Dogmazic, Amazon, and Beatport, do not use DRM despite encouraging users to avoid sharing music. Another onlin e retailer, Xiie.net, which sells only unsigned artists, encourages people to share the music they buy from the site, to increase exposure for the artists themselves. Major labels have begun releasing more online music without DRM. Eric Bangeman suggests in Ars Technica that this is because the record labels are "slowly beginning to realize that they can't have DRMed music and complete control over the online music market at the same time... One way to break the cycle is to sell music that is playable on any digital audio player. eMusic does exactly that, and their surprisingly extensive catalog of non-DRMed music has vaulted it into the number two online music store position behind the iTunes Store." Apple's Steve Jobs has called on the music industry to eliminate DRM in an open letter titled Thoughts on Music. Apple's iTunes store will start to sell DRM-free 256 kbit/s (up from 128 kbit/s) AAC encoded music from EMI for a premium price (this has since reverted to the stand ard price). In March 2007, Musicload.de, one of Europe's largest online music retailers, announced their position strongly against DRM. In an open letter, Musicload stated that three out of every four calls to their customer support phone service are as a result of consumer frustration with DRM.



Computer games



Computer games sometimes use DRM technologies to limit the number of systems the game can be installed on by requiring authentication with an online server. Most games with this restriction allow three or five installs, although some allow an installation to be 'recovered' when the game is uninstalled. This not only limits users who have more than three or five computers in their homes (seeing as the rights of the software developers allow them to limit the number of installations), but can also prove to be a problem if the user has to unexpectedly perform certain tasks like upgrading operating systems or reformatt ing the computer's hard drive, tasks which, depending on how the DRM is implemented, count a game's subsequent reinstall as a new installation, making the game potentially unusable after a certain period even if it is only used on a single computer.



One of the earliest prominent uses of online-based DRM technology in a AAA title was the result of Valve's decision to bind Half-Life 2 to the Steam platform. This was met with considerable protest from the gaming community and a number of legal challenges were submitted, including consumer groups. In some cases, retail houses were required to attach labels to the front of the game's cases clearly stating that an Internet connection was required to activate the game.[citation needed]



In mid-2008, the publication of Mass Effect marked the start of a wave of titles primarily making use of SecuROM and Steam for DRM and requiring authentication via an online server. The use of DRM scheme in 2008's Spore backfired and there were considerable protest, resulting in a considerable number of users seeking a pirated version instead. This backlash against SecuROM was a significant factor in Spore becoming the most pirated game in 2008.



Many mainstream publishers continued to rely on online-based DRM throughout the later half of 2008 and early 2009, including Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and Atari. Ubisoft broke with the tendency to use online DRM in late 2008 with the release of Prince of Persia as an experiment to "see how truthful people really are" regarding the claim that DRM was inciting people to use pirated copies. Although Ubisoft has not commented on the results of the 'experiment', the majority of their subsequent titles in 2009 contained no online-based DRM since the release of Prince of Persia - notable examples being Anno 1404 and James Cameron's Avatar: The Game making use of the online version of the TAGES copy protecti on system. An official patch has since been released stripping Anno 1404 of the DRM. Electronic Arts followed suit in June 2009 with The Sims 3, with subsequent EA and EA Sports titles also being devoid of online DRM.



Some most prominent cases making use of online DRM technology SecuROM include Spore, BioShock, Mass Effect and Gears Of War.



E-books



Electronic books read on a personal computer or an e-book reader typically use DRM restrictions to limit copying, printing, and sharing of e-books. E-books are usually limited to a certain number of reading devices and some e-publishers prevent any copying or printing. Some commentators believe that DRM is something that makes E-book publishing complex.



Two of the most commonly used software programs to view e-books are Adobe Reader and Microsoft Reader. Each program uses a slightly different approach to DRM. The first vers ion of Adobe Acrobat e-book Reader to have encryption technologies was version 5.05. In the later version 6.0, the technologies of the PDF reader and the e-book reader were combined, allowing it to read both DRM-restricted and unrestricted files. After opening the file, the user is able to view the rights statement, which outlines actions available for the specific document. For example, for a freely transferred PDF, printing, copying to the clipboard, and other basic functions are available to the user. However, when viewing a more highly restricted e-book, the user is unable to print the book, copy or paste selections. The level of restriction is specified by the publisher or distribution agency.



Microsoft Reader, which exclusively reads e-books in a .lit format, contains its own DRM software. In Microsoft Reader there are three different levels of access control depending on the e-book: sealed e-books, inscribed e-books and owner exclusive e-boo ks. Sealed e-books have the least amount of restriction and only prevents the document from being modified. Therefore, the reader cannot alter the content of the book to change the ending, for instance. Inscribed e-books are the next level of restriction. After purchasing and downloading the e-book, Microsoft Reader puts a digital ID tag to identify the owner of the e-book. Therefore, this discourages distribution of the e-book because it is inscribed with the owner name making it possible to trace it back to the original copy that was distributed. Other e-book software uses similar DRM schemes. For example, Palm Digital Media, now known as Ereader, links the credit card information of the purchaser to the e-book copy in order to discourage distribution of the books.



The most stringent form of security that Microsoft Reader offers is called owner exclusive e-books, which uses traditional DRM technologies. To buy the e-book the consumer must first o pen Microsoft Reader, which ensures that when the book is downloaded it becomes linked to the computer Microsoft Passport account. Thus the e-book can only be opened with the computer with which it was downloaded, preventing copying and distribution of the text.



Amazon.com has remotely deleted purchased copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from customer's Amazon Kindles. Commenters have widely described these actions as Orwellian, and have alluded to Big Brother from Orwell's 1984. After an apology from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the Free Software Foundation has written that this is just one more example of the excessive power Amazon has to remotely censor what people read through its software, and called upon Amazon to free its e-book reader and drop DRM.



DRM and documents



Enterprise digital rights management (E-DRM or ERM) is the application of DRM technology to the control of access to corporate documents such as Microsoft Word, PDF, and AutoCAD files, emails, and intranet web pages rather than to the control of consumer media. E-DRM, now more commonly referenced as IRM (Information Rights Management), is generally intended to prevent the unauthorized use (such as industrial or corporate espionage or inadvertent release) of proprietary documents. IRM typically integrates with content management system software.



DRM has been used by organizations such as the British Library in its secure electronic delivery service to permit worldwide access to substantial numbers of rare (and in many cases unique) documents which, for legal reasons, were previously only available to authorized individuals actually visiting the Library's document centre at Boston Spa in England.[citation needed]



Watermarks



Digital watermarks are unobtrusive features of media that are added during production or distribution. Digital watermarks involve data that is arguably steganographically embedded within the audio or video data.



Watermarks can be used for different purposes that may include:



for recording the copyright owner



for recording the distributor



for recording the distribution chain



for identifying the purchaser of the music



Watermarks are not complete DRM mechanisms in their own right, but are used as part of a system for Digital Rights Management, such as helping provide prosecution evidence for purely legal avenues of rights management, rather than direct technological restriction. Some programs used to edit video and/or audio may distort, delete, or otherwise interfere with watermarks. Signal/modulator-carrier chromatography may also separate watermarks from original audio or detect them as glitches. Use of third party media players and other advanced programs render watermarking useless. Additionally, comparison of two separately obtained copies of audio using simple, home-grown algorithms can often reveal watermarks. New methods of detection are currently under investigation by both industry and non-industry researchers.



Metadata



Sometimes, metadata is included in purchased music w hich records information such as the purchaser's name, account information, or email address. This information is not embedded in the played audio or video data, like a watermark, but is kept separate, but within the file or stream.



As an example, metadata is used in media purchased from Apple's iTunes Store for DRM-free as well as DRM-restricted versions of their music or videos. This information is included as MPEG standard metadata.



Table of DRM technologies and associated devices



Name



Used In



Date of Use



Description



DRM Schemes Currently in Use



Personal computer DRM



Windows Media DRM



Many Online Video Distribution Networks



1999+



WMV DRM is designed to provide secure delivery of audio and/or video content over an IP network to a PC or other playback device in such a way that the distributor can control how that content is used.



FairPlay



The iTunes Store, iPod



2003+



Purchased music files were encoded as AAC, then encrypted with an additional format that renders the file exclusively compatible with iTunes and the iPod. On January 6 2009, Apple announced that the iTunes Store would begin offering all songs DRM-free.



Helix & Harmony



Real Networks services



2003+



A DRM system from Real Networks intended to be interoperable with other DRM schemes, particularly FairPlay. Ultimately used only by Real Networks.



Orion/EasyLicenser



Enterprise, business, networking , financial, telecom and consumer applications



2003+



Restriction for applications written in Java, .Net or C/C++ on Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac



Excel Software



Business, educational, government and consumer applications



2006+



Protection for Mac and Windows applications, plugins, DLLs, multimedia and documents with manual and automated activation, trial and perpetual licenses, software subscriptions, floating and dynamic licenses, network floating licenses and user friendly license release, restore, suspend and automated feature delivery.



Adobe Protected Streaming



Flash Video/Audio Streaming



2006+



The Media-Streams are encrypted "on the fly" by the Flash Media Server (the protocol used is rtmpe or rtmps). I n addition the client player can be verified via "SWF-Verification", to make sure that only the official client can be used.



PlayReady



Computers, Mobile and Portable Devices



2007+



PlayReady is designed to encrypt WMA, WMV, AAC, AAC+, enhanced AAC+, and H.263 and H.264 codecs files. PlayReady is actually a new version of Windows Media DRM for Silverlight. Silverlight 2-based online content can be restricted using PlayReady and played back via the Silverlight plug-in. PlayReady is promoted by Microsoft



Portable device DRM



Janus WMA DRM



All PlaysForSure Devices



2004+



Janus is the codename for a portable version of Windows Media DRM intended portable devices.



OMA DRM



Implemented in over 550 phone models.



2004+



A DRM system invented by the Open Mobile Alliance to control copying of cell phone ring tones. Also used to control access to media files, such as video.



Storage media DRM



VHS Macrovision



Almost all VHS Video through the end of the 20th Century



1984+



When dubbing a Macrovision-encoded tape, a video stream which has passed through the recording VCR will become dark and then normal again periodically, degrading quality. The picture may also become unstable when darkest.



Content-scrambling system (CSS)



Some DVD Discs



1996+



CSS utilizes a weak, 40-bit stream cipher to actively encrypt DVD-Video.



DVD Region Code



Some DVD Discs



1996+



Many DVD-Video discs contain one or more region codes, marking those area[s] of the world in which playback is permitted. This restriction enforces artificial market segmentation.



ARccOS Protection



Some DVD Discs



1997?



Adds corrupt data sectors to the DVD, preventing computer software implementing computer standards from successfully reading the media. DVD players execute the on-disk program which skips the (corrupt) ARccOS sectors.



OpenMG



ATRAC audio devices (e.g., MiniDisc players), Memory Stick based audio players, AnyMusic distribution service



1999+



A proprietary DRM system invented and promoted by Sony.



BD+



Blu-ray Discs


2005+



A virtual machine embedded in authorized Blu-ray players that runs a security check on the playback environment to ensure that it has not been compromised. It also performs necessary descrambling of the audio/video stream on discs, allowing the content to be rendered.



DRM Schemes no Longer in Use



Extended Copy Protection



Sony and BMG CDs



2005



Also known as the 'Sony Rootkit'. Although not classified as a virus by many anti-virus software producers, it bore many virus-like and trojan-like characteristics, rendering it illegal in some places and dangerous to infected computers in all. After it became publicly known, protests and litigation resulted in withdrawal by Sony. The US litigation was settled by payment by Sony.



Laws regarding DRM



D igital rights management systems have received some international legal backing by implementation of the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT). Article 11 of the Treaty requires nations party to the treaties to enact laws against DRM circumvention.



The WCT has been implemented in most member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization. The American implementation is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), while in Europe the treaty has been implemented by the 2001 European directive on copyright, which requires member states of the European Union to implement legal protections for technological prevention measures. In 2006[update], the lower house of the French parliament adopted such legislation as part of the controversial DADVSI law, but added that protected DRM techniques should be made interoperable, a move which caused widespread controversy in the United States.



Digital Millennium Copyright Act

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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is an extension to United States copyright law passed unanimously on May 14, 1998, which criminalizes the production and dissemination of technology that allows users to circumvent technical copy-restriction methods. Under the Act, circumvention of a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work is illegal if done with the primary intent of violating the rights of copyright holders. (For a more detailed analysis of the statute, see WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act.)



Reverse engineering of existing systems is expressly permitted under the Act under specific conditions. Under the reverse engineering safe harbor, circumvention necessary to achieve interoperability with other software is specifically authorized. See 17 U.S.C. Sec. 1201(f). Open-source softwa re to decrypt content scrambled with the Content Scrambling System and other encryption techniques presents an intractable problem with the application of the Act. Much depends on the intent of the actor. If the decryption is done for the purpose of achieving interoperability of open source operating systems with proprietary operating systems, the circumvention would be protected by Section 1201(f) the Act. Cf., Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Corley, 273 F.3d 429 (2d Cir. 2001) at notes 5 and 16. However, dissemination of such software for the purpose of violating or encouraging others to violate copyrights has been held illegal. See Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes, 111 F. Supp. 2d 346 (S.D.N.Y. 2000).



On 22 May 2001, the European Union passed the EU Copyright Directive, an implementation of the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty that addressed many of the same issues as the DMCA.



The DMCA has been largely ineffective in protecting DRM systems,[citation needed] as software allowing users to circumvent DRM remains widely available. However, those who wish to preserve the DRM systems have attempted to use the Act to restrict the distribution and development of such software, as in the case of DeCSS.



Although the Act contains an exception for research, the exception is subject to vague qualifiers that do little to reassure researchers. Cf., 17 U.S.C. Sec. 1201(g). The DMCA has had an impact on cryptography, because many fear that cryptanalytic research may violate the DMCA. The arrest of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov in 2001, for alleged infringement of the DMCA, was a highly publicized example of the law's use to prevent or penalize development of anti-DRM measures. Sklyarov was arrested in the United States after a presentation at DEF CON, and subsequently spent several months in jail. The DMCA has also been cited as chilling to non-criminal inclined users, such as students of cryptanalysis (including, in a well-known instance, Professor Felten and students at Princeton), and security consultants such as the Netherlands based Niels Ferguson, who has declined to publish information about vulnerabilities he discovered in an Intel secure-computing scheme because of his concern about being arrested under the DMCA when he travels to the US.



On 25 April 2007 the European Parliament supported the first directive of EU, which aims to harmonize criminal law in the member states. It adopted a first reading report on harmonizing the national measures for fighting copyright abuse. If the European Parliament and the Council approve the legislation, the submitted directive will oblige the member states to consider a crime a violation of international copyright committed with commercial purposes. The text suggests numerous measures: from fines to imprisonment, depending on the gravity of the offense.



The EP members supported the Commission motion, changing some of the texts. They excluded patent rights from the range of the directive and decided that the sanctions should apply only to offenses with commercial purposes. Copying for personal, non-commercial purposes was also excluded from the range of the directive.



International issues



In Europe, there are several ongoing dialog activities that are characterized by their consensus-building intention:



Workshop on Digital Rights Management of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), January 2001.



Participative preparation of the European Committee for Standardization/Information Society Standardisation System (CEN/ISSS) DRM Report, 2003 (finished).



DRM Workshops of Directorate-General for Information Society and Media (European Commission) (finished), and the work of the DRM worki ng groups (finished), as well as the work of the High Level Group on DRM (ongoing).



Consultation process of the European Commission, DG Internal Market, on the Communication COM(2004)261 by the European Commission on "Management of Copyright and Related Rights" (closed).



The INDICARE project is an ongoing dialogue on consumer acceptability of DRM solutions in Europe. It is an open and neutral platform for exchange of facts and opinions, mainly based on articles by authors from science and practice.



The AXMEDIS project is a European Commission Integrated Project of the FP6. The main goal of AXMEDIS is automating the content production, copy protection and distribution, reducing the related costs and supporting DRM at both B2B and B2C areas harmonising them.



The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property is the result of a commission by the British Government from Andrew G owers, undertaken in December 2005 and published in 2006, with recommendations regarding copyright term, exceptions, orphaned works, and copyright enforcement.



The European Community was expected to produce a recommendation on DRM in 2006, phasing out the use of levies (compensation to rights holders charged on media sales for lost revenue due to unauthorized copying) given the advances in DRM/TPM technology. However, opposition from the member states, particularly France, have now made it unlikely that the recommendation will be adopted.[citation needed]



Controversy



DRM opposition



A parody on the Home Taping Is Killing Music logo.



Many organizations, prominent individuals, and computer scientists are opposed to DRM. Two notable DRM critics are John Walker, as expressed for instance, in his article The Digital Imprimatur: How big brother an d big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle, and Richard Stallman in his article The Right to Read and in other public statements: "DRM is an example of a malicious feature - a feature designed to hurt the user of the software, and therefore, it's something for which there can never be toleration". Professor Ross Anderson of Cambridge University heads a British organization which opposes DRM and similar efforts in the UK and elsewhere. Cory Doctorow, a prominent writer and technology blogger, spoke on the Microsoft campus criticizing the technology, the morality, and the marketing of DRM.



There have been numerous others who see DRM at a more fundamental level. TechMediums.com argues that DRM-free music allows for viral marketing, arguing that independent artists benefit from "free marketing" and can then focus on revenues from higher margin products like merchandise and concert ticket sales. This is similar to some of the ideas in Mic hael H. Goldhaber's presentation about "The Attention Economy and the Net" at a 1997 conference on the "Economics of Digital Information." (sample quote from the "Advice for the Transition" section of that presentation: "If you can't figure out how to afford it without charging, you may be doing something wrong.")



The Electronic Frontier Foundation and similar organizations such as FreeCulture.org also hold positions which are characterized as opposed to DRM.



The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure has criticized DRM's impact as a trade barrier from a free market perspective.



The final version of the GNU General Public License version 3, as released by the Free Software Foundation, has a provision that 'strips' DRM of its legal value, so people can break the DRM on GPL software without breaking laws like the DMCA. Also, in May 2006, the FSF launched a "Defective by Design" campaign against DRM.



Creative Commons provides licensing options encouraging the expansion of and building upon creative work without the use of DRM. In addition, the use of a Creative Commons-licensed work on a device which incorporates DRM is a breach of the Baseline Rights asserted by each license.



Bill Gates spoke about DRM at CES in 2006. According to him, DRM is not where it should be, and causes problems for legitimate consumers while trying to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate users.



According to Steve Jobs, Apple opposes DRM music after a public letter calling its music labels to stop requiring DRM on its iTunes Store. As of January 6, 2009, the iTunes Store is DRM-free for songs. However, Apple considers DRM on video content as a separate issue and has not removed DRM from all of its video catalog.



Defective by Design member protesting DRM on May 25, 20 07.



As already noted, many DRM opponents consider "digital rights management" to be a misnomer. They argue that DRM manages rights (or access) the same way prison manages freedom and often refer to it as "digital restrictions management". Alternatively, ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind suggests the term "Content Restriction, Annulment and Protection" or "CRAP" for short.



The Norwegian Consumer rights organization "Forbrukerrdet" complained to Apple Inc. in 2007 about the company's use of DRM in, and in conjunction with, its iPod and iTunes products. Apple was accused of restricting users' access to their music and videos in an unlawful way, and of using EULAs which conflict with Norwegian consumer legislation. The complaint was supported by consumers' ombudsmen in Sweden and Denmark, and is currently being reviewed in the EU. Similarly, the United States Federal Trade Commission is planning to hold hearings in March o f 2009 to review disclosure of DRM limitations to customers' use of media products.



The use of DRM may also be a barrier to future historians, since technologies designed to permit data to be read only on particular machines, or with particular keys, or for certain periods, may well make future data recovery impossible see Digital Revolution. This argument connects the issue of DRM with that of asset management and archive technology.[citation needed]



DRM opponents argue that the presence of DRM violates existing private property rights and restricts a range of heretofore normal and legal user activities. A DRM component would control a device a user owns (such as a Digital audio player) by restricting how it may act with regards to certain content, overriding some of the user's wishes (for example, preventing the user from burning a copyrighted song to CD as part of a compilation or a review). An example of this effect m ay be seen in Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system in which content is disabled or degraded depending on the DRM scheme's evaluation of whether the hardware and its use are 'secure'. All forms of DRM depend on the DRM enabled device (e.g., computer, DVD player, TV) imposing restrictions that (at least by intent) cannot be disabled or modified by the user. Key issues around digital rights management such the right to make personal copies, provisions for persons to lend copies to friends, provisions for service discontinuance, hardware agnosticism, contracts for public libraries, and customers protection against one-side amendments of the contract by the publisher have not been fully addressed.[citation needed] It has also been pointed out that it is entirely unclear whether owners of content with DRM are legally permitted to pass on their property as inheritance to another person.



Tools like FairUse4WM have been created to strip Windows Media of DRM restrictions.



Valve Corporation President Gabe Newell also stated "most DRM strategies are just dumb" because they only decrease the value of a game in the consumer's eyes. Newell's suggests pairing DRM with "[creating] greater value for customers through service value", and stopped short of repudiating Valve's DRM system, known as Steam. However, Mr. Newell's anti-DRM rhetoric flies in the face of Steam's own copy-protection strategy, which is actually a form of DRM.



"DRM-Free"



Due to the strong opposition that exists to DRM, many companies and artists have begun advertising their products as "DRM-Free".



Most notably, Apple began selling "DRM-Free" music through their iTunes store in April 2007. It was later revealed that the DRM-Free iTunes files were still embedded with each user's account information, a technique called Digital watermarking generally not re garded as DRM. In January 2009, iTunes began marketing all of their songs as "DRM-Free", however iTunes continues to use DRM on movies, TV shows, ringtones, and audiobooks.



Impossible task



The famous cryptographer and security guru Bruce Schneier has written about the futility of digital copy prevention and says it's an impossible task. He says "What the entertainment industry is trying to do is to use technology to contradict that natural law. They want a practical way to make copying hard enough to save their existing business. But they are doomed to fail." He has also described trying to make digital files uncopyable as being like "trying to make water not wet".



Both the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers have historically opposed DRM, even going so far as to name AACS as a technology "most likely to fail" in an issue of IEEE Spectru m.



Shortcomings



Methods to bypass DRM



There are many methods to bypass DRM control on audio and video content.



One simple method to bypass DRM on audio files is to burn the content to an audio CD and then rip it into DRM-free files. This is only possible when the software that plays these DRM-restricted audio files allows CD-burning. Some software products simplify and automate this burn-rip process by allowing the user to burn music to a CD-RW disc or to a Virtual CD-R drive, then automatically ripping and encoding the music, and automatically repeating this process until all selected music has been converted, rather than forcing the user to do this one CD (7280 minutes worth of music) at a time.



Many software programs have been developed that intercept the data stream as it is decrypted out of the DRM-restricted file, and then use this da ta to construct a DRM-free file. These programs require a decryption key. Programs that do this for DVDs, HD DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs include universal decryption keys in the software itself. Programs that do this for TiVo ToGo recordings, iTunes audio, and PlaysForSure songs, however, rely on the user's own key that is, they can only process content that the user has legally acquired under his or her own account.



Another method is to use software to record the signals being sent through the audio or video cards, or to plug analog recording devices into the analog outputs of the media player. These techniques utilize the so-called "analog hole" (see below).



Analog hole



Main article: Analog hole



All forms of DRM for audio and visual material (excluding interactive materials, e.g. videogames) are subject to the analog hole, namely that in order for a viewer to play the m aterial, the digital signal must be turned into an analog signal containing light and/or sound for the viewer, and so available to be copied as no DRM is capable of controlling content in this form. In other words, a user could play a purchased audio file while using a separate program to record the sound back into the computer into a DRM-free file format.



All DRM to date can therefore be bypassed by recording this signal and digitally storing and distributing it in a non DRM limited form, by anyone who has the technical means of recording the analog stream. However the conversion from digital to analog and back is likely to force a loss of quality, particularly when using lossy digital formats. HDCP is an attempt to restrict the analog hole, although it is largely ineffective.



Asus released a soundcard which features a function called "Analog Loopback Transformation" to bypass the restrictions of DRM. This feature allows the user to record DRM-restricted audio via the soundcard's built-in analog I/O connection.



DRM on general computing platforms



Many of the DRM systems in use are designed to work on general purpose computing hardware, such as desktop PCs apparently because this equipment is felt to be a major contributor to revenue loss from disallowed copying. Large commercial copyright infringers ("pirates") avoid consumer equipment, so losses from such infringers will not be covered by such provisions.



It has been hypothesized that such schemes, especially software based ones, can never be wholly secure since the software must include all the information necessary to decrypt the content, such as the decryption keys. An attacker will be able to extract this information, directly decrypt and copy the content, which bypasses the restrictions imposed by a DRM system.



DRM on purpose-b uilt hardware



Many DRM schemes use encrypted media which requires purpose-built hardware to hear or see the content. This appears to ensure that only licensed users (those with the hardware) can access the content. It additionally tries to protect a secret decryption key from the users of the system.



While this in principle can work, it is extremely difficult to build the hardware to protect the secret key against a sufficiently determined adversary. Many such systems have failed in the field. Once the secret key is known, building a version of the hardware that performs no checks is often relatively straightforward. In addition user verification provisions are frequently subject to attack, pirate decryption being among the most frequented ones.



A common real-world example can be found in commercial direct broadcast satellite television systems such as DirecTV. The company uses tamper-resistant smart cards to store decryption keys so that they are hidden from the user and the satellite receiver. However, the system has been compromised in the past, and DirecTV has been forced to roll out periodic updates and replacements for its smart cards.



Watermarks



Watermarks can be removed, although degradation of video or audio can occur. In particular, lossy compression methods only retain perceptible features of an image, and if the watermarks are invisible, they are typically removed by compression systems as a side-effect.[citation needed]



Mass piracy failure



Mass piracy of hard copies does not necessarily need DRM to be decrypted or removed, as it can be achieved by bit-perfect copying of a legally obtained medium without accessing the decrypted content. Additionally, still-encrypted disk images can be distributed over the Internet and played on legitimately lice nsed players. Other copy protection methods, such as specific data layout on the medium, perform better in this area.[citation needed]



Obsolescence



When standards and formats change, it may be difficult to transfer DRM-restricted content to new media. Additionally, any system that requires contact with an authentication server is vulnerable to that server becoming unavailable, as happened in 2007 when videos purchased from Major League Baseball (mlb.com) prior to 2006 became unplayable due to a change to the servers that validate the licences.



Microsoft Zune - When Microsoft introduced their Zune media player in 2006, it did not support content that uses Microsoft's own PlaysForSure DRM scheme they had previously been selling. The EFF calls this "a raw deal".



MSN Music - In April 2008, Microsoft sent an email to former customers of the now-defunct MSN Music store: "As of August 31, 2008, we will no longer be able to support the retrieval of license keys for the songs you purchased from MSN Music or the authorization of additional computers. You will need to obtain a license key for each of your songs downloaded from MSN Music on any new computer, and you must do so before August 31, 2008. If you attempt to transfer your songs to additional computers after August 31, 2008, those songs will not successfully play."



However, to avoid a public relations disaster, Microsoft re-issued MSN Music shutdown statement on June 19th and allowed the users to use their licenses until the end of 2011: "After careful consideration, Microsoft has decided to continue to support the authorization of new computers and devices and delivery of new license keys for MSN Music customers through at least the end of 2011, after which we will evaluate how much this functionality is still being used and what steps should be taken next to sup port our customers. This means you will continue to be able to listen to your purchased music and transfer your music to new PCs and devices beyond the previously announced August 31, 2008 date."



Yahoo! Music Store - On July 23, 2008, the Yahoo! Music Store emailed its customers to tell them it will be shutting down effective September 30, 2008 and the DRM license key servers will be taken offline.



Walmart - In August 2007, Walmart's online music division started offering (DRM-free) MP3s as an option. Starting in February 2008, they made all sales DRM-free. On September 26, 2008, the Walmart Music Team notified its customers via email they would will be shutting down their DRM servers October 9, 2008 and any DRM-encumbered music acquired from them will no longer be accessible unless ripped to a non-DRM format before that date.



After bad press and negative reaction from customers, on October 9, 2 008, Walmart decided not to take its DRM servers offline.



Fictionwise / Overdrive - In January 2009, OverDrive informed Fictionwise that they would no longer be providing downloads for purchasers of e-books through Fictionwise as of 31 January 2009. No reason was provided to Fictionwise as to why they were being shut down. This prevents previous purchasers from being able to renew their books on new devices. Fictionwise is working to provide replacement ebooks for its customers in alternative, non-DRM formats, but does not have the rights to provide all of the books in different formats.



Ads for Adobe PDF - Also in January 2009, Adobe Systems announced that as of March 2009 they would no longer operate the servers that served ads to their PDF reader. Depending on the restriction settings used when PDF documents were created, they may no longer be readable.



Historical note



A very early implementation of DRM was the Software Service System (SSS) devised by the Japanese engineer Ryoichi Mori in 1983 and subsequently refined under the name superdistribution. The SSS was based on encryption, with specialized hardware that controlled decryption and also enabled payments to be sent to the copyright holder. The underlying principle of the SSS and subsequently of superdistribution was that the distribution of encrypted digital products should be completely unrestricted and that users of those products would not just be permitted to redistribute them but would actually be encouraged to do so.



See also



Computer Science portal



Related concepts



Compliance and Robustness



Copyleft



Copyright



Cryptography



Data room



Hardware restrictions



ODRL



Privacy enhancing technologies



Product activation



Smart contracts



Smart Cow Problem



Street Performer Protocol



Superdistribution



Tivoization



Trusted Computing



Voluntary Collective Licensing



XrML



Organizations



European Information, Communications and Consumer Electronics Technology Industry Associations



Trusted Computing Group



Motion Picture Association of America



Recording Industry Association of America



Electronic Frontier Foundation



Open Rights Group



Open Mobile Alliance



Defective by Design, a campaign of the Free Software Foundation



Pirate Party, a Swedish political party which is a proponent of free culture and free knowledge



Free Software Foundation Europe



Secure Digital Music Initiative



Open Entertainment Alliance



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