ipods

Do more with your iPod

Digital Living Let's say you have one computer and two iPods. It's easy enough to synchronise both iPods with just one computer, as long as both iPod users are happy accessing the same music library or the same set of playlists.

9 May 2005, 14:49

What MP3 player for my particular needs?

Digital Living If you're set on avoiding iPods, then take a look at the SanDisk Sansa e260 -- it mounts as a standard USB drive and you can drag tracks to it. There's also plenty of free software -- although again you can use Anapod Explorer -- that will let you...

23 November 2006, 16:11

Which UK music download store is the best?

Digital Living The tunes will play on most players that support Microsoft's 'Plays For Sure' DRM, which doesn't include iPods. Again, this works with 'Plays For Sure' players and not iPods. Both are DRM'd and neither will work on iPods.

2 May 2007, 16:12

Replace your iPod's battery

Digital Living Before you go any further, please note that Apple did not design the iPods to be disassembled. First- and second-generation iPods have the battery attached directly to the hard drive by two strips of rubber featuring some sort of evil adhesive.

11 May 2005, 11:43

How do I get music off my iPod?

Digital Living Some unscrupulous fellows might use this technique to raid the bounty of their friends' iPods. Dear CNET,My hard disk is dead. I jumped up to celebrate when England scored against Paraguay and knocked my laptop off the table -- now I can't listen...

Tags: enable, enter, press, hard disk

15 June 2006, 12:12

A brief introduction to global gadget warming

Digital Living He'll be at home next week, trying to sync all 53 iPods and the door bell will ring and his 300GB iPod Mammoth will be delivered. Gadgets all over the world are losing their cool rapidly. From Scunthorpe to Sydney, we're seeing global gadget...

18 April 2006, 11:03

The new podcasting tools

Digital Living Ives said, "What's happening is, people are clearly buying and giving iPods initially for music. Podcasting is a growing phenomenon that gives anyone with a computer, a microphone and an Internet connection his or her own radio show.

Tags: stations, searching, mix, talk

9 May 2005, 14:48

CeBIT 2006: It's all about the stuff

Digital Living People love the look and the feel and the weight of their iPods, and not just the digital music within. As I pack my bags for CeBIT, I can't help wondering whether I'll manage to see as much technology as I'm taking.

8 March 2006, 15:02

Microsoft's Media Center mansion

Digital Living People are proud of their new plasmas, their new iPods, their new Sony PSPs, but when did someone last say to you, "You've got to check out my new desktop PC"? They've called it, inevitably, the mHome.

2 June 2005, 17:10

Which new iPod should I buy?

Digital Living I really like all of the new iPod models and definitely want to upgrade to one of them. Thing is, I don't know which one! Back in the day there was only really the choice of one; now there are four! Although I can afford to buy the most expensive...

26 September 2007, 16:08

What's DRM and should I avoid it?

Digital Living If you choose to buy protected music, make sure you buy a player that's compatible.iPods only work with protected music from the iTunes Store (or music ripped from CD), so you can't use them to play music from Napster.

20 June 2007, 10:49