It is better than having an iPod. Finding out about cool new functions, of course. The evolution of the iPod has become a major trendsetter over the past few years. Even furniture and clothing manufactures are making iPod friendly products, which makes carrying around your iPod easier without the risk of bending or cracking your screen.



With each generation of iPod, the size and look become new designs showing their glossy exterior and collections of sizes, and the superior amounts of gigabits generate more downloading power. This makes extreme amounts of music downloads possible. As each generation of iPods is born, new more improved functions flood the airwaves with intensity, clarity, and volume. Here are some awesome new iPod functions you may not know about.

The iPods new click wheel provides you with easy with window accessibility. By clicking the top of the wheel, there is a shuffle mode to play songs in a casual random order. You can also play, forward, rewind, and stop and pause all located on the click wheel.

You can also learn how to duplicate hidden files from your iPod to complement your computer by right clicking on iPod and selecting tools the folder options. This takes you to the control panel and you can select view tab, hidden files click, show hidden files, making all your files visible. The intent of this information is not to be used to steal music, only to copy music you previously purchased onto your computer.

Your iPod will play MP4 files, too. All you have to do is drag your ffmpegx on to the summary page and select MP4. Then click on the video tab and set the task to three hundred and twenty pixels click encode and drag your file into iTunes. This will allow you to view pictures as a slide show or a movie that you have taken from your digital camera.

Your iPod also includes a functional stopwatch and time zone clock utility. Your iPod has a small iTunes control that sits at the bottom of your screen. This permits you to use rewind, fast forward, and ratings, pick play list, and add to favorites. The list saver function permits to back up and restore, so that you can move your library. You play lists, reinstall you operating system. In addition, use list saver to back up and restore your iPod. Use your macs built in text to speech to adapt any document web page or document into MP3, this utility also loads Word, PDF, RTF, Apple works, Text and HTML.

From the iPod functions in your menu bar, you can program your iPod for syncing and eject. You can sync your address book, calendars. You can purchase an optional dock, which you can use as a remote control for your iPod, which allows you to listen to music from across the room through your television or stereo speakers. You can sync your iPod to view pictures, which are on your iPod. It can hold around twenty thousand pictures.

There is an audio books feature, which allows you to look through over nine thousand book titles from the iTunes library to download and sync with your personal computer, iPod also features a book mark so you do not lose your spot while on the go. There are now parental control features, which will limit your childs use of podcasts, explicit language, and shared music limiting your childs access from other people who might have content your child may be interested in.

From audio books to calendars, games, clocks, alarms, exercise workouts, music contacts and photos, there is fun for everyone no matter your age. Entertainment has never been easier than it is today, nor has it been so convenient to do what you want to do when you want to do it.

There is so much potential that has evolved from the digital era. It is almost amazing what people can do at the touch of a button, or by speaking into a microphone giving a machine command that it obeys with out question. Maybe someday there will be iPods that allow us to tell them what song you want to hear and how long we want to hear it, or an iPod that gives us vocal directions, helping us get to our destinations.