The largest change of all of the iPods is the iPod Nano. They have come out with something called the nano- chromatic. It is similar to the first and second generation iPod, but with a larger screen, accelerometer controls like the iPod Touch, and a larger hard drive.
Another major change that has taken place is the remake of the iPod Touch. The new model has external volume controls and a curve to the back of it. The main change is the lowering of the price. The new 8GB iPod Touch is only $229.
The last major change in the iPod line is the iPod Classic. All of these are 120GB for $249.
There is a minor change in the ipod shuffle’s. All they have done is changed the colors back to the origional colors they were when they first came out.
iTunes 8 has also come out, just as predicted. Two major changes have occured. The iTunes library has been changed so it can be organized by album, artist, composer, or Genre. The other major change is the addition of the new tool called Genius. It is a new playlist service that can scan your songs and playlists and can come up with new playlists based on the Genre of music.
This is all Apple has come out with so far. There is still a hope for new laptops to come out sometime soon before the holidays.
Here are some widgets and plugins that i am using and find useful:
Widget Pack: It is a great plugin that gives you additional widgets like ClustrMaps, Vod:Pod Videos, Twitters, Google Search, Flickr, and more.
Add This Social Bookmarking: It is useful for me and other people by making it easier add my blog as a bookmark in delicious and other social bookmarking sites
Meta: I find this useful because it gives you links to edit your blog and to log out of your account.
Calendar: The calendar is a great way to remind you what the month and date is if you don’t have any other way of knowing.
Before I add these widgets, I would like to know about what they are: Pages, Categories, Text, and RSS.
Widgets are tools that show up on your blog that make it easier to navigate through your blog and makes your blog more personal. Widgets are also used in other places besides your blog, like your dashboard on a mac or your gadgets toolbar on windows.
Calendar
I am using the calendar because when you click a date on it, it will show all of the posts and comments that were written on that date.
Avatar
The Avatar is the picture that is like your profile picture. If you comment on someone else’s blog, it will show up on their blog to show that you wrote that comment.
Search
The Serch widget allows you to search for any post or comment that is in your blog.
Recent Comments
The Recent Comments Widget shows all of the most recent comments that people made on your posts.
Recent Posts
Recent Posts shows all of the most recent posts that you wrote on your blog.
Meta
Meta is a list Links to log in or log out, your site admin, and your entries and comments. Lets you get to different parts of your blog much easier.
Tags
Allow you to create links to what is used most often in your blog.
To add widgets to your blog, go to http://(your username).edublogs.org/wp-admin/widgets.php
Apple has scheduled an event for Tuesday, September 9th. They are expected to release new iPods and hold off on the release of new laptops until after the 15th.
iTunes 8 is supposed to come out also. Close to the same time, MySpace music will be coming out. This will be a big competitor.
The price of the iPod touch will fall below the price of the iPhone.
Blog is short for web logs. They are websites that people or groups of people create conversations that go on and on. When an individual post something, anyone that has acess to this blog can make a comment on that post. This is where Web 2.0 comes in. Web 2.0 has allowed us to have these tools like making comments, video sharing, RSS, and of course blogs.
Blogs can be used for many different things. They can be used for individuals communicating between each other, they can be used for private business purposes used to send information between each other, and they can also be used in the media to spread news to people.
Blogs can have in them video’s, pictures, links, and many other things like show below.
In Web Connections I have learned how to use some blogs and social bookmarking sites like Edublogs and Delicious. In Delicious we have created bookmarks or links that go to many different sites that we use often. In Edublogs we have created our blog and are currently writing our first post.
This year I think we will also learn to use many other web tools like wiki’s and tags and websites like wikipedia and digg.
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