MP3 players are associated with downloading music from the internet. The device is smaller than a personal CD player so are very portable. You will need a computer to download songs, but you don't necessarily need the internet. MP3 is just the name of a type of computer file.
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Apple iPod Hot News
 Now Available: FileMaker Pro 10
FileMaker today announced the availability of FileMaker Pro 10. The new version of its award-winning software features a sleek new interface and intuitive new design. For example, database users can now place frequently used FileMaker features in the redesigned and customizable Status Toolbar, resulting in streamlined navigation, better workflow, and time-saving shortcuts.
Quick Tip of the Week: Selecting multiple email messages
Ever receive multiple, related email messages that you?d like to file in the same folder or delete? You could delete or drag them into a folder one message at a time. But in Mail, you can save time by deleting or filing all the messages at once. Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week. App Store pioneering ?a new kind of business?
?The new status symbol,? report Matt Richtel and Laura M. Holson (nytimes.com) ?is what your phone can do ? count calories, teach Spanish, simulate a flute, or fling a monkey from a tree.? While some ?programs can genuinely help productivity,? others are simply ?jaw-dropping? fun. The apps, say the authors, ?have become a form of social currency? that is driving ?a new kind of business.? Smashing Research at CERN
?The 17-inch MacBook Pro is my main computer,? says Brian Cox. A particle physicist, Cox works at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, which scientists will soon use to try to recreate the ?Big Bang.? Cox uses the Mac because it can run both UNIX for research and productivity apps for everything else. And he?s not alone. ?When you look around a physics conference now,? he says, ?you see more Macs than anything else.? App Store Pick of the Week: The Weather Channel
If you?re traveling this holiday season, be sure to take the Weather Channel with you. Yes, everyone?s favorite source for weather now takes to the road on iPhone and iPod touch. The Weather Channel app offers location-based weather, customizable weather maps, and severe weather alerts. You can even share a weather alert or forecast by emailing it from your iPhone or iPod touch.
Interested in Science?
Then you?ll enjoy the Forum Network Lectures brought to us by WGBH. In the mostly video lectures, we hear noted planetologists, mathematical physicists, authors, and biologists explore such subjects as the birth and death of stars, the canopy ecosystem of coastal redwoods, and time travel. Come and ?entertain your brain? with the Cambridge Forum Network Lectures on iTunes U.
Coming Attractions: Defiance
In Defiance, the four Bielski brothers (played by Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, and George MacKay) recruit Jewish refugees to the Belarussian forest, where they ultimately build a 1200-person strong force of resistance fighters. The film, directed by Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai), opens in theaters on December 31.
Tapping the power of podcasting
To effectively train and communicate with its 4,000 staff members, 800 reserve personnel, and nearly 20 divisions, the Orange County Sheriff?s Department found a great solution in podcasts. Unfortunately, it could take weeks for the department?s video staff to produce and deliver their podcasts in a variety of formats. Until, that is, Podcast Producer turned weeks of arduous production into mere hours of automated production. Quick Tip of the Week: Bookmark Multiple Tabs
Did you know that in Safari, you can easily bookmark multiple sites at the same time? Or that once you save your new collection of bookmarks, you can open them all at once in separate tabs? Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week. David Fincher: ?The Curious Case of Benjamin Button?
It has already been nominated for multiple prestigious film awards. Yet, one of the curiosities about ?The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? is that so little of the film was actually shot on film. In fact, most footage was captured digitally on HD cameras directly to hard drive. Then, the $150 million dollar film was post-produced in Final Cut Pro using a completely tapeless digital HD workflow from camera to final output.
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