History of iPod

iPod, a brand name of media player contributed by the Apple Group, has been recognized as a widely sought-after digital device worldwide for many years. The classic outlook and amazing features have made the gadget a landmark in the history of portable music players. Many young people are passionate about iPod and take it as a fashion symbol. Nowadays, an iPod no longer costs as much as before, and wholesale iPod models has turned out a more and more profitable business.

The first model in the iPod series was launched on October 23, 2001. Up to now, iPod has come in a variety of types including Shuffle, Nano, Classic and Touch, each of which has its special features. For example, iPod Touch enables a touch screen feature and iPod Nano supports videos. Popularly-known features of major models of iPod include the sleek body, portability, the simple interface and the scroll wheel. Among all, models in the iPod family are especially well-known for their user-friendly interface. Even young children and old people can easily learn how to operate any iPod model. The simple interface and the scroll wheel have made it easy for iPod users to enter into the iPod navigation system and to become familiar with major functions of the music player in a short time.

Unlike ordinary music players like Walkman, a model from the iPod family needs no cassettes or cds. The older iPod models resort to a built-in hard drive to store media while the the newer models apply flash memory for the storage like iPod Touch, Nano and Shuffle.

At the outset, an iPod model cost as much as $400, which drove away a significant range of potential users. Gradually, to meet the growing requirements for affordable and rich-feature handy music players, Apple developed a number of new iPod models. These models, of course, update with new designs and more interesting functions like PC support and color display, which are not only popular among ordinary customers but affordable to this group of people. The improvements quickly made iPod a super star in the music players market. Currently items belonging to the iPod family have remained a bestseller among all same category items in many countries.

The advertising of iPod is believed to have made a big contribution to the popularity of iPod. Over the years, we saw some interesting ads about iPod coming out one after another. Almost every iPod ad is featured by the coolest tunes playing in the background, which is not only amazing but also unbelievably creative.

2 years ago, Apple released the multi-feature smartphone iPhone in the U.S.. This landmark cell phone is in fact a combination of two devices: a cellular phone and an iPod. Soon the first iPod model with touch screen, the iPod touch, came into existence, designed with the multi-touch graphical touch screen function of iPhone. Furthermore, the iPod touch is also the first iPod model enabling Internet access via the Wi-Fi capacities. From this tendency, we can see that Apple is trying to turn the iPod from simply a portable media player into a PC-based multi-media player which supports music files, Internet capacities.
emma

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Chihuahuas Have No Fear of Satan

Common household pets aren't very religious by nature; indeed, I've never noticed either of my chihuahuas showing any interest whatsoever in reading my Bible.

But they sure don't like Satan. In fact, they chased him out of our apartment complex.

The dogs had taken me for my morning walk the other day. They take me outside twice a day, in return for which I feed them, bathe them, give them lots of scratching and allow them to sleep as much as they want.

They'd stopped for a moment to inspect their markings on the nearest telephone pole when I heard Satan sneaking up behind me.

"Satan!" a man's voice bellowed from a nearby apartment door. "You leave those little dogs alone!"

As I turned, I saw Satan for the first time in my life — a full-grown German Shepherd (y'all don't believe those stories you hear about him having horns and such). He loped across the parking lot, eager to work wickedness.

Smedley hit him first, launching all four pounds of pure chihuahua fury at Satan's chest. After bouncing off the 100-pound monster the first time, he found a tooth hold on Satan's back.

Rusty attacked from the rear, getting the shepherd's leg in his jaws and gnawing away like it was a rib bone. When I think about it now, it was kinda funny, watching that big dog shaking his leg with its five-pound attachment.

Jerry Falwell never did a better job. Satan started running.

Smedley and Rusty fell off before the big'un had gone too far, and they chased him halfway across the vacant field adjacent to our apartments before the big devil's longer legs enabled him to pull away. The man from the apartment who'd called him earlier rushed by, mumbling apologies, and we saw them disappear around the corner.

Smedley (that's Lieutenant Colonel Smedley D. Butler) and Rusty (Sergeant Major Russell J. Chihooiehooie) normally don't like each other all that much, near as I can tell, but the Houston Rockets never displayed the kind of teamwork those two showed when fighting Satan.

I guess I should've expected it of Rusty; several years ago he put 137 stitches in a Doberman after the attack dog had foolishly wandered into my brother's yard and started chasing around my 4-year-old niece. Age may have made him a tad slower and his teeth less sharp, but he can still scrap with the best of 'em — even when it means gumming 'em to death.

Smedley, however, surprised me. He's always been a coward — you know, the chihuahua who hides under the couch until the band of kids wanders by, jumping out to nip the last one in line and then diving back under the couch.

I named him for a two-time Medal of Honor winner and had heretofore regretted that somewhat.

I told my preacher about the incident and he got a big kick out of it, and even worked it into his sermon the other day. He still won't let me bring 'em to church, though; he says he doesn't trust 'em with all that nice wood around.

Satan stays away from us now. I talked with the man he rooms with later, and he told me he'd run almost three blocks before Satan finally let him catch up. "Those little dogs scared him to death," he said.

Personally, I think they just put the fear of God into him.

dave mundy

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