MP3 Player Safety Tips: Listen Safely While Using Your Portable

 MP3 Player Safety Tips: Listen Safely While Using Your Portable It might seem obvious that listening to your portable's digital music (via earbuds) while crossing a busy street is dangerous. However, there are also other situations you may not have considered which can be equally detrimental to your health -- such as eye strain, permanent damage to your hearing, or even electric shock! To see some of the major safety angles you should keep in mind while enjoying your digital music library on your portable, read this article for more information. Safety Tips When Using Earbuds / Headphones As mentioned above, crossing the...

How To Reset/Restart a frozen iPod Mini

 How To Reset/Restart a frozen iPod Mini Nobody likes it when their iPod mini freezes up and stops responding to clicks. When computers freeze up, you know how that to fix that problem — restart them. But since iPods don’t exactly have on/off switches, how do you restart them? Luckily, resetting a frozen iPod mini is pretty easy. Here’s how you do it (this works for the both the first- and second-generation iPod mini). Difficulty: Easy Time Required: Less than 1 Minute Here's How: NOTE: First make sure that your iPod’s hold button isn’t on. This is the little switch at the top left corner of the iPod mini that you can move...

How to Reset iPod Classic

 How to Reset iPod Classic If your iPod Classic isn't responding to clicks, it's probably frozen up. Just like when your computer freezes up, to fix your iPod you'll need to restart it. Resetting a frozen iPod Classic is pretty easy; here's how: Slide the Hold switch, the switch at the top left of the iPod, to "on" (so it's showing the orange). Then slide it back to hide the orange. Hold down the Menu and center buttons at the same time. Hold them for 6-8 seconds, or until the Apple logo shows up on the screen. Let go of the buttons at this point. The Classic is restarting. You may need to hold down the buttons again if the iPod...

What Bitrate Should I Use?

What Bitrate Should I Use? Again, it depends. But if u want my suggestion, read my recommendations below: 128kbps (Constant Bit Rate - Joint Stereo) - This setting is good for folks who: can't notice the diff between cassette and cd quality music! have a 'very' old sound card unpowered speakers ** If u plan to upgrade ur PC's multimedia capabilities soon or plan on converting their mp3's to audio-cd format, then by all means consider higher bit rates instead! 32min-192max kbps <or 256max> (VBR - Joint Stereo)- Good balance between...

How to Reset iPod nano: Fix a Frozen iPod nano

 How to Reset iPod nano: Fix a Frozen iPod nano There can be many reasons why your iPod nano may become unusable. For example, you could be listening to your songs or syncing with iTunes when it suddenly decides to crash! If your iPod appears to be frozen, then it may just need a reset (for syncing problems, read our iPod Sync Troubleshooting Guide). The firmware inside your iPod (responsible for its operation) can at times trip up -- making the unit either freeze while it's on, or not power up. It is therefore worth trying to reboot your iPod nano before taking it to someone for an unnecessary repair -- they may even charge...

Downloading MP3's made easy

The MP3 movement started out with a huge audience of music enthusiasts on the internet. The MP3 digital music format has had, and will continue to have, a huge impart on how people, gather, listen to and share music. The MP3 format is a compression system for digital music that helps reduce the size of a digitized song without disturbing the sound quality. Digital music is converted to MP3 format and made available for use, usually via the web. MP3 files can be downloaded onto your ...

Are Free File Download Services Really Safe

On Monday June 27, 2005 the Supreme Court ruled that Grokster and Streamsoft, two free file download services, were operating illegally because they were allegedly encouraging illegal downloads of copyrighted material. Encouraging it...that was what the Supreme Court said. These were free services that were encouraging illegal activity. Would this have happened if they had had paying customers? In other words, would a paid file download service be better than a free download service? I...