Apple iPod nano 4 GB Silver

Apple iPod nano 4 GB Silver

Product Description

It's the small iPod with one very big idea: Video. Now the world's most popular music player lets you enjoy TV shows, movies, video podcasts, and more. The larger, brighter display means amazing picture quality. In five eye-catching colors, iPod nano is stunning all around.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14 in Consumer Electronics
• Size: 4 GB
• Color: Silver
• Brand: Apple
• Model: MA978LL/A
• Released on: 2007-09-05
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds
• Hard Disk: 4GB
• Display size: 2

Features

• Now the world's most popular music player lets you enjoy up to 5 hours of TV shows, movies, video podcasts, and more
• An enhanced interface offers a whole new way to browse and view your music and video
• iPod nano sports a larger, 320-by-240-resolution display that's 65 percent brighter than before
• In anodized aluminum and polished stainless steel, iPod nano is now 6.5 mm thin and even more beautiful
• Measures 2.75 x 2.06 x 0.26 inches (H x W x D), weighs 1.74 ounces

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Product Description
An anodized aluminum top and polished stainless steel back. Five eye-catching colors. A larger, brighter display with the most pixels per inch of any Apple display, ever. iPod nano stirs up visual effects from the outside in.

And it'll wow you for hours. Play up to 5 hours of video or up to 24 hours of audio on a single charge. All that staying power and a wafer-thin, 6.5-mm profile makes iPod nano one small big attraction.

Cover Flow
If a picture says a thousand words, think of what all the album art in your collection might say. With Cover Flow on iPod nano, you can flip through your music to find the album you want to hear. Use the Click Wheel to browse music by album cover, then select an album to flip it over and see the track list.

In addition to listening to music you can now enjoy TV shows, movies, video podcasts, and more. View iPod nano dimensions.

The iPod nano comes in a host of exciting new colors.

Play up to 5 hours of video or up to 24 hours of audio on one charge. View larger.

Music
Use the Click Wheel to adjust volume, navigate songs, browse in Cover Flow, or explore the Music menu by playlist, artist, album, song, genre, composer, and more. Want to mix things up? Click Shuffle Songs. iPod nano makes your music look as good as it sounds, thanks to its bright color display.

Movies
Buy movies from the iTunes Store and you can sync them to your iPod nano to watch anywhere, anytime. Up to 5 hours of video playback means you can watch two movies back to back. And for your viewing pleasure, the 320-by-240-pixel display--with a whopping 204 pixels per inch--is 65 percent brighter than before.

TV Shows
There's always something good on iPod nano. Browse thousands of episodes of your favorite TV shows on the iTunes Store, buy them for just $1.99 each, then sync them to your iPod nano. Watch last night's episodes this morning, or buy a whole TV series and play a pocket-size marathon.

Podcasts
The iTunes Store features thousands of free video and audio podcasts, including indie favorites and offerings from such big names as ABC News, Comedy Central, ESPN, PBS, NPR, and many more. Browse and subscribe to podcasts, then sync them to your iPod nano. You can even play video podcasts on TV using an optional Apple component or composite AV cable.

Audiobooks
The digital shelves of the iTunes Store are stocked with thousands of audiobooks--including exclusives like the entire Harry Potter series--so you can catch up on your reading wherever iPod nano takes you. iPod nano even recognizes where you left off reading and bookmarks your place.

Games
Put hours of fun at your fingertips. iPod nano comes with three games--Vortex, iQuiz, and Klondike--and you can download more from the iTunes Store for $4.99 each. All iPod games are designed specifically for the iPod interface. And all of them look great on the 2-inch color display.

Photos
iPod nano holds up to 7,000 photos you can sync from your Mac or PC via iTunes. Use the Click Wheel to scroll through photo thumbnails. To see a photo full screen, click the center button. You can even view your photo slideshows--complete with music and transitions--on a TV using an optional Apple component or composite AV cable.

Extras
Calendars, contacts, and a screen lock appear in the Extras menu, along with a few more handy items. Take the world clock, for example. Spin the Click Wheel to choose different clocks for cities all over the world. For workouts, use the built-in stopwatch to log your best times.

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Customer Reviews

iPod 4G
Love my new iPod. It's become an extension. Great for downloading audio books as well as music.

Apple ipod nano 8
I love my nano. Only thing my first one had to send back because did not work right. It was great to return item no hassles very easy. Second one is great. Only problem the screen has a little place on it that is not clear. Carol Tressler

I-pod nano
this is a great product! I got it for my mom and she LOVES it, plus it is so easy to use!

	A Different Fathers Day Wish

Ken McCreless

Greetings Fellow Travelers...

I really miss my Dad.

Not so much by the imminent resplendence of Fathers Day, but the day to day problems that having the wise council of a dad would come in handy. My children could have really benefited from a Grandpa. For all intents and purposes they never had the encouragement of an extended family.

He passed away in 1988 of cancer of the blood, the details are not important. He had been really sick for a long time. At that time I was no where near working in the medical field and had no idea about any of the things I was asked to make a decision on concerning his treatment. I realize it's one of those"if I had known then what I know now" situations, but I did the best I could.

I was informed with an early morning knock on the door by a police officer. He was reading from notes he had made and seemed to be a little nervous, like it was his first time to say "I regret to inform you," etc, etc.

There were conversations that needed to take place that didn't. Many questions gone un-asked and un-answered. I endure waves of sadness when I realize, again, and again, that I cannot remember the sound of his voice.

Since then, to this day, I have had to be a dad without advice from my own. I feel like a failure in every regard. I have spent the years since my divorce in '95 being both mom and dad to my kids.

We don't know how much time we have, though, do we? Do I even have the luxury to embrace regret? How many hours or days have I spent wishing things would have been different? Too many to count, I'm sure, but that is not the thrust of this piece.

I'm not saying that every day should be Fathers Day but that everyday should be a day of reckoning, a day to realize the import that those in our lives hold.

I really miss my Dad.
http://searchwarp.com/swa339470.htm

Slow down & Save oil

Francis Slakey in the NewScientist this week has a suggestion for resolving the US energy crisis – get people to drive slower by lowering national speed limits to 55 miles per hour.

‘ Every car engine has a sweet spot in terms of efficiency, typically when running at 55 mph. Beyond 60 mph, engine efficiency plummets because of higher temperatures. In addition, three other factors that affect gasoline consumption become more significant at higher speeds: tire resistance, wheel bearing friction and air drag. What all that means is that for the average car, cutting the speed from 75 mph to 55 mph improves fuel efficiency by roughly 25%.

This would save 1 billion barrels of oil per year - more than US imports from the Persian Gulf. Former President Carter endorsed a 55 mph limit in the oil crisis of the 1970s but the public kicked him out. Lowering the speed limit did reduce demand and help cut gasoline prices. But there are some arguments for again trying such a policy:

• Reducing the limit to 55 mph just broadens the sense of public good to include conservation.
• For most people a reduced limit would not add greatly to travel times and those who it would harm – e.g. long-distance truckers - would spend less money on gasoline - they would save more than 50 cents per gallon at current prices.
• There would be fewer serious traffic accidents.

A flaw in the plan is that consumers alone pay. President Carter forced US car makers to establish an average fuel efficiency standard - the Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) standard - across their fleet of 27.5 miles per gallon within a decade. This has been fixed since though it too could be tightened to 33 miles per gallon today – higher targets than this have been suggested by the Sierra Club. With this change the US would save a further 2 million barrels of oil a day and there would be incentives too for car manufacturers to improve an engine's sweet spot to make it run more efficiently at 75 mph.

The Slakey plan is worth examining. The cost savings in fuel bills and the reduction in traffic damage accident costs need to be assessed against the value of increased travel time valued at some function of real wages. A good thesis topic for an economics student once the core science is checked out – my reservation is only that fuel economy in vehicles I drive is better on long-distance trips when I drive faster than when I drive around town - due I assume to more stop-and-start driving in urban areas. I have always believed (falsely?) that increased fuel consumption was driven by the need to accelerate a vehicle but that it would be low if one is travelling at a relatively high speed but not accelerating.

Of course, if the argument is correct, one can individually reduce fuel bills by slowing down! The advantage of a law is the macroeconomic effects of induced lower oil prices.

http://kalimna.blogspot.com/2006/05/slow-down-save-oil.html