Obama gives Queen Elizabeth an iPod as a gift

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 Evidence that  Barack Obama is cool as a green t-shirt on St. Patrick’s day keeps pouring in. The latest tidbit is that a gift , that was apparently an iPod, was given to none other than Queen Elizabeth II on his recent trip to Buckingham Palace. And Michelle Obama is doubley as cool for not curtseying.

Last time he visited London Obama gave Sarah “hide her” Brown a set of DVD’s that were not from the same region. So, she couldn’t view them in the UK unless she has a regionless DVD player. And, being in the UK, the rules are the rules. But she could probably get them for 19.99 pounds on an HMV sale in Oxford Street.

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iPod Shuffle gets a make-over

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ipod_shufflejpgMac has unveiled the new iPod shuffles and they look great. They do not have any buttons on the, which makes them considerably smaller than their predecessors. You will be able to control them by an inline remote on the headphone chord. It has also been given a voice-over feature that will tell you what songs you are playing and many other things, including the battery level. wire remotes can get annoying, but for 80 dollars (24KD) it’s worth it.

Design: Bring your iPod to life…

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ishelfFrom OhGizmo:

“Whether you’re a Windows person or a Mac person (or even Linux for that matter), you have to admit that the folks over at Apple have style. When you look at almost any of their products, you can tell that a great deal of time and effort went into making everything look sleek, from the outer shell down to the user interface. I good example is Cover Flow, which lets you browse through your music selection by looking at the cover art of each individual album cover. Well it seems that another designer has decided to take that same idea, and move it into the physical world.

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iPods will make you deaf

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According to this article posted on Yahoo. Listening to your MP3 player for 5 hours a day will get your to lose your hearing in 5 years. I am a big music fan and I don’t listen on headphones for 5 hours a day. But, I hear from people who study ear hairs that if you lose those sensitive detectors you can never get them back again. Also, I know that it depends on what kind of headphone you use. If they are noise-canceling then that’s a plus, if they are run-of-the-mill then you might need to learn sign, which I can help you with.