2008年（1655）
分类： LINUX
2008-05-28 15:26:47
The iPod is the best portable music player available at this writing. Small enough to fit easily into a hand or a pocket, the iPod can hold the contents of entire CD collection in compressed files and can deliver up 11 hours of music on a single battery charge. You can download a dozen CDs’worth of music from your computer to your iPod in less than a minute, and you can recharge your iPod quickly either from a power outlet or from your computer. And whereas the first iPods worked only with the Mac, the later iPods work with Windows (XP, 2000, and Me) as well.
But the iPod isn’t just a portable audio player with terrific sound quality and
huge capacity. You can also load it up with your calendars and display your
appointments on it. You can also load on your iPod all your contact records and any text that you choose to format as contact data—anything from a shopping list to a book. By using third-party utilities, you can transfer up-to-the-minute headlines,weather reports, stock quotes, driving directions, and other text from the Internet onto your iPod, swiftly and automatically.
So you can use your iPod to carry your essential information with you, and you
can check your appointments or display driving directions even while the music
keeps thundering. But that’s not all. Because the iPod is based around a hard disk and connects to your computer via FireWire, you can transfer to it any files that will fit on the hard disk. So you can use your iPod to carry a backup of your vital documents with you, or even to transfer files from one computer to another. If your computer is a Mac, you can even install Mac OS X or System 9 on your iPod and boot your Mac from the iPod.Apple keeps improving the iPods and the software that goes with them. The latest improvements (May 2003) include the capability to play music that uses the high-quality Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format, to use your iPod as an alarm clock, and to buy digital audio from the iTunes Music Store via the Internet. See Chapters 16, 17, and 18 for coverage of these “new” iPods.
