The way music marketing is done these days is directly linked to the enormous adoption of the portable iPod. The enduring success of the iPod is directly linked to its capability to never be truly matched, so it still exists today as the best MP3 player. Although many have at the very least owned one in the past, there still are some that are a bit late to the game that have yet to pick up one for themselves. Most think it is as easy as going to the store and asking for an iPod, but one can find quite a few different options one needs to be familiar with before making the trip.
Discovering which model to purchase is the first course of action. Each of the four distinctive iPods, the Shuffle, Nano, Touch and Classic, have different features and features. Much like the name implies, the iPod Shuffle only allows randomized track lists and a small space for storage. In order to provide the user more control, the Nano adds a touch screen on the same body the Shuffle has. Additional bonuses the Nano delivers are an FM radio, the ability to view pictures, and a lot more storage space. The original iPod, also called the iPod Classic, has functionality very similar to the Nano, except it has a larger non-touch screen, dedicated controls, and an enclosed hard drive that can store up to 160 gigabytes of music (10x the very best Nano model's storage capability). Lastly, the iPod Touch is sold with less storage (since it does not have a hard drive) but is simply an iPhone without the presence of the phone functionality. It is a great product to not only play music with, but play games on, use as a camera, and arrange a calendar. All the different models of iPod ensure the customer can find precisely what they are looking for.
The next thing to consider is how the person is planning to use the MP3 player. In order to do what an individual never thought would be possible, an accessory exists to expand its versatility. An iPod Touch case is unquestionably essential when buying that model, but a case is especially recommended for every distinct version. A carrier for the arm or waist is advisable when trying to stay active while preventing the device from getting dropped and damaged. A simple 1/8 inch wire is necessary to hook the phone up to an auxiliary jack in a car stereo, but if the car does not have one, there are high quality FM transmitters available that let a driver tune to and hear music from their iPod. There are also portable speaker systems with an iPod dock that can play loudly almost anywhere one can take it.
Getting out and about and making use of it is essential right after looking at the iPod cases! Traveling around in some shoes makes the most out of having a portable music player, so get out there and crank the tunes.
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4 BlackBerry Apps that Can Help You Get Your Life in Order
Research In Motion's BlackBerry platform has long been a staple for businessmen and women, but with the release of the BlackBerry PlayBook, the platform has been opened up to tablet communication. Along with the release of the PlayBook comes several apps that are designed to make your life more efficient. If you're looking for the top productivity apps for your PlayBook, then look no further than these apps.
1. Activity Log Pro
If you've ever wondered where all the hours in the day have gone, then you need this app. It logs the time you've spent doing various tasks and presents it to you in a pleasing graph format so that you can see how many hours you spend working versus how many hours you spend playing. If you're trying to improve your daily routine and find a balance between how much time you work, then this application is a must.
2. Beam Reader
If you spend a significant amount of time per day reading through the RSS feeds of your favorite sites, you owe it to yourself to get Beam Reader. Beam is a Pulse-like reader that presents your news in an easy to read fashion so you can quickly browse through the headlines and determine what you want to read and what you don't. Spend less time sorting through junk and more time reading what you want to read by using the Beam Reader application.
3. BlueBox
DropBox is a popular multi-platform syncing service that makes it easy to keep your important files with you no matter where you go. While the PlayBook doesn't have an official DropBox application, BlueBox is just as good. It provides access to all of your files that you've synced using DropBox, so you can drop important files into DropBox and have them with you on the go. Never again will you have to worry about leaving your important files at home.
4. Groovy Notes
Groovy Notes is the premier note-taking application for the PlayBook. With it you can manage your notes, plans, agenda, and even your lists for remembering things to pick up from the grocery store. Groovy Notes can help you better organize your life by keeping all your notes together, so instead of having to look around the house for the note you took, you can find it instantly on your PlayBook.
Of course, these apps are just a few of the many applications available for the BlackBerry PlayBook to help enhance your productivity. For thousands of other apps available, check out the BlackBerry App World store on the Internet, or directly from your BlackBerry PlayBook device.
Ashley Aikers is a writer who enjoys writing on a number of different verticals. For more on mobile apps to help everyday life, The App Times offers readers information on iPhone apps that help manage and monitor personal information.
Apple AirPlay Will Become One of the Top Ten Consumer Electronics
According to iSuppli, Apple recently introduced various products and software, one of the most important release was almost ignored the outside world: the company's AirPlay audio playback system. The technology is expected to become one of 10 consumer electronics products.
In Apple's September 1 product conference, Jobs demonstrated the AirPlay, the system can wirelessly streaming audio, or Ethernet to transfer to a third party speaker dock, AV receivers and stereo equipment. AirPlay did not like Steve Jobs demonstrated the video from the iPad just a means of transport to the AppleTV, AirPlay across the entire audio industry.
To promote the AirPlay, Apple and American Connection technology and solutions provider to establish a cooperative relationship BridgeCo. BridgeCo platform design has been more and more partners and ODM support, can help AirPlay quickly into a variety of consumer electronics products. Apple's AirPlay partners include consumer electronics audio industry well-known manufacturers, such as the Dragon and the Bowers & Wilkins.
AirPlay is the rapid growth of Apple's leading position in connected home market competition is another effort. The technology uses Apple MP3/PMP player market dominance. With AirPlay, iPad, iPod, and iPhONe family can act as a music server, and send the music via iTunes.
As the IFA in Berlin this month, the Consumer Electronics Show has shown, the audio network is growing momentum of development, both in the Sonos system into such a complete, or in the general equipment (such as support for DLNA and other open standard audio - video receiver) among all the case. In addition to the family music library, Internet radio also requires seamless access to the entire family in the audio.
But how do the main problem seems to be seamless, which is why in the case of consumer desire for music, home audio network development has not reached the expected level.
AirPlay may play an active role to solve the audio seamless connectivity has become one of 10 major consumer electronics, unit shipments and even rival TV.
Suppli forecasts that the global TV market in 2010 will be shipped over 230 million units.
Selburn that Apple in the consumer electronics market has created some spectacular miracle.
An example is the portable audio market. From tape or other removable media like CD Walkman products, the evolution to the MP3 player, then when Apple introduced the iPod, MP3 player, ushered in an explosive growth.
Why iPod would be so affected? Apple's unparalleled marketing tool is of course a factor. However, iPod design is simple and can be activated by a button iTunes, is undoubtedly a major factor in its success, this simple and attractive design can provide end to end solutions and consumer experience. Finally, of all ages and all skill levels of consumers, in fact, can be a hand-held digital players to access their stored music.
If Apple has also introduced wireless home audio networking products like iPod did, then the home audio market is likely to be similar rapid growth. This time, the transition of consumers from the docking station to the next phase: network audio client. When consumers do not search on the Internet a variety of error codes and reset the firewall, you can enjoy music at home in every corner of the library and Internet radio, networked home audio market is likely to send a real strong sound.
The Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire… Which to Choose? [UPDATED]
This morning, Barnes & Noble took the wraps off the not-so-secret Nook Tablet, follow-up to the Nook Color and a head-to-head competitor with Amazon’s upcoming Kindle Fire. The Fire will cost less – $199 rather than the Nook Tablet’s $249 – but will also offer less memory and storage. And each will ship around the same time, mid-November.
So… which to choose?
This isn’t a question that can be answered in the same way for everyone, so let’s look at the two devices’ features one by one:
Price
The Nook Tablet will cost $50 more than the Kindle Fire, probably not the best move for B&N if they really want to compete with Amazon in the tablet eReader space. Amazon is also throwing in a free month of Amazon Prime, a $79/year club that offers thousands of free streaming movies and TV shows, free two-day shipping, $3.99 per item overnight shipping, and even book lending.
Hardware
The specs of the two tablets are pretty close: they each have a dual-core 1GHz processor, a 7-inch 600×1024 IPS touchscreen display, Wi-Fi, an Android OS foundation, and 3.5mm audio jacks. But the Nook Tablet has double the RAM, twice the onboard storage (16GB), and the option to store even more content via a microSD slot that supports at least 32GB microSDHC cards (and many even larger microSDXC capacities). The Kindle Fire is 8GB onboard storage – no expansion.
Books
If you want to mostly read books on the Fire or the Nook Tablet – and if this is the case I suggest you stop reading now and buy an eInk Kindle or Nook Simple Touch; your eyes will thank you – you’ll have many more to choose from with Amazon, the undisputed champion when it comes to eBook selection.
Magazines & Newspapers
Both the Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire will allow you to read full-color digital magazines and newspapers. There’s no word yet on a side-by-side comparison as far as the number of selections, but most popular digital publications will likely be available on both.
Video
The Kindle Fire has Amazon’s Instant Video service with over 100,000 titles, more than 10,000 of which are free to Prime members. The Nook Tablet will have Netflix. Netflix may be an option on the Fire at some point, but so far no dice. Update: Amazon has announced that Netflix will be an available app for the Kindle Fire at launch.
Music
The Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire will each have music players, though the Fire will ship with Amazon MP3 as a native source to purchase music, and the Amazon Cloud Player for streaming of music you already own without having to store it on the tablet itself. The Nook will be compatible with streaming music services like Pandora, but won’t offer access – at least as far as I can tell – to a way to purchase songs from the device. You’ll also be able to load your own compatible tracks on each device’s internal memory.
Apps
Both devices can run Android apps, but not all. Amazon has its own Appstore – B&N has Nook Apps. Amazon will probably have the better selection, but…
Web & Email
Both devices will have onboard web browsers and email clients.
Miscellaneous
The Nook Tablet will include free Wi-Fi at Barnes & Noble retail locations. No big deal considering how many places offer free Wi-Fi, but B&N also allows you to read books for free while you’re in one of their retail stores, and to get onsite help with your Nook should you need it.
Conclusion
If you’re already deeply embedded in Amazon’s or Barnes & Noble’s ecosystems with books, memberships and apps, it’s probably best to stay with the company you know if you want a color device; there just isn’t that much difference between the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet in terms of hardware to go with one over the other for that reason. That is, unless you want to be able to load a great deal of content onto one of the tablets, in which case the Nook is the winner by a long shot.
For most users, though, given the price, Amazon’s content, app, and media selection, the Kindle Fire is probably best. Netflix is the only real extra consideration here, since the Nook Tablet ships with Netflix onboard.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus, aka Nexus Prime, Android 4.0 Phone to be Announced Today
Like the other Nexus-series handsets, the Galaxy Nexus from Samsung will be a pure-Android experience without third-party overlays, UI tweaks, or carrier tampering.
In addition to Android OS 4.0, the 4.7-ounce Nexus Prime / Galaxy Nexus is expected to feature a dual-core 1.2GHz TI OMAP4460 CPU, a 4.6-inch AMOLED 720p HD touchscreen display with curved glass and a high DPI, 1GB of RAM, either 16 or 32GB of onboard storage, Bluetooth 3.0, an 8MP camera with 1080p video capture, a front-facing camera, and a PowerVR SGX 540 GPU. LTE is also widely expected to be part of the wireless array, and NFC technology for Google Wallet is also thought to be included.
The Nexus Galaxy is believed to be headed to Verizon Wireless in November.
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Why Backlinks Help Your Online Biz
If you want your website to get found online by your desired audience, it's smart to implement a good backlinking strategy. Of course your on page strategy is important first and foremost but things you do off site could also benefit you from a traffic and a reputation building perspective.
A solid linking approach can help your web pages get found by search engines and by potential customers. In SEO (search engine optimization), links are an important part of your marketing strategy both for organic traffic (traffic that visits you because search engines listed you as a result for a specific phrase search) and for popularity.
What is a backlink?
A link that exists online and that points to your website is often referred to as a backlink or an incoming link. A backlinking strategy is something many online marketing specialists recommend.
A high number of links can do a number of things for your website. The higher the number of incoming links, the more chances of your website achieving a high page ranks by search engines. Various engines use different techniques to measure popularity and relevance so it's important to look for quality and quantity.
Does the type of link matter?
When devising a strategy for links, there are several schools of thought:
Relevance: If sites that are relevant to your site's subject matter link to you, this can be a good thing from an SEO perspective. Obtaining links from sites that are authorities and highly ranked for your industry, for instance can be good.
Reputation: Links that come from sites with a good reputation are coveted. You don't want to have sites that are considered 'spam' linking to you as this doesn't help your SEO efforts and could cause your site to be seen as unsavory and that could even have your site blacklisted.
Quantity and Diversity: Having links from a diverse set of websites can be considered a good strategy. Using social bookmarking, for instance, can be smart. If your site has a page on it that goes viral and gets linked to from many sources such as blog links, social marketing sites, and gets mentioned across many diverse sites online, this could elevate your site's online profile and rankings by search engines such as Google.
How do you build backlinks?
You can find services that will build links for you (beware. Not all use ethical methods. Any service that resorts to spamming websites for linking purposes or that uses questionable linking practices could cause your site more harm than good). You can also build links through syndicated article directories, press releases, and through social bookmarking tools.
Tip: Ensure your links are built with quality and value in mind for maximum efficacy. Regardless of how many places your links can be seen, if the content you link people to isn't valuable, it won't matter how much traffic you get. Consistency (such a building new off page content and new links every month), quality and quantity in terms of a backlinking strategy could be the best approach for your online marketing efforts.
There are a lot of ways to build backlinks. Matthew Bredel's TheWebReviewer.com also looks at some SEO tools to help. Check out this SocialAdr review if you're interested in saving time with social bookmarking.
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