How to Capture Screenshots of iPhone and iPod Touch

December 26, 2008 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment 

How to Capture Screenshots of iPhone and iPod Touch

How to capture screenshot of your iPhone or iPod Touch’s screen? The good news is, its simple and third party software is not required. The built in iPhone 3G and iPod Touch screen capture utility works right out of the box. Below are the steps:

1. Press the front button on the iPhone. (Do not release after step 2)
2. Hold down the power button on top of iPhone simultaneously (for 1 - 2 seconds).
3. The iPhone / iPod Touch screen will flash.
4. Your screenshot is saved in a new folder under “Photos”.

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How to Rip or Compress DVD to Fit Into a 700MB CD and iPod Touch

December 8, 2007 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment 

How to Rip a Movie for your iPod with HandBrake? Handbrake has a list of tutorials on how to rip a movie to your iPod or fit to a DVD movie to a 700MB CD. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, it has a relatively user friendly interface, and is available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

How to Rip or Compress DVD to Fit Into a 700MB CD and iPod

How to Rip or Compress DVD to Fit Into a 700MB CD and iPod

What makes Handbrake different from other DVD ripper is the various output format, unlike other video encoder or compressor, Handbrake can compress a DVD movie for your iPod, not only does it keeps the quality of the output video to the highest, file size are small as well, here is the list of features:

Supported sources:

  • Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted, but protection methods other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party software), and some .VOB and .TS files
  • PAL or NTSC
  • AC-3, DTS, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks

Outputs:

  • File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
  • Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
  • Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

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Inside iPod Touch

September 15, 2007 · Filed Under Computer Gadgets & Hardware · 1 Comment 

Inside iPod Touch

Take a peak inside the brand new iPod Touch, apparently the guys at iFixit decided to buy an ipod touch and take it apart - for fun. Rumors has it that there might be Bluetooh and FM Radio function incorporated inside the logic board, well, we shall wait for the next couple of firmware updates.

More Images at iFixit

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Apple iPod Touch, ipod classic battery charge

September 6, 2007 · Filed Under Computer Gadgets & Hardware · Comment 

Apple iPod Touch

For once, rumors are true, the all new iPod Touch is here. This is going to be the mother of all portable music player killer ever created, too bad, it lacks of a FM receiver. Head over to engadget for the full review.

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