Archive for September 10th, 2009

VIDEOS IN HANDS AND MUSIC AT EARS

                     Apple has introduced the new iPod nano with the additional features of video camera, mic and speaker. iPod is the world’s mostly used digital music player.

 The new iPod nano has got sleek design and ultra-thin with 2.2-inch color display, it also got a built-in FM radio with live pause and iTunes tagging. It’s also easy to transfer the video to YouTube.

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, said iPod nano is the world’s most popular music player with over 100 million sold.

Now anyone can listen to music and also take videos whenever they want and view it with the new iPod nano. The 2.2-inch display is larger and good enough to view the video clips with 240×376 pixel resolution, videos can be taken in portrait or landscape.

The camera is H.264 VGA video with 640×480 pixels up to 30 frames per second. It can even shoot videos with real-time effects also, which includes thermal, film grain, mirror, dent, kaleido and x-ray.

It has got an inbuilt FM radio with live pause and iTunes tagging. The inbuilt pedometer gives the record of the steps taken and the calories burned. Music playback can be up to 24 hours and video playback for 5 hours.

iPod nano is available for the price of $149 for the 8 GB model and for 16GB model its $179. The iPod nano comes in nine attractive colors – black, red, purple, silver, orange, green, yellow, pink and blue.

 

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Top 20 Adventure Books of All Time

  1. The Snow Leopard – Peter Mathiessen’s seminal work about a journey of (re)discovery to the remotest Himalayan region of Nepal
  2. Wind, Sand and Stars – an ode to the golden years of flying and adventure by the author of The Little Prince
  3. The Long Walk – an epic tale of escape from a Russian prison camp followed by a 2,000 mile walk to freedom (so unbelievable that some have questioned its authenticity)
  4. Three Cups of Tea – everyone’s favorite book about a climber discovering his true calling by building schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  5. No Picnic on Mount Kenya – Italian POW’s reinvigorate their own humanity through adventure
  6. A Soldier of the Great War – sure it’s fiction, but this story set in the Italian Alps of World War I can’t help but ignite the adventurous spirit within all of us
  7. Seven Years in Tibet – the book is better than the movie (duh)
  8. The Climb – get the perspective of one of the real heroes of the 1996 Everest disaster, the late Anatoli Bourkreev
  9. Into the Wild – while the movie was good, the book was better still. Krakauer weaves in his own personal dramas to add perspective
  10. The Worst Journey in the World – this polar adventure fulfills the definition of “epic” in every sense of the word
  11. Alive – a study in survival and the will to live, this story of a rugby team marooned in the Andes is a classic
  12. Touching the Void – Joe Simpson’s harrowing account of surviving a mountaineering disaster, it dramatizes the agonizing choices faced when living on the edge
  13. Desert Solitaire – Abbey’s musings and cranky assaults on the march of “civilization” into the wilderness are profound
  14. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush – a classic account of a Brit on a grand field trip in Central Asia
  15. Roughing It – Twain’s original portrait of the American frontier
  16. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage – Lansing’s classic remains inspirational today, and is still instructive for aspiring “leaders of men”
  17. Out of Africa – the definitive book on the African colonial experience
  18. Minus 148 Degrees – Denali in winter, in a storm: who knew human beings could survive this cold?
  19. Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica – the culture and environment of Antarctica laid bare by the wry Sara Wheeler
  20. Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown – Paul Theroux’s Africa reunion tour, from Cairo to Cape Town