Tech With Xecab

This week, Apple announced that iPods are in a nosedive. Meanwhile, we are seeing evidence that the Nano is about to get a camera. My response is “Why?” The old clickwheel iPod isn’t dead yet, but it’s definitely dying. I have a 160GB Classic, as I thought I needed it. But with a 32GB iPhone, [...]

During its quarterly earnings call today, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer focused a lot of attention on what the company is now calling its “pocket products.” That is, the iPhone, the iPod touch and the iPod. You’ll notice that Apple has taken to separating out the iPod touch from the rest of the iPod line. And [...]

My wife got me a pair of these earphones for Christmas a year ago. I knew the name Shure and had seen these earphones, but had never given any real consideration to them. With a price tag of around $100, they were a little steep for me. My wife decided she would spend the money [...]

Starting April 7th, iTunes will change the pricing of individual songs. The price on tracks which are considered popular will increase from $.99 to $1.29. Tracks not considered popular any longer will have a price decrease from $.99 to $.69. There has been talk about this happening for years. I guess I am in favor [...]

The iHome iPod Clock Radio is a terrific unit for someone looking for a new clock radio. The iHome will charge your iPod while docked. Some other features include: play your iPod, wake to your iPod, FM/AM Radio, Alarm and a remote for skipping sons and changing volume. One problem with the iHome is the [...]

Ever since I first puchased both of my iPod Nano 4G units, the players have experienced a problem where the video playlist option continues to show up on the home screen. This will happen once in a while and almost every time the battery gets completely drained. This has to be software related, so a [...]

Do you listen to podcasts? If not, you should. A podcast is basically an audio file that is linked to using an RSS feed. The most popular way of subscribing to them is using iTunes and they are almost always free of charge. Just go to the podcast section of the iTunes store, find the [...]

Depending on which connector you have for your iPod, the Passport may or may not work. I have a Pioneer head unit with a CD-i200 adapter. This adapter is listed as NOT compatible with the Passport. I have found a fix for the incompatibility at least when dealing with this particular adapter. It may work [...]

And on the 366th day of the year, the music died. Thousands of Zune portable media players made by Microsoft Corp. suddenly froze up early Wednesday, Dec. 31, labeling Internet wits to label the phenomenon “Z2K.” The model affected was the Zune 30, which sports a 30-gigabyte hard drive and was first released in November [...]

At first apples decision to change the design of the iPods so older devices would not charge them didn’t bother me. Now it is starting to. It’s my understanding that Apple told manufacturers approximently two years ago that the specification would be changing and that they would need to start using the 5 volt usb [...]

I recently purchased a new Scosche Passport for my car stereo. The only way I could get it to work was to turn on the car, hook the passport into the iPod, then hook the iPod cord into the passport. If I changed any part of these steps, it would result in the iPod not [...]

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