Mini tripods have become increasingly popular over the last few years. They’ve become a versatile and invaluable part of many creators’ kit bags. There are...

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Munters’s new psychrometric calculation tool, PsychroApp, easily calculates the thermodynamic properties of air from an iPhone or iPod Touch.

Update: I found it, YAY!

I'm in dire straits. I just lost my expensive
(Aaak!) 5G Video iPod & I've been tearing
out my hair looking for it! Augh, Aak, Argh!!!

Old-school Apple fans probably remember a time, just before the iPhone became a massive gaming platform in its own right, when Apple released a wide range of games designed for late-model clickwheel iPods. While those clickwheel-controlled titles didn’t exactly set the gaming world on fire, they represent an important historical stepping stone in Apple’s long journey through the game industry. Today, though, these clickwheel iPod games are on the verge of becoming lost media—impossible to buy or redownload from iTunes and protected on existing devices by incredibly strong Apple DRM. Now, the classic iPod community is engaged in a quest to preserve these games in a way that will let enthusiasts enjoy these titles on real hardware for years to come. ↫ Kyle Orland at Ars Technica A nice effort, of course, and I’m glad someone is putting time and energy into preserving these games and making them accessible to a wider audience. As is usual with Apple, these small games were heavily encumbered with DRM, being locked to both the the original iTunes account that bought them, but also to the specific hardware identifier of the iPod they were initially synchronised to using iTunes. A clever way around this DRM exists, and it involves collectors and enthusiasts creating reauthorising their iTunes accounts to the same iTunes installation, and thus adding their respective iPod games to that single iTunes installation. Any other iPods can then be synced to that master account. The iPod Clickwheel Games Preservation Project takes this approach to the next level, by setting up a Windows virtual machine with iTunes installed in it, which can then be shared freely around the web for people to the games to their collection. This is a rather remarkably clever method of ensuring these games remain accessible, but obviously does require knowledge of setting up Qemu and USB passthrough. I personally never owned an iPod – I was a MiniDisc fanatic until my Android phone took over the role of music player – so I also had no clue these games even existed. I assume most of them weren’t exactly great to control with the limited input method of the iPod, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be huge numbers of people who have fond memories of playing these games when they were younger – and thus, they are worth preserving. We can only hope that one day, someone will create a virtual machine that can run the actual iPod operating system, called Pixo OS.

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Diffrence btw iPod Nano & iPod 30GB!!

My iPod is on the right and after apple got lawsuit of the Nano got ton of scratch they had shipped in with the white iPod Pouch!!

The concept behind podcasting is simple: combine the best qualities of what we love about a radio show with the immense capabilities offered by the digital revolution.

And with this simplicity, comes great diversity. Podcasts come in all shapes and sizes, across languages and borders, dealing with an enormous variety of topics and speaking to the hearts of an ever-growing global audience.

It is no wonder that they have become one of the most beloved and popular media in the 21st century. But how did it all start – and where are we now?

A simple idea: a brief history of how podcasts came to be The advent of the internet and new digital tech has naturally played the biggest part in establishing the podcast industry.

While the concept of audio blogging and on-demand listening to audio and video files has been around since the 1980s, primarily in the context of education and research, podcasting as we know it didn’t really exist until the 2000s. Its existence was in big part thanks to the iPod device launched by Apple in late 2001, which inspired a whole new way of listening to music and audio files.

MTV VJ Adam Curry and developer Dave Winner are widely considered to be the pioneers of the podcast revolution, when they teamed up to develop a software dubbed iPodder in 2004 – and the rest is history.

iPod Halo effect Brightnens Mac sales according to an article in the Australian IT News

Record and email voice memos using your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Use it to email reminders to yourself or email messages to anyone.

Say it & Mail it is the quickest and easiest way to email a voice memo from your iPhone or iPod Touch to yourself or to others.

This new version lets you 'Shake it & Mail it'. You can optionally shake your iPhone or iPod touch to start and stop recording. Then just one tap to email a voice memo.

iPods are undisputedly the most popular gadgets of recent years. The iPod, however comes with very little documentation. As such, NotePage, Inc. has created a downloadable pdf that explains the ins and outs of iPods.

The free iPod tutorial explains the differences between the iPod models. It also deciphers the technical jargon used on websites to explain the iPods various features and functions.

The iPod tutorial includes screenshots to assist users in setting up the basics, from the date and time, to their contacts. The iPod tutorial is designed to even help advanced iPod users to take advantage of the iPods more advanced and complex features.

The free iPod tutorial can be accessed by clicking the following http://www.feedforall.com/ipod-tutorial.pdf

Christianity has had its share of sects. Fr. Gregory examines how these sectarian doctrines have made an impact on Western Christian culture.

Fr. Pat examines three rules for living that are found in Romans 12.

Washington – Employers of fruit pickers and landscapers have new resources – in both English and Spanish – to help keep workers safe on and near tripod orchard ladders.

This Mambapod was invented by Taiwanese photography accessory company Silence Corner.

It's a mini tripod that can also be used on non-flat surfaces, thanks to an innovative feature in one of the legs. Two small jaws can be unfolded from the leg, and dialed towards each other by rotating a handle at the bottom of the leg, essentially becoming an F-style clamp.

Alternately, just one of the jaws can be flipped out and used as a hook.

The clamping arrangement provides a lot more security than bendy legs, allowing you to hang your expensive SLR or smartphone in precarious places.

The Mambapod is a hit on Kickstarter, with over $200K in pledges at press time and 25 days left to pledge. Pricing starts at $129.

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Frank C. Nichols
Dec 1, 2020; 61:1645-1657
Research Articles

Porphyromonas gingivalis is a Gram-negative anaerobic periodontal microorganism strongly associated with tissue-destructive processes in human periodontitis. Following oral infection with P. gingivalis, the periodontal bone loss in mice is reported to require the engagement of Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2). Serine-glycine lipodipeptide or glycine aminolipid classes of P. gingivalis engage human and mouse TLR2, but a novel lipid class reported here is considerably more potent in engaging TLR2 and the heterodimer receptor TLR2/TLR6. The novel lipid class, termed Lipid 1256, consists of a diacylated phosphoglycerol moiety linked to a serine-glycine lipodipeptide previously termed Lipid 654. Lipid 1256 is approximately 50-fold more potent in engaging TLR2 than the previously reported serine-glycine lipid classes. Lipid 1256 also stimulates cytokine secretory responses from peripheral blood monocytes and is recovered in selected oral and intestinal Bacteroidetes organisms. Therefore, these findings suggest that Lipid 1256 may be a microbial TLR2 ligand relevant to chronic periodontitis in humans.

Leading Event Showcasing “Love of Design” to Take Place February 12-15, 2012

Dozens of previously hard-to-access games can now be synced via Virtual Machine.

Legendary designer, Jony Ive, shares the unique opportunities and technologies that contributed to the success of the iPod.

Music experiences will be integrated across other devices like iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad and Mac

Tiny and transparent the marine crustacean Paraphronima gracilis sees the world through two large eyes that envelope its head like a high-tech space helmet. Now, […]

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Scott J. Neal, Qingxiang Zhou, and Francesca Pignoni

The specification of organs, tissues and cell types results from cell fate restrictions enacted by nuclear transcription factors under the control of conserved signaling pathways. The progenitor epithelium of the Drosophila compound eye, the eye imaginal disc, is a premier model for the study of such processes. Early in development, apposing cells of the eye disc are established as either retinal progenitors or support cells of the peripodial epithelium (PE), in a process whose genetic and mechanistic determinants are poorly understood. We have identified Protein Phosphatase 2A (PP2A), and specifically a STRIPAK-PP2A complex that includes the scaffolding and substrate-specificity components Cka, Strip and SLMAP, as a critical player in the retina-PE fate choice. We show that these factors suppress ectopic retina formation in the presumptive PE and do so via the Hippo signaling axis. STRIPAK-PP2A negatively regulates Hpo kinase, and consequently its substrate Wts, to release the transcriptional co-activator Yki into the nucleus. Thus, a modular higher-order PP2A complex refines the activity of this general phosphatase to act in a precise specification of cell fate.

Georgi Dimchev
Apr 9, 2020; 133:jcs239020-jcs239020
Articles

This article provides lots of information about iPod. It talks about the many iPod generations and its main features, as well as multimedia capability.

This article is a brief history of iPod. It describes how it started, the goals for this music player and how the name iPod came into being.

This article describes the many iPods generations and features that made this product one of the most popular mp3 mp4 players of all times.

Tripods are a great way of getting steady films with your camcorder. Unfortuantely, a tripod is not always handy. We will show you how to choose a camcorder that will help to assure you capture smooth, high quality films.

A flyout list menu with top level links and a close menu icon for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

A droplist menu with top level links and a close menu tab for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

A pulldown panel containing a droplist menu using just CSS and suitable for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

Using an image to close any open sub menus on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

Adapting the Anywidth dropdown/flyout menu to work on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

The previous menu modified to give a clearer indication of the 'CLOSE' tab for the iPad etc..

A single level slide down menu with a 'close' tab for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

A multi level dropdown/flyout animated menu with a 'close' tab for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

A simpler version of the Anywidth v2 menu, using the latest techniques and discoveries for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

A simpler version of the Anywidth v3 menu, using the latest techniques and discoveries for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

A simpler version of the Anywidth v4 menu, using the latest techniques and discoveries for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

A simpler version of the Anywidth v5 menu, using the latest techniques and discoveries for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. NO need for a special 'close' button or tab.

A simpler version of the Anywidth #6 menu, using the latest techniques and discoveries for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. NO need for a special 'close' button or page wide transparent image.

An apparatus for mounting a mobile device on a tripod includes a frame with a rigid peripheral member defining an opening therethrough. The peripheral member includes a mount configured to releasably couple the frame to the tripod. An insert is sized and shaped to be placed into the opening of the frame and releasably engage at least a portion of the peripheral member in an assembled configuration. The insert has a membrane in the form of a cavity configured to releasably receive and support the mobile device. The membrane extends over at least a portion of the opening of the frame in the assembled configuration and includes at least one camera hole extending therethrough that is aligned with a camera lens of the mobile device when the mobile device is mounted in the cavity.

Puzzle games can be tricky enough to tackle when you've got security guards, laser beams and pesky trapdoors to negotiate.