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No Starch Press: The Cult of iPod.


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Are you missing out on the iPod A family of extremely popular digital media players from Apple, introduced in 2001 for the Mac and 2002 for Windows. iPods are noted for their well-designed, simple user interfaces that employ either a click wheel or touch screen (see click wheel and iPod touch).  craze? Feeling confused? Wired News Wired News is an online technology news website, formerly known as HotWired, that split off from Wired magazine when the magazine was purchased by Condé Nast Publishing in the 1990s. Condé Nast later purchased Wired News on 2006-07-11.  editor Leander Leander (lēăn`dər): see hero, in Greek mythology.

Leander

swims the mile-wide Hellespont every night to court Hero. [Gk. Myth.: Hamilton, 432]

See : Athleticism
 Kahney examines how Apple's portable player is changing the way people store, carry and use information as well as the way they interact with each other. The book includes the exclusive back story of iPod's development and investigates the quirkier aspects of iPod culture, such as iPod-jacking, where strangers Strangers can mean:
  • Anyone whom an individual, particularly a child, does not know personally.
  • "The Strangers", the backing band to country music artist Merle Haggard
 plug into each other's iPods to discover new music, and the growing legions of MP3Js (people who use their iPods to become DJs).
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Title Annotation:Computer Literature
Author:Patton, Carol
Publication:District Administration
Article Type:Book review
Date:Mar 1, 2006
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