All Entries Tagged With: "iPod"

iOS 4 update now available

Go ahead and connect your iPhone or iPod touch to iTunes and it should tell you that iOS 4 is available.
iOS 4 in itself for my iPhone 3GS is about 380MB but it requires iTunes 9.2, which if you don’t have it already is about 100MB more to download.
iOS 4 brings a line of updates [...]

ABM says you should love iPods

Apple’s distributor in the Middle East, Arab Business Machines, ABM, may finally be doing some advertising and promotions for Apple products the way that fans in the region have been asking for, for a long time.
This video, they even put “viral” in the name of it (I guess hoping that will make it viral somehow), [...]

Win Altec Lansing inMotion Slim iPod speaker

We have three Altec Lansing inMotion Slim iPod nano speakers to give away to three lucky winners.
These are meant for iPod nano and should work with different generations of the slim player.
All you have to do is enter a few pieces of information about yourself in this entry form. We will randomly pick one winner [...]

Win Edifier iF200 Plus iPod touch alarm clock and speaker

We have two Edifier iF200 Plus to give away to two lucky winners. These are alarm clock and speaker systems for iPod. According to Edifier they fit “most” iPods but not shuffle. They are both still shrink wrapped so we’ve not even opened one to try it out. It may or may not work with iPhone.
All you [...]

Win iFrogz EarPollution CS40 headphones

We have three iFrogz EarPollution CS40 headphones to give away to three lucky winners. They are in different colors but out of the winners it’ll be first come, first serve in terms of picking color, I’m afraid.
These headphones produce a great sound, they’re stylish and they fold up into a very small package, which means [...]

How to get a free US iTunes account

It’s nice that there is a App Store for the UAE but a full iTunes Store would be much better. Perhaps we should be glad that we got the apps at least on the Apple side since on Android there is no Market at all in UAE.
Why is this important? Obviously if you want to [...]

Shufflegazine now regularly in Khaleej Times

Yesterday the first in a regular series of Apple-focused articles by Shufflegazine is appearing in Khaleej Times. On a bi-weekly basis we’ll bring you opinions, information, news, and more about Apple-related topics concerning the UAE.

In the first article we try to straighten out a few things concerning iPad, especially for those of you who haven’t [...]

Belkin Q&A at DCC, explains what “Belkin’ise” means

At DCC they have something called Talk Shows. It’s basically different companies getting 15 or so minutes to do a presentation followed by a Q&a session. It’s meant to be a sort of executive briefing on the company’s products and strategy.
At this year’s DCC, Belkin’s Youssef El-Arif, National accounts manager based in Dubai, gave a [...]

FreshFiber shows off new iPhone and iPod touch cases at DCC MEA [video]

Christian Dijkhof of FreshFiber gave us a walkthrough of some of their latest products here at DCC MEA. You may want to go back and look at the video we shot with them at GITEX last year for an explanation of their very special manufacturing process. Christian revealed to us that they’re also working on [...]

The Best New Feature of iPhone OS 4

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the best new feature of iPhone OS 4 is the ability to create playlists in the iPod application. This finally brings my most desired feature to the iPod – a feature I’ve been waiting almost 10 years for. Finally, you have playlist [...]

iPod car audio interface

As far as iPod interface with Car Audio is concerned, one of the best ’stock’ or OEM systems I have come across is the one in the modern Jaguars.
Last week, I had a second date with a car that would vote for as best of 2010, the XKR. My first date was with a red [...]

7 iPhone apps for Valentine’s day

Whether you have an iPhone or iPod touch, why not use your favorite Apple device to spice up Valentine’s day a bit? There are plenty of apps available that’ll help you in many different ways and remember that something simple as iCal for reminders may save the day. We’ve looked at a number of apps [...]

Apple has issued iPhone OS 3.1.3 firmware update

Apple has issued iPhone OS 3.1.3, an update to the firmware that supposedly gives better “battery level monitoring” and a number of smaller fixes too. No one has, as far as I know, reported any new functionality being introduced with the update. Apple also has a knowledge base article about the update.
The update is also available [...]

iPod rules at Royal Dubai School

I spent part of yesterday at GEMS Royal Dubai School. They’ve been running a project using iPod touches and MacBooks in various ways in their activities. Seeing how a class in year 6 used iPod touches to learn math was eye-opening. As soon as the teacher brought out the iPods, they started up their math [...]

Shufflegazine Tech Chat podcast show 5

Welcome to the first Tech Chat podcast for 2010. This is actually show number 5 and we’re very happy we’ve been able to bring it to you weekly even though we’ve been traveling out of Dubai for a number of weeks.
In the introduction, and it’s only me this time, by the way, I talk mainly [...]