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Today I noticed a feature of the iPod touch that I had not known before. It behaves like windows! I have had my iPod for a little over a year now and it seems to slow down and have more problems the longer I have had it… similar to windows. It all came close to a grinding hault last night, as it took 30 to 40 sections to get between the screens in the mail program. It seems that the mail program always ran a little slow, with delays switching between screens. With last night being unbearable I decided to do what I do to my windows XP machine when it gets slow, delete everything and restore it to its original software.

With iTunes this is made easy. After connecting my iPod and opening iTunes to my iPod menu, I told it to restore my iPod. It prompted me to back it up, which I did, and later asked if I wanted to restore it to a back up or just its factory default. I selected to restore to a back up. I left the computer and came back a couple hours later to see that the update and backup was done, and it was running lightning fast…. or just a lot faster. There was a noticable difference in speed of the mail application even from when I first purchased the iPod and it has continued to do well. Although my iPod was up to date, I think doing a clean restore to back up really helped resolve any issues that it had.

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One thing that has bothered me with the iPod touch since I got it was how to pause the music while I was working within an app. It wasn’t until this morning that I discovered by accident how to access your volume, play, pause and skip to next and previous songs.

By double tapping the home button from any program or even the home screen you can get a small mini navigation tool for your music. If you haven’t found this yet I hope of helps to enjoy your iPod, and if you already knew about it I’m sure your wondering why it took me so long to finnaly figure it out.

If you know about any other helpful tips or tricks for the iPod, please me me know.

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I’ve had my iPod touch for a couple of days now and found another reason to like my Airport Extreme.

While in the parking lot heading home I realized I had a close to full strength signal on my iPod from my base station which was a couple hundred feet away, five stories up, and in the corner of an old brick building.

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I just got my iPod touch today and I am trying out the wordpress app and the ability to post from the touch. So far it has been pretty easy to use and to get used to. Typing can take a while to get used to but after using it for about a day I have already increased my typing speed. It has a fairly good spell correction built in that can help when you are only one or two letters off so that you don’t have to delete and retype things.

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iPod Touch

Apple is at it again. Only a month ago the iPod Touch was sitting at a pretty price of $299 for an 8gb. You could get a great deal for the refurbished 8gb for only $199, a hundred dollar price difference. The price gap was the same for the $399 16 gb and $499 32 gb. With the announcement of the second generation iPod Touch along with fourth generation Nanos and appropriate price cuts came the inevitable price drops for refurbished iPods. The iPod Touch went from $199 for an 8gb refurbished ($100 savings) to $179 ($120) savings, not bad but not good. The real difference came with the 16gb.

Because the next generation 16gb iPod Touch dropped to $299 new, they had to drop the price of the refurbished, otherwise you could get a brand new iPod Touch for the same price as an old generation Touch. So they dropped it from $299 to $229 or $239. This is the part I cannot confirm, but it only stayed there for about a week. Today the 16gb Touch shows up for a great price of $219 ($180 savings) from the “Original Price” but really only an ($80) savings from the current 16gb price. Not Bad.

So the question comes to this, what will the price point for the new generation iPod Touch (refurbished) be, and how long until it shows up on the apple store? This will help to determine how good of a deal the old generation Touch really is and only time will tell.

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