There are so may great features that make an iPod so much better to job with than say a portable DVD player, or the old reliable Sony Walkman. First of all you can hold infinitely more songs. DVD players had the advantage over cassette players allowing you to skip songs, but had the drawback of skipping – especially when jogging. You don’t have to worry about an iPod skipping.

Some believe that iPods have no moving parts. This is actually not true. iPods contain mini hard drives. Unfortunately, all that jarring from jogging can affect you iPod in the long run, but I wouldn’t be too concerned.

If you jog quite often and are worried about protecting your valuable electronic device, you may want to consider the iPod Shuffle or another portable MP3 player that uses flash memory rather than a mini hard drive.

Flash member cannot hold near the amount of a mini hard drive, but they have no moving parts and therefor will last longer over time.

[tags]iPod, iPod Shuffle, Jogging, Portable MP3 Players, Sony Walkman[/tags]

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Deceptive title I know, because from all I know it can’t really be done. But wouldn’t it be nice if you could delete a song directly from the iPod, so that when you’re out on the go, you can just drop a song you don’t particularly like without waiting until you get back to your computer to update iTunes and resync? Well I do.

There are a couple of hacks though to help you remember to delete it later.

For example, you could give the song a one star rating. Hit the select button twice while the song is playing then rotate to the number of stars you want. You can then delete all your one-star songs at the next opportunity.

Another method is to hold the select button down on a song. This will add it to an on-the-go playlist – which will give you list of songs to take action on.

For the bit more advanced, you can create a smart playlist which stores all your one-star songs. This is sort of a combination of both techniques above.

Please, if anyone finds a hack that really can delete a song directly from the iPod post it here. It would be nice if you could press the select button on a song and get options for the song.

[tags]iPod, iTunes, Delete songs from iPod[/tags]

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