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 An iPod so small its controls are found on the cord
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International Herald Tribune

 


 

Apple unveiled the new iPod Shuffle, which is only half the volume of the previous iPod Shuffle, which itself was about the size of a quarter. The new one looks like a sleek aluminum tie clip, or maybe a slightly elongated stick of Trident gum; a AA battery hides it completely. There's just enough room on the back for a mirror-finish spring clip for fastening to your clothes. (If you order from apple.com, you can get a custom message laser-etched onto the clip.)


When I told someone that the Shuffle now holds 1,000 songs (in its 4 gigabytes of memory), he laughed. "It's like a 'Saturday Night Live' skit about smaller and smaller iPods," he said. "Or like the micro-cellphone in the movie 'Zoolander.'"


And indeed it is. Apple says that it's the smallest music player on earth. Let's put it this way: it's really, really small.


It's so small, in fact, that there's no room for a screen, or even buttons or controls; it's just a tiny, sleek slab with pleasantly rounded corners.


Instead, Apple has put a tiny remote control right on the earbud cord. It has three clickable spots: + and – to control the volume, and a center button that acts as a play/pause button.


Yet incredibly, even though this Shuffle is even smaller than the previous one, it's actually more useful. No iPod Shuffle has ever had a screen, and therefore you've never been able to identify the song or band you're hearing. You've also never been able to work with playlists, since there's no user interface with which to navigate them.


Now there is. You can tell all this stuff not by looking, but by listening; according to Apple, the new Shuffle is the world's first talking music player, thanks to a new feature called VoiceOver.


(It's not the first, actually. Older iPods have had talking menus to help blind people. But anyway.)


If you hold down the center clicker for one second, you hear, in your earbuds, a crystal-clear male voice identifying the song and the performer; it knows 14 languages, so it can handle Italian aria names, for example. If you hold down the clicker longer, until you hear a beep, the voice starts rattling off the names of your playlists ("Jogging Tunes...Purchased...Makeout Music.") You click the clicker when he gets to the one you want, or use the + and – buttons to go forward or back through them.


You can also flip the power switch off and on again to hear him tell you how full your battery is—for example, "Battery 50 percent." Apple says that a single charge plays music for 10 hours.


It's looking like 2009 may be the year that synthesized voices go mainstream; this talking iPod comes hot on the heels of Amazon's Kindle 2, which can read your e-books aloud to you. In the Shuffle's case, this is an especially interesting development, because it means that the player itself can be out of sight. It can be clipped deep inside your clothes, for example, away from subway iPod thieves. Yet you can still operate and navigate your music using only the earbud clicker and feedback from Mr. VoiceOver.


You should know, however, that the voice you hear differs depending on whether you've loaded up the Shuffle from a Mac (clear, American, accent-free voice) or a Windows PC (much more synthesized-sounding, vaguely Scandinavian accent).


But hey—all's fair in business, right? Microsoft has given the Mac universe slightly stunted versions of its programs for years; now, evidently, it's payback time.


Instead of the built-in USB connector of the original Shuffle, or the tiny plastic dock of the second-generation one, this third-generation Shuffle comes with a tiny, three-inch white USB cord. That's how you charge it, and that's how you load it up with music and podcasts from a copy of iTunes 8.1 (a required download before you can use the Shuffle on your Mac or PC).


Now, overall, new design is ingenious. The solid-slab-of-aluminum approach surely makes this the most rugged iPod ever. The sound is fantastic. And the price is right: The new Shuffle is available in black or silver aluminum for $80.


But the old, square Shuffle is still available (half the capacity, $50). And why would you want it? Because the new Shuffle locks you into using Apple's earbuds. No other headphones have the clicker on the cord, and so can't make the music play music at all.


Personally, I'm in love with the Arriva.com headphones for the old Shuffle. It's a headband that goes around the back of your head, placing the earbuds neatly into your ears without any cords or tangling; the Shuffle itself clips into the middle, at the back of your head where you can easily reach it. The whole thing is inconspicuous, doesn't fall off and doesn't interfere with glasses—and if you have long hair, you can listen to the iPod completely undetected (hello, PTA meetings!). The new Shuffle, however, wouldn't work with those headphones.


Apple says that it has been working with headset makers to help them design Shuffle-compatible headphones; announcements should be forthcoming shortly. For now, though, potential Shufflers should be aware that it's the included earbuds, Apple's $80 in-ear earbuds, or nothing.


As iPods' size approaches that of atomic particles, some online are pointing out that they're becoming ever more likely to get lost. I'm not convinced that that's an issue; that three-foot white strand of earbud cord makes a pretty good landmark when you're rooting through a purse or a drawer.


No, the only real cause for pause is that headphone-selection issue—and whether you might prefer an iPod with a screen (which would give you photo and video playback, plus compatibility with the zillions of iPod chargers, car adapters, speaker docks and other accessories). But if you want really big sound in a really small package, the iPod Shuffle may be speaking your name.


 
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Apple is good at design. More than that I think it's better at marketing. Thinnovation. And, everytime they bring out a new product, it's the fastest Mac, smallest ipod, thinnest Mac, or something like that. haha. and a lot of hype follows. I mean those things are supposed to be that way - progress and improvement - everyone does that but they do it in such a better way.

Apple le chamal bechcha, tara bolera nai... ( bolne ko pitho ni bikcha, nabolne ko chamal ni bikdaina lai milauna khojeko... milena jasto lagyo)

 
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Modern Britain’s ‘Middle Class, Middle Income’ Spanking Scene

Formula 1 chief Max Mosley launched his libel case against the News Of The World for invading his privacy and taking part in a ‘sick Nazi orgy’ this week, and started by admitting he’s been a keen bondage enthusiast for over 45 years.

"I think it is a perfectly harmless activity provided it is between consenting adults who want to do it, are of sound mind, and it is in private," Mr Mosley told telling Mr Justice Eady (Financial Times).

The son of infamous 30s fascist leader Oswald Mosley launched his case several    months after the News Of The World published an expose of him taking part in an S&M session with five well paid dominatrixes, and category denied the tabloid’s claims.

"Had I wanted a Nazi scene, I would have said I wanted one and [woman] A (one of the girls present) would have got some of the inexpensive Nazi stuff from the joke shop that provides uniforms,” he explained, “And would not have gone to Marks and Spencer and got quite expensive jackets." (Metro)

Mr Mosley’s lawyer James Price QC added that S&M is neither ‘degrading or sick’ and accused the News of the World of being ‘out of touch with modern life.’ (Metro)

“"It's not a surprise to me or to others who don't live in an ivory tower or a monastery, or, I am sure, to your lordship, to learn that quite a lot of people, men and women, have a fascinated interest in this sort of thing," he told the judge.

The case attracted massive media attention onto Britain’s thriving BDSM (Bondage Domination Sadomasochism) scene, including the Guardian, who interviewed ‘a man known as Sir Guy’ who they said ‘has been involved in the BDSM scene for more than 20 years’.

“It's mainly middle-aged, middle-class, middle-income people. Almost all are professionals - we have engineers, doctors, nurses, teachers, solicitors, accountants,” Sir Guy told the paper, “There are a couple I know, both primary school teachers, who like spanking. It's Middle England, very, very normal and well-adjusted,” he added.

In more English vice news, UK author Tim Fountain kicked off promo for his new book Rude Britannia on contemporary sexuality and revealed that that the vast majority of adventurers remain quintessentially British at heart.

'Every swinging club was obsessed with sandwiches and finger food,' he told Metro newspaper, “On one site where men rate prostitutes, most were more interested in the merits of the parking than the women.”
 
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Patio Table Sex Fiend Snared

An American man who publically pleasured his picnic table four times was charged with public indecency offences in November, after a neighbour videoed him in action and passed on the evidence to local cops.

"He was completely nude,” Bellevue Police Captain Matt Johnson told TV channel WTOL11, “He would use the hole from the umbrella and have sex with the table."


However, Huron County prosecutor Russell Leffler later dropped the charges against Art Price, deciding his actions hadn’t warranted felony charges (despite taking place in broad daylight near to a school.)

Meanwhile in New Zealand, Arthur Cradock, was sentenced to community service for wasting police time a month after he called emergency services and claimed he was being raped by a wombat, so viciously that he’d started speaking in Australian.

The 48 year old orchard worker was nabbed after calling back soon after to say he was refraining from pressing charges against the unnamed wombat, a court on South Island heard.

"I’ll retract the rape complaint from the wombat, because he’s pulled out,” Mr Cradock reportedly told cops, “Apart from speaking Australian now, I’m pretty all right, you know. I didn’t hurt my bum at all,” he added.

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Sexless Lives Of Sad Swots

‘Countless’ numbers of Germans who studied too hard at school and failed to find romance have remained virgins and teamed up to form self-help groups called ‘Absolute Beginners’ according to a new book by Arne Hoffmann.

Gay portal Disco-Damaged.com discussed the phenomenon this week and quoted Liepzig ‘sexual scientist’ Kurt Starke who said one in ten Germans leave school as virgins.

“If children are unathletic and are only grudgingly chosen in sports teams, they probably also become barred from other offerings,” said Dr Starke.

“Then they hide in their schoolbooks, because they want to improve their self-confidence with good marks from their teachers. They are on their way to being branded a swot and they are seldom invited to parties, where others have their first sexual contacts,” he added.

British teenagers holidaying in the Greek island resort of Malia appear unlikely to be candidates for Germany’s Absolute Beginners’ clubs, judging by comments from local mayor Konstantinos Lagoudakis, who this week called on British authorities to take action.

'They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit,' the mayor told the New York Times. 'It is only the British people — not the Germans or the French.”

The Daily Mail followed up by adding that over 100 girls a day are swamping just one of the resort’s health clinics, to take morning after pills to avoid becoming pregnant.

Meanwhile in Australia, researchers from the University of New South Wales unveiled the results of a massive study looking at over 20,000 people’s interest in bondage and domination (BDSM), and revealed that BDSM fans are generally totally normal, if a little more adventurous and sexually active than usual..

“People who had engaged in BDSM were more likely to have experienced oral sex and/or anal sex, to have had more than one partner in the past year, to have had sex with someone other than their regular partner,” public health researchers at the University of NSW reported.

“And to have: taken part in phone sex, visited an Internet sex site, viewed an X-rated (pornographic) film or video, used a sex toy, had group sex, or taken part in manual stimulation of the anus, fisting or rimming,” they added.

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Does it Ever Make Sense to Suppress a Natural Desire?

“It's always OK to give into temptation though equally there are always consequences and if you are sure you’re up for handling the consequences, whatever they'll be, however extreme, then go ahead.

By and by, with enough experience of the various consequences for the various temptations you're prone to, you gradually learn how much of a price you're actually willing to pay for succumbing to the desire for gratification and find yourself more able to exercise your options rather than compulsively going with the temptation.

Some people work best using the puritanical approach, resisting temptation no matter what.
Others, and that's most if us, work better by gradually coming to an agreement with ourselves about what works for us without force being used or the sense of sacrifice arising. But this takes time and the willingness to develop insight and stay true to yourself.

By remaining mindful and sensitive of your intuition, you allow yourself to go wherever your fascination takes you, whether into temptation or otherwise and by remaining mindful as you do, your body will guide you; it never lies.

If your belly feels light when considering doing something it's generally a good sign it's OK to do that thing, whether it ostensibly looks like a good thing or bad thing. Often it's by following your energy into what many conventionally call temptation, that your greater enlightenment dawns.”


 


 


 


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Serbian Solution to Australia’s Man Drought?

A Serbian Minister this week announced he’s seeking to import over 100,000 brides from countries including Ukraine, Russia and the Far East for Serbia’s surplus bachelors who he said number up to 250,000 scattered in rural villages.

Social affairs minister Zeljko Vasiljevic said he’s hoping to revitalize ‘remote and dying’ Serbian villages under the scheme, and suggested Asian brides could prove particularly popular.

"There is a lot of potential in brides from Cambodia, Laos, Burma and Vietnam. Girls from those countries have a tradition of bearing children,” he told reporters, “And those girls are also good at agricultural work," he added.

However, Serbia’s Labour Minister Rasim Ljajić later apologised for Mr Vasiljevic’s comments and said the State Secretary was unauthorized to discuss demographics.

"This is not the ministry's position, nor has anyone reviewed such options,” he told Beta news agency on Monday, “"I will not tolerate such behaviour that offends the public at home and abroad, while the ministry has suffered huge damage. People have been calling in all day, asking if the state is involved in people trafficking,” he complained (b92.net news)

Meanwhile in Australia, demographic experts said the country has the opposite problem, and said the country  is suffering from a ‘man drought’ with over 100,000 more females than males, according to latest census figures. Demographer Bernard Salt told the BBC the problem is most acute in major coastal cities (presumably referring to Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth) and has arisen because of so many Aussie blokes travelling overseas.

"If you go into the United Arab Emirates census you'll find there is around 12,000 Australians living in Dubai, mostly male, mostly in the 25 to 34-year age group,” he said. “Here is an example of one country that has drawn out a specific age demographic out of Australia which has contributed to the 'man drought'."


 


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