Free Applications for your Mobile Phones by John Wells

Mobiles are now not just for receiving and making phone calls these days, they work as your ipod, computer, camera, gaming and tracking device. The use of mobiles is endless.
All Mobile phones are made with an operation system which supports the operation of software applications. For example, Blackberry runs on the Blackberry OS and iPhone from Apple on the iPhone OS. iTunes can also be used to download music, television shows, games and other applications from the Internet. Originally, Motorola Mobile Phones supported the synching of iTunes library with cell phones. Certain mobile phone applications have capabilities of converting YouTube videos to formats compatible with mobile phones. Moreover, most of these applications do not require technical expertise and can be easily installed on cell phones.
Here are some free applications that can be added to your Mobile Phones that will make it more than just a mobile. For browsing, messaging and checking emails Opera Mobile, Skyfire, Google app, Cell Spin are to name a few, browsers that let you do a variety of functions. These browsers not only let you check your emails, you can blog, search, use all Google functions like docs, maps, photos, readers and you can also access social networking sites giving you single window access to Skype, MSN messenger, Gtalk, twitter, yahoo and upload your photos on picassa.
For tracking your phone you can use MobiWee, it allows you remote access to your mobile phone in case you loose it. You can even delete and wirelessly access your data through a pc. Viigo and Pocket Express are modular applications that give you instant access to news, weather, business updates, etc.
Dashwire and Dotfred give you an instant access to your files, contacts, messages, photos, speed dials, appointments saved on your phone. You can access this data through a PC on the internet or even offline.
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iPod: The Next Generation? by John Wells

There is no mistaking it, the iPod is a legend, the yard stick by which we compare all portable media players. When you hear phrases like "I just bought a Creative iPod, it's good, but not as good as the Apple one", you just know that, there's no mistaking it, that the iPod is now as much a metaphor for music players as Google is for Search.
Apple has come quite far in what their music players are capable of doing. From its first generation iPods back in 2001 which had 5GB hard drives, black and white screens, and could only play MP3 files, and those too for only 10hrs, to the second generation iPod Touch available today, which has a large 3.5" multi touch screen, with upto 32GB capacity, and with a battery life of over 30hrs.
Where could the iPod go next? Rumours are abound. From portable fitness instructors (for which Apple filed a patent), to a multimedia player with eBook capabilities, which would be in competition to the Amazon Kindle. Whatever it will be it is sure to encompass some of the same innovations that we have seen till now.
It is almost trivial to predict that we will see in increase in the amount of storage space in the iPods of the next generation. What we can hope to see are further changes to the very definition of Portable Media Player. An eBook reader? Surely! Further segregations in the iPod line, targeting specific user types perhaps. An even smaller "pico" iPod? With Apple doing the innovation, it is hard to predict where they might go, but what you can expect, is the unexpected.
The MP3 player is long gone, replaced by the Portable Media Player to encompass the much wider variety of formats that the players are capable of playing today. But hey, you needn't worry, you can still call it an iPod.
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iPod Displays Error to go to Apple Support by Simpson

Apple iPods are included with a particular internal software that allows it to synchronize with a Windows or Macintosh computer system and play various audio and video files. At start, iPod software was developed only to work with Mac OS, but the present iPods can work with Mac OS X and Windows. But iPod software can get corrupted, thus forcing you to restore the iPod in question. Since the iPod restoration process deletes all the data it contains, it becomes essential that you use your recent data backup to retrieve all the lost data. However, when backup cannot give the required results, you should use iPod Data Recovery tools that are the commercial applications designed to recover and restore lost iPod contents.
As an instance, when you turn on your iPod, you might observe an Apple logo or a sad face icon, followed by below error message on screen:
"go to www.apple.com/support/ipod"
If you click this link, it directs you to Apple support website.
Cause
Such behavior is usually exhibited by iPod if any of the below conditions exists:
iPod software is corrupted Hardware issues
Solution
Try using these methods in order to resolve the above mentioned issues:
You should first try to reset your iPod several times. Try to force your iPod in Disk Mode. If you are able to do so, then it is a iPod software related issue. To troubleshoot such problems, you need to restore your iPod that will reinstall the iPod software and set your iPod to default settings with no data. Use your backup to retrieve lost iPod data. If you cannot put the iPod into Disk Mode, then it is a hardware problem. Your iPod needs to be serviced.
After restoring the iPod if you find that data backup is incompetent to offer complete data restoration, you need to use iPod recovery applications. iPod Data Recovery tools are designed with safe and advanced data recovery technology to examine a logically crashed iPod and to extract all the lost videos, images, documents, audio books and other data.
Stellar Phoenix iPod Recovery is a fully-competent data recovery tool for iPod Nano, iPod Classis, iPod Mini and iPod Shuffle. It is a non-destructive iPod data recovery utility designed to recover all music files, graphics, videos, documents and other contents from iPod. The application includes advanced features like File Mask, File Filter, Find File and more.