For most people and their money, Apple TV is  the best choice for media extenders. The only problem before at this adapter it was the missing of a remote. The Logitech Harmony remote works pretty fine with the Apple TV device, the only problem been that it is too small and it is easy to be lost.

Logitech Harmony Remote is an assembly line of remote controls made and sold by Logitech, made for an universal purpose.  They was created in 2001 by Easy Zapper, a Canadian company and released in November, same year.  After its success, the company changed its name into Intrigue Technologies and its base to Ontario, Canada. In may 2004 it was sold to Logitech for 29 million of dollars.

Their first product, Harmony 360, was configured to work with the 360 Xbox Console and had special buttons and media center controls right under the LCD display. They started after the release of the Harmony 510 model to produce remotes for the universal use. The last released in the Harmony line was the Harmony One model, on January, 2008. It features a touch color display and it is rechargeable. As the most reviews said, this model is one of the best universal applicability remotes commercialized today.

The software used on this remote allows the persons who is using it to update  and reconfigure, learn new IR command lines and upgrade the firmware.

Elder versions of this software, present on the early models of the remote were only browser based. The new ones use Java as foundation, but they still need uninterrupted connectivity to internet for properly work, because their control codes and lines are downloaded from Logitech, admitting upgrades to the device's database and to the codes and serials. This will allow to Logitech to study the market to decide and check the future upgrades , so that they will cover with next models all user's necessities.

The control software from Harmony remote is agreeable with Mac OS X and Windows, but a group of researchers and developers are working to an operating system for Linux platforms.

The reviews for this universal remote are mostly optimistic and favorable. CNET networks, a  media company from California, said about this product that is one of the excellent jobs in this domain because of its ergonomically and cosmetically design, its perfect shape for the hand, its back lighted buttons and, of course its functionality, precisely accurate for Apple TV.

To make this remote work with the Apple device you can follow this step -by -step guide, developed by users. After hours of trying to make the work properly, they found out that this is quite simple.

If you figure that it would be more simple just to memorize IR commands for  every single setting you are wrong. That will never work and the remote will simply not sense the command lines and the Apple TV will move slowly or very lacking in completeness.

The trick is quite simple and you only have to add up a new Apple computer  and set and activate  references for its buttons. You will also have to set its delays to 100 milliseconds. After doing this steps, go in Harmony remote's software and click Add device. Choose "Computer" and  two times "next". Now choose Apple and again the "next" button. In the box below type this words: Mac Mini 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo and press  next until you reach to the Main Screen again. From here, go to the Activities window and choose to add a new one manually. Press the Utility button and then the Generic Activity. Here you will be able to add or remove the devices that you don't need. For sure you will want to leave the TV, the Apple TV device, your computer or the amplifiers for the sound system. Press next until you're done.

To assign the correct buttons for the Apple TV device on the remote you will need to go to the "Apple TV activity" and click the "customize buttons" option. Than you will need just to go down and select your device and appropriate command lines. Now you are done. A simple and quick way to make your devices work properly together and let you enjoy your entertainment activities.

The principal feature of the iPod is that it can play media files, as it descriptions as a PMP says. The most use of an iPod is for music listening, Apple developing an entire accessory line and programs to help users at this chapter.

The accessory line starts with the white ear buds shipped specially for any portable media player designed and commercialized by Apple Inc. These ear phones are fabricated by Fostex, a big profile corporation from Japan. This earbuds become, in time, a symbol of the iPod brand even if the doctors said that they are very bad for our ears or the fashion designers told that, because of their color they contrast with the dark outlines of our clothes. Since the first generation of iPods, they were revised and upgraded, year after year, until they become smaller and more aerodynamic. The 4^th generation of iPod Nano introduced also, as a special feature, the ear phones made from a material more different, that makes them more individual, but they let them to have a tendency to damage.

Starting with the 3^rd generation of iPod Shuffle, Apple introduced a remote control  located on the right earphone, and later, on the 3^rd generation of iPod Touch, also with a  microphone incorporated.

There are presently five forms of iPod ear phones. The first Apple earphones, without controls, ships on every iPod model, excepting the ones from 3^rd generation. The Shuffle Headphones with a remote, ships only with the third generation iPods. The earphones that include the remote and the microphone are sold apart from others. This model was introduced in 2008 at the start of September.

The remote models have commodious buttons that will let the user to adjust the volume, to forward or backward the music, and control video playing. The control container which is located on the right earpiece's cable include 3 buttons, and a small microphone for the late 2 models. The first button helps the user to adjust volume by pressing the "+" and "-" controls. The second will play or pause the videos or the music tracks. The last one will record sounds and voice memos on the sustained models.

iTunes is a protected trademark application of Apple, utilized for replaying and organize of digital files like music or videos, and it was special designed for iPods and iPhones. It also include a store that can be accessed  via internet, and let the users to buy and transfer to their devices music videos, music, radios, TV shows, games for iPods, applications, pod casts, ring tones and movie renting.

This feature was released on January 9, 2001, by Apple Inc., at the MacWorld Expo, a conference that it is dedicated to Apple Macintosh platform and which is held annually in San Francisco. In 2009, in a Stevenote, Apple announced the release of  the 9^th version of iTunes.

This application is available for free download for some operating systems as Windows Vista and XP, Mac OS X version 10.4+ and Windows 7 and can be accessed from Apple's site. Also it is bundled up with all Mac products and some Dell and Hp computers. There are also and some elder versions that can be downloaded for MAC OS 9 and Mac OS X version 10.0-3 and for Windows 2000.

This application let users to manage videos and music on their personal iPods, using as media player Quick Time, a multimedia framework free of charge which it is capable to handle several formats of video, audio, text, sound and animations. Also, there are some alternatives at this software like XPlay or Winamp for iPods. Someone who will use this feature can devise their music files into play lists and libraries, edit the file's information, record some CDs, copy existing files to another digital audio player, purchase media files from its built in store, download pod casts, back up their files to digital supports like CDs or DVDs, run graphical effects into a visualizer, encode their music in some distinctly formats. Also, as a cool feature it is the availability of a huge collection of free internet radio broadcast stations prepared to be listened.



By creating a virtual library, in a specific data base, users can access and edit music attributes, known also as metadata, which are stored in 2 different library files. The first one, named iTunes Library, it is a binary file and uses the ITL file format. Using the ID3 tag, it stashes information like genre of the music and the artists that sings.

The iTunes Music Library it have the ability to refresh itself every time when the information is changed in iTunes. This library uses an .xml format letting the users to write easily some applications to access the information.

On October 14, 2009, Apple Inc. announced at Cupertino conference, in Santa Clara County, California, the release of a new MacBook product, the aluminium unibody model. This had as a principal feature a totally new chipset made by Nvidia, a multinational company specialized in the graphics units development and chipsets for personal computers and mobile devices.

This chipset added a system bus topology with 1066 MHz, a new DD3 memory system that brought the ability of transferring data at a twice rate speed. Also this model have an integrated GeForce 9400M graphic card that it is up to 5 times faster than the initial chipsets of MacBooks. It have also a Mini Display Port, as a replace of the old mini-DVD port, and a backlight display LED.

The touch pad it is made of glass and acts exactly like a mouse button, translating the motions and the positions of fingers faster and more accurate. Following the ecological idea, they removed the toxins like mercury  from its composition.

Apple Inc. updated this line of MacBooks on June 8, 2009, as MacBook Pro and FireWire was reestablished in a FireWire 800 port form.

Chasing its design line we will find that the Aluminium MacBook it is modeled after MacBook Pro, which was, itself, a copy of MacBook Air. This model it is a little bit more slim line than its predecessors  and have some sharpened edges. The keyboard of some higher type of models have a back light which helps the user to have a better contact with his MacBook in dark conditions.

Gizmodo, a technological blog who is making constantly reviews on electronics, concluded that the Aluminium MacBook is their favorite,  but also said that, at that time, the display was lower than those from MacBook Pro or MacBook Air models, because of its more diminished viewing angle, its washy colors and the more subdued back light. Likewise Engadget, a multilingual blog, and AppleInsider, a rumor site about Apple products, concluded that these are extraordinary good choices but dragging attention to the lower display's quality in comparing with the Pro and Air MacBook models. Also, Peter Cohen said that the missing of FireWire port it is a real inconvenience for some of the users, but, for most of us, it shouldn't be counted as a deficient.

On the technical part, we can see that the Aluminium Unibody MacBook have a 2.0 GHz  Dual Core made by Intel, two slots for memory reaching 2 GB which can be expandable up to 4 GB, a graphic card with 256 MB memory shared with the main one, which can be available up to 512 MB in Windows, using Boot Camp. Its Hard Drive have 5400 rotation per minute and a capacity of 160 gigabytes or 250 . If you want more space you can ask for an optional feature which will include a 320, 256 or 128 gigabytes serial ATA drive as a solid-state, a long-term storage hardware that does not have moving parts, typically faster and quieter than a traditional hard drive. The internal slot can maximum write  at a speed of 10x for rewritable CDs, 8x for DVDs and 24x for normal CDs. It can read at an 8x speed for DVDs and at 24x for Cds. The used operating system it is the Mac OS X, 10.5.5 version, also known as Mac OS X Leopard. Its weight it is not that big and can reach 2 kg. The dimension attributes are small and make this notebook perfect for every person and desktop or space. It have only 24.1 x 325 x 227 millimeters.

The user serviceability it is easier and let them to fix and upgrade the model without any inconvenient, unlike its elder precursors. As an example, when you will need to access an interior part you will need to remove only the polycarbonate outer case. For the replace of the hard drive or the memory cards you will need to remove only its battery, following the instruction books that Apple provides with this device.

Some earlier models of this product experienced some random close downs but, after some period of time , MacBook resolved this problem through the replacement of the processor conductor and some firmware upgrades.

Apple provides also, for the Aluminium MacBook model some optional features, including the use of a hard drive that can go up to 7200 rotations per minute.

Released by Apple Inc., as a portable media player, in 2005, iPod Nano was designed with an implemented camera marketed by the same company. Since the first generation, iPod Nano it is using a flash memory, like the Shuffle iPod, but it is having a display with a 2.2 inch diagonal and a wheel that can be clicked, like the Classic iPod. Now, after 4 years since it was announced first time, it is at the 5^th generation, which have the ability to  video recording, regarding to a microphone implemented for voice memo, a more larger screen and a pedometer.

The first generation had a small size, measuring 1.6 in width, 3,5 in length and 2,27 thick, weighting only 42 grams.  The screen was measuring only 38 mm and could display up to 65, 536 colors.

After only 9 months before the announced launch date they start to develop and design this product. The iPod Nano was first launched in two colors, the classical black and the bright white, with two size available: 2gigabytes which could store up to 500 songs and the 4 gigabytes size. At the start of 2006, Apple updated this line with a model that had only 1 gigabyte capacity.

The iPod Nano used integrated circuits instead of the usual chips  that are smaller and cheaper. Now, at the 5^th generation, iPod Nano it is using a Portal Player PP5021C chip, which have a dual processor ARM 7TDMI. Yet, the people responded positive to this device and  Apple Inc. sold in only 17 days over one million units. Many have seen the release of iPod Nano, with the purpose to replace the iPod Mini, as a risky move, but they argued that it was pretty necessary because the competitors were starting to catch up their model in terms of features and design. They were right and the introducing on the market of iPod Nano was a real success. There were some incidents reported al over the world so they decided to investigate and upgrade that model.

Second generation was released on 12 September, in the year 2006. This type of iPod Nano had an aluminum case and a scratch resisting display. Also it was available in multiple colors: silver, black, green, pink and blue, characteristics borrowed from the earlier Mini iPod. Also, it dispose of a  battery upgrade, a more brighter screen and more flash memory capacity.  It had and a new search type and supported gapless playback of audio format. On the end of 2006, Apple released the Red iPod Nano with a 4 gigabytes capacity of storage and started a donation campaign. Two weeks later they introduced and an 8 GB model of the same product.

Third generation was updated on 2007, in September and featured a 320 x 240 display and a shorter and heavier design, available in new colors. Also, it had and a new interface named Cover Flow and could video playback. It was available in 5 colors: silver, green, turquoise, black and the already old Product Red. It has an aluminum front and a steel black plate, as a combination of old models with a new and attractive design. The iPod Nano from the 3^rd generation had, like the iPod Shuffle, a minimalistic power switch, at the bottom. It was pretty special because it had the smallest line pitch of any Apple Inc. product, counting on a 51 mm screen exactly the same pixels as a 64 mm screen.

To improve the Cover Flow software, in October 6, 2007, Apple updated the firmware via iTunes, both for iPod Nano and for iPod Classic.

The fourth generation was released at the Let's Rock Event, a brand of Apple Inc. ,at the start of September 2008. It looks with the 1^st and 2^nd generation but it still have the 2 inch display model, as the 3^rd generation. It is, also, smaller than the previous generations measuring only 38.7 mm wide and 90,7 tall, at an weight of 36,8 grams. It had a glass screen and the same aluminum case, but a little more curved. The battery was made to last 24 hours if you are listening only music and four hours of video play backing, compared with the 3^rd generation that was able to replay 5 hours of videos.

On September 9, 2009, at an Apple event, the fifth generation of iPod Nano was announced with a reduced price.  It is available in 9 colors, starting with the classic black and silver and continuing with purple, blue, green, orange, yellow, pink and the usual product red. It have an 2.2 inches diagonal screen, bigger than the previous generations, and an integrated camera which can support video effects. Also it have FM Radio via RDS, a speaker, Nike iPod support and a capacity of 5 gigabytes.

The OS X iPhone, the operating system used on the Apple's iPhones and iPods supports, as we already know, a lot of games. Thanks to the central processing unit used at their construction, to a great processor  and to the OpenGL for Embedded Systems technology, rendered by the PowerVR 3D graphics we are able to play even the hard games with a complicated graphic.

We can find on the market a lot of  game applications, specially coded for iPhone, but, most of them are available on the iTunes store, which can be accessed from both devices, the smart phone and the iPods.

Jet Car Stunts it is a game developed by True Axis and  was very anticipated before the official release. It is a funny 3D driving game, with two types of playing: the platform and the time trials.  The platform type represents a race, where the player drive the car on some successive roadways until he will reach the finish line. The time trials represent some circuits, needed to be finished in a certain amount of time, until the user will beat his own records. This game have  massive jumps, spiral roadways, floating platforms and mid-air hoops, asking the player to execute impossible maneuvers.

Eliminate started as a promotion of App Store after the release of the Warfare 2  game, but they extended this period until further notices. They recently updated the energy time of recharge which has been reduced from  240 minutes to 60. Thanks to this change, iPhone users are able to earn more credits because they will be energized often and buy another upgrades more faster. This FPS  (first person shooter) is one of the most played games and it can be downloaded for free by the iPhone users. Combining the classic death- match games with the RPG- style it is far away of a simple game, the action taking place on a lot of cycling maps.

First of all, those who have more credits, rule the world of Eliminate more easier than others. To be able to buy weapons and equipment you will need to spend some credits, which can be earned as you increase your levels. Also, with this credits, you can buy the available upgrades. You need  to be fully energized to sustain a match between you and a random opponent , fights which will bring you even more credits. You will start the game with a full battery of energy but it will decrease in time, forcing you to wait up to 60 minutes to be full again. But, despite your expectations, you will be able to play while you are out of energy, even you will not be able to progress.

If you think that you will not be able to defeat someone who play this game for a long time you are wrong, as Zincous, a game's star, proved. He defeated a player with a bigger level than him, with a better gear and weapons, 10 times in a row, without dying once, so, we can figure that the skill it is more important than the armors and rifles.

Because the winter it is almost here, iPhone developed a game who will introduce you into the snow atmosphere easily, named Snow Moto Racing, brought by the Resolution Interactive company. The earlier games, Aqua Moto Racing and  Dirt Moto Racing were developed by the same brand. This game it will be soon available on the App Store and will let us experiencing a beautiful adventure on a high speed snowmobile, while we will see splendid winter landscapes.  The developers listed some features like 6 race tracks, 14 levels to unlock, hidden bonus game mode or a local  multiplayer area, using the Bluetooth signal. It have some responsive and easy to use controls and it is very intuitive and fun.  At the wheel of an well- designed ATV we will be able to race our friends or play a single player version, driving trough trees and  a lot of piles of snow, just like in the old game for iPhone, the Dirt Moto Racing. The difficulty will increase along with the unlock of every level. The terrain looks nice and polished and  enhances the feeling of winter.