Using an iPod in your car can be difficult if you aren’t familiar with the different options. Here are six ways to listen to your iPod inside your car.

• Use Headphones – I have seen many people do this. It is not a safe way to listen to your iPod in your car. If you do this, you should make sure you always leave one ear free to listen to traffic.
• Cassette Adapter – For $10 to $15 you can find a cassette adapter that plugs into your car stereo tape player. While these work fairly well, the sound quality is not very good.
• Radio Transmitter – There are devices that plug into your iPod and transmit to your car stereo. The quality isn’t particularly great, but it is a simple way to play your iPod through your car stereo without dealing with wires or complicated setup. Not all vehicles have stereo’s that can receive these type of transmissions, so you will have to test it to make sure it will work for you.
• Auxiliary Input – Many car stereo’s have an input jack that you can plug the iPod’s headphone connector into. This gives good sound, but still requires you to use the iPod controls to change songs.
• Stereo Integration – Some car stereos can talk directly to your iPod. With this type of integration, you can control the iPod just like the radio.
• Stereo Integration Add-on Box – Some stereos are compatible with third-party add-on boxes that connect between the iPod and your stereo. Usually these boxes plug into the CD changer input and allow you to treat your iPod as if it were a CD changer.

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The newest iPod models are video capable. Talk about never leaving a good thing alone. Apple decided to add video to the device’s many features. You can now watch your favorite movie on your iPod video. However, you’ll have to convert it to a form your iPod can understand. This is called encoding. This may not sound strange to those of you who have a PSP. This is because it uses the MPEG 4 format for its video files. There is nothing difficult about encoding. I’ll walk you through the process so you can start watching those videos wherever you want.

You’ll need QuickTime Pro 7 or a later version. With it you can encode your video to the MPEG 4 format that your iPod will understand and play. It is a pretty straightforward process. Download it if you don’t have it or if you have a version older than 7. Once you’re through with the installation, open it and click on File and Choose Open File. Export the video after you have selected the movie, home video or whichever video recording you intend to watch on your ipod. Now make sure you choose the 320 x 240 resolution. That’s the resolution that your iPod can handle. The next step now is for you to simply click Save. You’ll see how the encoding is going from a bar that comes on once you save.

Once the process is completed, you’ll see the movie on your desktop or anywhere else you specified. You now need iTunes not older than version 6 to load it onto your iPod. All you have to do then is to make sure your iTune synchronizes with your computer. You can then play the movies of your choice with ease.

Take note of this: your encoding time will depend on the length of your video. Longer videos will take longer while shorter videos will take less time. The configuration of your computer will also determine the time this process takes. You don’t expect a 1 gigabyte processor with a 256MB RAM to do the job as fast as your friend’s 3 gigabyte duo processor with 2GB RAM.

You can take the whole iPod video thing to another level by watching it on your standard TV. For this you’ll need an AV cable, then go to your iPod video’s options screen from Video then Video Settings and choose how you want your iPod to play back your movies. You have several options: TV out, TV signal and Wide screen. Choose the TV out option and select Yes. If you choose otherwise you won’t be able to watch the movie on your TV.

Now your movies can go with you wherever you go. Have a nice time but, please, never turn on the iPod video while driving for your safety and others.

Gregg Hall is an author living in Navarre Florida. Find more about this as well as high tech gadgets at http://www.shop4gadgetsplus.com.

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So everyone has heard of an Ipod by this point, and most people own one. However when it comes to actually taking advantage of all the features and functions an Ipod is capable of, we don’t always have the necessary knowledge, nor detailed enough instructions to achieve what we desire.

I for example had quite a lot of trouble downloading movies onto my ipod, though I knew that without a doubt it was possible. So once I finally succeeded I thought it would be a good idea to take that information and put it into article form so that others might benefit. So here is my step by step guide on how to download movies on your ipod, it should make the process easy and achieveable.

First you will need to find somewhere to actually download the movies from in the first place, and usually this means some sort of subscriber website. I have included a link at the bottom of this article which should take you to a review of the two best movie and music download sites available at the moment.

The next step is of course to find the movie you want to watch on the subscriber site. Once you have found the desired movie, make sure you choose the Video Ipod/ Sony PSP download option. This is simply to ensure that you get the correct file type to be watched on your Ipod. Then download the file to a place on your computer, it is best to create a folder called IpodMovies or something similar so you will know exactly where they are.

Once the file has been completely downloaded to your computer, it is time to connect your Ipod to the computer via its USB cord. Open the Apple iTunes application. Select ‘Add File to Library’ from the ‘File’ menu in the iTunes application. Browse your computer for the video you previously downloaded and click ‘Open.’ Then Click ‘Edit,’ then click ‘Preferences in the iTunes application. Once that is done click the ‘iPod’ tab, then click ‘Videos,’ and then ‘Automatically update all videos.’ Lastly, you should click ‘OK.’

Itunes will then automatically copy the movie from your computer to your Ipod. Once this has been done all you need to do to play back your movies on your iPod is click ‘Videos,’ then click ‘Movies’.

If all instructions above have been followed correctly you should have been able to successfully download a movie on your Ipod, and been able to watch it. As you can see, it is not a complicated process and you should be able to achieve this quite easily.