As expected, Apple updated complete range of iPod. Apple launched all new iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano and iPod Touch. iPod Touch is much thinner, with rounded lines, Retinal Display with 326 pixels per inch, 24-bit color and LED display makes this one of the most advanced in the market for these devices. The heart of the new iPod Touch is the Apple A4 chip  (which will match in speed and fluidity to the iPhone 4). It also included 3-axis gyroscope.

And of course, the front camera with FaceTime (also with iPhones). 40 hours of uninterrupted music thanks to its improved battery. The rear camera will allow us to record HD video at 720p. iPod Will be launched in three basic configurations: 8GB $ 229, 32GB for $ 299 64gb $ 399. Availability is set on next week but you can pre-order your device today.

Latest iPod shuffle A.K.A Shuffle 3G has VoiceOver feature, With the press of a button, VoiceOver tells you what song is playing and who’s performing it. It tells you the names of your playlists, too.VoiceOver allows you to hear the names of songs, artists, and playlists spoken when listening to content on iPod shuffle. A default language can be selected for VoiceOver in the Summary tab when iPod shuffle (3rd generation) is connected to iTunes, however you can also set a VoiceOver language for individual songs that will be used in place of the default language. VoiceOver is available in following languages “ Chinese (Mandarin), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish. “ To learn how to set a specific VoiceOver language to selected content in your iTunes library, follow the steps given below.

More guides of Interest :

 

• How to Enable \ Activate VoiceOver for iPod Shuffle 3G.
• How to Restore iPod Shuffle 2G / 3G in to Factory Setting.
• Apple Announces New iPod Shuffle 4GB Features VoiceOver.

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The redsn0w beta is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux systems. If you are not comfirtable with Command line should wait until a GUI tool – which is more straightforward, and has less chance of novice users accidentally bricking their touch. However, dev team also say they’re working on an un-tethered Jailbreak, which will hopefully be both much easier to use, and enjoy some level of support. Remember it’s a beta release not a final release. They are providing it with expert-only instructions, and a strict warning that they won’t be providing ANY support for it. No wonder if any russian hacker will release a gui based on dev team work before the official dev team release. Official Announcement from dev team as follows.

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Today at exactly 2 minutes past Beta O’Clock we are releasing a beta version of redsn0w. The release hopes to simplify the jailbreaking of your iPod touch 2G.

redsn0w is currently in beta as it relies on the user running it from the command line, but this new redsn0w functionality is being added into our GUI applications.

If you are not fully confident with using the command line, then hold off for those simpler tools that will be released sometime soon.
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iPod shuffle is the world’s smallest music player. But size doesn’t means limitation of feature “ Big things comes in small packages “.  VoiceOver Feature is introduced with iPod Shuffle 3G. VoiceOver makes you the shuffle able to talk with you. VoiceOver tells you song title, artist and playlist names. Say you’re listening to a song and want to know the title or the artist. With the press of a button, VoiceOver tells you—without interrupting your music. How it works, iTunes reads your song information, then uses the new VoiceOver Kit to generate the announcements for the songs, artists, and playlists on your iPod shuffle. Here we have a simple to follow guide to enable VoiceOver for your iPod Shuffle 3G. VoiceOver is available in following languages “ Chinese (Mandarin), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish. “

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1. VoiceOver can be enabled when you initially set up your iPod in iTunes. When you plugged iPod very first time you can check the box “ Enable VoiceOver “ . If you forgot to do it initially you can enable it later also check step 2.

2. Browse Summary Tab while ipod shuffle is plugged in, in option menu check the Enable “ VoiceOver  “  feature as shown in figure below..

3. When you select the option to enable VoiceOver in the iPod Setup Assistant or in the Summary tab, you will be guided through the process of installing the VoiceOver Kit. Review the steps below to learn more about this process.

• After selecting the VoiceOver option, click Done in the iPod Setup Assistant or Apply in the Summary tab.
• You will be prompted to review information about VoiceOver. Click Next.

4. Accept the the Software License Agreement. by clicking Agree. in the next step you will be prompted to authorize the installation of the VoiceOver Kit.

• In Mac OS X, you will be prompted for an administrator username and password (or just a password if you are already logged in as an administrator).
• In Windows Vista, you will be prompted to authorize the installation of “iPod Speech Support” with a prompt to Cancel or Allow (if you are using an account with administrative privileges), or to enter the password for a selected administrative account (if you are using a Limited user account).
• In Windows XP, you will be prompted to enter the username and password for an account with administrative privileges if you are using a Limited user account. If you are already logged in with an administrator account, then there is no additional prompt).

After the VoiceOver Kit is installed, iTunes will generate VoiceOver messages that will be synced to iPod shuffle

If your iPod shuffle is not operating as expected you can restore it in to Factory settings by the following method. This article includes information for How to Restore Factory Setting of iPod shuffle 2G / 3G. Please note we are talking about restore not update. Restore erases the disk and restores iPod shuffle to its original factory condition with updated software. So it’s advised to take backup of your iPod Shuffle before Restoring to factory setting. All of your songs, podcasts, and audiobooks can be loaded back to your iPod shuffle provided that you have them stored in your iTunes Library. Finally, these are the steps you need to follow to Restore iPod shuffle for Windows using Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Mac OS X.

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1. Ensure that you have an active Internet connection as new versions of iTunes and iPod Software may need to be downloaded to your computer.
2. Download and install the latest version of iTunes if you do not already have it installed.
3. Open iTunes, and then connect iPod shuffle to your computer.
4. After a few moments, iPod shuffle will appear in the Devices section on the left side of the Tunes window.
5. Select iPod shuffle under Devices and you will see information about it appear in the main iTunes window under theSummary tab for iPod shuffle (3rd generation) or the Settings tab for iPod shuffle (1st or 2nd generation).
6. The Version section tells you whether iPod shuffle is up to date or needs a newer version of the software.
7. Click the Restore button. You will be presented with one or more restore options that may prompt iTunes to automatically download the latest iPod Software. The 4-possible restore options are:
8. • Restore Option 1: Restore – Restores with same iPod Software version already on iPod.
   • Restore Option 2: Use Same Version – Restores with same iPod Software version already on iPod even though a newer version is available.
   • Restore Option 3: Use Newest Version – Restores with the latest iPod Software currently on your computer.
   • Restore Option 4: Restore and Update – Restores after downloading the latest iPod Software on your computer.
9. If you are using a Mac, a message will appear prompting you to enter an administrator’s name and password.
10. A progress indicator will appear on the computer screen indicating that the restore process has started. Do not disconnect iPod shuffle during the restore process. 
11. After the restore process is complete, the iPod shuffle’s status light will flash orange continuously. The iPod Setup Assistant window will appear asking you to name your iPod and choose your syncing preferences as you did when you connected your iPod shuffle for the first time.

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iPod shuffle 3G is the latest buzz from the house of Apple. People at iFixit can’t hold their hands for disassembling these kinda stuff. After publishing disassembling pictures of iMac 20” 2009 and Amazon Kindle 2 now the time is for iPod Shuffle 3G. According to iFixit the new shuffle is fairly easy to open, although less experienced folks may end up bending the aluminum case in the process. They also revealed that the VoiceOver feature in the new shuffle requires to connect the iPod to a computer and sync with iTunes before using it. “Upon connecting the shuffle to a computer, we learned that the voice-over feature must first be downloaded via iTunes,” according to the post.

As we posted earlier today that Apple is going to rolling all new iPod Shuffle 3G with 4GB storage. The new iPod shuffle is small and  easier to use than previous one. The controls are now  located on the earbud cord. It’s so easy, you can use it with your eyes closed. Well new iPod shuffle has VoiceOver feature, With the press of a button, VoiceOver tells you what song is playing and who’s performing it. It tells you the names of your playlists, too. 4GB storage means 1000 songs approximately. iPod shuffle features a gorgeous new aluminum design with a built-in stainless steel clip that makes it ultra-wearable.

iPod shuffle is based on Apple’s incredibly popular shuffle feature, which randomly selects songs from your music library. And now, when you can’t remember the name of a song or an artist playing, with the press of a button iPod shuffle tells you the name of the song and artist. iPod shuffle can even tell you status information, such as battery life. With the ability to hold up to 1,000 songs and the VoiceOver feature, you can now easily switch between multiple playlists on your iPod shuffle. iPod shuffle can speak 14 languages including English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

Pricing & Availability
The third generation 4GB iPod shuffle is now shipping and comes in silver or black for a suggested price of $79 (US) through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. iPod shuffle comes with the Apple Earphones with Remote and the iPod shuffle USB cable.

• Height : 1.8 inches (45.2 mm)
• Width : 0.7 inch (17.5 mm)
• Depth : 0.3 inch (7.8 mm)
• Weight : 0.38 ounce (10.7 grams)
• Battery : Rechargeable lithium polymer battery
• Playback time: Up to 10 hours when fully charged

Apple’s online stores have gone down for product updates. Mr X of  Macrumor forum indicates that the downtime is for new iPod Shuffle 4GB. Mr.X. was right the last time Mac mini, Mac Pro and iMac launch. As Mr X stated “ This is Mr.X. Again, As some of you may notice the Apple Stores are down. This is because of another product release. iPod Shuffle 4GB Black Product Code: MC164 and iPod Shuffle 4GB Silver Product Code : MB867. When the store comes back online. New iPod Shuffle 4GB in Black and Silver. It will use a new dock/sync cable.” If this really is true and Apple are releasing something new this week, there’s been some sort of activity from Apple every week for the past month or more.

The current iPod Shuffle second generation model weighs about 15 grams (0.55 ounces). It was introduced in September 2006 along with the revamped fifth generation iPod Classic and the second generation iPod Nano.

Finally iPod touch 2G firmware 2.2.1 is jailbreaked by the iPhone Dev Team member Musclenurd. Musclenurd tweeted the announcement of complete jailbreak tool for iPod Touch 2G Firmware 2.2.1  “ The 24kpwn ipt2g untethered jb is out. Good news: it’s just as unfixable by Apple as pwnage. Bad news: they may have time to fix iPhone2,1 “ MuscleNurd released 24Kpwn on iPod Touch Fans “ Here it is. Just drop it into your existing pwnagetool or xpwn flow. You can even combine it with the nor-only variations to make this easy to install from iTunes without touching your main fs. “ 24kpwn LLB patch aka an untethered jailbreak for the 2G iPod Touch can be downloaded http://iphwn.org/24kpwn.zip.

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It’s bitter sweet that this has to come out in this manner, because it *really* would have been nice to save for the next iPhone. On the other hand, nobody knows the struggle to jb like iPod Touch 2G owners So it’s good for them.
Now it’s a waiting game to see if Apple can react fast enough.

The patch needs to be applied directly to the LLB without decrypting it first, using “bspatch” or equivalent. The resulting img3 should have this sha1:
SHA1(LLB.n72ap.RELEASE.img3)= 82734c7cdf945ba5421b83962aab3ab91e4fb23a

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Finally the wait is over iPhone dev team rocks again with RedSnow codenamed for iPod touch jailbreaking chek the ultracool video below. iPod Touch is finally going to have a propose instead of a $300 dump.