If you’re like many new Video iPod owners, you are excited about the idea of carrying your movie collection along with you wherever you go. The notion of being able to watch a movie while you’re sitting in the airport, riding on the subway or just hanging out is pretty darn cool. That’s why so many people rushed out to buy the Video iPod when Apple first launched it in October of 2005.

The problem is that it’s not so easy to transfer your existing movie collection over to your iPod when you first get it. Apple didn’t include any software with the iPod to rip your movies onto your Video iPod. If you want to watch something on your Video iPod when you first get it, you better either have a mpeg-4 file on your computer (some video cameras and camera phones will save videos in this format) or you will need to download a video from iTunes or some other iPod Video website. Not exactly what you had in mind when you bought your new Video iPod, huh?

Don’t worry; there are many solutions out there to assist you with transferring your existing movie collection to your iPod Video player.

In this article, we’re going to discuss different software products out there available to help you convert your existing movies to play on your Video iPod. A few of the more popular iPod Video converter software titles are produced by companies such as Lenogo, Cucusoft, Xilisoft and others.

To accomplish your task of converting your movies to play on your iPod, you’ll need to first download software from one of the companies we mentioned in the previous paragraph. For our example here, we’re going to go with Lenogo’s iPod Video Converter Suite. Here are the steps we took to convert a movie to iPod format in about three minutes:

1. We opened up Lenogo iPod Video Converter Suite on our computer and chose the video file we wanted to convert from our computer.

2. We clicked the “convert” button.

3. We saved the new file, which is in the iPod Video format called mpeg-4.

4. We used iTunes to upload our new video file to our iPod Video.

That’s it! It was really that simple. Of course, this process is different depending on which software title you choose to download. Some take a bit longer than others. Most, however, only take a few minutes to choose the video file you intend to convert and then run the program. Once you’re finished, you’ll be able to achieve your goal of carrying your movie collection along with you wherever you go!

This short but easy tutorial will show you how to remove songs from your iPod, as this feature has (unfortunately) not been added to everyone’s favorite music player.

How to setup your iPod for manual updates:
First, you need to make sure that you change the settings which allow you to manually update your ipod.
1. Hook up your iPod to your computer.
2. Start iTunes.
3. Highlight your iPod in the source list
4. On the bottom right corner of the iTunes window, you will see a small icon that looks like the silhouette of an iPod – click it.
5. Select “Manually manage songs and playlists” and click OK.

How to remove songs from your ipod manually:
1. Keep iTunes open and your iPod connected to your computer.
2. Go back to your source list and click on your iPod.
3. Choose all of the song(s)/playlist(s) you want to remove.
4. Press delete and you’re done!

It is important to note that songs that have been deleted from your iPod have not been deleted from iTunes. You must do this separately.

Now that you know how to remove songs from your iPod, it’s time to pack it with all of your NEW favorite songs! Have fun!

The iPod is the biggest product Apple has. It is the majority bread winner for the company. The iPod helped cement Apple’s improvement by expanding its now large market from computers. To increase growth of the rapidly growing iPod market.

Apple’s entry into the mp3 music player market with its iPod expanded the company’s market and started a turn in the companies strategy. The iPod is a market star that is capitalizing on the convergence of digital consumer electronics and the computer, and Apple’s position as an early mover enabled it to achieve the top position in the mp3 market. It took Apple just over a year to sell its first million iPods. Its second million came in six months and its third million came in four. That’s nice growth! In fact, it appears that only its suppliers can slow it down. Apple has indeed dominated the market from all other electronic makers.

Japanese electronic makers like Sony can only watch from a distance as the American computer maker Apple has huge supremacy in the market.

The iPod’s counterpart system iTunes software system has also put large profits in the backend of the iPod. The software tag along allows media downloads like music for a fee.

For the future of Apple and iPod only serious mistakes would seem to slow this product down.