Looks like Apple has vowed to create magic every time it launches something new and mesmerize its customers. iPod Touch is a little confusing at the first glance. The looks are like an iPhone, but it’s not a phone and it lacks other iPhone features, such as a camera and Bluetooth and other basic features that a basic phone would have. And, while the iPod Touch neither looks nor acts anything like a traditional iPod but what is shocking and confusing is that it has just one tenth the capacity of that of classic sized iPod.
One thin that is present is WiFi which helps provide and Web access via a special version of Safari and a YouTube application, but email is conspicuously absent, which everyone would be looking forward to and will miss this facility.
As expected the iPod Touch has a multi-touch screen and takes your experience to the next level.
The multi-touch interface starts with a single button and then the rest is up to your fingers.
Apart from text entry, Multi-Touch is smooth and elegant. With a long list, or a series of photos, or a stack of Cover Flow albums, you can flick and toss the virtual object, which has mass and drag and feels uncannily natural.
But above all that is amazing in this iPod Touch is the variety and bundle of applications it can handle. The operation that it can handle baffles the user.
iPod touch games and ipod touch applications are nothing short of amazing. And the ipod touch App Store is where you’ll find them all.
The world’s best developers are taking advantage of groundbreaking technology, including Multi-Touch, the accelerometer, real-time 3D graphics, and 3D positional sound, to create games and applications made especially for iPod touch. So whether you’re a gamer or into something else — chatting, social networking, news, sports, finance — there’s bound to be something just for you.
One can dig into a variety of ipod applications to suit their variety of uses. Though Apple develops its own ipod touch applications for its devices but it also allows third party applications.
The only official channel to obtain third-party applications for the iPod Touch is Apple’s iTunes Store. The App Store application, available in all versions of the iPhone OS from version 2.0 (or Software Update 2.0) onwards, allows users to browse and download applications from an online repository with the iTunes Store. This process is as simple as ABC. To develop such software, a software development kit (SDK) was officially announced on March 6, 2008, at an Apple Town Hall meeting. The iPhone SDK allows developers to make applications for the iPod Touch and iPhone after paying a fee to join the development team. The developer can then set the price for the iphone or ipod touch applications they develop and will receive 70% of the sale price. The developer can also opt to release the ipod application for free and will not pay any additional costs.
Shortly after the iPod Touch was released (iPhone OS version 1.1.1), hackers were able to “jailbreak” the device through a TIFF exploit. The resulting application, “Installer.app”, enabled the user to download a selection of unofficial third-party programs. Some of these give the user more control over the iPod Touch than is officially available, and also makes it work on Linux operating systems. All subsequent versions of the iPhone OS can be jailbroken. Servicing an iPod Touch after jailbreaking or other modifications made by unofficial means is not covered by Apple’s warranty.
There are as usual two ways to use and download applications for the iPod Touch, one is the official way through Apple’s registered website and the other is through other websites where you can get a cracked application which may or may not work. The only method to get iPod applications is from the net and being self-sufficient is the best, otherwise your local electronics store guy can also do it for you.
Through the Apple Store downloading applications to iPod touch is easy. Just tap the App Store icon, browse the categories that interest you, and then download your purchases wirelessly. Some are even free. Once you own an application, the App Store automatically notifies you when there’s an update. You can even shop the App Store on your computer, then sync applications to your iPod touch using iTunes. You can clearly see the advantage over here is that the application you purchase through this website will also get you the updates but if you download it from somewhere else you will have to hunt for the updates yourself that also when you come to know about it.
In simple steps lets have a look at how to install applications on iPod touch –
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Download the latest version of iTunes and the iPod Touch 2.0 Update (see Resources below this article) if you do not have them already.
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Go to the iTunes Store, click on the “App Store” button in the navigation menu and find an application you would like to install on your iPod Touch. The App Store includes both free and paid applications.
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Click “Get App” and enter your iTunes Store account information. The application will begin downloading immediately.
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Plug your iPod Touch into your computer using the iPod USB cable to begin the syncing process.
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Click on the “Applications” tab in the iPod menu, which will come up automatically after your iPod Touch has been connected to your computer.
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Check the “Sync Applications” and “All Applications” buttons and then hit the “Apply” button to transfer applications to the iPod Touch. Once the sync process is complete and the iPod Touch is ejected, the applications can be run on the iPod Touch.
Though the process at first looks a bit complicated but it is not once you get used to it.
One ipod touch apps that you will find amazing that is the Truphone Application, which allows you to sort of make calls. One has to check this application out.
One can surf the net for quite a few websites which provide free ipod touch apps, to name a few –
Happy Installing of iPod Touch Apps!
