iPod and iTunes Hacks

Store Digital Photos on Your iPod

A couple nifty products from Belkin allow you to store your digital snaps right on your iPod.

An iPod comes with an immense amount of hard drive space, while your digital camera’s memory cards fill up too quickly. This digital divide can be traversed successfully with a little help from Belkin.

Belkin makes two products that allow you to transfer your digital images from your digital camera to your iPod: the Media Reader (http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=201526 &pcount=&Product_Id=158350; $109.99) and the Digital Camera Link (http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Product_Id=173207; $89.99). With the help of either of these products, you can literally store thousands of images (depending on the size of your iPod and your digital camera’s resolution) on your iPod.

The Belkin Media Reader

To use the Media Reader, remove your camera’s memory card and insert it into the appropriate slot on the side of the Media Reader.

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The Belkin Media Reader supports: CompactFlash (types 1 and 2), SmartMedia, Secure Digital (SD), Memory Stick, and MultiMediaCard.

Now, connect the Belkin Media Reader to your iPod. The Reader works with generation 3 (G3) and later iPods with the newer thin-type FireWire connection. If you have a generation 1 or 2 (G1/G2) iPod with a regular FireWire connector or an iPod mini, ...