Or does it?

Best on or before.. Nearly everything we touch nowadays has a sell by date somewhere on the packaging.

When is your best before date? What’s the date when you will be thrown away. What’s the date when it has been decided that you are no longer at your best? What’s the date when you are reduced in order to get you off the shelf?

We know. Life doesn’t have a sell by date. Or does it?

Some of our friends run their lives as though there is a sell by date. They work night and day. They have all the gismos, mobile phone, BlackBerry, i-Pod, everything that is necessary to keep them in contact with the world. Everything to ensure they are available at a moments notice whatever the time. Day or night. They won’t even go jogging unless they have those infamous ‘white wires’ in their ears. They are saying to the world. I have a sell by date. I am at my best now. If you don’t buy me before. then I will be thrown in the rubbish bin.

Just stop for a moment. Ask yourself.

Do you run your life as if you have a sell by date?
Are you running your life at such a speed that you feel that you are the hot property now and in a few months it will be all over?
Do you believe that your life is like a product that has a minimal shelf life?

If you are running your life in this way then there must come a time, as you get nearer and nearer to the sell by date, when you become less and less important. Your retailer will do anything to get rid of you. Your price is reduced so much that it is almost given away.

If this is the case, what are you going to do with the rest of your life?

We are just as capable of learning when we are 50 as when we are 15. So what’s the problem? Why are you working yourself to death? What is it that makes you feel that you are on a short time frame?

People. You and Me. Limit ourselves. You stop yourself from learning. In other words:
the person who suggests you have a sell by date is you.
the person who makes you work excessive hours at an excessive pace is.you.
the person who stops you having ‘prime’ time with your family isyou.

Answer this question:
What is it about yourself that you like?

We have been brought up to cherish that which you really love. To care for things you really like. So, when we have something that we like very much, we treasure it.

So why don’t you cherish yourself?

Go on make the effort. It’s worth it.

Good Luck

Graham and Julie
www.desktop-meditation.com

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The iPod has been around since October 2001. This is hard to believe. It doesn’t seem like it’s been around for that long already. Over the last five years they continue to come out with a new and improved model of the iPod. Recently they have released the iPod video, which has also been a great success.

Development

The iPod was developed because there was a lack of quality digital music players on the market. Other digital devices such as cameras, camcorders, and organizers were available and were selling quite well; nest was the digital music player. After developing and releasing the Apple iPod was the release of the models for the Mac and Window users. This increased the sales of the iPod even more. The continued advancement and improvement of the iPod was necessary to keep customers interested and sales up. The iPod did just that. It kept the leading position in the market and is recorded at selling over 42 million units since its release.

Competition

Competition is another reason each company keeps improving their design. In 2005 a new and improved iPod was released with a color screen. This color screen was a first in the iPod evolution. Shortly after this release the Samsung Company announced that they were going to release and even better version. This competition led to the fifth generation of the iPod. This fifth generation is better known as the video iPod. Ipod Nano was another top seller at this time.

Video iPod

This new video iPod is capable of playback, video playing and better organizational features. You can get the iPod video in both 30 GB and 60 GB models. It also has the ability to play at a much higher resolution than previously seen. A 16 bit screen and the capability to display all kinds of videos are a few other features. You can get your video iPod in either black or white. Some of the other new features is it has a world clock, a stop watch, screen lock application, smaller earphones, a small slip case, and fire wire cable.

The new video iPod also has smaller dimensions than previous iPods. Even though the dimensions are smaller, the screen size has increased. The video iPod is also thinner too. Hard to believe that it is capable of doing more things, but they make it smaller and thinner than before. The battery life was also increased to 16 to 20 hours. Just remember that if you are watching videos it will use the battery life up quite a bit faster.

It is amazing to see how quickly things can evolve. Look at the amazing things that have come just since the launching of the iPod five years ago. It’s hard to imagine what they will come out with next, but I’m sure there will be something new for us to look forward too. There will always be that competition to be the best on the market.

Gregg Hall is an author living in Navarre Florida. Find more about this as well as Ipod car accessory superstore at http://www.qualitycarstuff.com.

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I like talking about new inventions and what to do to our lives.
Today I would like to focus on the iPod from Apple.

First there was the cassette Walkman, then the cd Walkman, mini disk and now the
iPod. The iPod is a music player just like the Walkman, but instead of cassettes it
uses a hard disk to store music in digital format.

Now the great improvement of the iPod over its predecessors is its storage capacity.
An iPod today can store enough music to play non-stop 24 hours a day during 6
weeks.

Now what’s does that mean? That basically means that you can have your entire
music collection on it. There is even storage for music addicts like myself (and I like
a LOT of genres like classical, jazz, heavy metal, drum & bass, breakbeat, flamenco,
Turkish & Arabic, Indian traditional music, etc, etc). That in turn basically means
that you can have your music collection on you where ever you go, at a party, in
your car, at work etc etc

Now with the iPod Video models you basically your iPod acts as a portable video
player as well. This means that you can stick a few movies on your iPod before you
go on a trip, connect your iPod to the Hotel’s TV set using the AV cables and watch a
video with your lady.

The list of accessories is ever growing and there are some real useful gadgets
available nowadays. Personally I can now listen to my iPod at home on the stereo,
wireless (using iTrip). I have remote controls (both Airclick and apple remote), I
always have it in the car (using Roadtrip), I use it as a portable hard disk, I use it to
store my photographs when I am doing a shoot and have no laptop on me (using
Media Reader), I record new idea’s on the guitar so I don’t forget them (iTalk) and so
on!

I find it normal now that I can have this multifunction device on me wherever I go.
Two years ago I could not unload my big RAW photographs onto a small handheld
device that also stores my entire music collection and connects to my computer, TV,
home and car stereo.

What I am trying to say is that inventions like the iPod seem like nice gadgets but in
fact they are changing your lives! In a positive way imho.

I can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings!

Jacco Noordhuizen

iPodShoppers - Europe’s online iPod store with fast world wide shipping.
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