It’s the first time for people to navigate through all of iPod’s menus and control all of its features like this. It’s totally a new thing, and the feeling is awesome and comfortable when people operating the click wheel. But this is only for iPod nano, iPod mini and iPod shuffle, iPod touch doesn’t have this appearance, because Apple aims to make it more different with other iPod series. If you have noticed, iPod touch is more like iPhone, depending on iTunes to sync songs or videos, and if you want to get things off iPod touch, you can’t do that just via USB, that’s not the way how it works, so you need a third-party tool, like ipod computer transfer. But iPod nano, shuffle, mimi are different, they have hard discs, so you can just transfer things from them to other devices via USB.

The design of click wheel looks very simple from its appearance, but under the plastic surface, there is a long time hard research to complete the functions. Trust me, it never be easy to figure it out. There are four mechanical buttons (Menu, back, forward, play/pause), and there’s one button in the center (select). Actually, the buttons and the functions are just like other MP3 players, the only difference is you can spin the click steel, and that’s the first time for MP3 player to have this feature.

Now we have just understood the click steel’s appearance design and its basic functions, there is more about its work principle. Every time the controller senses capacitance at a given point, it sends a signal. That’s how the Click Wheel can detect speed of motion — the faster you move your finger around the wheel, the more compacted the stream of signals it sends out. And as the microprocessor receives the signals, it performs the corresponding action — increasing the volume, for instance. When your finger stops moving around the wheel, the controller stops detecting changes in capacitance and stops sending signals, and the microprocessor stops increasing the volume.

Even iPod mini has dropt out from the market, but iPod nano and shuffle still have a demand in the market, comparing with iPod touch, they have their own advantages, for example, if you are iPod touch user, you have to know how to transfer music from ipod to computer because iTunes wouldn’t do that for you, and iPod nano and shuffle are much easier to operate, they don’t need a third-party tool, a USB cable is enough. Besides, I bet people still love the feeling when their fingers sliding on the click steel.

The first step is to find a good mac dvd ripper. Before you choose one, you ought to consider the overall quality of the product and choose the best ripper for Mac for you. Conversions should happen at a reasonable quick speed. It shouldn’t take forever to rip DVD, but faster is not always better. Keep in mind that your system has a lot to do with the speed of conversion. Now let’s figure out how to use this ripper to help us watch movies on iPad.

Step 1: Free download and install Mac DVD Ripper.

To install it, simply mount the .dmg archive by double-clicking it, and copy the application to your applications folder (or wherever you want).

Step 2: Load DVD to iPad Ripper Mac

Insert DVD into your DVD-ROM. Click “Load DVD” button to load your movie. Just Click “Load IFO” button and press DVD folder or DVD IFO file. If you begin to do it, you will find out it’s very easy to operate with the simple interface.

Step 3: Select iPad Video (*.mp4) as output format

Use the “format” on the bottom of the window to control the output format. Click on the toggle to the right of the “Format” label to get format drop-down menu. Select iPad Video (mp4) as output format. You can see a lot of output format, so MP4 is not the only choice for you, if AVI is your wanted format, this ripper also can be considered as a dvd to avi ripper for mac. Now you can infer you can convert movies to any other format.

Step 4: Click “Settings” to customize the output video for iPad. (Optional)

For getting the best output video, you can change Resolution, Encoder, Bit rate and Frame rate of the iPad video and Sample Rate, Channels, Encoder and Bit Rate of the iPad Audio.

Step 5: Select output directory

Expand the “Output” panel. Use the “Browse” button to select an output directory.

Step 6: Click “Start” to rip DVD to iPad on Mac

Except for DVD movies, you can upload almost any kind format video to iPad and other Apple devices with the best video converter, such as RMVB, AVI and WMA etc. Since you already have an Apple device, you should know how to make the most of it, especially when you are a movie fan, there are many movies only released in DVD version, so you’d better know how to upload movies to your Apple devices.