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iTunes Wi-Fi Store
On the iPod Touch, the iTunes store shows "featured" and "top ten" musical selections, as well as genre categories and a search box. As on the Mac, you can preview selections for 30 seconds before buying.



To our surprise, Apple is not selling any video content on the iPod Touch's Wi-Fi music store (although you can download videos from your Mac), nor are games available for purchase. And the iPod Touch has no access to Internet radio, as your Mac does, despite its wireless connection.
Photo Player

The photo browser may be our favorite iPod Touch application. It opens to the albums you've downloaded, and you see an array of thumbnail images when you choose an album. From there, you can play a slideshow or touch an individual photo to open it. The images look great on the iPod Touch screen.

Flicking and pinching work well for displaying and exploring the photos, which rotate to stay right-side up, no matter how you orient the iPod Touch. Touching an image brings up controls for the slideshow and a button for returning to the chosen album. (The controls don't rotate with the photos, though – they're always oriented vertically like the Home page.)
Video Player

The video player seems a little simpler by comparison, but it works well enough. Again, you touch a video screen to show or hide playback controls (and they automatically hide themselves after a few seconds, too.) There's a volume slider with Pause/Play, plus buttons for shuttling forward or back. You also can touch and drag a slider at the top to navigate to different locations in the video.
Music Player

The music player has two distinct modes: CoverFlow and List views. CoverFlow is very album oriented and more limiting – you can't even control volume in this orientation, which you get whenever the iPod Touch is horizontal. You can, however, click on an album to get a song list, then choose one song or another by touching it, and a button on the lower left lets you pause and resume playback. The lack of volume control in this mode seems odd.

In the vertical music player mode, you do get volume control, along with transport controls like you see in the video player. There are two sub-modes, which provide for setting ratings (0 to 5 stars) and for choosing songs from a vertical list that has "Shuffle" as the top-most choice.