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Some iPod users may in love with the Sleep Timer function, which allows them to set a countdown time, say 30mins, and play their music during sleep, and the iPod will stop the music automatically. It’s a great feature especially for saving battery power.

However, many iPhone / iPod touch users don’t know how to set Sleep Timer (They even don’t know this function is built-in already.) Let’s follow the steps:

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很多iPod用家都很喜愛Sleep Timer睡眠倒數的功能，用戶可設定入睡時間(如30分鐘)，然後播放音樂。音樂便會在30分鐘後自動停止播放。這功能對於節省電量和睡眠質素而言都十分實用。

然而很多iPhone / iPod touch用戶都不知道原來這個功能早已內置了，讓我們來看看怎樣做：

Tap “Clock” at the Home Screen
在主畫面點選Clock(時鐘)

Tap “Timer” at the bottom-right coner.
點選右下角的Timer(倒數時計)

Adjust the countdown time, then click “When Timer Ends”
調整倒數的時間，然後點選When Timer Ends(當倒數結束時)

This is the most important part: Tap “Sleep iPod” at the top of the list.
這是最重要的部份，點選最頂的Sleep iPod(讓iPod進入睡眠)

The Sleep Timer started, you may quit the clock app and play your music. Since the Sleep Timer is still running at the background, The music will stop automatically when it counts to zero. Don’t worry, it won’t power off your iPhone / iPod touch, just sleep.
睡眠倒數開始了，你可以離開Clock時鐘並開始播放你的音樂了。由於倒數會繼續在背景執行，當數到零的時候，音樂便會溫柔地停止播放。別擔心，他不會關掉你的iPhone/iPod touch，只會睡眠。

Video has been uploaded 影片教學已上載：

Since I’ve bought my iPod nano, I started to subscribe the PodCast 《大蘋果時代》(The Era of the Great Apple) but they haven’t update it for a few months. However, I got an email notice that the PodCast has came to us again with a new name “Great Apple. New Era”. I couldn’t wait to subscribe it from iTunes. And, I found some new features when I was listening it by iPhone OS 3.0 beta.

自我買了iPod nano後到iPhone仍有訂閱收聽的《大蘋果時代》停止更新了數個月，今早收到了Email得知會長Derek為我們帶來了全新一輯的《大蘋果．新時 代》，我便急不及待到iTunes訂閱。怎料在iPhone OS 3.0 beta收聽的時候，發現了一些新功能。

This is the new interface for Podcast. There’re three new icons under the timeline. Let’s take a look on the right side, it’s 1X now, that means the playback speed is normal.
這是全新的PodCast界面，留意時間列下方出現了三個新的圖示。先看看最右邊的，現在是1X，也就是說播放的速度是正常一倍速。

Just tap it, it’s 2X now. The speeches becomes faster. Let’s tap again, it becomes 1/2X, they talk slower than normal now.
點了一下，變成了2X，Podcast中兩位主持的對話便立刻急起來了。再點變成1/2X，大家說話都慢了。

Tap the dot on the timeline. There are some words that I’ve never seen before 3.0.
點一下時間列的圓點，出現了之前未見過的字眼！

Hold the finger, and slide it down, it becomes half speed scrolling. I moved my finger from left to right, yup, I can scroll the time in more detail way.
手指不放，向下滑變成了「半速刮擦」，手指再左右滑動，果然滑動的幅度仔細了！

Slide down more, it’s 1/4 now.
手指再拉低一點，變成了四分之一。

Finally, it’s the most detail level of scrolling, I can scroll every second in the podcast. It’s really useful for a long Podcast!
最後是「細微刮擦」，仔細到可以逐秒滑動，對於數十分鐘的Podcast來說實在太有用了！

I’ve uploaded the demo video 示範的影片上傳了：