Spring Water is Fresh

Thursday, April 07, 2005

Apple designed a mechanical scroll wheel and outsourced the implementation and development to Synaptics, a firm that also developed the trackpad used by many laptops, including Apple's PowerBooks. The 1G iPod featured four buttons (Menu, Play/Pause, Back, and Forward) arranged around the circumference of the scroll wheel. Although superseded by non-mechanical touch and click wheels, the circular controller design has become a prominent iPod motif.

USS Venture is a starship in the fictional Star Trek universe. Like the Enterprise-D, the Venture was a Galaxy class starship. She was first seen in the Deep Space Nine episode The Way of the Warrior, Part II.

In 2005, Spears received her first Grammy award for Toxic in the category of Best Dance Recording.