iPod update
I’m enjoying the new "genius" playlist on iTunes. Like the random shuffle, it gets me to listen to things that I forgot I had in my collection, but it doesn’t have the hugely jarring transitions between totally different types of music (or the random spanish language lesson or hypnosis mp3 mixed in).
I haven’t been reading much with ereader, but I think that’s because my test case (Nixonland) is just too dense to read in 100 word increments. I read all of Little Brother on it, and had no problem with the format.
I stink at Trism, but it’s quite addicting. I haven’t actually been playing any of the other games that I downloaded.
Somewhere along the way it ate the videos I had on it. Not quite sure why, but don’t care enough to spend the time required to figure it out.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
My iPod still — STILL — *I(&&^T*&^Ting hates me. My library isn’t valid every single time I re-boot my computer.
I upgraded to wireless in our house in part to take iTunes off to another computer (in this case, a laptop) in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to redeem the sucker.
Maybe this latest version will help, too. But I’ve stopped holding my breath.
Grrr.
September 11th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Can I just say how impressed I am with the nano, despite the software annoyances? I put off buying a non-shuffle ipod forever — waited till I accidentally tore my old medical-device-stick-looking shuffle off its data/power cable, then waited till the battery died. I hesitated before buying the nano, because I really wanted a little video-podcast player — I wanted to be able to watch MIT’s OCW chemistry lectures, and I didn’t think I’d be able to see whatever was written on the blackboard on that tiny nano screen. The resolution’s fantastic, though, and I’m amazed, but I can actually watch lectures this way. Hooray Apple, and hooray Chinese near-slaves making the nano. (I assume they’re near-slaves. Someone correct me if those workers are actually paid reasonably.) Great design, great execution.