Apple, yer a great company… but until y’all finally roll out iPod touch with 128 gigs of storage, I ain’t letting go of my now four-year old iPod classic.
The iPhone 4s’s new camera rocks though. That will be niiiiice on the next iteration of iPad.
Other than that – and the new Siri feature – it wasn’t that big a deal, in my opinion. Oh well, maybe next September…...
This past winter master musical parody artist “Weird” Al Yankovic published his first-ever book, When I Grow Up. Yankovic’s children’s book resonated with audiences of all ages and fast found itself on the bestseller lists. If you’ve read it (and even if you haven’t yet, you hooligan!) and you happen to have an iOS gizmo like an iPad or an iPhone, you’ll be sure to want to check out the When I Grow Up interactive book on Apple’s App Store. The entire book with all its artwork is here, along with at least 27 (quite possibly many more) hidden surprises, all accompanied by Yankovic’s voice! There are also a few mini-games that will have you honking with laughter. Not kidding: “Gorilla Masseuse” for a few days recently was the most-played game on my iPad! I think it took me the better part of the week to keep that poor ...
Daily Mail has found a patent application made by Apple for some weird eyewear – nicknamed the “iSpecs” by some – that would turn an iPod or iPhone into a portable 3-D movie experience. From the filed application…
Alright, so… who wants to be the first person to walk around the neighborhood with an iPod covering up their eyes?...
My sister is a physical therapist in a hospital that uses Nintendo’s Wii to engage patients in stimulating sports-like activity as part of their regimen. And now another toy of the modern era is finding employment in medicine: Apple’s iPod is helping patients recovering from strokes and suffering from dementia (like that which is symptomatic of Alzheimer’s) to reconnect with memories and emotions…
...Listening to rap and reggae on a borrowed iPod every day has helped Everett Dixon, a 28-year-old stroke victim at Beth Abraham Health Services in Bronx, N.Y., learn to walk and use his hands again.
Trevor Gibbons, 52, who fell out of a fourth-floor construction site and suffered a crushed larynx, has become so entranced with music that he’s written 400 songs and cut four CDs.
Ann Povodator, an 85-year-old Alzheimer’s patient in Boynton Beach, Fla., listens to her beloved opera and Yiddish songs every day on
Catch me anywhere out and about, and chances are I’ve got my iPod classic hanging on my belt. It’s the first iPod I’ve ever owned, the model that came out two years ago with the 80 gigabyte hard drive. And yesterday was the annual press event where Apple rolls out the newest iPod models. I was expecting to not update to anything new until sometime next year, when I figured that flash storage will finally catch up to the capacity I demand that’s currently only on hard drive. And that might happen then, since the latest iPod touch now maxes out at 64 gigs of flash memory (I’d way love to see at least that much on an iPod classic design).
Then I saw the 5th generation of iPod nano.
And I am now lusting for one terribly.
FM radio (with Live Pause – sorta like audio DVR – ...
As you can guess however, he didn’t get away with it. Nicholas Woodhams of Kalamazoo, Michigan has pleaded guilty to mail fraud and money laundering and has been sentenced to a year in prison and made to pay $650,000 restitution for his scheme that tricked Apple into sending him nearly ten thousand brand new iPods…
Prosecutors say he took advantage of a warranty program by guessing the serial numbers of iPods still under warranty and claiming they were broken.
The company sent him 9,000 new ones over a year and a half.
Investigators say he turned around and sold those on the Internet.
Actually rather clever. I have to admire him for coming up with such a plan, even though it was obviously the wrong direction to direct such creativity toward....
There’s some tragic news out of Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania this weekend: a 19-year old woman is dead following an automobile accident. And apparently the motorist was distracted by the iPod she was trying to work while driving the car.
Before writing anything else, two things need to be said: I have no idea what model of iPod the driver was using. And I’ll be the first to admit that I also use my iPod while driving. I might as well come clean on that much because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to share these thoughts to begin with…
Normally, I don’t think it’s much of a problem to talk on a cellphone or work an iPod while driving. It’s not much different an effort than messing around with the radio trying to find a good station (and it’s pretty darned rare to hear of any crash being caused by ...
It was thirty years ago this week that the Sony Walkman – the gadget that gave birth to portable music – made its debut. To commemorate the occasion, BBC Magazine asked 13-year old Scott Campbell (above) to yield his iPod for seven days in favor of a classic Walkman. And young master Scott wrote about the experience…
...When I wore it walking down the street or going into shops, I got strange looks, a mixture of surprise and curiosity, that made me a little embarrassed.
As I boarded the school bus, where I live in Aberdeenshire, I was greeted with laughter. One boy said: “No-one uses them any more.” Another said: “Groovy.” Yet another one quipped: “That would be hard to lose.”
My friends couldn’t imagine their parents using this monstrous box, but there was interest in what the thing was and how it worked.
In some classes in school
A little over a year ago I posted the how-to tutorial on putting video content from a DVD onto an iPod. The workhorse program that I found perfect for my needs was HandBrake. When it came time to convert Lost Season 4 for my iPod classic (‘cuz I like having all the Lost episodes hanging on my belt… along with my own movies, the Star Wars saga, etc.) I found that HandBrake had upgraded to version 0.9.3.
So if you haven’t checked it out yet, I heartily recommend giving HandBrake a looksee, because it has become significantly more powerful since the last time I used it en masse. HandBrake 0.9.3 introduces universal video input: it can now convert practically any format of video into MPEG-4, including DivX AVI files (very nice for putting those bootlegged Doctor Who episodes on an iPod or iPhone or any other ...
This has gotta be one of the most innovative and clever uses for the iPod touch that I’ve ever seen…
The BulletFlight application software, available through the iTunes store, turns the iPod touch into a full-blown ballistics computer that helps hunters in the field plot their firing solution. Users can tap in the ammunition type, wind speed and conditions, and distance to target. Profiles for three weapons come loaded with BulletFlight, although more can also be added.
Maybe Apple should look into this concept further. I mean, wouldn’t it be nifty if we could own an iGun? 😛...