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iPods Around the World
Joey Patterson writes "Did you ever notice how well the Apple iPod always fits in with the local scenery, no matter where you take it? Well, ipodlounge.com has a photo gallery featuring 800+ photos of people and their iPods in various places around the world. Some of these pics are very cool (like this one, taken by the Kuwait water towers), while others are downright odd (such as this pic from Sierra Leone, Africa)." I just want a picture of an iPod on my desk. I have a camera ...
I bought myself an Archos Jukebox, and then returned it to get an iPod. To be honest, the Archos kinda sucked.
... I like listening to my music on random (so I can eventually hear everything rather than focusing on a few albums over and over).Sometimes when I hear a song I want to restart that particular song to hear the beginning again -- but when the Archos is set to shuffle, hitting 'back' will move to a new song, and then hitting 'forward' will move to a completely new song -- there's no consistency in the shuffle algorithm.
There's no 'hold' on it to prevent you from accidentally turning it off -- the hold is like a 'soft hold' of sorts that works only for not changing the song that's playing. You can still turn it off or change the volume while it's on hold. And, the hold is set/unset by just pressing and holding the 'on' button, which can easily happen accidentally.
The controls for it are not very well-thought out
The manual for the Archos is awful -- it doesn't explain what anything on the screen means. While charging it, I had absolutely no clue what the random XX:YY numbers were while charging -- were they hours:minutes, or minutes:seconds, or just random numbers? And why would it sometimes say 'Batteries Fully Charged' and then 5 minutes later go back to charging for another hour or two.
It would turn off occasionally, too. And it would skip on songs that play fine on my computer, or randomly get stuck on songs and repeat them forever.
In all, the Archos just seemed to be a very flaky mp3 player. Luckily, Circuit City let me return it for the full price 33 days after I bought it.
I don't have my iPod yet (it should be arriving in the next few days), but I am very much looking forward to it. Everything I've read, and everyone I know who has one absolutely loves it.
You mean like this one? I know it's not on her desk, but it's in her hands.
Taken from this article in Feb's Wired magazine.
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I have MacOS 9 installed on my iPod and use it as an emergency repair drive.
Someone mentioned concerns about not being able to copy stuff off it - the music is stored in an invisible folder that would be trivial to access for anyone on Slashdot and in all other respects, it functions as a hard drive.
Firewire isn't just great for the frist big upload batch either. Being able to stick a new album on in a matter of seconds, rather than waiting several minutes with USB is handy if you're in a hurry, or if you're using the iPod for file transfer. By itself, it wouldn't be worth the extra cost, but it's something you greatly come to appreciate. The idea of booting a computer off a USB device isn't too appealing either. Well, apart from USB 2.
Aside from that, I think the only other things that haven't been mentioned by other people already are that it doubles up as a hnady mirror, with that slick metal back or a torch, with that incredible backlight. I'm a relatively impoverished student, but still saw a great deal of value in one as oppossed to an Archos.
wow!! i got slashdoted!!!!! thats me!! that my hand and my ipod infront of the Kuwait Towers and now its on slashdot!! wooooooooooohooooooooooooooooo i am gonna show this to all my friends!!!
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12" ibook, G3 700, 640MB RAM, 20GB HD