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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 just want a picture of an iPod on my desk. I have a camera ...
You have two options:
- Print a picture from the linked site, you have a picture of an iPod on your desk but you don't have any real iPod.
- Sell the camera, buy an iPod, you get a real iPod standing proud on your desk but can't make a picture of it to share your happiness.
I know, life sucks...
Don't forget to think different.
Here is my iPod and me on new year's eve
o ooooooooooo
Here's my iPod and me on vacation to rome
Here's my iPod and me doing shower
Doing shower? nooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooo
iPod nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I'd like to see a pic of one on Bill Gates desk!
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They Are Vermin Feeding On Each Other's Feces.
I Hate \.
And can ipod even double up as a portable HD.
Yes, you can use your iPod as a (very) portable Firewire HD.
Don't forget to think different.
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.
IMO yes it is worth every penny. i had a hango PJB100 which was also 20 gig.
first off, the music management app was crap! iTunes is VERY straight forward.
second, USB when talking about collections of this size is a nightmare. the pain of waiting literally hours for progress bars was just too much! firewire makes the process so fast, you hardly notice.
thirdly, the ipod uses a 1.8 inch HD and as such, is about the same size as a pack of ciggys and is light enough for its presence to not be felt in a pocket. any other portable MP3 player that has anywhere near a decent amount of storage space uses 2.5 inch disks and are bricks in your pocket!
fourthly, the ipod acts as a 20gig portable firewire HD
lastly, contacts and calendars are synched to it as well
each to their own though i guess....
Several reasons.
1) Yes. Firewire is worth it. Fililng 20 GB at 1.5 (theoretical) MB/sec will take a bit longer than at 50 MB/sec (theoretical). We're talking minutes instead of hours here.
[Apparently the newest Jukebox support USB 2.0. I stand corrected.]
2) Dimensions. The Archos Jukebox looks and feels like a brick. An iPod will fit in your pocket, an Archos will not.
Archos [archos.com]
Dimensions: 115x83x34 mm. (4.5"x3.2"x1.3")
Weight: 350 g (12.3 oz.)
iPod [apple.com]
Size and weight (20GB model)
Height: 4.0 in
Width: 2.4 in
Depth: 0.84 in
Weight: 7.2 oz (204 g)
In every category, the iPod is at least half an inch smaller. Not to mention an archos has those huge rubber feet things. By weight, an iPod is 66% of an Archos. 66%!
3) Batteries. An archos runs off 4 AAs, an iPod has an internal rechargeable battery, which charges fully in 3 hours.
4) Interface.
Having used my roommate's Archos (before it broke for no apparent reason) -- the user interface is abysmal. The screen is small, poorly lit, and it's difficult to tell what you're doing, what song you're playing, etc. The buttons are small and poorly designed.
None of these are problems with the iPod.
The iPod has large, easy to use buttons. The scroll wheel is a marvel, letting you get from one song to another in seconds. The screen is huge and well backlit. (160-by-128 pixels for the iPod, "Up to 8 lines" for the Jukebox).
4) Internal memory. The iPod has a 32MB internal buffer, the Jukebox 2. More memory means less hard-drive reads, and more continuous music.
Seriously, they don't even compare. You definitely get what you pay for.
I agree with what many people said here. However, I think there is more to it. I had a Creative Nomad Jukebox 3 and enjoyed it, but it had several fatal flaws the iPod doesn't: Size. The size of the Creative unit was like a like a CD Player on steriods. I have an MP3 CD player that was much smaller. Navigation (interface). The interface makes or breaks the device. On the Jukebox (archos or creative), the user interface is sometimes counter intuitive. If you want to find just a group or album, there's a lot of work. On my iPod, I can get to any album or artist quickly. Screen updates are fast, whereas the NJB3 (the one I used most prior to the iPod) was a dog as I waited forever for the menu options and kludgy layout. For me, I have a large MP3 collection mainly from my CDs, navigation of the screen makes or breaks the device. I liked my NJB3 (two replaceable batteries) and I used it often (especially in the TankBag on my motorcycle), but the iPod is all that and more. The Archos jukebox can be used as a harddrive, whereas the Nomad JB3 couldn't. However, neither of them compare to the iPod for simplicity, easy of use, and size. It's that simple.
Check my iPod feature comparision site for details...needs a bit of updating, but you can use the comprehensive chart to compare with other HD based players.
It is smaller than most...doubles as a portable HD...works beautifully and of course, FireWire makes a difference. Do you have 15 hours to move 10's of gb's of music files via USB? There are no cons to owning one, and I'm sorry if the price hurts your wallet...it doesn't bother mine.
Here's my buddy Paul's entry there, outside Area 51. :)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
They probably aren't hosting it themselves. My site is (unfortunately) hosted on IIS, but I don't have the money/time/knowledge to handle my own web/dns/mail servers.
I have a shitty sig!
Yeah, why buy an iPod when you can buy a refrigerator? Come on, the one thing has nothing to do with the other, if you want a laptop, get one, if you want an ipod, get one, if you can't afford both, choose which you want more.
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.
The iPod is smaller... No, the Archos doesn't discretely in your pants pocket; well perhaps it discretely fits in the pocket of pants that have a waist of 45+ (US).
All editorial writers ever do is come down from the hill after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.
Another poster pointed out possible shortcomings of the Archos Jukebox, but that is not really the point, is it? You want us to explain why you would prefer one product over another? That's not really possible. Looking at the sheer amount of pictures posted to iPod around the world gallery show that some consider it a viable product.
A friend of mine (a windows using friend at that) looked at a lot of available mp3 players around christmas and he got an iPod. It is the best portable music player on the market right now. If you are willing to settle for anything less then it is not my business to set you straight.
Hank! White!
It's amazing how ubiquitous these little things have become. Sometimes, on my way across town on a bus, I see as many as three or four people on one bus using iPods at the same time. It always makes me think that those people could be talking to their fellow passengers. As cool as these things are (and as much as I want one!) they do seem to cause people to dissociate from their environment to a disturbing degree.
Not to be a Luddite or anything...whoo, progress, yay!...
I found the meaning of life the other day, but I had write-only access.
These things are blank looking, with a few sparse buttons....They all look equally boring.
I think the term you're searching for is elegant:
Enjoy, no searching needed.
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Lenny Primak PP-ASEL-IA,Heli
Are sites dedicated to home movies of the iPod!
"This is my iPod loading up his first mp3!"
"Here he is at soccer practice."
Of course it would be edited with iMovie and contain all that wonderful grainy footage (a la the Wonder Years)
If you get an error, type "OVERRIDE" or "SECURITY OVERRIDE" and then try the optimize command again.
*smacks head*
Wow. You. Just. Don't. Get. It.
"I tend to think of OS X as Linux with QA and Taste", James Gosling, creator of Java
It can be more than a portable HD: you can even startup your computer (Mac) from the iPod, either in OS 9 or OS X.
I fix Mac for clients; it's fun to walk in the door using the iPod as an MP3-player, then attach FireWire and boot & fix their system from the iPod. And make an emergency backup to the iPod if necessary.
And iPods cans also double, euh triple as (readonly) PDA's
"These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others." --Groucho Marx
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
http://www.t20.org/kuwait/ :)
thats the link to all the pics we took that night in kuwait. we started off at the science center and finished the night off at the kuwait towers. we tried to see if we could catch any wifi signals from the top of the tower but couldnt find anything strong enough... incase of war in kuwait... expect to see more pics up
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12" ibook, G3 700, 640MB RAM, 20GB HD
*begin haiku*
my iPod contains,
songs and books-on-tape on tap,
sweet listening pleasure.
*end haiku*
(the only gadget I'm still using 6 months later)
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
...dig the Zen man.
But whip out your iPod and... bingo! Girls! Girls! Girls! All wanting to swirl their red-enameled fingers on my wheel! Wheeeee! Calm down girls - you'll all get a chance!!
*snorful - skriitch!* Wha' ? Musta fell asleep on the bus listening to my iPod again. Where am I... - Hey driver!! Where the hell am I!!? Hey!!
Cake or Death? Cake Please!