[Tfug] iPods

[Nathan England]

On Sunday 30 August 2009 04:21:51 pm Jordan Aberle wrote:
> I love my iPod touch :)
> 
> Sent from my iPod
> 
> On Aug 30, 2009, at 1:32 PM, "Stott, Will"  
> <will.stott at ventana.roche.com> wrote:
> 
> > In the end, you will fall to the dark side...
> >
> > Give in, and save your self the pain.
> >
> > Will
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org <tfug-bounces at tfug.org>
> > To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
> > Sent: Sun Aug 30 14:43:18 2009
> > Subject: [Tfug] iPods
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been using an iPod shuffle (?) for my daily walks.
> > It's nice and tiny.  No display to deal with (I'm
> > *walking*, not "picking out musical selections!).
> > Lightweight so I can just set it on my shoulder under
> > my shirt (in case I don't have a shirt pocket).
> >
> > *And*, its easy to manage:  copy files onto it
> > as a disk drive, etc.  I think it holds about 5 or
> > 10 albums (depending on bit rate) which is fine
> > as an album (start to finish) tends to take just about
> > as much time as one of my walks (30 - 40 minutes).
> > As such, I can listen to everything on the device
> > in about a week (two walks per day) without feeling
> > like I am listening to the same music over and over
> > again...
> >
> > I've now got an old iPod "mini" that I'm considering
> > using (though it is considerably larger and heavier so
> > it might not fit the bill... I guess the new nano's
> > are probably a better choice).
> >
> > But, I despise iTunes (== evil).  And, the mini is
> > so much larger than the shuffle (capacity wise) that I
> > will need a more sophisticated way of managing the music
> > on it.
> >
> > So, I was going to hack together a little application
> > to reside *on* the iPod that I can "run from DOS" to
> > massage my music collection.  A mini-iTunes, so to
> > speak (though in a few dozen KB instead of a few dozen
> > MB!).
> >
> > (whew)  With all that as background, does anyone know if
> > the larger iPods (larger than the shuffle, that is) can
> > be made to look like a dumb disk ("mass storage device")?
> > Or, is this something that just works with the shuffle's?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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If you could do skype from the ipod touch I would buy one in a heart beat!
I want a device that has wireless capabilites that I can run skype on without having to have a cell phone contract...

nathan
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