Helped me enormously.
Nowhere near a geek, I never even idly considered owning an iPod. I mean what the hell would I want with it? Then, my son and daughter gave me one for my birthday.
It’s really wonderful, folks. I’ll have a damn good use for it in the next 6 weeks or so (mainly, perhaps, listening to music I’ve downloaded! from my CD collection), and well after that, no doubt.
You can do all kinds of things with it.
Make your own calendar, surf the web (in WiFi places), listen to audio books you’ve downloaded, etc., etc. The more you look, the more you find you can do.
If you haven’t yet, try exploring the podcast section of itunes. Most are free and they cover a very wide range of topics. I love my ipod too, but I have so many songs on it I seem to spend more time scrolling and trying to make up my mind what to listen too than actually listening to the music .
My Settings icon has disappeared. It’s still in the iPod, of course, but I seemed to have isolated to its own separate screen. I’d like to put it back with all the rest at what you might call the desktop view. Any ideas?
(Like I said, I’m no geek.)
And please tell me how to access the podcast section of iTunes? I click on iTunes and I get music albums that I don’t want.
Is there some tool that’ll work with the iPod qwerty keyboard? My fingers are too big to get proper results.
You’re ipod is a touch I take it, I have a classic so I’m not sure how similar they are. On the classic under the Settings option you go to the main menu option to check or uncheck what you want on the main screen. I don’t know if the touch has the same set-up.
I found the itunes store really confusing too (still do). I don’t have access to itunes from here but I think there is a box on the left of the screen where it appears in a list. I find the store very poorly laid out and it took some digging to find the podcasts I wanted but it was worth the effort. IIRC when you get to the podcast menu there are various categories (arts, science, etc). I downloaded about 3 hrs of cooking podcasts alone.
I like to recommend these Sennhauser earphones for people who are looking for upgrades from the Apple-provided ones. Regular list usually runs about $50, though you might be able to find them for less. I have Etymotics that cost about twice that much, but even in comparison the Sennhausers provide darn good sound in my estimation. There’s more bass and a bit warmer sound than the Etys, but everything still sounds nice and clear. Hard to find better sound for the price.
It gets easier over time as you get more used to the keyboard, but there is no tool that I know of - I’ve tried my PDA stylus and it won’t work. It seems to respond to fingers only. I just tap with the pad of my finger, trying to use as little fingerpad area as I can. I can still tell posts and emails I type out with my Touch (typo filled) vs. ones typed on a normal keyboard, Oh well.
Well yeah, but the policy wording was a little vague.
I’m pleased at your timing, Barn Owl, as I just got a new PC and ISP with the express intent of starting to build an online music collection I can put on a couple of as-yet-to-be-purchased iPods. Will be following this closely.
I poo-pooed the iPod, until my wife got me one for Christmas. It took two months to download all our CDs to the thing, but now I can listen to any of my CDs whenever I want. But it really shines through with the Podcasts.
I now subscribe to:
Talk of the Nation
Diane Rehm Show
BBC Science in action
NPR: Environmental Podcast
NPR: Techonology
NPR: Science and Medicine
Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me
Onion News Network
Last week, a package arrived via UPS. It was a cute [EMAIL=http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/]little, red iPod Nano that I’d won from entering an online contest. Not only do I rarely win anything, but heck, this is an iPod Nano! I was thrilled when Hallgirl set it up for me, and yesterday, I went out walking, with earbuds pounding out music that I’d selected. However, the blasted thing still intimidates me. Glad to have the links here so I can feed my ever increasing new addiction to All Things IPod.
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