A new era...

[mollyringle]

It is truly a new era.

I have, at last, updated from Mac OS 10.3.9 and am successfully running Leopard, 10.5.6. This in turn has allowed me to get my beautiful, sweet little new iPod Touch running.

It's so different from my old heavy white iPod classic. Back then, there was no WiFi, nothing fancy, just music. I went out in the world with the earbuds, and it was just me and the 'Pod. Now it's the entire world in there too. It's...a bit distracting, but pretty! And my son loves the super-simple touch/shake games like Balloons and Dice and Scribble.

AND, I must point out, there is a free ebook reader for the iPod/iPhone! It's called Stanza--do a search and you'll find it. And it reads many many formats, and can download your Fictionwise bookshelf if you have an account there. A great sign for us ebook authors.

Anyway--Mac people who are similarly updated, you can share your favorite tricks and tips now if you like.

Ciao!

Comments

[dirae.livejournal.com]

I just got an iPod for the first time (a classic, not the touch... I fear breaking things for too much for that style yet. One step at a time.) I'd never get anything done if I had all the options you describe. :)

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

If my classic hadn't died, I'd probably have gone on using it happily. They're great even just for the audio content. I highly recommend getting into podcasts if you haven't already.

I figure once I get past the dazzle factor of all the new features, I'll go back to mainly listening to podcasts and music. It's kind of awkward surfing the web on it anyway... :)

[bluesound.livejournal.com]

Podcasts you say? Points at BBC 6 - Adam and Joe! And Radio 4's Weekly comedy - the satircal news quiz or the Now Show usually, both very good.

[bluesound.livejournal.com]

An iPod touch is no use to me. It can't hold over 55GB of stuff. Flash memory? B!ah! Technology needs to move on faster. My 60GB classic keeps dying with a duff hard drive, it's over 3 years old, but if I upgrade it has to be to a 120, 80 just isn't enough!

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

I got by on my 5GB classic so long, this one seems enormous.

And I'm enjoying listening to your Xmas mixes on them, so thank you!

[bluesound.livejournal.com]

You would have got them both on CD, but I've been so disorganised as usual, I thought that uploading them was a better idea!

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Very modern and quick, really. Imagine how stoked we would've been in the late '90s to be able to send each other mix CD's that easily!

[wandererrob.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty happy with my iphone as well for the same reason. Suddenly the world is in my pocket, not just my music.

But my ipod classic still holds the throne for all out music selection. The 16gb iphone can't hold a candle to 160gb of music and movies. but for overall usefulness, the phone kicks butt.

*looks up Stanza*

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the lesser capacity of the iPhone, and the fact that I just don't care that much about phones, helped me lean toward the iPod Touch instead. Same fun games, at least. :)

[tdj.livejournal.com]

2 Across Lite gives you free crosswords - primarily a NYT classic once a week.

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Oooh...excellent procrastination tool!

[gavinworld.livejournal.com]

Glad the upgrade went well!

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Kept your advice instructions on hand. Luckily nothing went wrong (so far). Whew. :)

[astroman-rich.livejournal.com]

I saw the title of your post on my RSS feed, and my first thought was "Hey, I thought Molly had given up making political posts!" :-)

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

It was meant to be a somewhat flippant reference to all that rhetoric. :)