Why I like my iPod Touch

[klwilliams]

On one little 2" x 4" x 1/4" iPod I have music, movies (including ones I made myself), TV shows, my photographs, contacts, and calendar, and now I have Scrabble, Sudoku, and Adventure (of which Teleri's husband wrote a large chunk). If I can get the Infocom games on it, I'll be extremely happy.

Comments

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Just don't get eaten by a grue!

[kahnegabs.livejournal.com]

Yes, so precious! They iz beautiful and wonderful and fine, and I wantz one, I do!

Oh I wantz one so much!

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

The original Atari Adventure? Does it give you a choice of levels?

[iisaw.livejournal.com]

I thought the iPod Touch was super shiny when i first saw it... but.

I read lots of books on my Palm and would love to be able to do so on a Touch. But every time I mention it to someone trying to convince me I can't live without one, they look at me like I'm a two-headed goat. Text? That's so Twentieth-Century!

Is there a way to read text, PDF, and Doc files on a Touch? Or am I doomed never to be trendy?

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

It's the UNIX version. No levels.

[aberwyn.livejournal.com]

It's very impressive, the Touch. All those smartphones etc. But they have itty bitty screens, and I don't like itty bitty screens or itty bitty keyboards. I'm not alone. Soon I suppose they'll get bigger, and bigger, and bigger, all to compete, and then, round about 50 years from now, someone will re-invent the . . . desktop!!!

:-)

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Yes, you can read all those, but only as attachments to email. So send yourself an email with whatever you want to read as an attachment, and it will be downloaded to your iPhone via the email reading program. From that point on you can read it directly from the iPhone (via the email program). Yes, it's a pain.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

The "touch" part lets you grow the screen bigger by putting your thumb and index finger on the screen and moving them away from each other. That makes things much easier to read.

[aberwyn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, up to the size of the phone, which is very very small. They were designed by those with younger eyes than mine.

[(Anonymous)]

The iPod blows up text to a very big size. Of course, you need to move the document back and forth a lot because your view size then becomes small (only a few words at a time), but you can read things that would normally be too small.

[eatenbyspiders.livejournal.com]

It holds less than the largest hard drive on the iPod classic, though. I have more than 40 GB of music, so I need more space if I want it all with me all the time.

[darcyjavanne.livejournal.com]

The iPod sounds like a lovely toy! Alas, it's not in my near future.

[aberwyn.livejournal.com]

All this fiddling around for what's easy to read on the page of a book? I don't get the point . . .

I guess I'm just not futuristic enough. :-)

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I bring an actual book with me if I want to read. I use the iPod for the music, movies, contact information, internet connectivity, and games.

[aberwyn.livejournal.com]

Games? Suddenly I may want one. Not that I don't waste enough time on games already . . . :-)

I love my technology too

[martianfencer.livejournal.com]

I'm still carrying phone + iPod 5G + laptop everywhere I go. I keep almost 2000 scientific journal articles on the laptop, and reading them off the computer screen is a bit cramped, so I would not want to move to a smaller screen. It would be nice to move to two devices instead of three, though.