But also - do I have the technology to use it? That's what I want to find out. Can anyone tell me what computer stuff I need to have, to use the i-Pod?
I have also been thinking, for a long time, about getting a DVD / VHS machine. Should I do that, and if so, how or what would you advise?
I have also wondered sometimes about getting a mobile telephone. I don't know, is that a good idea? Or just a waste of money?
I think that is all the gadgets I have had in mind, except the new chopping board that I might get, some time.
― the pinefox, Monday, 12 December 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)
― the bellefox, Monday, 12 December 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)
DVD players are pretty cheap, today. depends whether you want to be able to record or not
mobile phones are rather handy but not in a fun way, usually. you seem to get by without
chopping boards are v. necessary--get a couple
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)
― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)
I personally despise mobile phones, for many reasons. But they are nice to have in an emergency.
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)
So it is iPod - I was wrong, twice! Maybe someone can change the thread title, accordingly.
I do have a couple of boards, but I feel that they need reinforcements, not to say replacements. I agree, they are necessary, not to say, v. necessary.
― the bellefox, Monday, 12 December 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)
Also, can one use an iPod (!) along with a stereo (?), somehow, rather than just as a Walkman?
― the bellefox, Monday, 12 December 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)
― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)
I think we are all forming a consensus about the chopping boards.
― the bellefox, Monday, 12 December 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)
How old is your computer? Someone who has met it in person would be better qualified to advise you.
Paul Eater advised on chopping boards over on ILCooking's knives thread. I haven't found any made of the stuff he recommended, but I agree with him on the poly boards - too slippery.
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)
― the bellefox, Monday, 12 December 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)
That'll be the power, I suppose.
― the bellefox, Monday, 12 December 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)
This is true.
I resisted getting an iPod, because I couldn't see the point. I couldn't be bothered to carry around a CD player. At home, the stereo is in the basement, and there are too many obscure button-pushing sequences involved. Not interested in playing music at work, everyone else seems to and that is plenty of background noise. So, basically, no music under my control in my daily life. I hadn't realized how much I'd missed it.
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)
I don't really listen to music 'on the go' much, preferring the ambient sounds of civil society. However, if I do bring music, I have a small CD player and a case with a few CD's. I don't really see the need for 1,000 songs when like sixty will usually do fine.
Get one if you think you need it and currently listen to music outdoors alot. Don't get one because you see them everywhere, that's just blind consumerism.
― andy --, Monday, 12 December 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)
But then I don't have a place in my apt devoted to music storage or listening, and I don't drive a car where I could play music of my choice: I listen to choons off my computer & I take the subway -- so the mini is perfect.
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)
-- lauren (warmleatherett...), December 12th, 2005.
otm, that's what i do
― latebloomer: Deutsch Bag (latebloomer), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 12 December 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)
― moley, Monday, 12 December 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)
― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)
― kephm (kephm), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 12 December 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)
??? Mine came with the cable, and it charges from the computer.
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)
― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)
― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Monday, 12 December 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 12 December 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)
― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Monday, 12 December 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 12 December 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 22 December 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)
― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 22 December 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)
Koogs' line i replaced the non-win98, non-linux rio carbon pearl mentioned upthread with a COWON iaudio-m5 which works like a charm. linux, win98, mac support. plays wavs, oggs, flacs, txt files even (has a little built in txt viewer). 20 quid more than the carbon, 14G bigger) is superhuman.
― the snowfox, Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 23 December 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)
I think The Pinefox was listening to Roy "Chubby" Brown in that picture.
I want the one Koogybot has got.
And I want to be one of those Linux people one occasionally hears about.
Someone is called Spastic Heritage.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 23 December 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)
how many songs is that?
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 23 December 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)
― frankiemachine, Friday, 23 December 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)
― youn, Friday, 23 December 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)
I am currently happily running my iPod on a seven-year-old computer using Windows 98. I can't use iTunes though.
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 23 December 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)
― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Friday, 23 December 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)
if ever there was a song for a pink ipod!
― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Friday, 23 December 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 December 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)
― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 26 December 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 26 December 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)
I do feel inclined to point out that I despise the headphones utterly and they will not stand. They even look stupid, because I got the black one. I only used the headphones like 3 times when I had my old iPod, I pretty much only used it in my car and then sold it after I quit driving. I think I will resort to my old folding KOSS headphones which force everyone else to listen to my music with me and think that I must be deaf.
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)
ha ha, was it 'Hi Water' or whatever it's called? you need to keep only half of that album really.
so do iPod-colour earphones make one look more of a target for robbers? would black earphones be better in this respect? you would think it wouldn't make a difference but i'm thinking it might. i use earphones other than the ones that came with the iPod but they are still (off)white.
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)
I think a good way to deter I-Pod muggers is to paint your earphones to make them look amateurish and unpleasant.
The white earphones things is part of the aspirational appeal, I suppose.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 28 December 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 28 December 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)
― youn, Wednesday, 28 December 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)
― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 29 December 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)
― ignoramus, Thursday, 29 December 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)
WMA - annoying closed proprietary Microsoft format that works with Windows Media Player and not much else. There's loads of free software for converting one to the other, if you Google for it.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 December 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 29 December 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)
― youn, Thursday, 29 December 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)
It is pretty amazing how quickly one anthromorphizes these.
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:24 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Friday, 6 January 2006 13:45 (twenty years ago)
― sleep (sleep), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:14 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Friday, 6 January 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)
― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)
A little tip: don't forget to set the volume on your ipod to 70% whenever you use the ipod. I forgot this and was convinced it was broken for about two weeks. Too low and nothing happens, too high and it just distorts.
― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 6 January 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 6 January 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)
Oh, they're releasing an iPod interface for 05 Nissans... but only for the SUVs. asdjfkl257k;6; :(
― sleep (sleep), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:33 (twenty years ago)
Looks fun, but I'm not sure I trust my soldering skills.
― sleep (sleep), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:10 (twenty years ago)
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 16 January 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)
If I were the pinefox I'd get an mp3 player, though not an ipod - the windows 98 upload thing does work, but it's fiddly and unreliable.
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 16 January 2006 23:59 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 00:03 (twenty years ago)
― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:55 (twenty years ago)