You want wheat toast, but you have to order a chicken-salad sandwich to get it. So it is with iTunes and the iPod: there many things you can’t do, as they break some rules. But here are five easy pieces for the Mac, five easy pieces for Windows, and a few for the road, that won’t leave you holding your iPod between your knees.
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A report from Greenpeace claimed the iPhone contains many toxic materials. Buried in the details are tests that indicate there may be some toxic materials in Apple’s earbud cables, but certainly not enough to cause any alarm.
Continue readingIn Japan, they’re wearing iPod shuffles in new sports headbands and preparing to go underwater. Thanko has introduced a sports headband for MP3 players that uses bone conduction to play sound.
Continue readingTurn your cell phone off in Bronx, Brooklyn’s iPods out of sight / Crazy taxi cab in Harlem, iPod Zombies are in fright / Peds love iPods they’re so proud, but the volume is too loud! / Car 54 where are you? (With apologies, based on the theme from the “Car 54 Where Are You?” TV show, 1961-63)
Continue readingI was taken aback by The Jukebox Station, blinking its colorful LEDs and drawing a small crowd around its booth at Macworld Expo 2007 in San Francisco.
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