Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Look what landed on my desk this morning . . .


. . . this 8 gig iPod touch 2nd gen. I like sales contest prizes.

The OOB experience was the typical one I've had with every Apple product I've ever owned: plug it in, charge it up, sync it with iTunes, and it worked. The wifi connected right away with the network in the office. Yay wifi! Yay mobile Safari! Yay mobile Mac Mail! Contacts, iCal events, music and photos synced like a charm.

I'm ordering just a few apps for it: iPhone Bookshelf (for transferring my PDA's ebook files), Islet (for tracking diabetes stats), the SJ Games' Fnorder (just fnord because), a dice roller for gaming, a secure note program, Wikipedia and Facebook apps.

In other tech / gadget news: new iMacs, new Mac Pro and Mac minis out today. The mini is a verra sexy little beast: mini-DVI AND mini Display Port video outs for dual display support, FIVE(!) USB 2.0 ports, 8x Superdrive as standard, 2.0 GHz Core 2 duo, nice Nvidia integrated graphics, a gig of RAM standard . . . in an aluminum enclosure. Leopard and iLife '09 complete the package. Cute machine, but it's not an all-in-one, it's BYOKMD.

The iMacs are likewise yummy. 2 gigs RAM standard in the 20-inch display model . . . 256 MB graphics, etc.

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Now playing: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
via FoxyTunes

2 comments:

catnip13 said...

You may want to seriously consider this app: http://www.iphonestalk.com/006-track-your-calories-on-your-iphone-with-edibles/

I like it for points, but you can use it to track carbs or calories too. Very nice.

RichO said...

'll look into it. Islet does this too, but I'm not as happy with this feature as I am with the SGL and med dose tracking features.