“You may be used to seeing people listen to iPods on the train. You may even use one yourself in the gym or while walking the dog. However, the rise of the iPod has prompted generations of developers – and creative end-users – to exploit possibilities other than simply listening to music or watching videos,” Jo Best reports for Silicon.com.
Here is a selection of the best, worst and oddest uses silicon.com has come across:
• Record flight data
• Cut medical bills
• Make your desktop ultra portable
• Improve your tech knowledge
• Polish your bowling
• Run Linux
• Turn it into an enterprise haven
• Get some education
• Commit theft
• Personalise it
Full article here.
I use my first generation ipod as paperweight, doorstop, oh and it STILL works SIX YEARS later with no new battery. In fact it works well. I have three ipods now…and I’m planning on getting the iPhone.
In other news, ALL Zune users can now play their music WITHOUT glitches.
http://hardware.silicon.com/storage/0,39024649,39166111,00.htm
Cool. Except the link is wrong.
(Zune marketing director) Reindorp added: “We believe this toehold in the market will enable us to make a deeper footprint as time goes on and we’re committed to expanding the Zune offering.”
It’s not even a toenail hold at this point.
I wonder when people are going to quit needing music constantly coing into their ears?
Hey, When I was over at Silicon, I saw a similar article from Nov 16th , 2006. I thought that they fixed this over 4 months ago????
OH wait, I get it. That was vapor ware and this is the real fix, but in another 4 months they will release the real “real” fix. OH that Microsoft, aren’t they just so funny. Ha Ha Ha.
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privately record conversations between you and your doctor…catching him saying things that may prove his negligence.
In John Gee’s link, someone actually admits in public that they own a Zune. HeShe is a brave soul.
I see also that Microsoft is still BS’ing the Zune Market Share. 9.9% What Bullshit. 29,000 sales per month equals 9.9% of the MP3 player market. What a laugh. 29,000 is about one per retail outlet that carries Zunes.
Wait till you see their new non-touch screen Zune in brindle-shit-brown due out this summer.
“Wait till you see their new non-touch screen Zune in brindle-shit-brown due out this summer.”
Zune 2.0 also features peanut and corn-shaped bumps to keep the unit from slipping from your hand.
I got this link:
http://hardware.silicon.com/storage/0,39024649,39166426,00.htm
Hopefully it works.
MW: “there”, as “there you go!”
It didn’t work! Sorry about the false alarm. Apparently, there’s a “Silicon Glitch”
If the link doesn’t work in Safari and Firefox, how did some people read it?
… go to sleep with naughty stories in my ears, ho ho
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They forgot one use: Record your idiot liberal acquaintances as they make fools of themselves with their cut-and-run withering crybaby pussywhipped Qaida-worshipping patheticness!
Sunday Times polls:
Iraq: Life is getting better
Resilient Iraqis ask what civil war?
Violence slashed as troop surge hits Baghdad
Also, iPod’s are a great gift for wing-nut liberal whack-jobs.
“iPod … it’s not just for people with brains anymore!”
Suck it, Libs!
Check this out–LOL!–from today’s W. Post:
When Emory University primatologist Frans de Waal read a news story that said Microsoft’s chief executive, Steve Ballmer, had hurled a chair across the room on hearing an employee was going to work for rival Google, the scientist immediately made a connection with his own research: “When I see such behavior, I think of a chimpanzee.”
Here’s the link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/18/AR2007031801130.html
When I went on vacation in Europe 2 years ago, I downloaded lists of bathroom reviews (was traveling with my girlfriend at the time) and copied and pasted them into separate tab-delimited text documents based upon the city being reviewed. I then put them into the notes section of my iPod, and, viola, my own personal restroom finder!
@ Gordon the (un)Wise
Gee, Im so glad yer buddie Bush got us into this civil war with no exit plans.. Im so glad we are taking good care of our Vets afterwards, and Im so glad the entire world looks up to Bush and his cronies !
Jeeze, man take a break from Fox News and take time to smell the roses !
MW: Deal.. as in Deal with it !
@”Lib” — You’re a tool. Go back in time to your worshipped Clinton, you unthinking stump!
I mean, he’s only the one who brought about all this shit that the current administration ahs to tackle.
And who the f-ck gives a shit what the “world” thinks? Except for a crybaby douchebag one-world-government liberal such as yourself.
Quit watching NBC Nightly News so much … it’s warping your puny little mind.
MW: Cheese … as in, “Lib” is really a cheese-eating surrender monkey.
Hey, Lib — smell my farts.
P.S. It’s “buddy”, douchebag.
I wonder if Gordon the Wise is an Ostrich because he seems to have his head stuck in the sand and is ignorant of the world around him.
>I mean, he’s only the one who brought about all this shit that the current administration ahs to tackle.
Oh yeah, like maybe where is Bin Laden ? How come your buddie Bush hasnt tackled that one yet ? .. And Im still waiting for the discovery of those WMDs in Iraq .. Still looking ?
Clinton got hammered for a BJ, which was nobodys business, but Bush presently is in the “Scandal-a-day” mode !
>And who the f-ck gives a sh*t what the “world” thinks? Except for a crybaby douchebag one-world-government liberal such as yourself.
One world ?? You dont seriously believe that, do you ? If so, youre outta yer freekin mind !
>MW: Cheese … as in, “Lib” is really a cheese-eating surrender monkey
No one said anything about surrender.. but as a Lib, I think we should be picking the right fight to be involved in… as in .. Bin Laden … remember him ? Hello ??
I swear, his lights are on, but nobodys home !
Could you please take your political discussions elsewhere? There is a time and place for everything but since this is mac web site perhaps your opinions on the Iraq war would be better suited for another site such as
http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/articles.php?boardId=523441&func=3&channel=News+AOL+Managed
I go to many places to discuss politics but this isn’t one of those place. So, please take your soap box and go elsewhere.
Why does every single forum and comment board on the internets, no matter what the topic, need to turn into a rant vehicle for armchair politicians? Seriously people.
Just be glad no one posted the link to the iPod vibrator attachment, though I suppose it has finally become relevant to the actual thread.
bush = zune