Life in Jobsworld
I entered Jobsworld with the new (secondhand) iMac and apart from the general shinyness and it-just-works feeling I encountered the downside.
My cowon i7 audio player (which I bought because my old rio Karma didn’t play nice with linux) is not recognised at all by the new toy. Not at all, not even as a drive (which the website claims it should be, in very small print, possibly followed by a ‘maybe’ with an invisible tag. We don’t watch a lot of telly, but we do listen to a fair number of podcasts, just going to work I usually walk about four miles a day, and listening to In Our Time is a distinct pleasure.
So this state of affairs could not continue. At the same time my ebook reader (which was genuinely lovely to read on) developed a display fault, the fault being that the display looked like one big bar code which, when reported to the manufacturer, elicited a gallic shrug and an estimated repair cost of €lots (well, that’s the downside of living on the weeping edge (like the bleeding edge but it’s become infected and all gooey) of technology.
Putting both of these things together I thought, well you’re in Jobsworld, why not go all the way to the light/dark side (delete as appropriate [and as an aside to the aside about sides, is the opposite of the dark side actually called the light side?]). I wandered along to the apple shop and looked at the ipod touch, read up on whether I could use it to read my ebooks (I can but I’ll have to break the law and remove the DRM from some of my books if I want to continue reading them), I could.
I bought one, the cheapest one, 8GB, for about €50 more than the repair cost of my ebook reader.
And it’s good, very good, blimey there’s a lot of stuff there for it. So Liz bought one as well (her little netbook is in the shop (still under warranty) because the flash drive went belly up). I wouldn’t say I’m smitten but I’m certainly have a fine platonic relationship with my apple setup.
Now, any recommendations for apps?
Tags: apple, ipod, mac
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