Episode #137
I have several ipods and bought my latest one back in Aug. The ipod classic just before they came out with ipod touch. Now I really want to get the new ipod touch but with macworld coming up in Jan I am afraid I am going to buy one that will be outdated within a month again…what do you suggest.
Mack, Timmins, ON
Well this is going to air after Macworld Expo so this is a real test of my clairvoyance. You’ll know immediately if I’m gifted or a fraud.
I don’t expect significantly new iPods in January. You’ll probably see iPhones with increased capacity and you might see a 32GB ipod Touch, but since all the iPods were recently revved it’s unlikely we’ll see any big changes.
Was I right?
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Air Date: January 22, 2008
TranscriptCaller Questions
- Mack, Timmins, ON
- Richard,
- Jim, Toronto, ON
Yewell's Jewels
- ZoomItwindows
ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. I wrote ZoomIt to fit my specific needs and use it in all my presentations.
Sean's Shinies
- Drivemocion Driving LED Emoticon
$30
If you’ve ever been driving down the street and wanted to send a message to the driver behind you — whether good or bad — you’ve had to rely on a convoluted series of hand gestures and yelling out the window…not necessarily the safest thing to do while driving. The Drivemocion is designed to send an emoticon to the driver behind you using infrared: you hang a big circular device with LEDs in the back window, and put a controller up front…simply press the happy face, the sad face, the angry face, etc. You can’t program your own, unfortunately…but that would probably cost you more than $30.
Shiny
- choose from five emoticons
- suction cups to your windows
- inexpensive
Dull
- needs line of site to work
- controller module mount not so sturdy
- no programmabilityDrivemocion
Thinkgeek.com
Kate’s Tips
- Chain of Thoughts
Chain of Thoughts, as the name says, allows you to do research on wikipedia following a chain of thoughts. All you need to do is type in a word/subject that you wish to research, and it generates a list of terms. You can either click on any of the generated terms to read it up on wikipedia or a list of related keywords and topics is generated at the same time.
Basically, it is trying to help you dig deeper into the subject domain by suggesting related terms.