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February 15, 2005
iPod and Me
About two weekends ago, I purchased my first portable music player, Apple's 20gig iPod. Since I finally got to use a $100 Best Buy gift card, I'm only out $200 plus tax.
I've been holding off on purchasing a music player for some time, because I never thought I would really have a compelling use for it. I really don't listen to music very often and I prefer tuning into a good radio talk show while driving.
After two weeks of playing with my iPod, I came to realize that my assumption that the iPod was just for music lovers was completely wrong. I just found a new tool for listening to wide range of talk radio programs, via podcasts and the iPodder software.
At first, I just manually downloaded mp3 files that I thought I would enjoy like the talk Steve Wozniak gave at Gnomdex 4.0 and Adam Curry's presentation at Bloggercon. I just stuffed these mp3's into iTunes and sync'd my iPod. After listening to Adam's talk, I installed iPodder and downloaded even more podcasts to sample.
This is just plain cool.
-Chris
Posted at 11:46 PM in General IT, Hardware, Software | Permalink
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Comments
I agree. I love having all the podcasts and music in one place. The only time I really use the radio is to try to catch the traffic.
Posted by: nf0 | Feb 16, 2005 11:56:18 AM
I read this entry a while ago, but today I finally sat down and setup ipodderx. This is double cool. Thanks a bunch for this tip. I have found a new love for my formally dusty 10 gig ipod.
Posted by: Jonathan | Mar 6, 2005 9:44:46 AM
