I do that with my PDA. The Dell Axim v51 is satisfying a lot of needs I had for a micro-laptop. Or as I call it, my portable brain. It plays avis flawlessly, the sound ain't bad, wifi, bluetooth, GPS (that I opted out of), a nice realm of programs both free and not-free. Obviously no keyboard, but the transcription software is pretty sweet. And I have thought idly about getting the roll-up keyboard, which works well and is lightweight from what I've heart. With bluetooth it could connect to a phone and use it as a modem, which is handy.
Of course, as it is I carry around the pda, my 80g iPod, and a phone. But for the moment, I'm happy with having those functions be separate.
Speaking of functionality...or rather, about being driven insane by a LACK of functionality that makes no logical sense...I have a question about communication with an external device.
In addition to my lovely new iPod with Nike+ brain...I call him Podney...I have an old Rio800 mp3 player that has a few songs on that I would really, really like to transfer to the iPod...or at least drag off onto my eMac desktop.
I've plugged everything in...downloaded and upgraded the latest firmware and the Soundjam software required to use the Rio.
I can pull the playlist up in iTunes in osX but cannot play or move the songs. I canNOT see the playlist in Soundjam, nor can I see the device on the desktop in either osX or 9.
How can it be that the devices can communicate enough to upgrade the firmware, and transfer data (title, artist, date modified, file size, etc.) but that's it?
I've looked at the troubleshooting text files on the Rio800 disk, on the Rio site, within Soundjam and on the Mac.
I'm at the end of my tether.
The Rio plays fine, has plenty of battery but I can never switch the music? That just doesn't seem right.
Any ideas on what I can do here?
So today I was wandering around the web and I stumbled across the fact that the problem I've been having with my Toshiba DVD burner is a known issue and there's a phone number & a firmware fix. I called them up and they apologized and took responsibility and then asked where to send the firmware. I was baffled and confused by a good customer service experience.
Contrast this with my web host who is pissy at me because they didn't send me any notice about their upgrade, and say that they've taken away multiple ftp login capability as a security measure. Which means that I have to give my primary control panel login to my web developer. Which is less secure! Hellos! Not that I don't trust him; really I do. I just really prefer the ability to track who does what in maintenance. Grump.
It looks like virtual pc can see the Rio device...but I'm not sure how to use it yet. And how did I discover this? By taking this thread's title to heart. Seriously. I punched a bunch of buttons...held my breath...and somehow (magic!) ended up with a virtual pc screen. I hit the usb button, and whahla, there's the Diamond Rio device.
Can't do anything with it yet, but this feels like progress.
And how did I discover this? By taking this thread's title to heart.
So it's probably good that we didn't name this thread, "Sex With Robots is More Common Than People Think."
So it's probably good that we didn't name this thread, "Sex With Robots is More Common Than People Think."
That's very prejudicial of you.
That's very prejudicial of you.
That's hilarious!
My first thought, before reading ita's comment was, "How do we know it's not?"
Mostly, it needs to have the capability of installing external software. Apple is only planning on letting a select few companies write software for it, which makes sense from a stability point-of-view, since they can assure quality control.
I'm waiting to see how true this really is. All that I've seen so far is a lot of conjecture from journalists who have either barely held an iPhone or who have only seen it in a glass display case. Until it is actually released into the wild I don't think there's any way we can know how easy it will be to install third party applications.
Until it is actually released into the wild I don't think there's any way we can know how easy it will be to install third party applications.
I heard that it only runs Apple apps and you can't install anything. But I don't remember where I read that.
It's been printed in a few articles, but there hasn't been any news from Apple to back it up that I've seen. What I've been reading is that since Apple didn't announce third party apps and didn't show any, then it must not run any. That's a pretty big leap.
