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all the new iPods can give you a much better-quality recording than the old ones, but the tradeoff is that recording sucks batteries much faster than E is probably used to with the old one
That's the impression I get from browsing the reviews, but it seems to be an issue across the board, unfortunately.
Macworld.com prefers the Griffin.
It's too bad Olympus's digital voice recorders aren't Mac-compatible. They seem so much more reliable than any of the iPod accessory versions. [eta: Unless they are now, in which case tell me which ones! The last time I checked, they were Windows-only.]
That's the impression I get from browsing the reviews, but it seems to be an issue across the board, unfortunately.
Yep. It's an iPod issue, not a mic issue. If you record on low quality, the battery will last like it used to, but I don't know how much the quality is likely to be an issue for E... (I assume not that much, if he's using it for note-taking and he's been using the old one with no problem - but there's always gotta be a tradeoff, right?)
I would really love to be able to open files read-only from my right mouse click menu.
Anyone know if that could be finagled?
Looks like something is happening with Palm tomorrow... [link]
New category of mobile device? Let me bate my breath a second...
It had to happen. OK, probably, anyway... This shit had me LOL!
LOLCODE
COUNT!!1:
HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
UP VAR!!1
VISIBLE VAR
IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE
FILEZORZ:
HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
PLZ OPEN FILE "LOLCATS.TXT"?
AWSUM THX
VISIBLE FILE
O NOES
INVISIBLE "ERROR!"
KTHXBYE
Gris,
after the fiasco that is the Palm Lifedrive, I'm not going to get excited about any palm/palm-related product. My lifedrive is a friggin doorstop after 1 year of use.
I think my fave is the error branch:
O NOES
I would really love to be able to open files read-only from my right mouse click menu.
You're talking XP, right?
You could write a DOS script that would do the opening, assuming you could pass the file name (of the highlighted file) to the script. Then you'd add the DOS script to the "open with" option (which I know is easily done).
