iPod NoteReader Notes 38
An anonymous reader writes, "Apple has released a document on how to use the new iPod NoteReader." The highlights: you can link to other notes, or to tracks on the iPod, or to dynamically generated playlists. It handles 1,000 notes, up to 4K each, and caches up to 64K of notes in memory so the hard drive doesn't spin up. The notes are stored as text files in directories and can be organized by directory.
Interesting, but impractical for me (Score:2, Insightful)
This will be espceially hard for the masses, I think this apeals to a low number of people.
Niche stuff at best.
Re:Interesting, but impractical for me (Score:1)
Yeah im sure its a cool thing to have, but people arent gonna go out and buy a iPod just because it has PDA funtions.
Re:It's gravy (Score:4, Insightful)
Meaning that's this is just an extra feature, surely not a selling point.
Carrying around a Palm (or any notebook PC) for me would be a waste, I'm not that organized (nor do I want to be). My iPod is first and foremost an MP3 player and secondly a FireWire drive to haul large files to and from work. Once in a blue moon I might actually need an address or write down an appointment, and it's a nice thing to have. Being able to put notes with links in them really doesn't affect me much, but it's just one more side ability the iPod has.
That being said I hope Apple doesn't expand the PDA abilities of the iPod too much. Trying to cram a bunch of PDA-like functionality in there (add-on keyboards and touch screens) would detract from what it does well- play music. If it ain't broke...
Re:It's gravy (Score:4, Insightful)
I'd also like to have an MP3 player, and a way to transfer geneology files to my aunt's iMac (she doesn't have broadband), like a USB pen drive.
If an iPod came out that would let me do basic text entry -- something as simple as adding my next appointment to the calendar when I'm at the doctor's office -- I'd buy it instead of a Palm, because this single device would do everything I want.
Re:Interesting and practical for me (Score:1)
Since notes can be linked together into a chain, it would be trivial to create a chained set of notes comprising an entire e-book. You could fit Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" on there twice... linked together in 500 4k "pages"...
News headlines could be scraped from any news site in the morning, squirted through an appropriate script and there you go-- news on the go.
How to put a Wiki on your iPod (Score:5, Interesting)
It turns your ipod into a Wiki on the go... Here's a great writeup of the software from
Oreilly entitled "Wiki meet iPod"- http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3164 [oreillynet.com]
Disclaimer- I wrote the software.
-gus
Re:How to put a Wiki on your iPod (Score:2)
Where's the file? (Score:1)
Only on new iPods (Score:5, Informative)
Neat ... (Score:2)
-- shayborg
Older iPods? (Score:3, Interesting)
I *think* (I'm taking a wild-assed guess here, so you can't tell I didn't warn you) the hardware is basically the same (except for that strange dock connector, but this is just firewire + line out with a strange form factor, isn't it?) so I think it must be quite easy to install 2.0 on older iPods (???).
Would someone be kind enough to upload the 2.0 firmware on some server? Google can't find anything...
Re:Older iPods? (Score:3, Interesting)
But I saw a review of the ipod that made the same guess
Re:Older iPods? (Score:4, Informative)
Version 2.0 of the iPod software was written by Apple. Versions 1.3 and prior were outsourced to another company (whose name I do not know). They are entirely different animals. This will also explain why Apple has not released an update for the older iPods that provides the feature set of the new iPods -- they don't want to pay the outsourcing fees. And this will also explain the bugs in the new iPods (I sent mine back by the way).
Re:Older iPods? (Score:2)
I think they also didn't release the new feature set in order to make the new iPods more appealing to the old iPod's users... I mean, they implemented what we had been asking for a year through feedback (particularly on the go playlists)...
Bah.
Re:Older iPods? (Score:1)
I have an order placed, but because it's backordered I can cancel it if I act quickly. I'd be interested to hear your opinion on what I should do.
Re:Older iPods? (Score:2)
Find out as much information as you can about the problems users are having with their iPods. Then decide if any of those problems are "acceptable" for your intended use of the product. Check out the discussions forum under the support page on Apple's webstie. Lot's of iPod users have chimed in with their experiences.
Don't get me wrong, I really liked the iPod -- it's slim, lightweight, and fits nicely in a men's dress shirt pocket. What d
Re:Older iPods? (Score:1)
Re:Older iPods? (Score:2)
I was unhappy with Apple for releasing a sub-par product, and I let them know by affecting their pocketbook.
Re:Older iPods? (Score:1)
I guess it's the "glass is half full" mentality.
Re:Older iPods? (Score:2)
I'd like to know what planet you live on, or what companies you purchase your products from. ALL first generation products have bugs, flaws, and poor design choices evident in them. This is unfortunately the reality in today's cuth-throat "get it to market now" society. I can't think of any first generation product that I've purchased and been 100% happy with, from something as inane as my toaster, through my iPod(5GB), camcorder, and cur
Hrmm... (Score:1)
Neat. (Score:5, Interesting)
All around the new revs are great, though I've already manged to scratch the face and back in a few places. I wish they'd put some sort of scratch resistant coating on these things ala eyeglasses.
Good for museum applications (Score:5, Insightful)
A note you can read on the iPod screen that will link to an audio file or to another note? A self-guided tour unit that will sync changes automatically and charge via the same cable? A system that only requires one base computer to synchronize changes (connecting multiple iPod docks via a firewire hub or perhaps some third party will come out with a multi-iPod dock)?
I don't know how much museums pay for each self-guided unit they use currently, but the 10Gb model is $300.
Surely there must be other applications?
Re:Good for museum applications (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Also for learning a new language (Score:1, Insightful)
Another use that's missng from portable audio players is the ability to read liner notes. You could download them with the song.
Stickies to iPod Notes (Score:4, Interesting)
yes, i'm waiting for Pudge to crank this out in 15 minutes in perl.
Now, if it only didn't "tick" between tracks... (Score:1)