Tag: Portable media players
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Zen and the Art of Podcasting
I keep a sort-of eye on my stats, usually to see if TwoRetardsOneCupRickRollMutantPigF**kersFromMars.com is still linking to me – but sometimes it brings good news – like I’m listed on Creative’s ZENCast (which as someone pointed out is not the same as Zune – too many MP3 players with similar names!) which for all the…
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Applecack
Now frequent readers of this blog will know how much I love Apple, and when Charles II the iPod went wrong a few weeks back (problems with the headphone and docking socket, freezes, havign to keep restoring it) 10 months into the warrant, I wasn’t holding out much hope. The speed of Applecare’s response and…
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iSweatshop – Not giving everyone a bite of the Apple?
Got an iPod? You’ve got to check this out: Following the expose of Foxxconn in China, who assemble Apple’s Nanos and iPods, Apple now say they are looking into the claims of sweatshops, workers having to work 15 hour days, and forced overtime. Very embarassing for Apple, who tries so hard to seem like a…
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the thing I really hate about iTunes…
Well there’s quite a few, but one of the reasons I didn’t want to buy an iPod was iTunes – shitty software, tbh. Very buggy, just less buggy than the rest. At the moment it’s acting like a zombie coming back from the dead (and processes killed being on WinXP) even when the iPod isn’t…