Prior to the Blog Awards I took delivery of an iPod Nano to give to the winner. At the time I was sorely tempted to get a nano for myself, but I resisted.. at least for a while
Anyhow my personal iPod Nano arrived on Friday afternoon. It was shipped from Hong Kong, as I had it etched with the Blacknight Logo. It looks kind of like this:
Unfortunately I couldn’t get the text bit onto it, so it’s just the logo at the top, but even so it looks very cool.
Under Windows there is iTunes to manage your playlists and send files across to it, while on Linux I’ve been experimenting with gtkpod, which seems to be more functional than iTunes.
The next question, of course, is whether I want to put linux on it or not…
Apr 23
iPod Nano Wins
by Michele in Linux, Music, Open Source, Podcasting, Techie :: Techno ::, Ubuntu
15 Responses to “iPod Nano Wins”
From Jason Roe:
I got mine with normal text .. how do you request an image like that?
From michele:
That would be telling
From Jason Roe:
Lol spoil sport!!
From Paul Browne:
Very cool – any links to the website where you can order these?
From Jason Roe:
You can get normal text for free when ordering through the online store .. I’m not sure about images. As blacknight says “It was shipped from Hong Kong” so I dont think the lads down in Apple (cork) are doing them
From michele:
It’s something that Apple do though you have to pay to get your logo setup on their system.
From James:
I was thinking about putting linux on my 40gig iPod, but I heard that the mp3 player is slow.
From Dave:
Apple do logo engraving and deals on volume – see http://www.apple.com/uk/ipod/imaging
From michele:
Dave – that’s where I found it as well
Unfortunately they aren’t very good at answering emails……….
From Dave:
Yea – its sometimes difficult to get to the right people in big companies like Apple. I got a good response from them at ipodvolume@euro.apple.com. Did you use this email address?
From michele:
Dave – funny that considering you are an Apple employee
From Paul Browne:
Speaking of custom gear, Aspoke are running a special offer at the moment:
Blog entry about Aspoke special offer.
( I have no connection with Aspoke , other than having ordered one of these).
From michele:
Paul – I’m hoping to get a tasty graphic sorted out so that I can get one of those aspoke yokes
From Tristen:
Hello,
What do I have to do, to make an audiobook file appear on the audiobook folder on my iPod?
I didn’t get it how does it work.
Is there a special extension for audiobooks, because I’ve tried to convert to ACC (tutorial on this forum) but it didn’t work.
Please, help me.
Thanks
From Joshua:
Hi everyone.
What’s a good alternative to the IPOD?
I’m wondering if any of you can recommend a good MP3 player that is comparable to the IPod but WITHOUT they hype and price tabe to go with it.
I was at the apple store a few days ago, and really liked the new 40GB or 80GB IPods that also show video, but was wondering if I could get the same kind of funcationality without that heftly price tag.