Here at the Modstomp Manor we’ve got a hankering for tiny mp3 players. I go through about 6 a week. With that in mind, watch for me to pick up one of these in the next couple of weeks. Gizmodo has some details on the new Zen Stone Plus in all its tiny OLED glory, [...]
iPods Suck
Neither my wife nor I have a good record of checking pockets prior to laundry time, and my nano is the latest victim. What’s worse, we recently got a fancy new LG washing machine, which sounds like a 777 starting up. It’s a beautiful machine, but it’s not good for electronics survivability. The startling thing [...]
I’m an iPod owner. I know. It makes me a little sick inside too. For the record, the iPod is currently my #3 mp3 player, behind a Toshiba GigaBeat S60 and a SanDisk Sansa e260. Still, I own an iPod nano 2nd Gen, silver, the cheap one. My reasons (short list) include the very simple [...]
I’ve owned a couple of iPods. It was sort of an accident. I have an aversion to things that are en vogue, so to speak, or at least en vogue to the point of idiocy. Anyway, to put it in perspective, I’ve had two iPods out of an estimated 30 mp3 players that have passed [...]
iPod Nano to be swapped for Creative Zen Vision:M
Published by March 15th, 2006 in Gadgets, Tunes, iPods Suck and mp3. 5 CommentsWell, I’ve had my little iPod for a few months now. So naturally, I’m sick of it and I want a new mp3 player. The nano is great player, taken by itself; throw in iTunes, however, and it really causes me headaches. For one thing, all my media is stored on a Windows Media Center [...]
Apple attacks the software for my new Zen Vision!
Published by September 30th, 2005 in Gripes, Software, Tunes and iPods Suck. 0 CommentsHere’s hoping this is just a fluke, and not some plot by the Mother Brain at Apple to make us all wear stupid white headphones and blink in unison, but Quicktime fragged the software for my new Zen Vision. I was happily unpacking components and slipped the CD with drivers and software into my drive. [...]