I really rely on my iPod (and my iTunes on my laptop) when I’m on the road. Probably another reason I’m so eagerly awaiting MoGo’s headset!
Here are some fun iPod tricks for those of you also on the go:
1) Listen to Wikipedia articles via your iPod. I recently refreshed my memory on the King Henry’s wives via Wikipedia. There’s a service called Pediaphon that will automatically convert any Wiki article into a robotic podcast - which is actually way cooler than it sounds.
2) Catch up on NPR. My family has a strange addiction to Car Talk. You know, Click and Clack - the Tappit brothers? No? Oh, well you GOT to try them out. A lot of the shows are available only for a week after broadcast, which is a shame because Terry Gross’ interview with Gene Simmons was legendary.
3) Download YouTube to your iPod (or, even easier, use Vixy). Although this takes longer than watching in a livestream from the site, some of these videos become as favorite as songs and are definitely worth having along to provide a well needed chuckle while on the road.
4) Catch up on your favorite blogs (like this one!). If you have a corporate laptop and are concerned about loading it up with personal data - like the RSS feeds from the blogs you follow, never fear: there’s a way to actually bring those feeds into your video iPod.
5) Catch up on your favorite authors or learn a new language. As much as I’m not one to endorse a commercial site, I recently got addicted to ‘Books on Tape’, by which I mean ‘AudioBooks on my iPod’ - a growing selection of which is now available at iTunes. My significant other, meanwhile, has been brushing up on his trigonometry while on the treadmill.
I was surprised to discover last night that YouTube has quite a collection of homemade videos about teh MoGo Mouse family.
We’ve linked before, I think, to the one by Tris Hussey (who is an associate). Yesterday, I watched some others. One of my favorites is a very in-depth one by ‘Experience Mobility’ that spends about 9 minutes showing the ins and outs of the mouse (in a lovely lakeside location, btw). This video is an absolutely nuts-and-bolts tour of every aspect of the guy’s experience with the mouse.
My other favorite? The Shiny Review of the new X54. They posted it just last week and, as they say on their site, use the word ‘Little’ more times than they can count…but when you’re talking about the X54 - you DO run out of synonyms for ’small’ pretty quick!
Not that anyone needs an excuse to blow some time at YouTube, right? … Enjoy!
Hold on to your hats all you Googlephiles. Is that a word? No. But it is now. We’ve all wondered it, we’ve all seen it coming, hinted around it and questioned if it was really going to happen, and now, all that has come to a head. COULD we see a Google Phone in 2008?
“There is compelling evidence to suggest that Google is moving into the phone business. Services like Google Maps, YouTube and Gmail are perfect applications for mobile devices, so why not offer an all Google package? The company has increased its media reach over the last few years to include online video, television, radio and print advertising. An inexpensive handset that can deliver multiple forms of media is a good fit with Google’s past acquisitions. If it can make a cheap phone call, so much the better.”
Here’s to hoping. It just better be Bluetooth ready, because when the MoGo Headset launches, I’m going to want to try it out on the new Google Phone/GPhone whatever you want to nickname it. Hold on tight, things are going to get interesting.
