Casual Rumblings

I had a 3rd Gen iPod 20gb that recently took a turn for the worst. Yeah we had a good run there little buddy, but it's time to move on. Your smaller sibling the 4th Gen Nano will be keeping me company from now on on the subway, buses, and car.

But alas! What is this? I cannot charge you in my car! I connect you to my adapter and you tell me, "This device cannot be charged with this accessory", or something to this effect. This cannot be! I a very confused!

To the Apple support forums I go. ::read...read...read:: AH HA!! Apple Discussion Link

It would seem that your creator Apple (from here on out known as crapple) has dumped support for Firewire charging in the 4th Gen Nano, iPod classic (120 GB) and iPod touch (2nd generation).

ARRRGGHH!! I can just imagine how many people will be a bit put off, that's saying it lightly, when they plop their new 4th gen nano in their 3rd party vendor accessory and see the same message. Yes...ire will be amassed! Clocks? Docking Ports? Car chargers? all of which will need an adapter (this pre-release adapter will suffice for some).

And don't get me started with iTunes 8.0. I have a 2.4ghz P4 PC that is rendered to a 286 when loading, transferring music, downloading album art, and anything else for that matter. Once I shut down iTunes, my PC is back to normal.

I do think I will have to offload this nano to someone who will not look at it in disgust everytime I want to change songs.

Hmm...alternatives.... Zune? Archos? Creative Labs? Sure they won't have as many accessories and love that the sheeple give to crapple, but hey, at least I'll have a device that will cost less for comparable hardware, and have wi-fi, bluetooth, swapable batteries, and gasp...FM RADIO!!

It feels good to regain my individuality.

I cannot fathom a reason why Apple won't add bluetooth to their iPods, iPhones, iPod Touches.

I am using my blackberry as my mp3 player (with 8gb memory card) to listen to my music wirelessly via my bluetooth headset.

I would love to stream my music from my ipod to my car stereo, my wireless headset and even possibly synch my music too.

The latest 4g nano has an accelerometer but no bluetooth. Great I can shake it around like a martini shaker and get a random new song (does this mean I'll have variety music on the treadmill?), but I'll be all tangled up while doing it.

I wonder if Apple has an agreement with 3rd party vendors to keep them in business to make add-ons.

Things that make you go hmm...

Over at Unplggd.com, they've reported that Best Buy will take your eWaste off your hands at 2 items per person per day. And best of all, free of charge (if you live in Baltimore, San Francisco, and Minnesota). And we all love free right?

I'm going to "free" my Netgear router. God awful POS from hell. Hope it burns from whence it came.

I couldn't wait any longer. I had to get rid of my old style phone. Text messaging on a regular phone is so 90's :) I went ahead and renewed my contract with VZW for 2 years and a new Blackberry Curve 8330.

Wow! What have I been missing all this time? Email in my hands whenever whereever (vzw's network is the best). I can chat with BeeJive's JiveTalk on all chat networks.

I can surf with Opera Mini 4.1. Way better than the built in BB Browser.

I've even given the Curve an iPhone UI

But since the addiction has already started (can you say crackberry?), I am already looking forward to the Blackberry Bold (aka the Blackberry 9000). Yeah, it'll be released this summer on AT&T and if it's all that it's hyped to be, then I'm putting the Curve on eBay to recoup my termination fee :)

Not to be left out of my new handset fetish, I will also be keeping an eye out for the iPhone 2.0. I'm still not sure I can go back to the virtual keyboard after having a fully functional real keyboard.

Time for me to get out of my procedural programming techniques and jump into the 21st century. Time to get on the OO bandwagon.

For a project that I'm currently working on, it's going to be a trial by fire to absorb the contents of the blog title and be proficient...quickly!!

Kinda wish I was learning Model-Glue, but eh, either Mach-II or Model-Glue will turn my world upside down from the way I program sites now.

Scared, excited and up for the challenge!!!

They're both being released about the same time (iPhone 2.0 will be released in June)

Yeah I know, I sold my iPhone 1.0 because the EDGE network was EXCRUCIATINGLY slow. Now that the 3G version will be released, my eyebrow is now raised again.

But, I still want a blackberry (curve) with a full keyboard. I've played with my friends Curve and I really like the form factor and the weight.

Ugh...guess I'll just have to wait for both to be released and then make a choice.

I came across this new all-in-one IM chat client via Stumbleupon.

I have been using Trillian for years. It's unfortunate that they've taken forever to come out wit an updated version. Although version 3.0 is still in beta.

Digsby is the new kid on the block in my book and wow...it's far and away so much better than Trillian. I've switched over from Trillian within 10mins of using Digsby. The best part of Digsby is the fact that it integrates with big social networks (facebook, myspace, twitter). You get popup updates on your screen when they happen. Pretty slick. Oh and Digsby integrates GoogleTalk too. Something Trillian lacked.

Give it a try. Hope you like it as much as I do.

I picked one up at Costco.com last week as a birthday gift to myself (yay!). How could I not? It was $150 off for a total of $300.

Wow! I love this thing. I drive 6 year old car w/o navigation. The best part is that it speaks the street names!! "Turn right at Main Street in 200 feet." I remember the older ones my friends had and it would just say, "Turn right in 200 feet". This is way better.

My only gripe is that I live in California and the new law says, "Nothing mounted on the windshield". So I have to dashmount it with velcro. I'm in the hunt for an air vent mount. I found a couple on eBay but $30+ for a piece of plastic? Ouch.

I have been trying to use Spry's autocomplete with Prototype Ajax.InPlaceEdit function but can't seem to see how to integrate the 2.

I have successfully added Prototypes Ajax.InplaceEdit with ACTB javascript (see if I can get a link up later to this sample).

If anyone has done this or knows how to combine InPlaceEditing with Autocompleting (spry and prototype), please reply :)

I'm surprised at 2 things. 1) Spry hasn't added InPlaceEditing (along with drag/drop) 2)Combining the 2 to begin with and having a demo up somewhere. I'm sure I'm not the only one who needs this combo.

In the meantime, I'll be plugging away at this and see if I can frankenstein the 2.