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July 19, 2004

New iPods

Another new generation of iPods with:

20GB for $299, and 40GB for $399. I think I'm two generations behind now. If only the minis had more capacity (or were less expensive), I'd go for one of those. What kind of iPod do you have?

Posted by cantrell at July 19, 2004 10:58 AM | References

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original 5G model. Its a trooper. No battery issues. Have 1G free on it - and it has some flash code i like to travel around with on it too.

Posted by: ericd at July 19, 2004 11:13 AM

second generation 15 gig version... guess im really only missing the new clickwheel and shuffle feature.... i think the 2nd generation is pretty thin anyways ... 3 gb free and has nearly all my flash/c sharp/ java etc stuff on it....

Posted by: Nik Khilnani at July 19, 2004 11:41 AM

Christian,

While this comment isn't related to your blog entry, I couldnt find another way to contact you.

I just bought Macromedia Devnet Resource kit 3, and I'm astounded by the lack of documentation for the custom tags.

The Record Pager tag for example, has a very minimal readme.txt file with no Usage example, and no effort has been made to explain how to construct or use the tag.

Apparently I can "simply use the tag like this":

I have tried to "Read the Custom Tag Documentation" via the devreskit3 flash menu, but it goes to a non existent internet webpage.

Why isn't any documentation included on the cd?

this is a VERY shoddy piece of work, with no consideration of usability.

I won't be buying any more DevNet Resource Kits. I could understand it if this was a freely available custom tag, but this cd cost me over £80 and at that price it's an absolute disgrace.

Shame on you, Macromedia.

Posted by: Tony Stuart at July 19, 2004 11:49 AM

Tony, read the accompanying article. It's very comprehensive and includes examples.

Posted by: Christian Cantrell at July 19, 2004 02:30 PM

Say nay to iPod, I'm going for the iRiver 320![1] It has more extra's, for less. How about hooking a device up with this mp3 player, and it acts like apc, so you can actually use it to store the photographs from the digital camera to the mp3 player's harddrive, directly! And you can see those pics from the 260 thousand colour display too.

Sadly, I do not have the money for it..

[1] http://www.iriver.com/product/info.asp?p_name=H320

Posted by: [m] at July 19, 2004 03:05 PM

I have the 1st gen 5GB and a 2nd gen 30GB. Love 'em both and use them both regularly.

Posted by: Roland Collins at July 19, 2004 05:45 PM

christian,

i can see no accompanying article! all the cd links go straight here:

http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

tony

Posted by: Tony Stuart at July 20, 2004 03:33 AM

I bought a 20GB 3G about three weeks ago. Thank goodness the Apple store let me return it yesterday and get the new 40GB 4G model!

Posted by: since1968 at July 20, 2004 02:07 PM

20GB 3g, coming up on 9 months. Maybe it'll have an 'accident' just before the warranty expires.

[m] Needs to check on the Belkin Media Reader for the 'pods.

Posted by: Paul at July 20, 2004 02:41 PM

I have an old school first generation 5GB model (was on the pre-order waiting list) and still use it to this day. I luckily avoided the battery issues that plagued some folks with the 1st-gen models, but mine still works like a champ so I haven't seen the need to upgrade. Yet, anyway. ;-)

Posted by: Matt Woodward at July 22, 2004 01:04 PM