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Week 10: iPod & Music

// March 30th, 2009 // computer group

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.  ~Ronald Reagan

Our session this week focused on how we can use our computers to enhance our lives with music.  Right at the start of class, Gary gave us the link to a cute little website to listen to oldies: www.tropicalglen.com – not bad if you’re looking for some nostalgia or a quick song fix.  The only thing you want to be careful with on a site like that is you don’t want to click on the adds… they will take you away from tropicalglen and you can end up at strage places!  With that warning in place, use it at your own risk – that’s the price of free for you.

iPods, iTunes & iThink my head is about to explode!

Apple has dominated the portable music market lateley, and with good reason – their iPods are easy to use, they look really cool and sound great.  They’re also relatively cheap considering all that you get!  One big consideration when you buy one – You can use apple’s genius bar to get help with your product – the appointments are free, and they have a store right in the westfarms mall. (the only drawback being that you can’t buy smoothies there, haha)

iPods

We looked a few varieties of apples in class, here is sort of the breakdown on the bunch:

• iPod Shuffle – this tiny guy has no screen!  it does hold 4 gigabytes of music however (about 1,000 songs), and speaks the title of the song and artist through your headphones on demand – pretty cool!
• iPod Nano – this sleek device comes in about 9 colors. It has 8 gig & 16 gig models (2k or 4k songs), plays music, videos and games,  and has a motion sensor – when you want to shuffle your music, just shake it!
• iPod Classic – the unit yours truly uses (mine is actually a 5th generation video iPod)  These guys have tons of space and tons of battery life – 120 gigabytes allows you to hold like 30,000 songs, and you can get up to 36 hours of audio playback on a single charge.
• iPod Touch – I dont know how they can even call this an iPod – it has so much more including apps, email, wifi built in, we could even use one to control our projector during worship remotely!  I’ll have to take some of my earlier lessons to heart and make some money off ebay before I can jump on board with one of these… I guess I can’t have all the toys eh?

iTunes

Coming soon!  I’ll get back to the blog and update once I get a little more time.