Posts Tagged: iPod

I was up rather late last night, and thought I’d check Twitter on my iPad one last time before heading to bed. I did so just as the news of Steve Jobs passing away hit Twitter; somehow it felt fitting to be watching people express their sadness and thanks on one of the amazing devicesContinue Reading ›

The woman opposite me on the train is listening to her iPod. Half way through the trip I happen to look up and see a single tear roll down her cheek, she notices and wipes away the tear. No more tears follow.

I followed Steve Jobs’ Keynote from MacWorld today on my iPhone via MacRumors excellent page and have just watched the Keynote video from the Apple site and whilst it wasn’t an iPhone year but it was still a good year. However, before we get into what was announced I just have to ask – canContinue Reading ›

Business trips are like buses… you don’t go on any for ages and then two turn up together. In about 12 hours I leave Heathrow for almost a week in sunny Phoenix. There has been all sort of malarkey with booking flights and hotels as Phoenix seems to be full this week. It’s worked outContinue Reading ›

Jonathan Ive, Apple’s design overlord, has been awarded a CBE in the New Years Honours list. It’s fantastic to see the importance of design being recognised. Jonathan Ive is responsible (with a little input from Steve Jobs I’m sure) for the iMac, Cube, iBook, Powerbook, Mini and of course the iPod range. Apple are renownContinue Reading ›

Because of the bloody French, European iPods have a very low and very annoying volume limit. Back off Brussels!  I’m a grown up and can operate a volume control. Sorry… thankfully it’s possible to hack the firmware on the iPod and remove this Nanny State nastiness. To do so is pretty tricky but some veryContinue Reading ›