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IPods At last Alan has let me write for Call Sign again! It’s been 6 months and I’ve been getting withdrawal symptoms! My kids, especially my daughter, begged me for an iPod last year and I flatly refused to buy one explaining to her the intrusion of privacy issues with the iTunes / MiniStore software that was in the press at the time; see HERE and HERE Although Apple denied the invasion of privacy accusations, they still changed their MiniStore product after the public outcry… nuff said! So, when last month I was lucky enough to win a 30GB iPod, I wasn’t overly enthused about it and in fact pondered on whether to accept it at all. But I’m glad I did, as after two weeks of using the iPod I’ve given it away! I’ve used other MP3 players and / or MP4 players such as the Archos and I’ve found them much more usable and friendly. Considering Apple’s legacy of producing software that’s supposed to be easy to use, I can honestly say that I found it painful. In fact I’d go as far to say that their iTunes product is complete rubbish and I’d like to describe it in stronger terms, but can’t as Call Sign is a family magazine… I just couldn’t believe that to transfer music to the iPod involved synchronising it and that this synchronising process changed the names of the mp3 files on the iPod. And also that the iTunes |
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and iPod have a one-to-one mapping with one PC. Are you
serious? I can understand their concerns regards software
piracy, but I can’t understand the policy of treating all users
as villains. I now use my Windows Mobile device to play music,
it’s better and more usable. Taxi sites and Charles Dickens! Occasionally I search the web to see what new cab related sites have appeared and recently I found a great article at http://www.taxi-library.org/dickens.htm. It’s an interview by Charles Dickens of a Four Wheeler Growler cab driver on 25th February 1860 and taken from Dickens own magazine, All the Year Round. A good friend of Call Sign, Norman Beattie from Winnipeg, Canada, put it onto the net and it’s an excellent read. Charles Dickens went from "…I was led to consider that their hands were against every man and every Charles Dickens went from "…I was led to consider that their hands were against every man and
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every man's hand ought to be against them in
self-defence," to "…making me take a more charitable view of the
business and trials of cab-driving." Read it and I’m sure, like me, you’ll appreciate life in the cab trade nowadays. Family ancestry Anyway, be lucky and see you next month…hopefully! Vince Chin Call Sign on-line |
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