Apple Inc.: September 2005 Archives
After my first full day of using my new iPod, I seem to have stumbled upon some sort of display bug:
As you can see, the iPod is a big confused, and is displaying two overlapping versions of the song/album/artist text, one slightly aside of the other. I am not sure what I did to produce this bug, but I suspect it has to do with the iPod nano's ability to display album art for songs. Turning the iPod on and off didn't fix the issue, nor did syncing with my PowerBook. It persisted all day today, so I decided to try loading some album art into the new Fall Out Boy album, and then loading those songs onto my nano. Sure enough, when I tried to play the new FOB album on my iPod, the display was fixed, even for non-FOB tracks.
My guess is that this started when I played a Denali bootleg, which had some album art in it. That art may be corrupt or something. I will try reproducing this bug again tomorrow.
Finally, in other nano news, I have posted a gallery of pictures of my iPod nano.
-Andy.
The reviews I've read of the nano said that the display was nice and sharp. They weren't kidding:
I have a bunch more pictures that I have taken of the out-of-box-experience, that I will try and get into a gallery soon.
-Andy.
After thousands upon thousands of minutes spent waiting, my iPod nano finally arrived today. My first impression: this thing is small.
I mean, really freakin' small.
When I opened the grigrundous shipping box that the iPod came in, I was astonished by the diminutive size of the iPod box itself. I don't have my iPod shuffle box anymore, but the box for the nano cannot be much bigger.
As for the nano itself, it is small:
I haven't had too much time to play with it as of yet, but so far, I really, really, really, really like it.
-Andy.
So, I bought an iPod nano today. After looking at it for all of like, 2 minutes on Apple's website. I have long been thinking about buying an iPod Mini, but I kindof wanted a color screen. Whelp, the nano has that, and a whole lot less -- less in terms of size, that is.
I didn't realize how small it is, however, until I watched Steve Job's speech after work. To show the world the nano for the first time, herr Jobs pulled the nano from the pocket of his ever-present blue jeans. Not impressed? He didn't pull it from a regular front pocket, but from that little itty-bitty-totall-useless front pocket above the normal pocket, that all jeans have, but no one ever uses.
Woah!
Go ahead and fast-foward to like minute 42 of the stream to see it for your yourself. It's great.
It is amazing how Apple keeps getting better with the iPod. It seems like each new iteration literally blows the old version away. It is amazing how they keep topping themselves, and understandable that the competition cannot keep up. I hope that the nano lives up to the iPod tradition, but it is an iPod, so I'm sure that it will. :)
Expect more here when I get mine.
-Andy.