6 January, 2014
I’m not usually one to tout products, but I got myself a pair of JayBird BlueBuds X Sport for the gym, and they’re pretty damn good, so I thought I’d pass on a good word. Whenever I’m on the treadmill, I like to listen to music. Not that it is necessarily in time with my […]
Tags: cycling, Exercise, iPod, technology
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23 June, 2013
Despite having rented houses ever since I left England (some 20 years ago), every so often I think about how nice it would be to own my own home. Not because I think renting is money down the drain (although it is) or that I want to ‘put down roots’, or any of the usual […]
Tags: internet, iPod, music, technology
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13 January, 2013
For several years now, I’ve been complaining about the need to pay twice for music if you want it in multiple formats. For example, I’ve got a reasonable selection of vinyl, but when CDs came out, they told us that we needed to upgrade to CDs for ‘superior quality’. (And now, ironically, they are marketing […]
Tags: internet, iPod, music, technology
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22 December, 2011
A couple of weeks ago I took delivery of my latest toy – a Kindle Fire. I’d been eyeing Kindles for a while, and the combination of an ‘expanded functionality’ e-reader (I don’t know that I’d call it a full tablet PC) and a price point of $199.00 (and me having $199.00 worth of Amex […]
Tags: books, gadgets, iPod, Kindle, technology
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22 April, 2010
After three or four years of pretty much daily usage, I finally ran out of space on my first iPod. This was one of the old (but not oldest) 60gb models, and I’d already taken the precaution of not ripping all of my CDs to it – leaving off dozens of Zappa bootlegs, but recently […]
Tags: iPod
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1 February, 2008
Fans of Apple tend to be pretty, well, fanatical, hailing everything Apple Inc. do (at least with Steve Jobs at the helm) as the greatest thing since sliced white bread. The Mac is better than the PC; the iPod is better than the Zune; apples are better than oranges; and so on, and so on, […]
Tags: iPod, iTunes, Last FM, technology
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21 November, 2007
In a post a year ago I described a recently-published chart of ‘best ever’ albums that claimed to be the most accurate as it was based on historical sales. I posited that a chart based on what people were actually listening to would be better, although this would be impossible to obtain. In that post, I hazarded […]
Tags: iPod, Last FM, music
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23 November, 2006
Ever since I got my iPod I’ve wanted to find a way to list my ‘recently played’ tracks on this Blogsite. There are a few WordPress plugins and widgets that claim to do this, but they all seemed overly-complicated, requiring additional e-mail accounts, modified server permissions, and god knows what else. So what with having […]
Tags: iPod, Last FM, music, websites
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12 November, 2006
Another month, another 10 free downloads from the iTunes Store courtesy of Belgacom. Last month I went for building the perfect compilation from my youth. This month I took a diffferent approach. Regular readers will know that I listen to 3wk Internet Radio quite a lot. Whenever I hear something I really like, I make a […]
Tags: iPod, music
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16 September, 2006
Although I’m an iPod owner, and an avid iTunes user, until this morning I’d never downloaded a song from the Apple Music Store (or anywhere else for that matter). Call me old-school, but I like having the CDs.  I do have all of my CDs ripped to my iPod, and some I’ve never even heard straight […]
Tags: iPod, music, nostalgia
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