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Today it is out, and I've ordered one for my wife. I read everything posted online about it, including what Amazon itself has to say, and I like what I see, mostly. I'll post a thorough review once I've got one in my hands. Still more ugly than cute. I'll have a better perspective once I can hold one.
It is not yet clear how much web connectivity it will have. I know it will take you to Wikipedia and Amazon itself. I don't know, for example, if I'll be able to read this blog from it though. If it is a generic web browser that can access any web page then it'll be a hit. I suspect they have fixed links and don't let you browse the internet mainly because it is using a cell phone data service that is paid for in part by the cost of the e-books you buy. Spend time browsing the web and not buying anything and the data access bill will climb past the subscription Amazon pays.
I found some cheap software at my local Staples store to allow copying DVDs to my iPod Touch. Not quite ready to recommend it, as it took more than 5 hours to transcode one 2-hour DVD movie. I can't help but think this software is poorly coded if it takes longer to transcode than it actually takes to watch a movie. I'll try it on a faster PC tonight, and if I can get better performance from it I'll review it here. It DID succeed in converting a DVD to a video file I could sync to my iPod Touch. Slowly.
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Media Access with iPod Touch
I've been struggling for a few days to figure out how to access my own music collection wirelessly from my iPod Touch. Today I figured it out, thanks to help from the IpodTouchFans forum.
It took Tversity, a free download I installed on the PC that has all my music stored on it. Find out more by visiting www.tversity.com/home. I then had to tell VISTA's firewall to allow the mediashare application to get through it. I added the folders I wanted to share into the Tversity application, and told it I'd be sharing my media with an iPod/iPhone.
From my Touch's Safari Browser I go to that media PC's IP address and the media port. Once connected I have access to all the media (music, pictures, and videos) that I have told Tversity to share. Tveristy also has an option to allow me to access my media from ANYWHERE I might find internet access, but I haven't tested that yet. It is incredible to be able to access and sort though my entire music collection and listen to any file I find without needing to sync or download anything to my Touch. Take that, Zune!
Tversity isn't perfect. So far I haven't gotten any software to let me watch DVDs from my collection on my Touch. I REALLY want to figure that one out. Music can't be queued up to play. Safari isn't smart enough to play each song in an album sequentially or randomly the same way the iPod's music player can.
My prediction this time is that I WILL find a way to stream DVD movies from my collection to my iPod Touch. I know my home router is fast enough to stream DVDs wirelessly. I'm not sure if the iPod can handle such large files. Others have figured out how to compress DVD files to me synced onto the Touch, but that obviously fills up the 8Gig memory in a hurry.
That's it. Bye!
It took Tversity, a free download I installed on the PC that has all my music stored on it. Find out more by visiting www.tversity.com/home. I then had to tell VISTA's firewall to allow the mediashare application to get through it. I added the folders I wanted to share into the Tversity application, and told it I'd be sharing my media with an iPod/iPhone.
From my Touch's Safari Browser I go to that media PC's IP address and the media port. Once connected I have access to all the media (music, pictures, and videos) that I have told Tversity to share. Tveristy also has an option to allow me to access my media from ANYWHERE I might find internet access, but I haven't tested that yet. It is incredible to be able to access and sort though my entire music collection and listen to any file I find without needing to sync or download anything to my Touch. Take that, Zune!
Tversity isn't perfect. So far I haven't gotten any software to let me watch DVDs from my collection on my Touch. I REALLY want to figure that one out. Music can't be queued up to play. Safari isn't smart enough to play each song in an album sequentially or randomly the same way the iPod's music player can.
My prediction this time is that I WILL find a way to stream DVD movies from my collection to my iPod Touch. I know my home router is fast enough to stream DVDs wirelessly. I'm not sure if the iPod can handle such large files. Others have figured out how to compress DVD files to me synced onto the Touch, but that obviously fills up the 8Gig memory in a hurry.
That's it. Bye!
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