Shopping hints for the iPod owner on your list
Category: Apple/Mac OS...
Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 at 04:52 PM [GMT-6]

What? You haven't finished your Christmas shopping yet? Shame, shame, shame. If the problem is lack of money or time, you're out of luck; I have neither to spare. But if you're just out of ideas -- and the fortunate potential giftee happens to be an iPod owner (and who doesn't that cover nowadays?) -- I've got the answer you've been seeking.

Check out Playlist Magazine's Plays of the Year, the editors' picks for the best iPod-related products of 2005. Prices range from free (there; that solves another problem) to $1,600, and most price points in between. There's both hardware (speakers, FM transmitters, earbuds and headphones, docks, etc.) and software (for transferring songs from 'pod to computer, for loading commercial videos to the new 'pods -- not that we're advocating that, mind you, etc.).

My personal favorite of the bunch is Belkin's TuneStage, a device that facilitates connecting your iPod to your home stereo, incorporating Bluetooth that allows you to use the 'pod itself as "the ultimate remote control." At $180, it would make a great gift for your favorite blogger who has modeled his publication after a tiny-but-nasty arthropod.

Don't make me beg.

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happens to be an iPod owner (and who doesn't that cover nowadays?)

Me.

Posted by: Jim at December 14, 2005 07:25 PM

Yes, but that's just a temporary situation, as your new employment status will suggest...nay, require...that you become a podperson. Otherwise, you might fail to be sufficiently distracted and inadvertently provide attentive service to your clients. The GAO frowns on such behavior.

By the way, I seem to be using "nay" a lot.

But, I have yet to use it as a noun. Or a verb. Well, now that I think about it, I don't know how I've been using it, since I don't know what it's called. Hang on a minute...

OK, I'm back. "Nay" is an adverb, primarily.

Well, I've enjoyed our little talk. Let's do this again, sometime. Provided you can tear yourself away from your iPod, that is.

Posted by: Eric at December 14, 2005 08:05 PM

You ain't alone, Jim!

...though I'll let you know if you've still got Freen Support after Dec.25

Eric has already made me a FireFox convert, who knows what other insidious product placement the Gazette might achieve? ;)

"Don't make me beg."

My exact words when a girl I'd just started dating won front row tickets (and backstage passes) to the last Depeche Mode tour.

Posted by: Mr. Freen at December 14, 2005 11:40 PM

Don't drink the kool-aid, Mr. Freen! Don't do it! ;-)

Posted by: Denise at December 14, 2005 11:49 PM

:D :D :D

My Mode days are more or less behind me, Denise. I've replaced it with other obsessions which, ironically enough, is how I found Eric's fab blog in the first place.

...and not a moment too soon. Check out what the DM X1-X2 Japan-only Boxed Set goes for on eBay.

Posted by: Mr. Freen at December 15, 2005 11:07 PM
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