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iPod Magic: Technophobe Puts A Huge Musical House In Order
Music in the 'i' Generation
Review: touched by an iPod
Enjoy new-school UI on your old-school iPod



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iPod Magic: Technophobe Puts A Huge Musical House In Order

The The Winston-Salem Journal's Ed Bumgardner reports:

I got my first record when I was 6. It was "Green With Envy Blues" by Prof. Ludwig Von Drake, a Walt Disney cartoon character. It came with a really cool picture sleeve. I had to have it.

It was bought by my beleaguered mom, a reward for me for being good on a shopping trip. The cost of this disc, a Pandora's Box in disguise, was 50 cents. Chances are that I didn't so much behave as I wore Mom down. The difference between pestering and perseverance is a slippery slope in adolescence.

That very same 45 rpm single, now 45 years old, rests in a home jukebox. Years of annoying others and reaping personal enjoyment lurk within its well-worn grooves.

It's still a pretty snappy tune. The good Professor, hep-duck that he is, scats a mean jazz solo in a goofy Bavarian accent. Love is not just blind. It's evidently tone deaf, too.

My wife surprised me two months ago by downloading "Green With Envy Blues," in pristine sound, from The iTunes Store. It was a monumental moment. The first tune I ever owned became song number 33,475 in our iTunes library.

Once again, I can now annoy anyone, anytime, anywhere by playing that digitized ditty on my iPod - one of the few technical gadgets I can navigate with a minimum of stress and profanity.

I have been an avowed Luddite most of my life. Count me out if anything is more complicated than plugging in a toaster. I generally fix things with a swift kick, a hard smack or a well-placed blow with a hammer. You would be amazed how often it works.

Things changed for the better - and no one was more amazed than me - when we upgraded our computer to an Apple iMac.

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Music in the 'i' Generation

The Winston-Salem Journal's Ed Bumgardner reports:

The iPod has personalized, and to a large degree privatized, the way people listen to music. It's inherent in the "i" in iPod or iTunes. It's nearly impossible to walk into any public place without seeing someone, iPod in hand or pocket, earbuds or earphones in place, listening to music - lost in their own iWorld.

To borrow from rock icon David Bowie, who would know of such things -- seismic "Ch-ch-ch-changes" are rocking the music industry.

There is an increasingly heated battle between the crumbling terrestrial music industry, long bloated by greed, and a new Internet-driven digital marketplace spearheaded by the iPod digital music player, invented in 2001 by Apple and its accompanying legal download service, iTunes, started in 2003.

Technological advances have previously changed the way people listen and buy music. What is different this time is that all past changes required the creation of a new physical product - an album, a cassette tape, a CD. In the digital world there is no tangible product to hold or see. Buying and storing music is as easy as clicking a computer mouse. There is no need for vast distribution networks, no need to ship boxes of CDs to brick-and-mortar stores - no need for CDs.

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Review: touched by an iPod

MacsimumNews's Dennis Sellers reports:

I’ve often said that I had no desire to watch videos of any length on an iPod due to the small screen size. That’s changed, at least to a point, with the release of the iPod touch.

I’ll still use my MacBook as a portable DVD player. However, the gorgeous, svelte iPod touch is just fine for TV shows, YouTube video and the like. Especially as you can also store songs and surf the ‘Net with the new device.

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Enjoy new-school UI on your old-school iPod

Ars Technica's Justin Berka says:

One of the biggest updates in the new line of iPods is the UI, which got a noticeable overhaul this time around. And as with any Apple upgrade, some people with older iPods felt a bit left out. But even if you want the new firmware and don't happen to have a new iPod classic or nano, you can put the new firmware on your older iPod, according to a thread on iPod Wizard.

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Charles W. Moore

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