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<h1 class="title">beatnikPod and other thoughts</h1>
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<p><a href="http://beatnikpad.com/images/posts/ipod.php" onclick="window.open('http://beatnikpad.com/images/posts/ipod.php', 'popup', 'width=344,height=307,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img src="http://beatnikpad.com/images/posts/ipod-thumb.jpg" width="90" height="80" border="0" class="imageRight" hspace="5" /></a>Client invoices are paid, money is in pocket, <span class="caps">MP3</span>s need to be listened to, contacts need to be organized, and calendars need to be synced:</p>
<p>I <a href="http://beatnikpad.com/images/posts/ipod.php" onclick="window.open('http://beatnikpad.com/images/posts/ipod.php', 'popup', 'width=344,height=307,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false">succumbed</a>.</p>
<p>(Oh, and I’m feeling better; thanks for the get-well emails.)</p>
<p>Other recent thoughts about products:
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<li>The school got in a bunch of Apple’s <a href="http://www.apple.com/emac/" title="eMac">eMac</a>. Considering how acclaimed Apple’s industrial design work has been (iMac, the Titanium Powerbook, and the aforementioned iPod for starters), I expected the eMac to look better in person than the photos I’d seen. Nope - the eMac is an ugly, stubby machine. They’re also very chinzy and cheap-feeling, with loose plastic everywhere. A disappointment.</li>
<li>Since I’ve got an iPod to play with, I downloaded the <a href="http://www.apple.com/isync/" title="iSync">iSync beta</a> to sync up my contacts and calendars to my laptop and desktop, as well as the iPod. For a beta, not bad: it worked, it did what it was supposed to do, and it didn’t break anything.</li>
<li>I tried switching from Entourage to iCal, Mail, and Address book for my productivity needs, but eventually switched back. iCal is just too slow for daily work, and Mail is still a very immature program. Will any programmers out there finally built the ultimate e-mail client? Please?</li>
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<br />That’s that. Enough one-track-mindedness for one day.<br /></p>
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<div class="entryFooter">This here entry was posted September 29, 2002 11:41 PM</div>
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