It's Alive! And it's "funky fresh" - iPod Weddings

Cool, so iPod-based music (I'm guessing mostly stolen/downloaded) is now replacing professional DJs at what is reported to be up to 10% of weddings. Of course the fact that they have no professional sound system (speakers, amplifiers, mixers, anyone?) and they're playing the music from their BOSE sound dock somewhere upstairs . . . well . . . it's "cheaper", right?

Look next for self-made bridal dresses (burlap sack anyone?) and self-catered receptions from McDonalds.

Okay, I like iPod as much as the next bride and/or groom, but I also would take the time to figure out how to fill a room with balanced sound. Most . . . aren't going to, I'm guessing.

And before you rag on me about the stolen music bit -- i've been around for more than 4 decades, ya young punks, and I can smell a cheapskate a few kilometers away. Anybody that could actually afford the CD's to provide an evening's music, could easily afford a few hundred bucks for a hometown DJ. So there!

Tags: apple, music, ipod, movies

I smashed my talking iPod with a Coconut Today!

The latest useless digging into Apple's iPod related patents includes a feature to enable iPods and iPod-like devices to call out the names of song titles, albums, and artist as audio.

Supposedly a "safety" factor, I can't imagine how the lightning fast speed of reading a screenful of song titles is going to translate into waiting for the "Hawking-branded" iPod to chatter out one title to me.

They want to move it to cellphones and computers too. Isn't it already happening? Hmmm.

Tags: apple, nano, shuffle, ipod, movies

Drive your iPod instead of Having it Drive You!

Cool. An iPod player you can drive. I received an iPod converter/player type thingie for my Mazda that wasn't factory approved, and I was a bit apprehensive to rip apart my dashboard to install it.

So I exchanged the converter for a backyard hammock, which was a much safer technology for me to deal with at the time. But this car, called the "i", from Mitsubishi goes for around $14K, and takes an iPod Nano right into its dashboard.

No fuss, no muss.

Tags: music, apple, converter, player, car, auto, nano, ipod, movies