IT Geek Blog » iPod http://www.itgeekblog.com A Place for a Rambling Geek to Vent Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:08:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Let’s Get Ready to IT Rumble http://www.itgeekblog.com/2010/03/lets-get-ready-to-it-rumble/ http://www.itgeekblog.com/2010/03/lets-get-ready-to-it-rumble/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:08:21 +0000 Patrick http://www.itgeekblog.com/?p=517 Continue reading →]]> Ben Kunz posted an article on the Business Week website where he details what he calls the “splinternet.” Basically, all the mobile devices that are flooding the market each have their own applications that are not real compatible with other devices.  Kunz mentions the iPod and the Droid phone along with Amazon’s Kindle reader.  Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have one device that would work in conjunction with other operating systems.  I love technology, but we as consumers need to start figuring out what we want and what we will tolerate.  Do you want to have 5 different devices just so you can take advantage of the internet?

]]> http://www.itgeekblog.com/2010/03/lets-get-ready-to-it-rumble/feed/ 0 Top 10 Gadgets of the Decade http://www.itgeekblog.com/2009/12/top-10-gadgets-of-the-decade/ http://www.itgeekblog.com/2009/12/top-10-gadgets-of-the-decade/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:09:15 +0000 admin http://www.itgeekblog.com/?p=408 Continue reading →]]> Keeping with the top 10 theme, here’s the top 10 gadgets that were introduced during this decade according to ABC news.

  1. the iPod
  2. GPS devices
  3. Blackberry
  4. digital cameras
  5. Tivo/DVR
  6. Nintendo Wii
  7. flash drives
  8. the iPhone
  9. eBook readers
  10. Netbooks

Now, the story didn’t put numbers next to the gadgets, so I listed them in the order they were listed in the story and added the numbers myself.  And if there is one gadget that revolutionized our lives, it has to be the iPod.  Think about this for a second, before the iPod, we had to carry a portable CD player and a case of CDs.  Now, depending on how much you liked music determined how many CDs you took with you.  With the iPod, you could very well take your entire album collection wherever you went.  And I have close to 200 CDs, so I was stoked by the idea of not having to worry about bringing certain CDs.  What a great decade!

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