Browsing through Charlie Rose interview videos on charlierose.com today, I came across this interview with musician, Ryan Adams. I liked him very much. Bought a few of his songs on iTunes while watching the video.
New iPod shuffle
Apple released a redesigned iPod shuffle today. 4GBs for $79. No navigation buttons on the device. Looks pretty attractive.
As I see it, here are the shortfalls compared with previous Shuffle model:
- Can’t use it with a car because the controls are on the headphone wire. Someone will have to come out with a controller that lets you plug another line into it so you can plug it into car stereo line in jacks or cassette adapters.
- Can’t use your own headphones. Requires same solution as previous item.
iPass iPod touch WiFi Hotspot Plan
My youngest brother told me about iPass last week. He was thumbing around the App Store on his iPod touch and found it.
Traveling to the Pena wedding Friday, I signed up that morning. $9.95 per month, month to month plan.
It worked at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Airport hotel, with their non-free T-Mobile hotspot. I used it in the lobby bar to handle a little work email. So far, so good.
Now we’ll see where else it works. I was going to try it at Barnes & Noble last night, but I forgot the iPod touch at home.
Here’s a page where one can search for iPass hotspots: http://ipass.jiwire.com/