ipod story and poll

[supercheesegirl]

Whoa, there's a guy on the roof of the building next door. He's gesticulating and talking into a little recorder. Fridays in March appear to be good days for seeing people outside my window (which, remember, is on the FIFTH FLOOR).

Anyway, my ipod. Oh, I'm so excited.

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[myras_girls]

I'm pretty sure Kodak Gallery does the same thing with pictures. At least I know I've uploaded and ordered pictures there.

[supercheesegirl]

Thanks for the link! I've seen your pictures on there, and I'll probably switch over--I just know it'll be time consuming and annoying to upload all my pictures to the new site. Sigh...

[mrpet]

Howl's moving iPod!

[supercheesegirl]

That was my thought!

[mrpet]

Now you will need an iPod case with legs and turrets on it *g*

[deadwinter]

Caramba, so it'd be iCaramba.

*ducks*

[supercheesegirl]

Hee!

[beowabbit]

Bummer Iriver doesn't make the player you wanted any more; I’ve been very happy with mine.

I bet Costco implemented that policy because of IRS (or similar federal) regulations. Costco has this fiction that their members are buying stuff for resale and/or business use (and I’m sure lots of them are, just not all), and that probably affects how they’re taxed and regulated.

There are, however, lots of other sites that let you order prints from your digital photos. I’ve used Ofoto in the past (which has now become Kodak Gallery, linked above - they were always owned by Kodak) and been happy with them, and I know there are lots of other similar services. (Flickr also has a new printing service, and they have good network effects if you want to share your photos.)

[deadwinter]

hmmm, which player would this be. Perhaps eBay? I'm thinking of getting something and I don't want to give money to the Great Turtleneck Satan.

[beowabbit]

Mine is an iHP-120 (since renamed the H120 before they stopped selling it). I bought it largely because it supported Ogg (which is what I’d been ripping CDs to for a year before I bought it), because it had a voice recorder and recorded from line-in, and because it supported Linux reasonably well (in that it just showed up as a hard drive). Mine was the 20Gb version (and I still haven’t filled it up :-). Tragically, iRiver seems to have sold out to the other Great Satan, and their recent products just support MP3 and Formats of the Devil.

[supercheesegirl]

I was bummed for a long while--because Jorn has an iRiver, I already knew how to use it and knew that it would work for me, so I was totally floored to find out they didn't make it anymore. :/ But my ipod is shiny!

I think I'm going to do Kodak. But I'm annoyed, I'll have to move all the pictures from one to the other, and I had a lot of pictures in my Costco gallery. Grr!

[tisana]

You shouldn't have to buy a charger--if you bought it new, the cord that connects it to your computer can also plug into a wall charger--which is part of the package. Just plug it right into the adapter you got. Portable tunes is a goodness, especially on superboring flights. But have your camera out--I love taking pics out the window of a plane.

[supercheesegirl]

No, it definitely didn't come with a wall charger. I'm going to have to buy that separately. Maybe it was part of the package in earlier ipod editions, but not in the current one. They just want to steal all my money with the pretty toys...

[tisana]

What?!
Cheapass bastards.
Did they tell you that when you bought it? I'm surprised he didn't try to make add-ons to the sale with it.

[supercheesegirl]

I think I knew it... and I'm probably going to go back later this week and get the wall charger. Which just makes an excellent excuse to go talk to the cute British boy again will be annoying, you know, but I should really get that done.

Do you know, are cases for them only available from apple, or can I get a cute and functional knock-off case for cheaper elsewhere?