Tuesday 30 June 2009

I love the A2DP bluetooth on the iPod Touch



After that last post maybe this is favoritism? Tough! LOL

I have just got hold of the Motorola SoundPilot S705 A2DP Bluetooth headphone adapter.

This device lets you go wireless with your iPod Touch 2nd Gen with 3.0 software upgrade.

It is so amazing to walk around the house with this clipped to your belt, wearing the headphones of YOUR choice, either the ones supplied or my fancy shcmancy Sennheiser's. You can pause and play the iPod Touch and also control the volume from the device joystick. If you finish your podcast you can then switch to FM radio and tune into something crap locally (naughty me!).

The unit will also connect to your mobile as a handsfree with it's built in microphone (sadly not on the iPod Touch!)

Also it has a built in RDS FM receiver, which is pretty cool for a device this size.

Battery life is an amazing 7 hours on one charge, the unit comes with a belt clip, lanyard, pouch, headphones with three sets of those cloth covers and a mains charger.

If I hear that one more time I will scream!



It's just like the iphone!

REALLY?!

What, like banging your clothes with rocks down by the river is JUST LIKE a washing machine!

Sure, any phone can have touch this and slide that and keyboard this and music that but lets face it, no matter what they add....it is NEVER an iPhone, with iTunes sync, all those apps and just the cache of having an F'ing iPhone.

Oooooh I am on a rant aren't I? I should be blowing it out with Big Fatty!!!

I've got a Zune....it's just like an iPod.....oh yeah, so much like it! LOL

That is my rant over...and relax! LOL


Pride48.com What a great weekend

Well, the weekend is behind us and I have thankfully had some sleep!

I was totally hooked on Pride48.com over the weekend and found it really difficult to switch off, even to sleep and spent both nights awake listening to shows.

Being in the UK of course the prime time shows in the states were in the middle of the night for me, but that was ok.

There is talk of another event later in the year and I will definately tune in for that, if you missed it, many of the shows which are still listed on the homepage of Pride48.com have posted bits of their live shows so you can at least get a flavor of what was happeneing.

Thanks to all the pocasters and Daniel Brewer and Auntie Vera Charles for their hard work and dedication, it really paid off guys!

Saturday 27 June 2009

Pride48

Listening to this weeks event.

The Pride48 streaming radio show.

48 hours of back to back live podcasters, fun and shennanigans all weekend long!



Thursday 25 June 2009

So angry with Blogger and Google!!!!

Google does hate.

They are closing down Kim Beaver's site as they have marked it as spam.

How utterly outrageous!

I love reading and sharing Kim's blog with everyone else in the Gay podosphere and I am angry and outraged that Google are threatening to remove the site.

This is Pride weekend and they are going to remove a Lesbian blogger. Sad.

Come on Google and Blogger, change this decision now before its too late and all that work is lost.

Shame on you!

SteveINtheUKok

Visit Kim Beaver's blog before it goes, leave a comment to let blogger know it is NOT a spam site here:


UPDATE:

Kim's blog has been saved! WOOOOW! So go visit her blog already!


Thursday 4 June 2009

Ta..Ta....Ta..Ta....Ta..Ta....Touch me! I want to feel your body!

A while back when Archerr from Archerr Radio was getting his new iMac and MacBook and all the hundreds of other Apple products he was maxing out his credit card with I had said I was getting a new iPod but I ended up not getting the one I had said and instead purchased the tiny iPod Nano 4G.

Well, today I took delivery of my brand new shiny lovely Apple iPod Touch 2G, Woooooow!

Sorry, just so happy to have an iPod Touch again. Not that I hated the Nano, but Apple are very clever with their feature reduction as you go down the line. Little things were a big pain such as not knowing how long a podcast is BEFORE you play it, and therefore mark it as being played were just inconvenient. There were other things that were taken out, nothing major, it still played music and sounded amazing and did all the things it needed to do but those little extras make such a big difference.

One big difference, apps, wow I never used them a lot but I did miss them! I'm a simple guy at heart and I loves my Battleships, ConnectFour, Hangman, Mini-Golf etc. Bowling was so good on the iPod touch too as well as a load of other games.

So this new iPod Touchy Feely arrives in the most minimalist packaging you can imagine, lift one sticker and the plastic see through case opens, lift the iPod Touch sticker to reveal the iPod Touch itself. Lift it out, bend the plastic plate that it sits in/on and oh my! it's so light compared to the last one which was pretty much a brick that lit up :-)

Plug it into the Mac and it makes noises, oooh, thats new. Can't wait to try the new in-built speaker which is such a major thing! as are the volume buttons, so handy! Who gets excited about volume buttons, just me and Archerr, thats who! LOL

The screen seems clearer and maybe slightly better at doing the multitouch pinching, the old iPod Touch never seemed great at doing that but that may have been the one I had.

It's all working beautifully and the speaker is an extra bonus, great for use as an internet radio now!

Glad to have an iPod Touch once more and glad to have these little extras and I hear battery life is increased by around 10 hours which is amazing considering how light it is now.