Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The New Ipod Shuffle



With apple releasing the new ipod shuffle it shows how far ahead of the competition they really are. There new ipod shuffle is slow small it is half the size of the previous model. Now with 4 gigs of memory it can hold up to 1000 songs. Apple has developed voice technology that allows the ipod to tell you what songs you are listening to and your play lists. It also comes in black. The one draw back is that as you can see there is no buttons. The controls are now placed on the new headphones by apple. So what this means is that you are only able to use the Ipod with Apples head phones. So when they were out you have to shell out 30 dollars or more for new headphones to control it. Yes it may have new voice over technology, however the voices are very robot ish and not very smooth. Also it takes forever to wait for playlist to accesed. The new shuffle I believe has been over designed, i think if buttons were placed on the case it would much more user friendly. Im kind of disapointed at apples new creation, coming from a company that is usually the ipitomy of user friendlyness. 

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Twittering!


Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Similar to facebook's status feature, members can see what there family members, co-workers, and friends are doing at the moment. Twitter is even being used in politics, (see video), so people in real time can see what there favorite political leaders are saying at the moment. The epitome of Web 2.0