I was chatting to a friend over the weekend about instruments, and I confidently stated that an English concertina is made up of over 1000 individual parts (at the opposite end of the spectrum is my Angus fife, which is made of precisely 2 parts).
But I started to doubt that figure.
So I did a search, found this post on Cnet by Geoffrey Crabb, and actually I was wrong.
Geoff reckons it's more like 2,200 ...
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
iTunes rant #3
I fancied trying out the Amazon Kindle e-reader application on my iPod Touch.
So I went to the iTunes store on my main Win7 computer, and downloaded the free Kindle app.
But when I come to get that onto my iPod ... iTunes strikes again.
Because I've previously downloaded some apps directly onto my iPod, my iTunes installation on Win7 is unaware of those applications' existence. Similarly because I downloaded the Kindle app on my Win7 box, the iPod doesn't recognise that.
I have one iPod, which I regularly dock with one computer, both registered with the same iTunes account. To me, that sounds like a fairly stable relationship, the sort of relationship that my work Windows 2000 machine used to manage with my work Dell PDA at least 5 years ago. I could move documents backwards and forwards, manage the PDA either from the screen of the PDA or from my PC, and it all just somehow worked.
Scroll forward to the present day, apply the same thought to my iPod ... I'm in an impasse. The only way I can see to deal with the dissyncronisity between the iPod and iTunes will be to either
(a) continue purely downloading any apps on the iPod, thereby denying myself the speed and convenience of using the Win7 browser
or
(b) I could, presumably, download all the exiting apps again, get the two 'images' of what I've got on my iPod back in sync, and then avoid getting into this bind again by always downloading apps on the Win7 box.
Or the polo-necked pony-tailed Cupertino morons who develop this crap (presumably by randomly pressing keys on their overdesigned translucent Apple keyboards until they get some monkeys-writing-Hamlet effect that actually compiles) could look up the real definition of the word 'sync', as implemented by Microsoft and Dell about 5 years ago, and implement a version of that.
Once again, the brilliant iPod hardware is let down by the appalling software. I may have mentioned that before.
So I went to the iTunes store on my main Win7 computer, and downloaded the free Kindle app.
But when I come to get that onto my iPod ... iTunes strikes again.
Because I've previously downloaded some apps directly onto my iPod, my iTunes installation on Win7 is unaware of those applications' existence. Similarly because I downloaded the Kindle app on my Win7 box, the iPod doesn't recognise that.
I have one iPod, which I regularly dock with one computer, both registered with the same iTunes account. To me, that sounds like a fairly stable relationship, the sort of relationship that my work Windows 2000 machine used to manage with my work Dell PDA at least 5 years ago. I could move documents backwards and forwards, manage the PDA either from the screen of the PDA or from my PC, and it all just somehow worked.
Scroll forward to the present day, apply the same thought to my iPod ... I'm in an impasse. The only way I can see to deal with the dissyncronisity between the iPod and iTunes will be to either
(a) continue purely downloading any apps on the iPod, thereby denying myself the speed and convenience of using the Win7 browser
or
(b) I could, presumably, download all the exiting apps again, get the two 'images' of what I've got on my iPod back in sync, and then avoid getting into this bind again by always downloading apps on the Win7 box.
Or the polo-necked pony-tailed Cupertino morons who develop this crap (presumably by randomly pressing keys on their overdesigned translucent Apple keyboards until they get some monkeys-writing-Hamlet effect that actually compiles) could look up the real definition of the word 'sync', as implemented by Microsoft and Dell about 5 years ago, and implement a version of that.
Once again, the brilliant iPod hardware is let down by the appalling software. I may have mentioned that before.
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