iGeekdom continues

Ok...so i got my ipod touch and it's pretty frigging cool. I love how it feels like I'm using technology right out of minority report. I do have some problems with it, what I call the "New York Subway" issue.

I get freaked out any time I have to show any new toy on the subway. I think some weird stalker is watching me and figuring out a way to follow me off the train and eventually cut me up to get my first rate electronics. So when I get a new shiny toy I try my best to keep it hidden. With the older ipods, you could keep it in your pocket, and could sense where the controls were, so it was no problem to go to the next song, lower the volume, or hit pause. Here, there is no contextual touch point to turn off the iPod touch, hit pause, or what not. If there is, I don't know how to do it yet, that's for sure. Apparently I hear that the iPhone's headphones had a button that stops and starts, but seeing how Apple's headphones traditionally suck, I use my Bose in-ear headphones. So that's my only gripe.

The plus side is the thing is frigging cool. I love it for the ability to show pictures and it's like a walking digital album. I've been showing off my wedding pictures and other assorted things so i Love it.

I've also enjoyed putting videos on it, TV shows I've burned but also videos I've shot with my digital camera and then transferred on via iTunes.

Now, being a big digital junkie, I also am a huge TV fan. i work in advertising and like to keep my finger on the pulse of pop culture. I have Time Warner DVR, and I find myself taping a gazillion shows I never got to watch. It seems a waste that I had a digital recorder and yet no way to transfer the shows into a playable format on my ipod. (Screw paying $1.99 an episode for something I'm already paying for). So today, my brother sent me a link to this new toy called the iRecord. Basically, my understanding is that it allows you to transfer files from your DVR to your iPod. So now when i'm travelling, I can watch all the shows I don't have time to see on my couch but might be able to when I'm sitting around waiting around to do nothing.

Then again, it is $199.99, so one has to ask yourself where it stands on the priority list. Still pretty cool.