Prior to the Blog Awards I took delivery of an iPod Nano to give to the winner. At the time I was sorely tempted to get a nano for myself, but I resisted.. at least for a while
Anyhow my personal iPod Nano arrived on Friday afternoon. It was shipped from Hong Kong, as I had it etched with the Blacknight Logo. It looks kind of like this:
Unfortunately I couldn’t get the text bit onto it, so it’s just the logo at the top, but even so it looks very cool.
Under Windows there is iTunes to manage your playlists and send files across to it, while on Linux I’ve been experimenting with gtkpod, which seems to be more functional than iTunes.
The next question, of course, is whether I want to put linux on it or not…
iPod Nano Wins
I got mine with normal text .. how do you request an image like that?
That would be telling 🙂
Lol spoil sport!!
Very cool – any links to the website where you can order these?
You can get normal text for free when ordering through the online store .. I’m not sure about images. As blacknight says “It was shipped from Hong Kong” so I dont think the lads down in Apple (cork) are doing them 😛
It’s something that Apple do though you have to pay to get your logo setup on their system.
I was thinking about putting linux on my 40gig iPod, but I heard that the mp3 player is slow.
Apple do logo engraving and deals on volume – see http://www.apple.com/uk/ipod/imaging
Dave – that’s where I found it as well 🙂
Unfortunately they aren’t very good at answering emails……….
Yea – its sometimes difficult to get to the right people in big companies like Apple. I got a good response from them at ipodvolume@euro.apple.com. Did you use this email address?
Dave – funny that considering you are an Apple employee 🙂
Speaking of custom gear, Aspoke are running a special offer at the moment:
Blog entry about Aspoke special offer.
( I have no connection with Aspoke , other than having ordered one of these).
Paul – I’m hoping to get a tasty graphic sorted out so that I can get one of those aspoke yokes 🙂
Hello,
What do I have to do, to make an audiobook file appear on the audiobook folder on my iPod?
I didn’t get it how does it work.
Is there a special extension for audiobooks, because I’ve tried to convert to ACC (tutorial on this forum) but it didn’t work.
Please, help me.
Thanks
Hi everyone.
What’s a good alternative to the IPOD?
I’m wondering if any of you can recommend a good MP3 player that is comparable to the IPod but WITHOUT they hype and price tabe to go with it.
I was at the apple store a few days ago, and really liked the new 40GB or 80GB IPods that also show video, but was wondering if I could get the same kind of funcationality without that heftly price tag.