Ted's Blog

Tidbits this week and last week had gift ideas for iPod owners.

http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07480

Since I don't know any iPod owners except for me, I bought myself a gift (in ultra-violet):

http://www.radtech.us/podsleevz.html

The Tidbits guy likes it because (among other things) it takes some of the sensitivity away from the buttons.

One other accessory that is pretty neat is podlet that you connect to the top of the iPod that receives signals from a remote control. So that way you can hook up the iPod to your stereo and then skip forward, back, pause, control the volume, etc. with a remote. This guy suggests connecting the iPod to . . . . a PAL for a dynamite portable audio system. And he has a picture of it (the trouble, as he points out, is that while you can control the iPod from across the room, you can't actually see anything on the display from across the room):

http://www.danfrakes.com/writing/images/TidBITS/iPodTivoliNavPod.jpg

It's as if there is complete closure in the world. No doubt he has some way of turning the iPod into an Apache server so he can host Movable Type web logs too while listening to Lyle Lovett and Randy Newman.