Tricklin

My beautiful and very awesome wife bought me a 16Gb iPod Touch for Christmas this year, and I must say, I absolutely love it. I never intended to get an iPhone because I just can't stand the fact that you have to go with AT&T as your carrier. I've been satisfied with T-Mobile, and really didn't want to leave them. So, the Touch was a great alternative. I've been playing around with It for a few days now, and I'm in love. What's to love you ask? Let me list them for you:

• Wi-Fi access
• Direct access to iTunes
• The App Store
• Video playback: I can now carry this on a plane to watch movies on as opposed to lugging around my laptop all the time
  Music library
• Touch screen: this thing is phenomenal. I thought the typing on it would be difficult, but to my pleasant surprise, it's very easy to get used to. In fact, I'm writing this entire post with it right now.
• My favorite part, however, is the personalized engraving that my wife had put on the back.

Overall, I would absolutely recommend an iPod Touch to anyone. It has nearly everything the iPhone has, except for the phone service, and the constant Internet access. Personally, I can do without this. That is what my Blackberry is for. ;)

What in the hell was Hasbro thinking? I remember back in the day, when they came out with the first Super Soaker. It was awesome, and I absolutely had to have it. This was not your ordinary water gun; this thing was powerful. It could shoot water at distances up to 60 feet.

That was a long time ago, and it's understandable that there's probably only so much you can do with a water gun after so many years, but this is a little ridiculous.

To see what I'm talking about, check out the commercial.

Is this really a toy you want your kids playing with?

This Monday (11/21), TiVo announced that consumers will now be able to download their TiVo recordings onto their video iPod. This is great news for all video iPod owners out there! Or is it?

How will it work?
Well, to get your freshly recorded episode of "America's Next Top Model" onto your iPod, you must first install the latest version of TiVoToGo onto your PC. Oh yeah, did I mention that this will only work on a PC and not a Mac? Once you've installed the latest TiVoToGo, you'll start it up from your PC, which will look for your Series2 TiVo (yes, that's right. This will only work on Series2 TiVos) on the network, find it, and produce a list of shows available for download. From here, you can select the shows you wish to download, and wait... and wait... and wait... and wait...

Don't expect instant gratification: The transfer process from a TiVo Series2 set-top-box to a PC - a necessary step before syncing to a portable - occurs roughly in real-time. An hour-long show will take an hour to transfer to the PC, then roughly another 10 minutes or so to sync to a portable device. -- Associated Press

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