Just discovered Offer Nissim through Pandora. Dang, this is some really good sh*t! Was just listening to Rain and man, does it make you want to dance! To bad I don't understand those vocals in Hebrew or whatever language it is.
Speaking of Pandora, like everyone else says, it's a brilliant way to discover new music matching one's taste. Last.fm, which I just started using liking nobody's business, might provide similar suggestion system through the Play Recommendation and Personal Radio functionalities. But I haven't submitted enough data for it to generate relevant suggestions. But it does look like a great social network of music. Too bad the Taiwanese community on it isn't all that active.
P.S. The fact that I'm breaking out of my cycle of posting once every some odd months says something about how much I like his music!
Friday, November 24, 2006
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
iPod Shuffle 2nd Gen.
What's a man to do while he's in an interviewing process that has been dragging on for 5 whole months, yet not too much has happened? Well, lots of ideas come to mind. But how about using the bonus check he received when leaving his last job and get a brand new gadget from Apple? Does it sound like a spice-things-up-during-yet-another-slow-day? Hell yeah I say!
Enter iPod Shuffle 2G. No, the capacity isn't 2 gig. The only model available only boosts 1 gig of storage, the exact same size as its predecessor. But this newest addition to the iPod family has got an extreme makeover. It no longer serves as a USB thumb drive. The only way to sync music is through a dock, which by the size of the dockee dictates a small form factor. But I'm confident it won't be long before something like this gets commercialized.
The Shuffle has always being touted as a simple device. No LCD extravaganza. The only interaction you'll perform on it most of the time is Play/Pause. So what can Apple do to push the minimalist envelop? What Apple does best, make it look sexy! And they did just that. The old Shuffle always struck me as flimsy. In no way did it deserve a place up on the pedestal with its other siblings. Yes, it worked just as advertised and was very durable to boot. But it lacked the wow-look-at-dat factor. That is history with the new and improved Shuffle. Although it has shed a tad ounces, down from 0.73 to 0.55, Shuffle 2G feels solid in hand. And best of all is that it comes with a clip built in. Since it is so small and is even lighter, there really isn't any point getting an arm band for it. Just clip it wherever you want. This is great news to gym-goers such as myself. In fact, I tried to attach the Shuffle to the Sennheiser LX70 that I bought just for exercise purpose, and surprisingly, it works pretty well!
Other than cosmetic difference, the new Shuffle performs slightly better than the old one. Sound quality is great if not better. Battery life, from what I gathered on the web, is even better than Shuffle 1G. 2G now boosts somewhere around 17 hours of playback time! My old Shuffle never ran out of juice on me and I'm sure the new one won't fail me in this department either.
All in all, for $79, or NTD 2900, the new Shuffle is a great guy. Smaller, lighter and sexier. All for half the price of the old model. I know I'll be a happier gym rat with it on the back of my head.
Enter iPod Shuffle 2G. No, the capacity isn't 2 gig. The only model available only boosts 1 gig of storage, the exact same size as its predecessor. But this newest addition to the iPod family has got an extreme makeover. It no longer serves as a USB thumb drive. The only way to sync music is through a dock, which by the size of the dockee dictates a small form factor. But I'm confident it won't be long before something like this gets commercialized.
The Shuffle has always being touted as a simple device. No LCD extravaganza. The only interaction you'll perform on it most of the time is Play/Pause. So what can Apple do to push the minimalist envelop? What Apple does best, make it look sexy! And they did just that. The old Shuffle always struck me as flimsy. In no way did it deserve a place up on the pedestal with its other siblings. Yes, it worked just as advertised and was very durable to boot. But it lacked the wow-look-at-dat factor. That is history with the new and improved Shuffle. Although it has shed a tad ounces, down from 0.73 to 0.55, Shuffle 2G feels solid in hand. And best of all is that it comes with a clip built in. Since it is so small and is even lighter, there really isn't any point getting an arm band for it. Just clip it wherever you want. This is great news to gym-goers such as myself. In fact, I tried to attach the Shuffle to the Sennheiser LX70 that I bought just for exercise purpose, and surprisingly, it works pretty well!
Other than cosmetic difference, the new Shuffle performs slightly better than the old one. Sound quality is great if not better. Battery life, from what I gathered on the web, is even better than Shuffle 1G. 2G now boosts somewhere around 17 hours of playback time! My old Shuffle never ran out of juice on me and I'm sure the new one won't fail me in this department either.
All in all, for $79, or NTD 2900, the new Shuffle is a great guy. Smaller, lighter and sexier. All for half the price of the old model. I know I'll be a happier gym rat with it on the back of my head.
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