iPod touch...not the best iPod ever

I got the iPod touch (16GB) this last Christmas and although I enjoy it better than my iPod nano 2nd generation and iPod with video (5th generation) it does have some problems. I listen to alot of podcasts and video podcast (vidcasts).

* On the older iPod's with a screen you could see show notes, or lyrics for music, if you click the button a couple times. Well the iPod touch doesn't have this feature, or I can't find it.

* Another thing missing is the ability to listen to podcasts at an audiobook speed when the podcast is in the .M4B format.

* Lastly, when viewing a list of shows they no longer scroll the title to show the full podcats title, kinda-of a pain.

Those are simple things that could be fixed and I hope I am not alone on this one. You might be wondering why I have 3 perfectly good iPod's, well I didn't actually pay for the other two, but that's not important. The iPod with video was my second iPod (started with a mini) because I wanted to watch videos on it. I used it for about a year at the gym and running, which I think caused it to slow down some due to jarring of the harddrive. I got the nano because of the nike+ pack and will still use that for that purpose. I wanted the iPod touch for the internet access and the video playback without the harddrive.

As a side note I also have a Dell Axim x51v, which is pretty sweet. The problem is that there are no good media player/podcast catchers and the battery life is not so good. I used it as my pda at work, but now I am using the iPod touch as a PDA. I sync with my Macbook and my windows pc. You can easily sync music, videos, photos, podcasts, calendar and contacts with the mac and then only sync the calendar and contacts on the pc. Once you do that you can merge the to and a regular basis. The mac will create a new calendar called Outlook and put the outlook stuff in there. Pretty cool

Tips & Tricks

* While playing music or a podcast and you are on another screen just push the button twice real quick and a windows pops up with volume, play/pause next/previous.

* While playing any media hold the forward button down for a short period of time to have it play faster and finally it will skim through the media.

* If you pause the content and then hold the forward button down you get slow-mo sounds.


Okay that's it for now.