> He's the one with the zune?? I never knew he could squirt songs. Actually it's my son with the Zune. I'm perfectly happy with my old Sandisk.
But since the subject came up, squirting is SO last week. The Zune software was updated on 9/16 and it's VERY slick. The Zune is now wi-fi enabled, so he can browse, play, watch, and download anything he wants while sitting in McDonald's or on our family room couch. If he's listening to FM on the thing and hears a song that he likes, Zune will identify it and make it downloadable. It plays a bunch of new games, including a very nifty version of Texas Hold'em. It has a 30% bigger screen than iPod classic, and it's lighter and thinner. The "recommendations feature" is superb, and it's not just me saying this. See http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/09/zune-recommenda.html: What we saw made iTunes' simple Genius feature look like a blast from digital music's past. The new feature, called MixView, displays a single album, artist or user in the center of the screen and surrounds it with related items in a graphical format.... You can start on an artist and instantly discover which bands influenced that artist and vice versa by mousing over those surrounding elements.... Double-clicking through to any song plays a 30-second sample, offers a chance to buy the track or, if you're a Zune Pass subscriber, plays the track in its entirety. Another cool Zune 3 software feature ... is the new Now Playing screen, which displays relevant stats about the currently playing song in a lush, full screen interface -- sort of like an automated version of the VH1 show Pop Up Video. My son told me that a "significant" number of his high school friends showed up for the first day of school with new Zunes, having ditched their iPods over the summer. Of course, none of this will make any difference to Tom, who is far more concerned with whose logo is on the box than with what's inside it. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
