On Sep 24, 2008, at 10:19 PM, Cara Quinn wrote:
Hey All, not sure who's played around with this yet, but I have
great news! For those who may not know, the photos section on the
Nano is pretty much accessible!
I synced an images folder I have which is a mirror of my mini book
(a folio that I take with me, generally, wherever I go) and not only
did the sync go smoothly from within ITunes, but afterward I was
able to access the photos menu on the Nano with no trouble at all,
with two minor caveats, as I'll mention below.
Entering the photos menu, you're presented with two choices. One
for the actual images and one for settings. These two particular
menu choices don't read, however, as there are only two of them, I
had no trouble.
Clicking on the settings menu, everything that I can see so far,
reads just fine. I.E. I can set slide show times and transition
settings as well as selecting music for slide shows, and even types
of output for sending images to TV.
In the images menu, the image titles themselves don't speak,
however, if one has the clicker enabled, (as I usually do not) one
can easily scroll through images that way.
So though I'd love to have image titles spoken, I'm highly
impressed with the level of access for images so far! This is way
more than I'd expected! woohoo!…
This is pretty nifty. I didn't try out the photos option on the iPod.
I did try out the video section. There's less spoken information for
the videos -- e.g., if you press the center of the wheel it won't
interrupt the movie to tell you the title, since you presumably know
it (unlike songs in shuffle play). The main difference I found is
that I can use "scrubbing" mode more efficiently to move through
movies than I can move through audio tracks. The scrubbing action
where your press the center of the wheel to enter this fast
positioning mode is set OK for movies and videos and feels the way my
2G nano does for audio tracks, but the motion is too fine-grained for
scrubbing easily through spoken word content and podcasts. It's meant
to supplement the forward and reverse buttons with faster action, but
in the case of audio tracks I just use the forward and reverse buttons
held down, because I can't go much faster with scrubbing audio
tracks. (I do use scrubbing for audio book tracks on my 2G nano,
where the feel of the action is like the scrubbing action for videos
on the 4G).
Now, on to videos. It seems that everything in the video section
speaks which again, is more than I'd expected, so just thought those
of you who may not have played with this feature so far might be
interested.
Hope yer' all having a great night and catch ya on the flip!…
Smiles,
Cara :)
