Make sure you show your anti-apple friends the new ZunePhone!!! http://www.tuaw.com/2007/01/23/zunephone-part-deux/ :)
Cheers Rod Blitvich on 25/1/07 1:55 AM, J Philippe Chaperon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Daniel & Mark, > > Many thanks for the excellent news!! I can't wait until tomorrow when he is > being met with another anti-Apple friend to tell both of the good news! > > > I suspect though that it will be impossible for me to undo the M$-camp brain > washing they have gone through ...... > > Good night, > > Philippe C > > > on 24/1/07 10:35 PM, Daniel Kerr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> >>> Hi Philippe >>> >>> No question is ever stupid,...just one that perhaps no one has asked yet. >>> :o) >>> >>> The iPod can indeed play MP3's, infact this is one of it's "main formats". >>> It can play a view format's as can be seen here:- >>> <http://www.apple.com/au/ipod/specs.html> >>> (About 1/4 the way down the page, under Audio) >>> >>> In terms of text files, it can also take these as well. And in fact if it's >>> saved as an .rft (Rich Text Format), you can actually view them on the iPod >>> screen itself. (In fact we do this with our DVD collection so we don't pay >>> ones we already have. If we're not sure we can look on our iPod in the shop >>> so we don't have to go back. OK, so that's kinda geeky,..but it saves a trip >>> back to the shop) ;o) >>> >>> But by the sound of it you could wave all this information in front of your >>> friend and he's not going to believe you anyway. ;o) >>> If you really want to get picky, just ask him about the Zune and what >>> formats IT can use! > > > on 24/1/07 11:08 PM, Mark Secker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> heh heh... I know what you mean Daniel... I had to physically sit >> down with my iPod at a friends WinXP box... plug it in to show him >> that - yes it did actually mount without re formatting.... and yes I >> could copy MP3 files on to it using iTunes (or third party iPod >> crackers) AND lordy lordy me despite his most adimant proclomations >> to the contarary that it would never happen because "every body know >> it cant work like that" that I could shift normal everyday files >> (text, word, excel, jpg etc etc etc) from the computer on to the iPod >> AND, incredible and amazing as it seemed to him too, actually copy >> them back off of it to the computer which spun him out because he >> was told that "everybody knows you can't copy files from and to an >> iPod...... um yeh sure that's why I took it to Japan as my primary >> backup device for my RAW photo files........ >> >> ... then about 4 weeks later I had to pretty much repeat most of this >> for the benifit of my housemates when one got an iPod for her >> birthday. > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Rod Blitvich - Amy & Sam¹s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.mac.com/blitto/iWeb/ I don't have a big ego, I'm way too cool for that.
