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November 22, 2009
My Slow Acceptance of the iPod Touch
So I'm writing this entry using the library's new iPod Touch. Terri got two of them with the idea that we could use them to access the Internet and the catalog when we're out in the stacks (which, if you've never been to WPL, are pretty far away from the reference desk). It's a brilliant idea except for the part where only a couple staff members know how to use these things, which is why we've been taking turns taking them home to learn how to use them.
Now, I am a good typist, a FAST typist, and I didn't anticipate how frustrated I would get trying to learn a new way to type. The first day gave me a fresh empathy for people who don't know how to use a mouse, and I thought there was no way I was going to get better at it, but I've surprised myself and am typing at maybe one-sixth my usual speed, which is still not shabby.
Of course, what's really made me stick with this whole thing is that Greg (our adult fiction/Apple product librarian) loaded Scramble on here, which I suck at and also can't stop playing. That and the fact that this thing loads up faster than my laptop won me over. It's kind of sad that I'm so easily won, but there you go. There's other stuff on here, like a link to wikipedia (yawn), a game where the goal is to try to keep a sheep in the air (boring), and a cheating Pac-man game that only has one board. What I REALLY need is Tetris. Hm...
Posted by adrienne at November 22, 2009 09:20 PM
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My husband and I just got iPhones and we love them. (You know you can download Skype--although if they're library iPods, that might be frowned on--and use it as a phone.)
There's also a Bananagrams app you can download, though it costs $5; I'm pretty sure the iPhone and iPod apps are the same--right?
Posted by: Jena at November 23, 2009 01:47 AM
Yes, I do think the apps are the same, but you're also right that we probably can't do anything that fun on the library's machines. Someday when I get one for myself, though, I'm all over them.
Posted by: adrienne at November 23, 2009 09:27 AM
I don't want to say Miss A is not telling the truth,but she does,in fact,have an ipod touch.Just sain' :-I Shocking.
Posted by: momster at November 25, 2009 02:12 PM