Can you explain to me

[bfogg]

Ipod? a blackberry? a mp3?

I feel like such a hick but I see them being talked about all the time and I don't have a clue??

Oh what is that other thing,I think you can record t.v. shows on it? Oh Tivo maybe?

:

Bon

 

[backwoodsnanny]

Bonnie Im an old foggie but I do know Tivo is to record TV and have programs whenever you want to watch them. The MP3 and I think the Ipod both allow recording or playing music. Im sure our younger members will explain better than I can.

 

[lilbitcrazy]

yes the ipod and mp3 player record music and you can take it anywhere

 

[anoki]

You can also download pictures to ipods (and the really big ones, I think you can download computer files to as well).

I forgot to say that ipods & mp3 players both record music, but they are music files off your computer (make sense?). So you can download music to your computer (from either your cds or a website) then download it onto an ipod so you can take many songs with you on a fairly small device!

Read more about ipods:

http://www.apple.com/ipod/

~kathryn

 

[iluvwalkers]

Hi, a Blackberry is a cell phone that you can also use as a computer. You can send a receive emails with them. Pretty neat little things!

 

[lilhorseladie]

Bonnie and I must live under the same rock as I too wondered how these things worked...I have never heard of a blackberry!

 

[RainSong]

mp3's are songs that are ripped (recorded, sorta) from a CD to your computer. The Ipod is a device that can play mp3's as well as some other media files- some movie files and other music filetypes (I think .wma's). It used to be hard to find software that allowed song ripping- now most music programs include it. WinAmp is one of the most well-known (and free) programs used to listen to .mp3's that are on your harddrive.

Mp3 is just a filetype, honestly, just like .jpg or .gif - and music can be ripped into may different filetypes. The Mp3 filetype is just one of the most commonly used ones. IPods are supposed to be used only with music that is bought- either you own the CD, or use a pay-to-download fileservice- Itunes is ment to be used, mostly, but Napster is another. However, alot of people download illegally via peer-to-peer file sharing programs, like Limewire (currently suffering a major lawsuit), KaZaa, BearShare, and I'm sure others I don't know about. I think KaZaa was destroyed in the round of lawsuits that hit it and Napster a few years back- Napster reinvented itself as a pay-to-download service, and survived. There was another I can't recall the name of that was recently killed, other then Limewire. The peer-to-peers don't just cater to music downloads, either.

Dunno anything about Blackberries or TiVo... LOL

 

[Jill]

Oh, you are talking about some of my favorite toys!!!

I love my blackberry. It's my cell phone, but it also sends and recieves email and can browse the internet. I got it because it's easier to take on business trips than to lug my laptop with me.

With TIVO, I got us two of them years ago before hardly anyone even knew what they were. They are intergrated with DirecTV and it records "season passes" to programs we like and you can "rewind" live tv. You get used to that FAST. Now when I don't quite catch something in my car radio, my first thought is to rewind it so I can understand what they said!

:bgrin

 

[Yaddax3]

Bonnie:

When some guy at Nationals shoves two small electronic devices in front of you, it'll be me. One device will be an Ipod. The other will be a Blackberry. I'll be happy to show you how both work. Both are a very big part of my every-day life. Besides listening to music on it, I use the Ipod instead of a tape recorder for my job.

 

[bfogg]

Thanks so much everyone! Now I am probably the only person on the planet without a cell phone.

I have tried 2 verizon and U.S. Cellular and they don't work where I live.

I don't want to pay for both a home phone and a cellular .

Now what about a blackberry do they work better????

I will be wiaiting to meet you at nationals tech guy!! :saludando: Again thanks.

Bonnie

 

[NMMack]

And I LOOOOOOVE my iPod!!!

:

I have one for at home, and one for at work, they are WONDERFUL!!!! I can put pics of my fids and fun stuff on one of my iPods, and I have all my favorite oldies/country/classical/new music on mine! No commercials, I can play what I want, when I want!!!

I had never heard of a Blackberry, those sound like fun toys too!!!

:

Nancy

 

[Jill]

A blackberry still works through a cell phone provider -- like mine is from Verizon. So, they do not get any better reception than a "regular" cell phone. There are some areas I've been in where I have cell phone reception but no internet service on the blackberry.

 

[keeperofthehorses]

They are testing this new gizmo at work for us to possibly use next year. It's a cell phone, PDA, GPS, barcode scanner and I think music player too (but we're not supposed to use it for that). It's teeny, smaller than my current PDA. I'm pretty excited to try it, because we are currently hauling 4 different breakable gizmos out in to the field with us.

And that new chocolate phone/music player? That looks neeto, though that may be my inner chocolaholic speaking. :bgrin