Ugh, I’m never going to meet my months workout goal now.

That wasn’t a very interesting blog post now was it?

Mac OS X tip of the decade. Hyped up a tad lad.  I intended to mention this weeks ago after discovering a neat trick in one of those “hmm, I wonder if…” type moments, but I’m Mr forgetful.  Quite often I need to choose/open a file which I already have in front of me in finder, the software doesn’t offer a drag-n-drop method and I’m thinking gawd, it’ll take ages to navigate to the file in the file dialog.  For instance when uploading a file to a web site. Well, turns out you can drop the file onto any gap on a standard mac file dialog.  Neat!  Slight bug though, sometimes when you do it it will navigate to the folder but won’t select the file, but if you drop it a second time it will select.  Either way it’s a time saver!

Used the 2nd Gen iPod nano + Nike for a while now so here is a scattergun barrage of my feelings.

What the peeps have been saying is true, the iPod+nike effort really does succeed in being a motivator.  No way would I have run as much as I have been over the last few weeks without this kit.

Probably no substitute for those expensive shure or sheinerheissher earbuds that cost a fortune but the redesigned apple earbuds sit in my ear in such a way that they seem to sound a little bassier than the older ones, so that’s good.

My eyes truly did decieve me when glancing upon the photo of the Nike armband on Apple’s site, it isn’t a gross mock-leather affair at all.  It’s all fabric thank god, it’s not great, great would have some way of seeing the screen, but after wearing it I can appreciate the design, it’s all for the feel of it on your arm, when you stretch it tight around it manages to make yer feel all muscley, haha I dunno how it does it but it makes you feel super fit.

My nano 2G has crashed 4 times, maybe even 5.  Some have been hangs when initiating a workout, the other times when casually navigating the library.  I thinks Apple knows of a problem because since receiving it iTunes has patched the nano’s firmware 3 times already.

Often, especially with 80’s music, some music has been mastered to CD a little too quietly.  You can fix this in iTunes by using a feature which lets you increase the volume on a per track basis.  I’ve had a little problem with this feature when the music is on an iPod before, but the Nike kit outdoes all my previous annoyances with what is one of the most dumb things I’ve ever witnessed.  When, running and you hit a piece of music which you have had to increase the volume for it will do as it should and you won’t notice that the music has been recorded too quiet.  But then the womans voice will shout “2 MILES COMPLETED” so loud that you jump, fall to the ground twisting your ankle and nursing your poor ears which now have blood pouring from the vessels.  Yup, the nano has increased not just the volume of the quiet music playing, but the whole iPod volume, including the nike vocal cues.  Gosh… dumb.

I still haven’t gotten over how much I love the red finish, every time I pick up the nano I have to stop for a few moments to gawp and take in it’s beauty.

Wow, I’m pooped, i’ve just come back from a 3.5 mile run… well apparently it was 3.5 miles…

Hey look what arrived today! The toast of the town, it’s a red iPod Nano. Gosh, the box is even smaller than I realised, no photo can do justice to just how small this box is. Me loves the red, it’s a nice red, as nice as a red can be. The nike thing is a dandy contraption, and super easy to use. To calibrate it you just go to the calibration menu, choose either walk or run and that run for say 400metres, and it says to you sumting like “start running now” in a darling female voice. Unfortunately, i think I must have got the distance a bit off when I calibrated it though because I’ve just come back from a run and the Nike+ website reckons I’ve just run 3.56 miles and looking at an A-Z I cannot make the route out to be 3.56 by anyones reckoning. Guess I’d better give the calibration another good going over.

Hey, tell you what, the new headphones are a real improvement. I didn’t have all that much against the old ones except that run running I’d have re-adjust them a tad now and then. Well, these new ones sit so snug in and cosy in my ears that they didn’t budge an inch the whole jaunt.

I founsies a nice little Wordpress plugin for flickr. It adds a “photos” tab to the the upload/file broswer panel on the write post page. You scroll through your flickr photo’s right on the write post page and just click on one, a menu pop’s up and you choose the size you want to be inserted into the text! How easy is that!

Not at all sure what to write about so I think i’ll write about how allay cats love to play hop-scotch.

The nights are drawing in terribly now, i was staring out my window at 5pm at a moonlit night and it was way depressing. It’s deadly silent too. Scary.

Ordered a (Product) Red* iPod nano, nike+ sensor doodar and nike+ armband yesterday, hazaaaar. My joy was quickly soured however when the order gave me an estimated despatch date of the 23rd of october. That’s like 3 weeks away! So hopped around in a strop, cursing Apple for releasing these things when they can’t even fulfil a days worth of orders so they really ought to call it a pre-order. But I just, like 5 minutes ago received a despatch confirmation off them! Wooohoo! Now that’s what you call a pessimistic despatch date.

The Nike+ Armband is freeking ugly by the looks of the picture but as far as I can work out, when you’re using the nike sensor it’s either the ugly faux leather armband where you can’t even see the screen, or you run with it in your hand, getting in a tangle no doubt. Because the sensor stops it from fitting into the slinky little apple made armband and it’s using the same socket as the lanyard thing so that’s out of the question too. Bit of a nuisanse that.