fplanque: IT world

Up to recently, the iPod Touch was just lacking too many features. But it just got better: when loaded with version 1.1.2 of the firmware, you can now edit your calendar and contacts directly on the iPod. If it had notes and/or todo lists with that it would be the hell of a good PDA.

Now, I think I need to get one. Christmas sounds like a good excuse

Thank you to Mike Penny for the photos. More from Mike:

It IS cool, and I have to say the only reason I bought an iPod Touch is because of the calendar & diary features. I was not going to buy one that I had to Jailbreak. There are as yet - at least as far as I can see no other applications that work on it, but I am looking. There aren't even any games on the iTunes site that work yet.

Entertainingly awesome. Sadly true.

Tonight we came to the conclusion that there are actually five stages to mastering the art of marketing:

• Level 1: You don't know about marketing. You are a happy marketing target.
• Level 2: You understand marketing. You're starting to think you'd better be marketing than being marketed at.
• Level 3: You master marketing. You realize you now have the power to manipulate people and they don't even complain about it (cf #1).
• Level 4: Steve Jobs.
• Level 5: Jesus.

“Talk does not cook rice.”
– Chinese proverb

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
– Mark Twain