What is the reason for this? People complain that they don’t want to carry around lots of devices with them. How lazy are these people? Music players like the iPod Nano or creative zen series fit easily in a jacket pocket with a phone. It is not like anyone carries a brief case anymore, all most people have to carry these days, is phone,wallet and keys. You can’t carry a music player to? Personally, I have a Nokia phone, iPod touch and a Casio camera, which is how I like it. Each device is amazing what it does by itself, I can’t see how putting these devices together would give me any gain what so ever. But with all these devices coming together, the standalone devices may stop being sold. There is already talk about getting rid of the iPod Classic. Well I tell these device makers, I am not buying your toaster phone!

Bluetooth The recent updated added Bluetooth A2PD support. However it doesn’t give support for any other uses of bluetooth. For example the iPod can not to be paired with bluetooth headsets. This is seems like an odd move as the same update added a voice memo app to the home screen. Not allowing audio input seems like a move to stop Skype app from users from using a bluetooth headset and help the sells of the iPhone. The bluetooth can only be used with stereo headphones, it can not be used to send pictures, audio files or anything. The bluetooth connection not even be used to send and recieve contact information. I hope that this will be fixed in later updates.
Fix coverflow This is something that has been broken since version one of the iPod touch/iPhone. If your viewing music and turn the device to it’s side then, it shows the album art in coverflow view. This is very nice and very easy was of finding music, however turn the device while browsering either podcasts or audiobooks, then the current podcast/audiobook is shown surrounded with all the music cover art. It should really show the other podcasts/audiobooks so that they are be browsed this like. This may seem like a small thing, but it hasn’t been fixed in all the updates to the device. Other libraries such as TV shows and movies can not be viewed in coverflow.
Battery indercator Something that was added to the new iPhone update and not the iPod OS 3.0 update was the battery indercator. This seems like such a small thing not to include, but on a portable device, battery life is all important. Not including this is just lazyness on apple’s part.
Remote speakers One of the little known features of iTunes is the ability to add remote speakers is called airtunes. AirTunes takes the music from the iTunes library on your computer and sends it wirelessly to any stereo or speakers in your home. At the moment is only used in Airport Express and Apple TV, but this functionally could be extremely useful in an iPod. If added, you could listen to your music library streamed to your device, while around the home. As many people have more music on their PC when on the iPod itself. This is the reason why this hasn’t been implemented, as it would MIGHT drop the sales of a 32GB version of the iPod touch. I still think apple should add this in, as promotes the airtunes feature which many people do not even know about.
iPod gestures One of the problems with the iPod (and iPhone) is that as a media device, they are not user friendly. For the most part, most iPod/MP3 players are used on the way to work/school or in the gym. At both of these times, your hands are busy, driving, holding things or handling machines. The device needs at least one hand and eyes contact to even change tracks, as the device most be unlocked using the screen, unlike other music plays with buttons. The perfect way of fixing this would to add gestures. Pictured right, the user wouldn’t even need to look at the device.
Alert clock One of the thing that really holds the iPod touch from being a good alarm clock is the fact that songs can not be used in built-in alarm clock. I can not explain why this is, the Ipod touch and iPhone both have a loud speaker that could be used for this. The options that are given are a limited selection of what sound like default text tones from a 1998 nokia phone. As applications can not be set to run in the background, this can only be fixed by apple.

What would you add in if you had the chance? Leave your comments below.

It was only months later until I back into the service, because when watching Jonathan Ross show, Stephen Fry was a guest on the show and both of them were talking about having twitter accounts. I thought that if Stephen Fry was on the service, he might have something interesting to say, so I might as well give it a go. How wrong could I be, the other day, he posted before and after pictures of his haircut. I mean come on, how vain can a person be to post that. It turns out that they are a number of so call famous people on twitter. All of them seem to think that everyone is interesting is every little fact of they lives.

So back to the question in hand, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing is my answer. I think that is everything wrong with the internet, as it is short form content (as there is a limit of 140 characters) for those that have a very short attendation spans. It allows people to be extremely vain and talk about the stupid manusha of they lives. The worse example of twitter is the story of the man who twittered the results of a trail before the judge read out the judgement, which has caused a mistrial. The only use of have got from it has been a couple of links to interesting projects or videos. They are other services for this, such as delicious and Digg that are much better for social bookmarking.

If you interesting in following me, I am @thespacedmonkey. It automatically imports the posts for this blog and I do, from time to time post interesting links up there. Otherwise, I wouldn’t bother..

	BBC iPlayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/ The BBC puts all their original content from TV and radio from the last 7 days on the Iplayer. A copy can be downloaded to your PC and kept for 30 days. There is also a web based version that uses flash, like youtube that can be streamed online and can be viewed full screen. It doesn’t only work in your browser, but also works on the IPhone/Ipod Touch, Wii and Media Center/XBOX 360. There are some really good shows on the iplayer, like Mock the week and Nevermind the Buzzcocks. This is an amazing service, easy to use, quick and lots of great content.
	ITV Catchup http://www.itv.com/catchup/ ITV were extremely slow about getting around to putting their content online unlike the other channels. The most important thing to note about ITV’s service is that it requires the installation of Microsoft’s Flash like plug-in called SilverLight. The biggest problem with this service is that there is nothing good on ITV, so there is nothing to watch.
	Channel 4 http://www.channel4.com/watch_online/ Channel 4′s is very impressive offering, as it includes many of the American shows it has the rights to in the UK. My personal favorite is My Name is Earl. The range of content is impressive. Viewing the content requires Windows Media player 11 and a large download of DRM codex. This means that you must be viewed on a Genuine version of Windows XP or higher, meaning I can watch anything on my Macbook.
	Channel 5 http://demand.five.tv/Home.aspx Channel 5 seems pretty good as well, it uses Flash and includes American content like my beloved House and Home and away. The only problem that it requires you to create a user.

These are just all the web based video that is just coming out the UK, there are lots of other services from America, many of which can not be accessed from the UK. There is one site, revision3, is a completely internet based Television network. It is mostly geek shows but there is really entertaining stuff on there like Diggnation, The totally rad show and Tekvilla.

With all those options, you now have no reason not to be glued to your Computer’s screen.

In case you didn’t heard, Apple’s much fated touch screen mobile phone the Iphone has finally hit the UK. It has only been a matter of days and I am already sick of the thing. The amount of press coverage this stupid little device has got makes me want to be ill. It seems to turn everyone from the press to the nerds into small children, who want to play with a new shiny toy. I can’t believe how much people are talking about this one thing. Has a fan of new and technology news particularly, the coverage of this small device has blown me away. The best example of this is BBC news website, which is one of the most trusted news web sites in the world, wrote a review. I asked you, how on earth is a review of a phone, news? I try and keep up to date with all the new stuff happening in the world of tech, but the news is all about the iphone. I used to really used to enjoy listening to tech podcasts like Buzz out loud and TWIT but it is nothing but pointless detail about this stupid phone and it is making my life a living hell.

Now you may think that I am just not a fan of Apple, which simply is not true. I can’t wait for Christmas, where I am hoping to find a have a brand new Macbook under the Christmas tree. I am sick of the Apple fan boys, that seem to think that every product that comes out of the Steve Jobs machine is amazing and every product that Apple makes, is going to change the world. It is not like this device, say helps save lives or anything, it is just a MP3 phone. All the Iphone does it disconnect us more from the real world by making it easier to access the internet on the bus.

I have used an Iphone for a while, when I was in Boston on holiday for a week, I went into the Mac store there and had a play with one for a while. I must admit, the thing did impressed me. I played around the picture pinch interface and viewed spacedmonkey on the web browser and was impressed. But after about 10 minutes of playing with the thing, I was already bored. I know that if I had one, I would love the thing and spend all my time, checking facebook on it or hacking it to run Pac-man. I also know that spend for to much time in front of computer screens as it is. I think we should all really think about what is going on with the world and think if we really want to spend more time on our computers by making them smaller and putting them in our pockets.