Ooooo you have to love Cliff Richard's 1980's Walkman-inspired pop hit, maybe. My mum used to refer to any form of personal stereo equipment as a "wired for sound" and it stuck with me, thus ensuring decades of misery as the thought of Cliff on rollerskates, extolling the virtues of virtual pop music spins around inside my head every time I think of cassette tapes, CDs and MP3 players ... (obligatory link to cheesy video here).
The reason for the convoluted intro is the fact I recently splashed out on Video iPod and I have to say I'm totally impressed. I've tried Apple kit before and never really got on with it but the iPod really is a masterpiece of design and utility. There's no frills, no extraneous buttons, knobs or twiddly bits, it doesn't even have a carrying handle of belt strap, it's just a compact, flat but handsome device which does exactly what you'd expect it to do, namely play MP3s and video files (currently there's series #1 of Black Books on there, if you haven't seen it it's hilarious!)
So, hoorah to Apple for making life easy, except for some small thing...
As a Linux user I can't run iTunes natively and, as I was too lazy to run it through VmWare I just plugged it in and started loading up tunes and movies for all I was worth. The other day I decided to have a bash at iTunes and see what it did so I downloaded and fired up said iTunes software and clicked the "Yes" button when asked if I wanted to update the iPod, approximately 20 seconds later iTunes told me gleefully it had synchronised my content to it's satisfaction. What this actually meant was "I deleted everything from your iPod and now it's gone. Forever. And Ever".
So up yours Apple, you could have asked me first!!
(Crussell would like to point out there are no Cliff Richard tunes on his iPod)
