iPod Video Rocks!

Bought an iPod Video and i'm in love with. Its so small and delicate it almost makes you not want to touch it. Black looks so good on it.

There are a few irritations like you don't have a Giffin iTrip transmitter for a video iPod yet. You can substitute a iCarTrip which charges and tunes your video iPod but guess what?! The channel selection for the tuner starts from 88.1 FM and unfortunately in Dallas 87.9 is the only free channel ..uuugh! It does work on 92.3 with a bit of noise. I wanted to rip out the antenna on my Accord but i couldn't find it and settled instead for a much saner option:
I went and bought a tape adapter from RadioShack and it plays out of my car stereo it plays with awesome clarity and i'm so happy with it. Today i ordered a skin from a vendor called iStyles, i'm sort of surprised that Apple's ipodstore does not have skins for the video iPod yet.

Another thing that i found was tough to do was trying to copy music from my friends iPod to mine. I did not have permissions to play any song that he had purchased on iTunes on my iPod. iPod organizes all the music on its harddisks on wierd folders which look like f02, f03 and so on and does not order them from by playlist. I had to copy over 10 GB of music from my Friends iPod to his laptop to my iPod and then had to access my iPod through my itunes and drag and drop songs that i needed onto playlists on my itunes and sync them up to my iPod !!!!! Really cumnersome huh! Wonder if there is an easier way to do this.

Well once these initial things are sorted out, i must admit i just cannot live without an iPod. I now interface it to my car, my amp and use it like a normal mp3player and have it on me all the time. The photo slideshow is awesome. I haven't figured out much use for the video feature yet.
All said and done iPod video black Rocks!

20 Fun Things to do before you turn 30!

I just came acros a list of 20 fun things to do before turning 30. Really interesting!

1 Visit Copacabana beach in Brazil
2 Take a ride in a Hot Air Balloon
3 Go Base Jumping
4 Travel on the Darjeeling train route
5 Drive down GT Road across India (1600 Miles)
6 Do a cross country drive on a Harley across United States
7 Climb Mount Everest
8 Visit the Edge of the American continental plate, known as the crack in the earth at Pingvellier.
9 Camp in a Rain Forest
10 Take a trek to see Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda
11 Vizit Mozart's Salzburg
12 Go Sky Diving
13 Go Base Jumping in Idaho
14 White water Rafting in the Ganges
15 Go Snorkelling in the Bahamas
16 Fly a Mig 29 in Russia
17 Tango in the Streets of Buenos Aires
18 Go Trekking in Ladakh
19 Visit an Active Volcano
20 Bungee Jumping in Ottawa - The Great Canadian Bungee Jump