Zune
Because it's just not Apple.
Ok, so the title is an exaggeration, but I'm a hit slut and want more people to click. One of my complaints about the Zune software was the length of time it takes to scan the device when you plug it in; you have to wait for a few minutes to rebuild its database of tracks on the desktop before you can start to delete things. On Thursday that stopped working. When I browsed to the artist list on the device I saw 3 artists. When I looked at albums I saw a grand total of 8 albums, by those...
Dear Zune Marketing,
Thank you for attempting to brand device to device transfer of music as "squirting". It enables me to make a number of smutty jokes and encourages school boy humour.
Yours, Barry.
So anyway Dinner #9 of the London Girl Geek Dinners was on Wednesday in a very noisy Balls Bothers in London. The speakers were Mary Sharoe, talking about how to survive as a woman in the geek world (despite being an honourary girl at these events I felt that one didn't apply to me <g>), Nicholas Anpazis on Feeds 2.0 (yummy, an RSS aggregator that learns and recommends; except...
So I bought a Zune whilst I was in California. My old MP3 player, a Creative Labs Zen was just getting too long in the tooth and didn't hold all my music so I was due an upgrade anyway and what with being a fan boy I really only had one option. Of course I simply had to get the brown one.
First impressions were good, the packaging was simply gorgeous and the Microsoft logo was hidden away on the base so you'd never see it unless you were looking. The box slide up and off to reveal the device, head...