After a week with the iPod touch here is what I have learned. Keep in mind I have a first gen model with the 2.1 upgrade. This stuff is probably documented somewhere but I generraly skip the dogs.

While using mail, if you swipe left on a message in the message list you are given the option to delete it.

While in any app you can double tap the home button to get a volume control and ability to pause/play or skip tracks.

The keyboard will auto correct a lot of things yet it can’t spell check.

I think that is it for now. If there is something you know about that I didn’t list here leave iron the comments area.

Some research was done to determine what people do when confronted with a dialog box. Turns out they just do what ever they need to do to get rid of it, regardless of what it says. Here’s the link

Fake pup study sadly confirms most users are idiots

Although I’ve had the hardware and software for a little while the setup had never been put to too much of test until tonight. Tonight was the start of the new season of Heroes but it also overlapped with an episode of Sarah Conner Chronicles. I am quite pleased to report that EyeTV handled the whole process very well. It managed to record both shows and deal the overlapping shows (it is configured to record 2 minutes before and after the show) by swapping which tuner it was recording from.

Everyone once in a while my hot corners will stop working. After a bit of trial and error I found that it is the Dock process that controls hot corners. Opening terminal and typing killall Dock will get your hot corners working again.

If you are a regular reader then you already know I recently picked up an iPod Touch recently. After a bit tinkering with the Power Mac G4 MDD I found that it just wasn’t going to be useful for me. What I really needed was something that could provide some of the same functionality as a laptop.

The laptop I currently have is in need of a new battery, it’d be the third in less than three years, I just couldn’t justify spending 130 for something that would die again in less than a year.

I also needed a new MP3 player, a way to play TV shows but not completely give up the ability to browse the web and check my email. So in comes the iPod Touch. It can play music, video,
browse the web and do email. And if that isn’t enough, you can download more software via the App Store. This post was in fact pecked out on the iPod Touch on screen keyboard. Sure I could do the same thing on a full blown laptop but it wouldn’t be nearly as portable and honestly, nearly as fun.

Browsing the web using Safari is actually a treat because it uses the same rendering engine as the same one used in Safari on the Mac. The on screen keyboard is surprisingly easy to use and even fixed your misspellings on the fly.

So far, after just a couple of days with it, I don’t feel like I’ve sacrificed much if anything at all. If you’re on the fence about whether or not an iPod Touch, or an iPhone, would be a sufficient laptop substitute I think you can rest easy knowing that yes, it definitly can be.

There are however some notable limitations. You can’t unload pictures from your digital camera and you are limited to a small screen, on screen keyboard and you’re tied into the iTunes ecosystem with no other options.

I can’t help but browse the App Store and look for apps to install on my Touch. I just found an app that let’s me write blog posts on the touch while offline, sweet!!

Quick and easy way to add recent applications your Leopard dock as a stack. Via Tuaw.com