Re: FS: 40 GB iPod
- From: "kol_Isha" <kol_isha@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 12:43:28 -0400
Mike Falkner wrote:
I found navigating an iPod about as frustrating as a Blackberry. Ended
up going with the Creative Zen mp3 player and so far I like it.
Raf wrote:
I guess I'm stupid. The first time I ever used an ipod was at an art
exhibit of Annie Liebowitz's photographs. In each room they had a stand
with an headphones and ipods of the music of the artists whose photos
were in that room. It must have taken me two or three tries to figure
out how to work them.
You're far from stupid...I think it's an interesting exhibition of how
people's brains are wired differently.
Well, then, I'm glad I'm not the only one. I tend to be intuitive when I
pick up a new piece of technology. I just do what seems logical. But on
the iPod, the way the click wheel works does NOT seem logical to my brain.
Even now knowing how it works, I can't seem to get my fingers to move
properly to quickly access menu items. Guess it takes practice. I keep
wanting to scroll... up, down, right, left....
"No Busking" <nobusking@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
You're far from stupid...I think it's an interesting exhibition of how
people's brains are wired differently.
I found an iPod to be incredibly easy to navigate from the first time I
picked one up. It seemed like a very natural and obvious user interface.
Strangely, I now find Mac's to be really difficult to use.
Mike, I recently used a Mac at a friend's home. Maybe it is because I am so
accustomed to using Windows, and the menus there work differently (I'm using
to moving quickly on a computer, but everything I did on the Mac seemed to
have the opposite effect of what I expected)... so I had a hard time with it
also. Yet, I can find my way anywhere around a PC. Perhaps it's partly
practice, too. Eventually your brain trains your fingers what to do, and
your fingers do it automatically. I remember the first time I ever used a
computer (1997?) when I could not even coordinate my brain and fingers to
work the mouse properly... remember playing a game of solitaire and just not
being able to even get the cards to turn over. And now... I zip around.
(guitar content).... It is probably a good lesson in terms of learning the
guitar, too. I am sloppy with my fingerpicking and tend to often forget to
hit the bass note. Long years of habitual playing of the same fingerpick
patterns over and over again have led to very bad habits. A friend gave me
some exercises to do (boring) to get me to use alternate bass picking more
effectively... and I fail to practice... and he keeps telling me that if I
only would spend half an hour a day doing these exercises, my playing would
improve enormously. I'm lazy, but he is probably right. The way the brain
works, it would probably take a few weeks of doing it over and over again
until my fingers caught on and I could do it automatically.
New year's resolution....
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Regards,
Arlene
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"Kol_Isha" - A Woman's Voice
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