New Apple iPod

Just read this BBC new article about the new iPod - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6980451.stm. Apple have announced that they are overhauling the entire iPod range to include touch screens and wi-fi connections - http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/.

It should be interesting to use once they are available. Being connected on the move to public wi-fi hotspots would enable people to browse the web (of course apple suggest you buy new music on the move) and access info. Educationally this would make the iPod much more flexible than at the moment where you have to connect to a computer to get new information onto the device.

Downloading Podcasts

I've been playing with some Perl scripts to automate the downloading of Podcasts. I find software such as iPodder or iTunes really limiting in how they can handle files and wanted to find a flexible simple solution.

Eventually I found this script w98Podfetch which allows you to completley customise how podcasts get downloaded, where they get stored on my computer and also the filename used. The only problem is that I can't yet get this to work fully on a Windows system - "works out of the box" on linux.

If anyone else has any sucess in downloading mp3 files which aren't mangled up (sounds like the Darleks are invading on the ones I got) then let me know.