Rick's World

I made a trip to the Apple store yesterday to take a look at the new video iPod. I wanted to put up a quicky review of it. There weren't many of the new iPods on display to play with at the Apple store. I had to find an Apple store employee who had… more »

Just got the Powermac back from the Apple Store and it seems to be working now. It also feels a lot faster now that it has twice the CPUs! :) I also had a chance to play with the new iPod nano. It's pretty nice. The click wheel works well, it weig… more »

Hey Apple, read this! I've owned an iPod (the 40GB 4th generation one) for about a year now and I wanted to document some suggestions for the future direction of the iPod Color Everywhere Part 1: Get rid of the iPods with the monocrome screens (… more »

I just discovered last night that my home computer won't boot if my iPod Shuffle is connected! Strange. I don't know if this is a Shuffle problem or a PC problem though. more »

It truly amazes me how the iPod seems to have universal appeal, even with people who could hardly be called computer saavy. I have seen this appeal occur twice already in my family. My brother owns the 20GB U2 edition of the iPod. He doesn't even lik… more »

Today Apple made several updates to their iPod product line. The changes were as follows: Introduced a new 6GB iPod Mini for $249 (formerly the 4GB iPod Mini cost this) Lowered the price of the 4GB iPod Mini to $199 (down from $249) Added a 30GB i… more »

No doubt you've heard about the Apple iPod. For those of you who haven't, the iPod is a portable music player that allows you to carry around a large number of music files and listen to them anywhere. If you've seen someone walking around with white head… more »