I can haz iPod touch!

I'm not a big fan of Apple.

But some of their products are simply awesome.

A month ago, Sammy Larbi from CodeOdor.com sponsored the "Learn something new" contest. I decided to submit the DMX Lightshow project I have been working on and... I won! I chose an 8GB iPod touch and received it a couple of days before leaving on holidays.

The iPod is simply a wonderful piece of technology, perfectly put together as only Apple apparently is capable of doing. Its touch interface is very functional and fun to use: scrolling through a list of songs, a list of pictures or a website is always a pleasure.

In the last days I also started loading some TV shows on the iPod in order to watch them on the train or curled up in bed before going to sleep. Very enjoyable.

The only weak point of the whole experience is iTunes: the Windows version is painfully slow. Also, having organized my huge music library with Media Player using almost exclusively WMA files, I now have to slowly convert everything to AAC just to be able to put on the iPod. Video conversion is quite tricky too (iTunes doesn't seem to be able to do any video conversion) and I learnt a couple of things that I will post in the next days.

All in all, I'd totally recommend it. The device is almost perfect and I'm even starting to get tempted by the iPhone. I hope, for my shrinking bank account's sake, to be able to resist temptation... Again, thank you very much Sammy for the wonderful present!