The Best Xmas Toy of the Year

I now have an iPod. My dad was getting my brother an iPod Touch and decided that I would probably want one too. While I already have access to 3 MP3 players, that is merely one aspect of the Touch. For those of you not familiar with the iPod Touch (which would include me before Christmas morning), take the iPhone and remove the phone and camera from it. Ta-da! However, it is possible for you to buy a headphone accessory and install the Skype app to use it as a phone when you are connected to wi-fi.

For me, I've spent most of my time listening to music while either playing the Finger Physics game or dabbling in the other apps. I downloaded free apps until today. I broke the cheap streak by splurging $2.99 on Scrabble. It is just a matter of time before I break down and pay the $7 for the cool racing games.

However, I must state that it sucks big time that iPods don't play nice with open-source since I spend most of my computer time on my Linux laptop. Well, let's see if it suffers like previous Windows-only peripherals of the past few years with only sporadic use. I think this may hamper my sharing files between my computers and Touch, but the self-contained apps and opportunity to acquire stuff from iTunes directly to the Touch should keep it a part of my routine pieces of electronics.