First of all I want all of my readers to know that I am not on the Apple payroll. That being said, I invite you to visit the new glories of the Apple iPod Touch.
This week has been extremely stressful for me as I once again prepare to leave town for the road part of my job. Yes, I am a road warrior. I stay in too many hotels, eat too much fast food and up until now I carried way to much equipment with me in and out of said hotel rooms.
As I have stated, my laptop weighs a ton and that weight plus the weight of my computer bag is sometimes too much to face when I roll into the hotel at midnight. I admit I have let my e-mail go for two or three days because I didn’t want to drag that laptop out. Most hotels have a business center but there is almost always someone using it for hours checking out eBay or playing blow up the aliens for hours and I don’t have the strength to wait.
So now I have a new piece of equipment that allows me to leave the ten pound weight in that 20 pound bag while I check my e-mail and make sure my website is up to date without waiting to see what new aliens have attacked New York. My iPod Touch is my new friend. Since I have been home for a week (a grand amount of time in my world) I decided to treat my evenings as though I was on the road. I have checked my e-mail, surfed the web for wholesale product and even looked at pictures of the same puppies that were licking my feet at the time. It is so extremely simple that I often check with my son (my own personal techie) to make sure I am not breaking it. Turn it on and off with one button—turn it off without having to close programs. That is right –just push the button when you are in AOL or on a website and there you go—you are off! When you turn it on again it goes back to where you were, but there is no problem in going back to your icons to choose where else you want to go. I don’t have to provide passwords for e-mail—the iPod Touch knows what to do. E-mail takes half the time—more time for a hot shower!! The only glitch I have found in the AOL e-mail area is that once you read an e-mail it is transferred into your old file and no longer shows up on the new page. This seems to be peculiar to AOL only but I have not researched my other e-mail providers.
As more cities are attempting to Wi-Fi their boundaries I am sure that internet connections will become super available and simple, but while I wait for the whole country to be one giant connection I am going to research various businesses for connectivity. As I start this next series of road warrior adventures I am going to visit various advertised locations to check out their purported consumer friendly connections and the untapped glories of my Touch. I will, I hope, be happily reporting that everything works as advertised and that I am a happy little warrior. I’ll be back soon.
