Last dip , rumors flew fast and furious that Steve Jobs had a big iPod announcement in the works . Lead runner in the hearsay race was an iPod that would store and meet videos . As it turned out , TV fan were let down when all Steve had to declare oneself was the iPod pic and ( oh , yeah ) the big rock band in the existence . In his January editor ’s line , Jason Snell asked you what you thought : Should Apple do a video iPod ? Is the photo version unspoilt enough ? And you read :

iPod Photo: Your Turn

Phil BrownMaybe it ’s anti - Apple to even think it , but I retrieve the iPod photo is way of life overpriced for what it does . Maybe some kinsfolk can use all that depot . But for me , my yr - honest-to-goodness PalmOne Zire 71 does fine , and it was half the toll of an iPod . It wreak MP3s ; has a nice , high - resoluteness covert for share photos ; plays videos ; and holds my calendar , contacts , vane pages , and games . sure as shooting , the SD newsflash placard ca n’t hold as much as a 20 GB ( or bigger ) effort — but how much do most of us really require to carry around ? I operate with professional photographers who hive away photos on veritable iPods while on long shoots , so the exposure variant ’s screen might be helpful for them . But they carry PowerBooks for redaction , anyway . For my money , a practiced PDA will give more bang for the buck than an iPod of any flavor .

George PetrellaWhen the first iPods came out , I was one of those people who thought , “ All this hoopla for an MP3 player ? ” As we ’ve since study , the iPod was a stroke of flair . I ’ve personally bought six iPods for myself or as gifts . That aver , I do n’t feel any actual excitement about an iPod photo . A heavy - drive - free-base digital euphony instrumentalist was a no - brainer : everyone from child boomers to teen possess a portable cadmium histrion . I just do n’t see the same pauperism for a machine that store and transports photograph .

Edward HoI see two problem with a picture iPod : the content availability you bring up , and the silver screen . You ca n’t comfortably watch a feature article - length movie on a 2 - inch screenland . Perhaps something half the size of it of the 12 - column inch PowerBook would be welcome , provide it ’s also half the toll or less .

Garold PowellApple should add more usefulness to the iPod photo before tackling the television market . Specifically , the company should optimise the iPod as a storage gadget for the new high - megapixel cameras . For someone in the arena shooting at a gamy resolution , such an iPod would be a great ( and relatively cheap ) storage gadget — especially if you could then iSync the photos directly from the iPod to your Mac over an cyberspace or wireless connection . You ’d dash , store , iSync , delete , and start shooting again .

Edwin ChanShould Apple do a portable video actor ? Yes ! As a student film producer , I could apply one to carry my movies wherever I go . I could just plug away it into any screen and let hoi polloi watch my brusk production — it’d be an on - the - go reel .

Helpful Suggestions

Ward MundyTwo things I wish Mac developers would implement : I get really tired of trying to turn off my organisation , only to have it ask me whether I want to make unnecessary the Clipboard ’s contents . I wish I could just select an option somewhere that would tell the Mac that I never want to relieve the Clipboard ’s message before closing . ( Or well yet , it could just relieve that hooey to disk by default . With today ’s multigigabyte drive , why not ? ) Second , how often do you send an vitamin E - postal service message but forget to attach the adherence ? Every e - mail client should be able to rake for the wordsattachmentorattachedin the body of an forthcoming content ; if it finds one of those terms in a message but does n’t detect an adherence , it should then ask you if perhaps you ’ve forgot - ten something .

Lose the JPEGs

Byron C. KortYour article “ Picture Your Perfect Camera ” ( January 2005 ) pretermit to point out just how lossy JPEG single file are . reckon upon compression , JPEGs throw away between 30 and 95 percent of the pixels that the tv camera captures . After reading your clause , many buyers might think they could bluster up JPEG images without drop off image timber . But you may do that only with Raw or TIFF epitome .

OS 9 Debate Continues

Matthew ThompsonIn the article “ So Long , OS 9 ” ( Mac Beat , January 2005 ) , Glen Turpin of Quark claims that OS ten put up “ access to the down in the mouth levels of the organisation , which enables us to supply a quicker covering . ” Ha ! I work in catalogue production , and most of my squad still uses XPress 4.11 . I can tell you from day-to-day experience that XPress 4 running in Classic modeeasilyoutpaces XPress 6 in every job , from possibility and closing a document to print and creating PDFs . PerhapsMacworldshould escape some benchmark tests to check Quark ’s claim .

More Web Tips

Virtual Lockout

James KerwinRobert Ellis ’s review of Microsoft Virtual PC 7 (; January 2005 ) left out one major drawback that the new version has : substance abuser with DSL connection that do n’t have electrostatic IP addresses ca n’t access sealed World Wide Web website from practical machines . In translation 6 , Connectix ( the programme ’s former developer ) solve this problem by furnish an AppleScript that appropriate the user to switch between Shared Packet and Shared Socket networking . Microsoft omitted this script in variant 7 , making it impossible for a great many Virtual microcomputer drug user to visit the company ’s own Web site , among others . ( The version 6 script is not compatible with the new version . ) To escort , Microsoft has offered neither an account nor a promise of a fix .

Blatant Self-Promotion

Peter N. LewisI come my first Mac and my first offspring ofMacworldin February 1984 , less than a calendar month after the now famous Super Bowl ad had aired . I still have both . I incur something useful in every proceeds of your fine clip , but the January 2005 issue has outdone them all . By the time I was finished tear out the articles I needed , clause I need to give to my clients , and clause I wanted to file , there was darn little left for land - filling . Now that ’s preservation . perhaps you should just punch the pages at the binding .

Corrections

In “ Inside the iPod Photo ” ( Digital Hub , February 2005 ) , we state that the iPod photo would n’t fit in the Sonnet PodFreq . Sonnet has since announced a reading that will carry the iPod pic .