The other day I purchased an iPod touch with the hopes of having a mp3 player that did what I wanted and a platform to develop applications on. Prior to using the touch I had never used a touch screen Apple product moee than a couple minutes so I left the store wondering how many days I had to return it. That night I spent over three hours playing with the device and the apps in the store, it was very hard for me to put the device down. I love my G1, since I work for Google the integration the device gives me is very important to me and would keep me from using something else. So that being said I love how smooth the iPhone and iPod Touch are, how easy the onscreen keyboard is to use, and the amazing apps that are available. I think the G1 will get to the same point, things will obviously be different and one will have features the other one doesn’t have, but the big difference right now is device maturity. There have been things about the iPhone that people have disliked that are now being fixed and things missing from Android are being added. I enjoy having the G1 as my primary device, but I think having the touch available to do certain things is important. I have been using my touch for most of my Twittering and I am currently writing this blog post from the awesome Wordpress app in the store. The keyboard took some time getting used to but now I can type pretty fast on the device and most things I miss are caught by the auto correct. One oft big worries before buying the device was size, and how it would feel in my pocket at work. It is so thing that I don’t even notice is when I am work so I can move freely without it being this giant block in my pocket. I also don’t have it moving around in my pocket freely like smaller players might. Overall I am very happy with the purchase they won’t get me to move to an iPhone, but I support the use of the touch to complent the Android based products.

I ran into this problem recently where my Apple remote would not work with iTunes or any other application of the sort. It would however open Boxee if you pressed the Menu button. I followed the recommended steps of verifying your remote was transmitting an IR signal and all that, and I knew it was because Boxee would open.

This afternoon I removed Boxee and hit menu, FrontRow opened, as it should have, and then I tried it on iTunes and it was successful. I’m not entirely sure what caused the problem, but I didn’t use Boxee enough to bother keeping it on the machine anyway.

This afternoon a friend mentioned how annoying the whole deal with drive makers going by 1000 vs 1024 for sizes. In a way it does suck that they are using a system that is different from how a file is sized, but at the same time you should just start remembering the formatted size of a drive. Here is the list I had on my personal blog from long ago, it details the a good number of drive sizes. Calculations were based on (Drive GB x 1000000000) / (1024×1024x1024). I do get sorta tired of the complaint only because if someone really has the time and energy to bitch about something so small they haven’t spent enough time dealing with standards, guidelines and compliance in the technology world to realize that this is just an inconvenience and not really a big enough one to complain about.

   4 =   3.73              120 =  111.76
 4.3 =   4.00              147 =  136.90
   9 =   8.38              150 =  139.70
  10 =   9.31              160 =  149.01
  18 =  16.76              180 =  167.64
  20 =  18.63              200 =  186.26
  30 =  27.94              250 =  232.83
  36 =  33.53              300 =  279.40
36.4 =  33.90              320 =  298.02
36.7 =  34.18              400 =  372.53
  40 =  37.25              500 =  465.66
  60 =  55.88              640 =  596.05
  74 =  68.92              750 =  698.49
  80 =  74.51             1000 =  931.32
 100 =  93.13             1500 = 1396.98