{"id":158,"date":"2005-03-15T10:02:48","date_gmt":"2005-03-15T10:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=158"},"modified":"2005-03-15T10:02:48","modified_gmt":"2005-03-15T10:02:48","slug":"ipod-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/03\/15\/ipod-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"iPod nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipod\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-944\" title=\"2005.03.15\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/03\/2005.03.15.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>After dealing with my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipodshuffle\">iPod Shuffle<\/a> over the past several days, I&#8217;ve come to realize that one simply cannot triumph over a higher power. Despite the new features and lower cost, it&#8217;s still just an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\">Apple<\/a> product, which means that it&#8217;s not gonna let some silly little thing like its USER tell it what to do. Not only did it require the cumbersome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\">iTunes<\/a> nightmare to put songs onto the device, it even forces a monogamous relationship with my desktop PC. When I tried to sync it with my laptop, it deleted all my songs. It&#8217;s like, &#8216;do what we say and no one gets hurt&#8217;. Though I tried almost every 3rd party software I could find to overcome these limitations, even a control freak like me had to succumb to their control. All hail, o&#8217; great one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dealing with my new iPod Shuffle over the past several days, I&#8217;ve come to realize that one simply cannot triumph over a higher power. Despite the new features and lower cost, it&#8217;s still just an Apple product, which means &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/03\/15\/ipod-nightmare\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}