Ah yes, I remember it well – my very first iPod, I first mentioned back in March 2005 (has it really been 4 years?) with 512Mb for £69.
My Original iPod Shuffle
http://www.kf12.com/blogs/techno/2005/03/audio-documentation/
Moving the controls off the iPod to the earphone cord allows it to become smaller at 1.8 x 0.7 x 0.3 inches.
New iPod Shuffle
and now it talks back too !!
http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/features.html
Shuffles
Available with 4Gb memory, in either white or black at a cost of £59 in the UK.
Thought here is to use one of the small mp3 devices, such as the iPod Shuffle, to store software documentation in an audio format.
My shuffle holds approx 8 hours of audio in 512Mb memory (£69). Another version is available with 1Gb memory for £99. Similar audio players are available from other manufacturers with varying amounts of memory.
I’m using it to listen to podcasts (see details elsewhere), my current favourite music collection and as a language learning tool.
Can also be used to store audio versions of books etc. and raw data files although I don’t think this latter capability will used much by me …
So I got to thinking whether there is any mileage in recording software documentation in an audio format?
Could also be used a a marketing tool – store up to 512Mb of useful data related to the software – for £69, or cheaper, per seat.
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