I didn’t like this as much as I did Death-Proof, which I thought was really, really good, despite me liking Robert Rodriguez’s films more than Quentin Tarantino’s films generally.
Part of it was the genre: zombie flicks have never really appealed to me, other than intellectually. Part of it was that Rodriguez was much more true to the grindhouse inspiration, and made a film much more over the top than Death-Proof and less in keeping with modern sensibilities. (The trailer for Machete, shown before Planet Terror, does the same things, but since it’s a 90 second or so short, it’s just flat-out hilarious.)
As a film geek, it was interesting to note that Planet Terror seems to be “officially” part of the Tarantino universe, with a reference to the death of Jungle Julia (from Death-Proof), Red Apple cigarettes and, of course, Texas Ranger Earl McGraw (also seen in From Dusk Till Dawn and Kill Bill).
This movie
is a 30 minute Twilight Zone episode stretched to more than three times that length. Somehow, we still don’t learn almost anything about the protagonist despite that, other than he’s a terrible poet.
A rental at absolute most.
OK, Yahoo! can read Palm contacts and calendar files, and iPods can synch with the Yahoo! contacts system. So one new Yahoo! account later, my contacts are now copied onto my iPod, although, wow, what a step backwards.
I’ve got hundreds of contacts, and having no way of putting them in sub-folders so that I can just look through my personal or work contacts is pretty bad. Hopefully Apple will patch in some improvements, since this would be especially galling if I were using an iPhone.
In the meantime, I still can’t input entries into the iPod touch calendar via the iPod itself, and iTunes won’t synch with Yahoo!. Instead, it’s looking for some other calendar application (when the natural thing to do with both the calendar and contacts would be to pull it directly from the Palm directory for my Treo). Hopefully this will be addressed in a patch, because as it stands, the calendar function is worse than useless on my iPod.
After looking around at various Mac support sites, I tried this. But it doesn’t seem that the iPod touch has the basic “use this iPod as a disk drive” as a choice under iTunes, and it doesn’t show up as an additional hard drive when connected to my computer, so the plug-in never got a chance to work.
I’m not dumping my Treo, by any means, but it seems sort of silly to have unused Calendar and Contacts features on my iPod, especially as having an additional back-up of that information is nothing but a good idea.
That said, I don’t own Microsoft Outlook, so I can’t output the Palm data to Outlook and then have the iPod grab that. Does anyone else know a good solution to this?
I’m thinking of trying this program after today’s city council workshop/meeting double-header, but I was curious if anyone else had tried it.
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