Notes on today’s iPod announcements

Apple‘s CEO Steve Jobs just announced that the new, 4G iPod nano as well as the new iPod touch will both have the ability to display (while playing a track) other tracks on the currently playing album, other tracks by the current artist, or to make a “Genius playlist.” This functionality sounds useful, and while

TiVo Idea

Back in June, I suggested borrowing TiVo’s swivel search and applying it to the iPod. Today, I I’m going to turn that scenario around and suggest taking a feature from the PC world and applying it to TiVo. Between the death of our TiVo’s hard drive and the start of the fall television season, I