I'm a Gadget Girl

And I won't apologise for it, even though it drives Richard up the wall.

I can't help it. They just draw me like a magnet.

So, the situation is that I currently have an iPod mini (pink, of course) and a HP iPAQ, both bought shortly before leaving Canada. Within days of our container arriving and subsequent set up of our pc I tried connecting them to no avail. Both dead, completely, not working. Problem. I have no idea where either of the receipts are for them and how am I to go about fixing them?

iPod were great and apparently the problem I was having was a universal thing, this error has been popping up all over the place and it seems as if everyone was having the same problem. They sent a nice UPS man over to collect it and have it sent to Brussels (or some such other place beginning with a B) but it seems as if it was not repairable so I got a completely new one in it's place, delivered again by the nice UPS man. I do use my iPod but not as often as I thought I would do and to be honest I don't need that many songs on a mobile device as I really only listen to a select few pieces of music at any one time, then get bored and listen to some other select pieces of music.

Next on the list then is my iPAQ. This was an impulse buy if ever there was one. I should have researched more. The main problem is the lack of memory, a measly 25mb, too poor. You put one or 2 files on it and it complains there is no memory! Also I want to use it as an alarm notifier for appointments and such (I am notoriously scatterbrained but really don't want to be) but if I set an alarm the alarm doesn't sound until I turn the machine on, which could be a few days later - duh, then it's too late!

And so to my solution and subsequent new gadget acquisition -  the Palm LifeDrive Mobile Manager which will do the job of both of the gadgets above plus a few more that I would like to have eg. store photographs (I was beginning to get attracted by the iPhoto thingy). Luckily I have hunted around and got a very good, and much better price, here.

Now, I'm hopping around waiting for it to be delivered. Patience is not one of my virtues.