The Apple delivery center in Shanghai sent to me an iPod Touch -- proudly designed in California, manufactured in China.

This is a great device. Podcasting of lectures works like a charm. You may easily scroll the materials in the vertical mode. Turn the device 90 degrees to a horizontal setting and you can view the slides with great clarity. The fonts that I am using are very clear. Zooming in is easy if needed: just place two fingers on the screen and pull them apart.

If I see that there is technology which may substantially help me in my work, I go to all sort of extremes to use it. Now this is about podcasting. After having spent couple of days trying to create podcasts of my calculus lectures using a Windows computer, I finally gave up and bought myself a Mac couple of hours ago. This is the first piece of text that I am writing with my Mac.

As a result of my daughter insisting on getting an iPod, I also got one for myself. The 80 GB video iPod is an incredible device(http://www.apple.com/ipodclassic/). So far I have used it to follow great podcasts like the one by David Pogue (http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/) or the News from Lake Wobegon (http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/) both of which are conveniently available through iTunes.