Slix

Slix

@slix.poliwager.net

Want to Pokémon with me? Poliwager Admin. Jesus follower. Obscure music lover. Vintage Apple & iPod enthusiast. https://poliwager.net @Poliwager.net

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Hey all! I’m Slix! Here's my #promosky! Things I like: 🌀Pokémon! 🖥️ Apple computers & old tech! 📱 iPods! 🧑‍💻 Website design (& my site: @poliwager.net)! 🎵 Obscure music! 📀 Thrifting random old stuff! ✝️ Following Jesus! 🙋‍♂️ Talking to new friends! Hoping to meet more friends! ♡ / ↻ appreciated!

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Put My Pokémon Ranch on the tv for the first hour or two of my party today, and it was a huge hit once again. Some feedback I got: more flying Pokémon, and Mewtwo was a bully today. :P

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Also tried WarioWare: Move It! for the first time with some friends who had never played any WarioWare games. Had a blast and they thought it was hilarious too.

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If you guessed… 47 iPods and 10 iPhones (including the one I’m taking the photo with), you were right! 📱🤪 Happy 25th birthday, iPod!

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The iPod was announced 25 years ago today. I’m going to take a group photo of all my iPods in my collection today, but before I do, does anyone have a guess how many I have?

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The iPod was announced 25 years ago today. I’m going to take a group photo of all my iPods in my collection today, but before I do, does anyone have a guess how many I have?

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Apple Music Has a Hidden iPod You Can Play With

macrumors.comApple Music Has a Hidden iPod You Can Play WithApple Music has an easter egg on the web: a fully-functional iPod that appears when you load a page that does not exist, such as music.apple.com/macrumors. The easter egg is only visible in a web browser, so you will not be able to see it in the Apple Music app. To avoid being automatically redirected to the Apple Music app, hold down the Command key when clicking on the link on a Mac, or press and hold on the link and tap "Open" on iOS. "Page Not Found," says Apple. "Give this a spin instead." You can navigate the first-generation iPod using the click wheel and listen to 90-second previews of select songs from artists such as Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Coldplay, Daft Punk, Drake, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Fall Out Boy, Foo Fighters, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Panic! At The Disco, U2, and more. There is even an easter egg within an easter egg. If you navigate to Settings → About on the iPod and click and hold on the click wheel's center button, you can eventually play the classic game Breakout on the screen. Apple co-founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs helped to create Breakout while they worked at Atari in the 1970s. The easter egg was discovered on the 25th anniversary of Apple announcing the original iPod.Tag: Apple Music This article, "Apple Music Has a Hidden iPod You Can Play With" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums

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Happy 25th Anniversary, iPod

macrumors.comHappy 25th Anniversary, iPodApple today marks 25 years since the introduction of the original iPod, one of the company's most significant products and a major contributor to its expansion beyond the Mac. Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPod on October 23, 2001, at a small press event in the Town Hall auditorium at Apple's Infinite Loop headquarters. Advertised as offering "1,000 songs in your pocket," the device combined a 5GB hard drive with a monochrome LCD display, a mechanical scroll wheel, and up to 10 hours of battery life. The original model cost $399 and required a Mac with iTunes. Its FireWire connection transferred music and charged the battery, while automatic synchronization copied songs and playlists from the user's iTunes library. Apple said that an entire CD could be transferred in under 10 seconds and a collection of 1,000 songs in less than 10 minutes. The hard drive could also store documents and other files. Ahead of the announcement, Apple invited the press to the unveiling of a "breakthrough digital device," specifying that it was not a Mac. Reports variously suggested a music player, a home stereo accessory, or a handheld device with handwriting recognition. MacRumors rumor roundup published two days before the event included the name "iPod." The announcement received a mixed response. Our original coverage is still available, along with reader comments questioning the device's price, Mac-only compatibility, and significance. One reader described it as "far from revolutionary," while another wrote, "all this hype for something so ridiculous!" The iPod went on sale on November 10, 2001, with readers reporting that they lined up to purchase it. Early forum discussions included complaints about fingerprints on the polished rear enclosure, charging temperatures, and sound quality, alongside a host of positive impressions from owners. Hardware revisions followed in quick succession. The second-generation iPod adopted a touch-sensitive scroll wheel, while the third-generation model introduced the 30-pin Dock Connector in 2003. The full-size iPod gained a color display in 2004 and video playback in 2005. The iPod mini was announced in January 2004, representing the first extension of the product line. It featured a smaller anodized aluminum enclosure in silver, gold, pink, blue, or green, and introduced the Click Wheel, which integrated playback buttons into the touch-sensitive scrolling surface. Apple adopted the same control for the fourth-generation full-size iPod later that year. In 2005, Apple introduced both the iPod shuffle and iPod nano. The shuffle omitted a display and offered a smaller, simpler music player, while the nano replaced the mini with a thin design based on flash storage. Later iPod nano models added video playback, a video camera, and a touchscreen. The square sixth-generation model, introduced in 2010, could be worn on the wrist using third-party watch straps. By April 2007, Apple had sold 100 million iPods, less than six years after the first model reached customers. By its 10th anniversary in 2011, sales had exceeded 304 million units. The iPod touch arrived in September 2007, several months after the first iPhone went on sale. It featured a 3.5-inch Multi-Touch display, Wi-Fi, and Safari, requiring a cellular plan. Apple discontinued the iPod classic in September 2014, five years after its final hardware revision. The iPod nano and iPod shuffle followed in July 2017, leaving the iPod touch as the sole model. The seventh-generation iPod touch received an A10 Fusion chip and up to 256GB of storage in May 2019. It remained on sale without further hardware updates until May 10, 2022, when Apple announced its discontinuation and said it would be available while supplies lasted. In its announcement, Apple attributed the end of the lineup to the integration of music playback across its other products. Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said that "the spirit of iPod lives on" through devices including the iPhone, Apple Watch, HomePod mini, Mac, iPad, and Apple TV.Related Forum: iPod touch and iPod This article, "Happy 25th Anniversary, iPod" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
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Sports fans will be like “oh yeah the next 4 games this season are on these dates at these times in these locations” but as soon as I say that an iPhone releases every September they act like it’s impossible information to remember.

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I wasn’t doing online competitive during Gen 5’s time, but I was training teams to battle friends. Were people back then (or now) aware of the breeding trick using N’s Pokémon for good IVs or is this a thing my friend discovered and was never widely known?

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⚡️Poliwager’s Electric-type Community Weekend is happening now through Sunday! 🥇Join in the fun this weekend with bonuses for Electric Pokémon including the ability to earn Medals, and bonus Exp. Points for interactions and views! ➡️ forums.poliwager.net/viewtopic.ph... #Pokemon #Poliwager

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"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Watched “Stranger than Fiction” tonight for the first time. It was super well written and I liked the visual effects a lot.

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Let’s try a reverse #promosky for my followers: What do you like that I post already and what should I try to post more of? 🥳

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If you need an AI bot to write and read and respond to all of your emails, your job probably doesn’t need to exist.

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Let’s try a reverse #promosky for my followers: What do you like that I post already and what should I try to post more of? 🥳

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The fact Google Adsense can be randomly like "we noticed something suspicious about your ads, they might have been clicked by you or something, but we won't tell you what happened. We have limited your ads for a while. Fix it!" is so annoying.

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This is after I started moving my site away from Google Ads a few weeks ago for logged in users, so it's extra silly they think something is off. Either way I can't tell what the issue is because they won't tell me!

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Went to a church retreat this weekend and it was rainy for most of it, but we were still able to have a hayride in the evening! I thought this long exposure photo I took looked super cool.

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I’m back at this same restaurant and the radio is still doing the jittery cutting in and out thing. I refuse to believe they’ve left it like this for over 5 months. 🤪

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The music on the radio at this restaurant keeps cutting out and it’s like laggy, as if the songs keep having to buffer. It’s very disorienting.

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The 30th anniversary set for the Pokémon TCG was announced. Like half the cards are Pikachu and the other half are just random Pokemon. I’m so glad I’m not a Pikachu fan, I probably won’t be buying any of these. :P

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I grew from monkey into man, then I crushed 15 million with a wave of my hand. In this essay, I will explain Why I Am: -Always the one to make you smile -Snake in the woodpile -Unlikely to agree -Climbing out of my monkey tree -The apple of your pretty eye -Still here dancing with the GrooGrux King