What to do with an iPod Touch

Okay, I've had this iPod Touch for a couple of weeks now and it's actually incredibly useful. Here is a list of things that I like the best so far:

1. Recognizing Chinese characters using the Pleco app. You draw a character that you don't recognize on the screen and it tells you what it is. The app is also a Chinese-English dictionary so you can also search by pinyin or English word, all from the same search bar.

2. Listening to music. It is an iPod, after all, and why I wanted it in the first place. Not a surprising use; just a very useful one.

3. Task management using Things. I can make tasks for anything from grocery lists to things I need to do the next day at work. The iOS version syncs with the Mac version when the two are on the same wireless network.

4. Reading the news around the house.  You would think that since my main computer is a laptop, I could easily bring it over to the sofa, the dining table, and so on.  But even my laptop has to be carried with both hands, and the battery only lasts a couple of hours.  The iPod is normally in my pocket, and its battery lasts all day.

5. Taking notes at work.  Because my work computer is a desktop, I can't bring it to meetings, which means that I've been using a notepad to take notes.  But I often don't manage to transfer these notes to my computer, so they don't end up in my workflow, which sort of defeats the purpose.  But if I type them in the Notes app, it's not particularly fast, but then I can email them to my work email account, from where I can process them along with my other emails.

6. Watching movies.  The screen is small, but it works surprisingly well, especially in a dark room.  You just want to avoid any epically panoramic films.  I watched The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and it wasn't comically small, but it was certainly underwhelming.

One thing I haven't figured out yet is a good solution for writing blog entries.  I give my current app, BlogBooster, a fail for not supporting any formatting or linking, and for adding extra HTML code advertising itself to each post that I write.