Corusca

The posting slack continues!

But an update. Last Thursday and Friday, Fnac stores here in Portugal gave a 10% discount to everyone with a client card who bought anything at their stores. Other than buying the X-Mas gifts I hadn’t yet gotten, I also bought myself an unexpected self x-mas present – a Creative MP4 ZEN X-FI 8GB, which I’d been flirting with for a long time now.

I’m a Creative MP3 player fan (great sound quality and I never got the obsession with iPods *shrugs*), and this one seemed to be a decent enough upgrade to my old Creative Zen Micro 5 GB MP3 Player, for me to invest in it. This way not only do I have more space for music (3 gigs plus the SD space), but I can also watch TV shows and anime episodes while commuting.

I haven’t tested the movie clip playing capabilities of the new ZEN, but everything else is excellent. The earphones it comes with are very good, the speakers are good (and no, I won’t be using them while commuting *rolls eyes*), the screen seems to have vibrant colors (in the menus at least), the menus are cool, and so forth. What I bought was the Fnac Pack, which didn’t just include the ZEN regular stuff, but also a very nice leather casing and a Creative USB Power Adapter. All for 130€ with the 10% discount already, was a good purchase.

Now all I need to do is convert some Saint Seiya episodes to 320×240 or something, get me some decent podcasts, and I’m set. :)

Speaking of podcasts, any recommendations? I’m especially looking for podcasts centered in video games, movies, and books, but am open to other themes.