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Found some sites, to check out at leisure... haven't actually found any "hacks" here yet:
ipodhacks.com/
Though there are apparently some here. Somewhere.
ipodlounge.com/
This is a neat idea, but isn't it just saving silent MP3's of 0 seconds in length or something? I guess this is the key to most of the "exploits", I will soon write my own!
provue.com/ipodorganizer.html
This guy's taking it to the extreme, with Linux for the IPOD:
ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/
pauly :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
Get a 40GB IPOD, 10,000 songs in your pocket.
The one like mine is discontinued. Collectable!
3 Jan :: 2004 :: Comment / reply
So, after 16 months of owning a G3 iPod, I’m thinking of giving it all up and going back to CDs…
My first replacement was swapped out by Apple Europe quite quickly - they picked up from my office on Monday, and a new, brown-boxed Pod was on my desk by Friday. Not bad, eh?
Yesterday morning I put my G3 in its cradle (first day back at work etc), and within 30 seconds I knew something was up - I was able to watch the drive space increase within Explorer, and before I could do anything, my Pod had been wiped of all data. I undocked, scanned for Artists and found my full library intact. Problem was, that’s all that was left: the data/text for the library. Try and actually play an album, and it finishes in five seconds.
I made an appointment with the Genius Bar @ The Apple Store, Regent Street London. I didn’t want to mess with the Pod in case it could be recovered. Anyone that’s been to a G-Bar will know the boys there are quite removed from reality. I tried to explain what I thought happened and he wasn’t interested, mumbling something about regen’ing the software, formatting and wiping everything off. Usually I wouldn’t have minded but this time I didn’t have a backup. However, I had no choice, I had to agree.
Then I thought, hang on, I don’t want the same one back - why would I? So, bravely, I asked for a brand new G3 Pod. Lo and behold, I got one (albeit brown-boxed). The guy had just given up. I asked how many G3’s they swap out in a week… 30-40 minimum.
I tried my hand again: “If I pay the additional ££ for a colour Pod, could I do that today?” The flippancy of the reply is what forced me to write this today: “I take it you haven’t heard of Apple’s upgrade path? Throw the old kit in the bin and buy a new model.” Normally I’d find that funny, but I’m one of those people who paid £400 for the “best product on the planet”. My first Pod had hard errors on the surface; the 2nd current one lost everything; now I’m on to my third. Hardly what I expected when I paid my money in good faith.
To cut a long story short, I left the Apple Centre with a new 2003 G3 - more than likely one with a battery that only lasts three hours or so. Either that or it’s reconditioned. It’s fully wrapped in protective plastic, but, frankly, nothing would surprise me.
It’s quicker and more cost effective for Apple to swap out old for new. It seems common practice in many cases nowadays.
The whole experience has left me quite disillusioned by Apple. I really thought they had a grasp on their new business, but am increasingly left with the impression that what they actually have a grasp of is extensive media. With so much good coverage, the bad just gets brushed under the carpet.
Am I alone in thinking this? Feeling “had” by Apple
AndyW :: 5 Jan :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
Pocket Things has some interesting IPOD features, real hacks this time, apparently there's a hidden recording feature and (as I thought there must be) a way around the sound limiting... Wonder if they'll work any better than any of the other IPOD tricks I've tried?
pauly :: 28 Oct :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
More things to check out; GoogleGet is some sort of aggregator that will get news from news.google.com and whack it on the IPOD... nice one!
27 Oct :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
Doh! Of course I'm online...
pauly :: 27 Oct :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
Google Get still won't connect to the web, but I can open Google News in a browser...
pauly :: 6 Nov :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
hey, i'm the creator of googleget and if you're still having this problem then i'd be interested in getting some more details off you
email me here if this is the case
mark :: 28 Dec :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
I've tried running when kazaa is not running, but still no joy. Good to know there is a debug mode, feels like one of those IPOD Secrets that you hear about! Put more stuff in it!
3 Jan :: 2004 :: Comment / reply
IPOD Library is an e-book manager for the IPOD, it reads various format files and gets round the IPOD's character limit apparently.
27 Oct :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
Will have a look at this when I get home... Probably too American to be of any use to me, but it's an app that grabs weather reports from weather.com and saves them to your IPOD...
pauly :: 20 Oct :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
Well, that was fun... "runtime error 5", "invalid procedure call or argument" when I try and run weather for me...
pauly :: 20 Oct :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
let george :: 31 Dec :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
Some neat tips and links at ipodhacks.com, but no actual hacks yet for the 3rd generation IPOD I have, as far as I can see...
16 Oct :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
ipoding.com seems to have much the same content as IPOD Hacks and IPOD Lounge... Still undecided which is the best.
9 Oct :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
ipodlounge is the best ipod site in the world... more content than any other ipod site
jobs :: 31 Oct :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
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