Rockbox – Open Source Jukebox Firmware. Wow how cool. This is an open source firmware replacement for iPods as well as certain models of iRiver (H100 and H300), iAudio X5 and Archos. Kind of amazing folks have done this. “Cnet”:http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6450_7-6513844-1.html?tag=cnetfd.sd says that it isn’t flashy, but has lots of features that nerds like me will […]

Well, Iwe have a variety of speakers sets now, so a quick long term review and then on to finding a good portable system: * JBL Creature II. These are PC speakers so for listening in a whole room and is the 21st century version of bookshelf speaker set. They sound OK. 4/4 on playlist, […]

Converting Videos for iPod, Take 2 (Twelve Black Code Monkeys). My buddy at Twelve Black Monkeys went through the hard work of encoding in different formats and then figuring out what the tradeoffs are. The basic points from his spreadsheet are that basically recommends H.264 at a CBR (constant bit rate) if you are only […]

The kids are really starting to like the iPod Video so time to get more things down there. There are all kinds of utilities and things and I’m sure this isn’t the fastest way to rip video and get soundtracks to your iPod, but it works for me: h2. If you have an AVI and […]

iPod only shows an Apple logo and doesn’t start up. This means that the firmware in the iPod won’t start up. It is the equivalent of hanging at the Windows logo screen on your PC. You have a just one depressing option. You reset your iPod by: # Pressing the three fingered: a) turn the […]

!http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/51/936511129673384/www.info.apple.com/images/kbase/93651/93651_2.jpg! Putting iPod into Disk Mode. This is a very confusing mode and lots of folks seem to get stuck in. Basically, if you run a reset and then press Select and Play right afterwards, you get into a low level mode called (badly IMHO) disk mode. What this means is that only the very […]

MoiMeme : iPod. Wow, a cool point, there is a magic diagnostic mode for iPod that you get a particular way, hit Select and back right after reset Diagnostics menu (4th generation iPods only, these may be different for previous versions): * Reset the iPod : Toggle the Hold switch on and off. Press and […]

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Smarthouse – iPods Bill Shope of J.P Morgan believes Apple will introduce the phone by the fourth quarter of this year. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told clients last week that he estimates there to be a 75% chance that we’ll seen an iPhone in the next 12 months.

Tong Family Blog: Perfect in car adapter. So I got this adapter for our cars and I have to say although you get it from Apple, so it is expensive, it is really the perfect adapter. The only trick is that there is a tiny switch at the bottom which you set to low volume […]