I now own not one but two ipods... well if you count the one I also bought for the wife, there are 3 that I have been responsible for giving homes too. The first ipod is an 80gig classic that stays in the car 24/7 and contains ALL of my music. The car I bought last summer (Scion tC) has native ipod support in the factory radio. There is a dock connector in the console that allows the head unit full control of the ipod with text output and also allows me to control the ipod with my steering wheel controls. The stereo also has a generic auxiliary line input. For the first couple weeks with the car, I thought I could live with using my Windows Mobile based Motorola Q through the aux input. As much as I wanted to live my life iPod free, this car was the beginning of my fall to the dark side. The ipod classic in the car worked out better than I hoped. Over the following months, curiosity, frustration with Windows Mobile's lack of improvement and plain old peer pressure finally got the best of me until finally last weekend, I convinced myself that I must have an iPod touch also. Of course I didn't waste anytime jailbreaking it and installing all kinds of cool 3rd party applications. I had intended to post a proper review of the touch detailing what I like and what I didn't. But tonight I find myself with an unplanned 30 minute downtime while I wait for itunes to download the recovery software for my brand new touch. Seems I got a little too tweak crazy and broke my ipod. Apparently changing the root password is not a good idea... Looks like its just about ready to install. Wish me luck!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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Somehow I completely missed the fact that you posted a few new updates on this blog. I have it tagged under "Friends" in Google Reader, but my friends update their sites so infrequently that I always just kind of blast past that folder.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, my experience with my iPod touch as been pretty much all positive and enjoyable. So much in fact that I'll have a hard time resisting some sort of 3G iPhone once my Sprint contract is up.
OrbLive is so far one of my favorite jailbroken apps - access to ALL of my media, regardless of storage capacity is great. I envision using that with a 3G iPhone for the ultimate portable media player.
A man can dream, a man can dream...