So you jailbroke your iPod Touch or iPhone, now what?

Posted by admin on Feb 25, 2008 in Podcast, Reviews, Video, ipod, ipod touch | 0 comments

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My experience of jailbreaking my iPod Touch and installing apps. Here is a list of apps I talk about. Expect some reviews of these on EverythingTech.tv

I used this method to JailBreak my iPod Touch:

Apps I talk about on this video:

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Blog Tag: 7 Songs I have rated 5 stars on my iPod

Posted by admin on Mar 27, 2007 in ipod, music | 1 comment

I like listening to GeekFit.com Podcast

I’ve been “tagged” by Steve of Wicked Good Podcast, my mission as well as the rest of the people that I’ve tagged below is to list 7 songs I’m currently into right now.

The rules are that, when you’re tagged, you link to everyone in the chain in your entry, including this post, The “tagged” people are: Steve Klassen, Aaron, Dan & CJ, Alyssa, Daryl N. Cognito, Mrs. B, Chris Penn, Chris Brogan, and Aidan Hatch.

1. Blackalicious – It’s going down
2. A Tribe Called Quest – Sucka Nigga
3. Bjork – There’s more to life than this
4. Jurassic 5 – Quality Control
5. Common Sense – I Used To Love H.E.R
6. Brand Nubian – Shinin’ Star
7. Charli 2na, Jurassic 5 & Dan The Automator – Anchor Man

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TuckerTales on Podcast Pickle

Posted by admin on Mar 2, 2007 in Podcast, Tech, ipod, itunes | 0 comments

I threw down $25 bucks for this month to have TuckerTales on Podcast Pickle’s ad area. Hopefully we’ll pull in some more listeners.

Friends, If you haven’t listened to our show yet, I encourage you to do so and if you can leave us an audio feedback. Podcasts arn’t only for those that have an iPod. Any mp3 player or computer can play podcasts, you can even play it directly on our website. Give us a listen and then leave us some feedback at: 206-8-TUCKER we’d appreciate it.

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iPod Dock Extender

Posted by admin on Feb 20, 2007 in Hacks, Tech, apple, ipod | 0 comments

Man, one of my biggest pet peeves is that Apple made this cool ass universal dock connector with interchangeable dock sleeves. The Nano has a smaller one with the connector off to one side, the video has a bigger space so its rotund aass can fit in there. The mini and various others have different connectors too. I bought the Agent18 iPod video case it came with its own modified dock sleeve so it would fit into the ipod dock with no problems. The case makes the ipod just a bit bigger (about 1/16th inch on either side) and the modified sleeve allows for it to fit. Unfortunatly if you buy a non official ipod dock they dont use the same layout as the ipod univeral dock connector sleeves. I suppose Apple has this patented so companies cant make this feature avail in their docks. But WHY!?!?! WHY! I have no idea why.

I bought Jen a dock for her computer off ebay. its called the iDock or something like that. The box it came in look like it was from apple, they even made the packaging complicated like apple would. Jen has an Agent18 acrylic case for her iPod Nano too, it too came with a modified dock sleeve. We tried to put the dock sleeve into the space provided and it didnt fit. I even cut off some pieces to make it fit. It was never 100%. See, the faux iDock has its own “standard” of dock connector sleeves, theirs were more square and the apple one is a bit oval like. 2 grat concepts but non “universal” or ‘interchangeable”

Later I bought a dock for my 30gig iPod video, it too wasnt an Apple made device. Unlike the faux iDock I got Jen it didnt have the univeral sleeve setup. It had size and thats it. The Agent18 case i have doesnt fit a standard dock (thats why it came with its own universal sleeve). The dock I bought has a 10 card reader on it so I thought killing 2 birds with 1 stone would be cool. Since my iPod doesnt fit in it unless I take off the Agent18 case I thought about hacking it apart and making the walls of the dock where the ipod rests a bit wider.

Today I was reading the usual blogs I read and found this device called the Dock Extender. Someone had the same problem I have and figures out a way to solve it.

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The Dock Extender goes between the ipod in its case and the dock. It allows for the ipod to be docked and it also comes with a metal back support so it wont over extend and break your dock or dock extender.

The device isnt for sell yet and its maker looks to be in Europe. Hopefully some one out in the States will  pickup this product.

http://www.sendstation.com/us/products/dockextender/

Since this product is most likely the same price that I spent on the dock, I may just get my hack on and dremel it to fit. I still wouldnt mind reviewing this unit for EverythingTech.tv.

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My new IPOD

Posted by admin on Dec 27, 2006 in General, Tech, ipod, itunes | 0 comments

It looks like quite a few of my friends (and family including myself) got or bought an Ipod this christmas. I’ve been playing around with mine and I’m trying to configure it to my liking. Here is what I have noticed so far:

  1. It’s imperative that you get some sort of cover or holder for the ipod. The lame lil jacket they give you was a nice thought but its practical for everyday use.
  2. As much as apple says they love podcasting, they refuse to separate podcasts from the music and videos. (all my podcasts keep showing up in the artist and other meta data fields)
  3. You have to clean up your act and get your media files organized or its a nightmare to find anything on the ipod.
  4. You need to use Smart Playlists to access all of this data and exclude the podcasts and movies on the ipod.

With all that said the device kicks ass once you get it working to your liking.

You need to create SmartPlaylists to make things easier to find on the device. I came up with a few things that work for me (see left).

The folder scheme doesn’t translate into the ipod so its mainly there for me to see in itunes.  I have a set of smart playlists for podcasts, Star ratings, “Base Playlists”, and some music related ones too. I havent polished all of these just yet but I do have some that work pretty well for me.

Podcast Video: 0play and 5day do the same kind of thing where it gives me a list of all of the video podcasts that havent been played or are 5 days new.:

The Podcasts ones kinda do the same thing (I’m having it exclude the PodioBooks since I have a PodioBooks playlist already setup):

more to come….

In the next few days I’ll be posting a bunch more of these over at my EverythingTech.tv site expanding more on the Pimp My iTunes post I did a while back. Come by if you wanna check them out.

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