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Lux Aeterna posted:Hopefully revision 2 hardware will have the 5 things that are kind of irking me now None of that really bothers me except the capacity. I might have to go for this, it's just so loving shiny and new and awesome.
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I'm having a bit of trouble SFTPing files to my Touch. I can get quite far through uploading a file, but then the connection will be lost every couple of minutes. I think I'll give WinSCP a try later today. If it has a resume upload function (assuming the problem is with my network, and not the software I'm using), that'd be awesome.
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Lux Aeterna posted:'Tis the season for lovely knockoff accessories for under What type of remote would work best with the touch? A video or a nano?
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Kimli posted:I received my DLO case yesterday. It's pretty cool, but I came down with a massive case of the stupids right before I went to use it and ruined not one but THREE protective films for the front of my 'pod. The case itself looks really snazzy, but I won't be happy until I the new screens I had to order come in. I screwed up putting my film on too, there's quite a bit of dust stuck underneath it. My case only came with one though, are you using the film that came with it? Also, how do you get replacements?
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Hillridge posted:Wow, both of these are things I was planning to look for. I don't believe the video one works with it. The video only has a dock port while the nano remote has the headphone jack and the dock connector and with touches you need both in to work. It's only moderately annoying considering you get a freaking remote. Linkletter posted:I screwed up putting my film on too, there's quite a bit of dust stuck underneath it. My case only came with one though, are you using the film that came with it? Also, how do you get replacements? http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.9370 dealextreme to the rescue. These look almost identical to the other ones and are only $1.50 each. If you buy 10 of them, they're $8.10 because of bulk pricing. I don't have any idea if they really suck though, but they do look pretty goddamn familiar and I can't imagine there aren't that many types of screen covers. And poo poo, there's a goddamn ipaq on the casing how not sketchy is that?
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Linkletter posted:I screwed up putting my film on too, there's quite a bit of dust stuck underneath it. My case only came with one though, are you using the film that came with it? Also, how do you get replacements? I used the film that came with the case, plus one I had sitting on my desk from a previous (really crappy) case purchase, and finally there already was one on my screen but it was extremely thick and matte - it dulled the surface of my touch and made it hard to poke at. Incidentally, the matte film was by far the most expensive one - I purchased it from the Apple Store for around $15, and it sucks. I ebay'd up some new films, found a guy selling a 3-pack for $5. Picked up 2; soon I'll have 6 films to potentially f in the a!
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Kimli posted:I received my DLO case yesterday. It's pretty cool, but I came down with a massive case of the stupids right before I went to use it and ruined not one but THREE protective films for the front of my 'pod. The case itself looks really snazzy, but I won't be happy until I the new screens I had to order come in. I've ruined the single one, because trying to reapply it the first two times (loving air bubbles), it caught dust on the adhesive layer. And even if it would have worked, I tried to get the sticker of it, part of it kept stuck on it and would have ruined anyway. I put the iPod in the case and use it without film. Maybe I find some films around here, I'm not gonna order again overseas.
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Toiletbrush posted:You had THREE films with the case? Or did you order extra ones? This is exactly what happened to me. The first two times I had air bubbles, and the third time dust got trapped inside. I decided to deal with it rather than try again, but I really wish I could try again with the same type of film.
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Got my Touch for my birthday today, and I must say, I am excited to jailbreak it and get some stuff started. Someone linked this site earlier, and I think it looks loving awesome. I'll definitely be getting a custom case from them. https://www.vajastore.com 70 bucks, but they look classy and well-built so V  VEDIT: Just a quick question: what's the little plastic thing that comes with it for?
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Lawnie posted:
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Lawnie posted:
It's a stand for when it's in landscape mode for watching videos.
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tuna posted:Just a heads up because it confused the gently caress out of me before: When you download dictionaries, you have to manually check them inside WeDict by tapping on the "i" information icon. This inappropriate icon also may or may not open at all unless you've tapped it about 30 times, and by then you're tapping so fast you'll hit the "done" button that loads up directly behind it and have to start all over again. Before I managed to work out the "i" thing I just presumed the application really sucked. Jesus, I was wondering why nothing was giving me results. Thanks for this. This 'feature' wasn't in the previous version I was using before I had to restore the iPod.
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Holy crap -- know that application "MobileScrobbler" on installer.app that lets you scrobble your songs on the ipod touch? Well it uh, does something else now too -- you can listen to last.fm with it Edit: In other news, a working Playstation emulator is about to be released for iPhone/iPod touch by the makers of gpsphone. SuperCaptainJ fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Dec 10, 2007 |
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SuperCaptainJ posted:Edit: In other news, a working Playstation emulator is about to be released for iPhone/iPod touch by the makers of gpsphone. I would really really love to see how they handle a d-pad + four face buttons + four shoulder buttons on an iPhone.
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Rock Tumbler posted:I would really really love to see how they handle a d-pad + four face buttons + four shoulder buttons on an iPhone. There's a mockup at the top of : http://www.zodttd.com/
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Any of you guys encoded videos for the iPod with tools other than lovely Quicktime? I'm done experimenting video quality with MEncoder while hammering everything into the profile the iPod supports. I'm hoping for B-frame support in the next gen iPod though. My video pass options look like this, doing two passes with turbo mode on first pass: code:
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Toiletbrush posted:Any of you guys encoded videos for the iPod with tools other than lovely Quicktime? I was under the impression that Videora was SOP. It works fantastic. You can line up a bunch of videos and it will encode them over night. It's got tons of different selections. http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod-touch/
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OptimusMatrix posted:I was under the impression that Videora was SOP. It works fantastic. You can line up a bunch of videos and it will encode them over night. It's got tons of different selections.
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Zeph posted:How on earth did you get it to encode multiple videos one after another? I see a queue window but all the options are greyed out, I can only encode one video at a time, going through the whole settings process every time. When one is in progress, just go through the same process to set up another video, and it'll get added to the queue.
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I've got a Touch in the mail, and want to get some of my DVD's on it. I see a lot of info regarding converting the file to work on the Touch, but what's a good program for importing/ripping the DVDs I own to my PC? Is there an all-in-one solution that just goes DVD->iPod Touch format?
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Whenever I change minor details in a song's ID3 tags (e.g. genre, fixing capitalisation of an artist, etc.) and go to Sync it with my Touch, it doesn't get updated and it's really quite bugging me. I've been told my best bet is to wipe all the songs from my iPod and resync the lot of them. This is a needlessly awkward way of doing it, but whatever. The problem is, I'm not seeing an option to wipe everything in the devices section of iTunes. Any help?
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Vyze posted:Whenever I change minor details in a song's ID3 tags (e.g. genre, fixing capitalisation of an artist, etc.) and go to Sync it with my Touch, it doesn't get updated and it's really quite bugging me. It's probably the same with the touch, but with other ipods if you do a "restore" it'll do a wipe.
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McCheese posted:It's probably the same with the touch, but with other ipods if you do a "restore" it'll do a wipe.  I think I found the answer, though. Unticking the "Sync Music" box seems to delete all the music from my iPod.
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OptimusMatrix posted:I was under the impression that Videora was SOP. It works fantastic. You can line up a bunch of videos and it will encode them over night. It's got tons of different selections.
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SuperCaptainJ posted:Holy crap -- know that application "MobileScrobbler" on installer.app that lets you scrobble your songs on the ipod touch? Well it uh, does something else now too -- you can listen to last.fm with it Hopefully it won't kill the battery in 2 hours like gpsphone does (though the ability to play Advance Wars on the touch is awesome). If I could touch the screen to direct troops rather than use the d-pad it would be perfect. They did finally make a version of it that allows for easy game snapshot/restore.
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OK my 16GB touch hotness just showed up, is it supposed to be loading relatively slowly? i.e. about 1 song every other second. It seems to be much slower than my old 20GB B&W clickwheel. E: Never mind, I realized that's actually normal and quick. This thing is friggin' awesome. SeamusMcPhisticuffs fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Dec 12, 2007 |
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SuperCaptainJ posted:There's a mockup at the top of : http://www.zodttd.com/ Hahahahaha, I guess they deserve some credit for trying, but A LOT of PSX games require the ability to use the directional pads and trigger buttons at the same time, and even if you try to do some finger yoga to get around this, you'll end up covering most of the screen anyway, not to mention having to be able to push one of the 4 buttons at any time. Does anyone else get artifacts while watching some youtube videos? Like the colors not being right?
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I am loving all the iPod Touch homebrew, and am making liberal use of some of them. However, I'm still waiting for a nice Spreadsheet application to come along. People are doing tons of weird, cool, and gimmicky things, but I don't see why the talented developers aren't spending their time on very useful applications such as that. Sometimes makes me wish I actually had some effort and coding ability. 
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Vyze posted:People are doing tons of weird, cool, and gimmicky things, but I don't see why the talented developers aren't spending their time on very useful applications such as that. Sometimes makes me wish I actually had some effort and coding ability.
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Toiletbrush posted:They're probably waiting for the SDK. I don't think that applications, that are likely going to be shareware or commercial, are going to based on a hack to make them run. vWell, once someone's made a good spreadsheet app, I'll happily pay for it.
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This seems to be the iPod Touch homebrew thread more than anything, but I can't think of a better place to ask my question. Did any of you buy your Touch predominantly to watch movies? Are you happy with it for that function? I am considering buying one, but I was a little disappointed to see in a demo video that though the Touch in landscape mode is technically wide screen, actually showing wide screen video means not using the whole screen. Also, I read in some Amazon review (so it's obviously not credible, but it makes me wonder) that the screen isn't as crisp as the iPod Nano screen. I'm wondering if my impressions are wrong. Also, do you guys know if there's any way to see a live iPod Touch demo, like in Best Buy or something? The nearest Apple store is a bit of a drive for me.
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I still say that if you want something just for watching video, an Archos is the way to go. The screen may be crisper on an iPod, but you can get a larger screen for the same price with an Archos - which is why I keep my old one around. It really is the homebrew that makes the touch stand-out and become more than a fun half-hour gimmick.
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This may be a dumb question, but if I go to music->songs->shuffle to randomly play everything on my iPod, and then while a song is playing I look at the tracks on that album and play one, how do I put total-library shuffle back on without going all the way back to the songs screen? If I turn shuffle back on it just shuffles the album.
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Hillridge posted:This may be a dumb question, but if I go to music->songs->shuffle to randomly play everything on my iPod, and then while a song is playing I look at the tracks on that album and play one, how do I put total-library shuffle back on without going all the way back to the songs screen? If I turn shuffle back on it just shuffles the album. It's less of an obvious loving blunder than not including a music playlist editor in a music device for playing music. Lists of music, if you will... Lists to be played musically. I know there's the "On The Go", thing, but there's only one of that, and you have to save it as something else back on iTunes on a PC before you can make another playlist. Hopefully someone will make a tweak or a patch to add basic mp3 player functionality to an iPod.
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Vyze posted:I still say that if you want something just for watching video, an Archos is the way to go. The screen may be crisper on an iPod, but you can get a larger screen for the same price with an Archos - which is why I keep my old one around. The Archos does seem to be the only legitimate alternative to the Touch. This model is $200 less than the 16gb Touch, has twice the storage, and an inch bigger screen, give or take. Have you found compatibility to be an issue with your Archos? One of the things I was looking for in the Touch was the "just works" factor of using it with iTunes. Archos sure doesn't make electronics as sexy looking as Apple does, though.  edit: VVV I forgot to mention that. It's a pretty huge dissuading factor for me, too. Why carry around anything that goes could potentially be a brick if you drop it from a few feet? Mortley fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Dec 14, 2007 |
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Mortley posted:The Archos does seem to be the only legitimate alternative to the Touch. This model is $200 less than the 16gb Touch, has twice the storage, and an inch bigger screen, give or take. I'd be all over that thing if it used flash memory. No more hard drive based media players for me.
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Mortley posted:Have you found compatibility to be an issue with your Archos? One of the things I was looking for in the Touch was the "just works" factor of using it with iTunes. The problem was that I got the 7" screen one (AV700), meaning it sure as hell wouldn't fit in my pocket. I keep it for watching videos, though - I haven't even bothered encoding it into mp4 or whatever mixed up format to test videos out on my Touch. Oh, and you can make and save playlists with the thing.  And no iTunes bullshit. Copy/paste in Windows Explorer is a much better file management system than some horribly bloated, oversized piece of software that does very little for the actual user. And you can turn it on to play with it (even though you haven't put any music past the default couple of crummy pre-installed songs, but oh well) before getting home and plugging it into the PC, which you can't with the Touch.
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I was thinking of getting an iPod touch as a Christmas gift for myself. I bought an Archos 605, thinking it would be better than an iPhone/iPod touch. Unfortunately, the Archos keeps making me think it's the worst device ever made. 1) It allegedly takes any file without conversion, but due to the bullshit plugin thing, I need to convert almost everything anyway. 2) The music interface is a total joke. 3) Web browsing is equally a joke. Admittedly Youtube is nice, but everything is so god damned slow. 4) The "Widgets" are pointless, and there's no homebrew. 5) The battery is pretty weird and sometimes loses charge for no real reason. So while I'd like an iPhone, Buying one right now doesn't make sense with the 3G coming. So I look to the touch. However, I've the iLounge review says that the screen, battery, audio fidelity, everything is generally inferior to the iPhone. Is this true, or is it just bellyaching?
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I'm looking to get a nice case for my iPod Touch to keep it safe, would anyone recommend this one?: http://www.iskin.com/touch_overview.html I've emailed that website asking what shipping to the UK would be, since every case I can find for sale in the UK looks so very cheap and tacky. No reply from them yet, though. Mr_D posted:So while I'd like an iPhone, Buying one right now doesn't make sense with the 3G coming. So I look to the touch. However, I've the iLounge review says that the screen, battery, audio fidelity, everything is generally inferior to the iPhone. Is this true, or is it just bellyaching? You could always pay twice as much, as well as a huge contract fee every month, to get an iPhone, but then again you could always just jailbreak your iPod, and have everything the iPhone does other than an actual phone (and Bluetooth).
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Is there a free way to backup iPod touch music onto a computer? It's non-jailbroken and the music is manually managed (I don't have the files in the iTunes)
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