Tuesday, March 23, 2010

How do you hack your iPod: iPod Hacks six major


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The iPod is a very personal device. The music, contacts, calendars and notes you store on it reveal a lot about your personality. From playlists to play important, our iPod to others what we like to tell, and even thinking about us. But if you really want your iPod into an engine of extreme personal expression, processing, why make changes?

Hacking your iPod - whether it is the case modding is to install its own software, or tearing it, and the doubling ofMemory - can transform the ubiquitous music and media player into something unique.

Note: You must be aware of this attempt, one of these tricks involves the risk of ruining your device.

1 Penguin Power

iPod Linux is the essential hack, table stakes for many of the hacks that you could try. It fully supports iPods in generations 1-3, and has been successfully installed on all the others with a display. Should Podzilla grave ' "is an additional programgraphical interface to iPod Linux. There are several versions available to choose Podzilla. Once installed, iPod Linux and Podzilla you restart your iPod to a barebones Linux mode. It will also serve as the basis for many other hacks.

2 Wikipedia on the go

Everyone loves Wikipedia. It's free, user-built encyclopaedia with entries by British subjects. It 'a great resource, but what happens if youaway from your desk? Now you can save on your iPod and carry Wikipedia with you can go anywhere. Unfortunately, it is not yet available for all models of iPod nano and video users are left out now, and there is the display of the iPod shuffle, there is no point in installing Wikipedia. First you need to install iPod Linux.

3 Double Your Memory

Not satisfied with the 4 GB of space on your iPod nano? Why not marriage. First,You need to buy a broken nano on eBay. To break and remove the memory. Then open your working nano, solder the memory chip has received from the broken nano to the empty pad lock at work, this time, and lead you restore the factory settings. Now you have a working nano with 7.2GB of space.

4 mobile video on the go

Transfer DVD movies on your iPod easily and free (with a hand brake of free software) available for Mac and Windows. Be warned though: unlessUsing a method of analog acquisition, is prohibited DVD to own, you rip to your iPod.

For Mac (and Linux) users, you will receive a free copy of the handbrake. Handbrake is already available in Universal Binary - good news for those who have a new MacBook, Mac Mini, iMac or - and can rip DVD video directly to MPEG-4 video format you need to watch on your iPod. Windows users will have need to take a few steps further. Get a DVD ripping program such as DVDFab Decrypter or DVD Decrypter.Convert your video to AVI with a tool for decoding. Finally, the AVI MPEG-4 video to count this game on your iPod with Videora iPod Converter is able.

5 TV on your iPod

Want to watch content from your iPod to your TV? You can do this by buying a £ 15 iPod AV cable from Apple or use a standard mini-jack plug to three RCA cables to do. These cables cost between £ 7-10 from taken as Maplin (www.maplins.co.uk). Set YouriPod for TV output, connect the cable via the mini-jack and connect the RCA connections on TV with a non-standard setup. Apple provides video iPod for the thread - instead of the traditional yellow. You'll want the red wire in the video jack (yellow) to connect the TV, the yellow wire to the white cap, and the white wire in the red cap. This is a simple hack that anyone can try with an iPod.

6 Pac Attack

Thanks iPodMAME,That play Pac-Man on your iPod. This hack is a version of MAME, the arcade game emulator program to install on your iPod. As with the Wikipedia hack, iPodMAME requires that you first install iPod Linux. The program comes with romsets (the set of files, including all the game data) including one for Pac-Man. PodMAME would with any iPod with color display.

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