Tips and Tricks you need to know about your iPod!
Here is a selection of Tips and Trick you can use on your iPod to get the most out of your console.
Using iPod to remotely record Sky+/Sky HD programs
Visit the App Store and download TV Plus (£1.19)
You'll need to setup Remote Record for your Sky account.
Just visit sky.com/RemoteRecord to setup this free service.
It's wort pointing out that Sky limit you to setting up a maximum of 10 recordings per day through their website, so presumably its the same through TV Plus.
Still, that should be plenty for most.
Select the station you want from the genre menus, just like on your Sky box, or search for the program if you already know the one you want to record.
Hit record and let TV Plus do the rest.
TV Plus works on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Control your ps3 blu-ray playback with iPod/iPhone
Now you can use your iPod touch or your iPhone as a remote control whhen your watching your latest blu-ray movie.
Best of all it’s FREE
Simply visit the Apple App Store
Search for BD Touch
Download BD Touch
All you need to do is make sure both your iPod/iPhone and your PS3 are on the same network.
Copy music from iPod to PC
Have you bought a new PC and want all your songs back on itunes. There are a range of applications available to do such a task.
Choose an application and regain your itunes music.
Enjoy!
Jailbreak iPod
Do you want to install 3rd party apps on your iPod touch?
THIS DOES NOT WORK WITH THE IPOD TOUCH 2G
The QuickPwn video is available at on YouTube here
1. Get QuickPwn
- Download QuickPwn here
- Unzip QuickPwn and get it running
2. Use QuickPwn (pretty easy)
- When you first start QuickPwn, a window will pop up asking you to select the current device you have plugged in. Select yours.
- Select the file of the firmware that you are currently running (
- To find firmware files downloaded via iTunes, follow these directions. Open a folder and go to My Computer. Go to the Tools tab and click the view tab. Then click Folder Options and click “view hidden files and folders”, then click ok. Now follow this path. . Click Local Disc C, Documents and Settings, USERNAME, Application Data, Apple Computer, iTunes, iPod Software Updates. There are your downloaded firmwares.
- Make sure all three options are clicked and then click the next arrow
3. The Command Line
- For those of you not familiar with the command line, this might be a little scary. Just read what it tells you to do and do it.
- It will first ask you to turn off your iPod/iPhone. Press enter when done
- The next part is kinda weird. I think what they are trying to do is a DFU mode. Just follow the instructions. First, you will hold the power button for five seconds. Then you will hold power AND home for ten seconds. Then you will Whatever.release the power button and just hold home for up to thirty seconds (mine stopped at 22). Simple, no?
- When it works, your iPod will turn white. The command line will run aa total of seven operations, showing the percentage points. Somewhere along the line of operations, the Pwn logo will pop up on your iPod.
- The logo will disappear and the refresh circle will be spinning for about twenty to thirty seconds
- The iPod will turn off and then on
- Now you are done with the Pwning
4. Final touches
- On your iPod/iPhone, go to Settings, General, Auto-Lock, and set it to 5 minutes
- Go to Cydia and let it install its updates and such
- Go to Sections, All Packages, and select BossTool and install it
- Once installed, exit Cydia and open BossTool
- Move the fonts. This might take a while, but just wait until it says “Fonts Already Moved”
- Open Cydia, Go to Manage, click BossTool, select Modify, and remove it
Enjoy!
Electronic Tricks doesn't accept any liability for damaging your iPod/iPhone, however we have carried out each Trick with no consequences.
