Apples & Oranges first meeting of the year
Well, it's that time of year again; time for me to be the big man and head up the Apples & Oranges group for GVSU. Apples & Oranges, in case you didn't know, is the Apple User Group for Grand Valley which I am president of.
Last night we had our first meeting and it was pretty good. I bought some ice cream chips and pop and at about 8:45pm, I ended up at the meeting. The usual suspects (ie. Nick, Rob and Beckey) showed up with probably 10 more new people along with our advisor, Eric. Jeff, my house-mate was there for the free food and pop, and Dallas and Samantha showed up for a moment. From how I saw it, it was actually a pretty damn good turn out. I got e-mails from two or three other people who wanted to be there but were either busy or just forgot, so I see that as a good sign for next week's meeting.
This week, I kind of stood around like a professor and tried to help people with their Apple issues by talking them through the process. We got onto som crazy topics like torrents, converting movies for your iPod and ripping music from your iPod (specifically the iPod Touch, ugh). Nick and Rob had comments here and there and by the end I was sitting down trying to fix Mail problems which sucked (I absolutely hate Mail).
Outside of having no structure and me not having my damn mini-DVI to VGA adapter to show people how to do things on the projector, it was a pretty good meeting. Next week I'll have to take a more commanding lead and keep the discussions focused. We drifted a lot.. but I'm not going to go further than that. As I said, next week will have to be more focused.
I have plans to show off how to rip music off of your iPod (specifically the iTouch, but also any other iPod) as well as maybe showing how to transfer your iTunes library. Nick wanted to show off Transmission and how to use BitTorrent so we may have 2 mini-meetings going on. After next week I want to definitely show people how to use Handbrake and iSquint, then maybe one day I'll show off the greatness that is Quicksilver. All in good time though.
Here's to hoping next week is just as successful as this week.
A bit on my experience with a hacked iPod touch
So, let's see here... I got my iPod the day before it was officially released (9/27/07) and I hacked my iPod... I don't recall. Somewhere around early to mid-October, a few days before iJailbreak was released. But since then here's what I know has worked for me and what I currently use:
Working:
Installer (duh)
All of the iPhone apps (Mail, Google Maps, Weather, etc.)
Summerboard (plus all of the themes even if they are missing icons for some apps)
iToDoList
All of Erica Sadun's apps except Widgets which was very buggy for all widgets I tried (simple and complicated)
NES minus the sluggishness when multiple sprites on screen or multiple movements are occurring, but having NES games still rocks
All of the Mobile- apps
Light
Sketches
Ants
Apollo
FireflyMediaServer
Mines
Tapp
iCountDown
iSplit
Vista
SendSong
iBlackJack
Tiff Exploit Fix
Taskbar Notifier
Kind of working:
Customize (I could launch the app, but couldn't change anything...)
Stack (It works, but I wasn't able to customize the stack(s) and also my 'dock' was missing an icon as the stack took up to spots)
Services (Bluetooth?)
VNSea (everything connects, but I get a jarbled screen on my MacBook and Windows XP desktop)
Not working:
weDict (I tried multiple dictionaries with no success)
Colloquy (No idea why this won't work, even after multiple installs)
What I'm currently using: (Straight from Installer.app)
Installer (duh)
iBlackjack
NES
VNSea
MobileFinder
MobileToDoList
Sketches
CommunitySources
iApp-a-Day
BSD Subsystem
MobilTerminal
Summerboard
Tiff Exploit Fix
Erica's Ported Utils
Erica's Utilities
Taskbar Notifier
And yea. If you're looking to jailbreak your iPod Touch, look no further than http://jailbreakme.com/ which, if you navigate there with your iPod Touch, will jailbreak your iPod Touch with one click on and on top of that, install Installer.app and fix the TIFF exploit in Safari which allows for this whole install to occur. Awesome right?
Anyways, if you have any questions I am more than willing to answer them.
-Mike
