Igor Delovski Board

[XNote]

The Last iPod Video Guide You’ll Ever Need

"I was recently inspired to create a guide for Mac users who just got
themselves a brand new iPod! We’ll go over all the options you’ve got and
how to convert absolutely anything and everything: DVDs, TiVo video,
messy AVIs, muxed MPEGs and more to iPod compatible video - all within
OS X.

Protecting Your iPod; Supported Video Formats; H.264 or MPEG-4: Which
is better? Watch iPod Videos on Your TV; H.264 to MPEG-4; Size Comparison
Testing for iPod Compatibility; Places to Download iPod Videos;
Converting Videos with QuickTime Pro or iTunes; Converting Videos with
iSquint; etc."

[delovski]

Digg: How To Boot iPod Into Secret Diagnostic Mode!

"Use this video tutorial to learn how to boot your iPod into the secret
diagnostic mode used for hardware testing."

[Ike]

Digg: Handbrake now supports H.264 at 640x480 for iPod

"Handbrake now supports H.264 at 640x480 for iPod. Previous versions
were not able to produce such output in a format the iPod would recognize.
The new universal binary test version now supports this. File name is just
HandBrake.zip and was released on January 1, 2007."

[delovski]

OpenCulture: 50+ Free Courses from UC Berkeley for Your iPod

"Last April, UC Berkeley, one of the premiere schools in the country,
announced its plan to put complete academic courses on iTunes. Fast
forward nine months, and you can already find 59 full courses ready for
your iPod. "

[XNote]

NY Times: New Mobile Phone Signals Apple’s Ambition

"Steven P. Jobs introduced an Apple wireless phone today that he said would
lead to a new synthesis of communications, video, music and computing."

[Ike]

Slashdot: How Apple Kept the iPhone Secret

"Bogus prototypes, bullying the press, stifling pillow talk — all to keep iPhone
under wraps. Fortune's Peter Lewis goes inside one of the year's biggest tech
launches. One of the most astonishing things about the new Apple iPhone,
introduced yesterday by Steve Jobs at the annual Macworld trade show, is
how Apple managed to keep it a secret for nearly two-and-a-half years of
development while working with partners like Cingular, Yahoo and Google."

[delovski]

Slashdot: No Third-party Apps on iPhone Says Jobs

"In an interview with the New York Times, Steve Jobs confirms reports
that the recently-announced iPhone will not allow third party applications
to be installed. According to Jobs, 'These are devices that need to work,
and you can't do that if you load any software on them.' In a similar vein,
Jobs said in a MSNBC article that, 'Cingular doesn't want to see their West
Coast network go down because some application messed up.'"

[XNote]

Slashdot: Inside the iPhone — 3G, ARM, OS X, 3rd Partyware

"After heading off the top ten myths of the iPhone, Daniel Eran of
RoughlyDrafted has written a series of articles looking 'Inside the iPhone,'
exploring (1) why Apple didn't target faster 3G networks, (2) a
substantiated look at how the iPhone is indeed running OS X (contrary to
reports that it isn't), and (3) what it means to users and developers, and
how ARM is involved, in Mac OS X, ARM, and iPod OS X, and why the
supposedly 'closed' system Apple describes for the iPhone won't preclude
third party development."

[delovski]

Hack Attack: Add music and movies to your iPod from any computer without iTunes

"When you're done here, you'll be able to add music and movies to your
iPod from any computer - and retain almost every other useful feature
iTunes brings to your iPod."

[XNote]

Digg: How To Fix an iPod that Won’t Boot

"There ’s a conspiracy theory that Steve Jobs wants you to buy a new
iPod every 12 months. That may or may not be the case, but if your iPod
is hosed, it doesn ’t necessarily mean it’s time to put it out to pasture."

[delovski]

Digg: iPhone Software Architecture Leaked!

"Someone leaked a doc showing the internals of the iPhone OS X architecture.
There are some bits that I haven't seen before, like something called 'Onyx'."

[XNote]

Slashdot: No iPhone SDK Means No iPhone Killer Apps

"Although it has a 1 GHz ARM chip which sounds fast, that is not a PC CPU,
it lacks stuff we take for granted on PC's, Apple had to use LLVM to emulate
some PC stuff, and to get 5 hours of battery and no first-degree burn on
your palm, you have to use the device pretty much as Apple intended, so
that their optimizations hold, same as AppleTV. As far as I can tell, there
is no Adobe Flash in iPhone because Flash video requires a full PC, that is
always required to decode a software codec."

[delovski]

Roughly Drafted: Secret iPhone Details Lost in a Sea of Hype and Hate

"Apple has dropped just enough information at just regular enough intervals
to create a level of anticipation for the iPhone that can only be described as
off the hook."

[delovski]

Almost here: Nick Anderson

[Ike]

NY Times: If an iPod costs $299, who gets that money?

"Who makes the Apple iPod? Here ’s a hint: It is not Apple. The company
outsources the entire manufacture of the device to a number of Asian enterprises,
among them Asustek, Inventec Appliances and Foxconn. But they only do
final assembly. What about the 451 parts that go into the iPod? Where are
they made and by whom?"

[delovski]

tuaw: UK iPhone reportedly functioning with Vodafone

"Today, TUAW reader AJ reports that he's used iASign to activate his iPhone with Vodafone."

[delovski]

digg - Old Zune Getting All The New Features

"The old Zune is getting all the new features. All. Microsoft's did something
fantastic here and rewarded the believers who purchased Zunes in the first
year by allowing them to get in on all the cool new stuff without having to
pay more. Are you paying attention Apple? This is how you should treat your
customers."

[delovski]

makeuseof.com - How to Install Wikipedia on Your iPod

"You can now have the entire Wikipedia encylopedia on your iPod. Clocking
in at only 1.7 GB of space, it is a very handy tool..."

ps - Installing Encyclopodia from Linux or Mac

[delovski]

Slashdot: Origin of the iPhone

"Steve Jobs had tasked about 200 of Apple's top engineers with creating the
iPhone. Yet here, in Apple's boardroom, it was clear that the prototype was
still a disaster. It wasn't just buggy, it flat-out didn't work. The phone dropped
calls constantly, the battery stopped charging before it was full, data and
applications routinely became corrupted and unusable. The list of problems
seemed endless. At the end of the demo, Jobs fixed the dozen or so people
in the room with a level stare and said, 'We don't have a product yet.'

The effect was even more terrifying than one of Jobs' trademark tantrums.
When the Apple chief screamed at his staff, it was scary but familiar. This
time, his relative calm was unnerving. 'It was one of the few times at Apple
when I got a chill,' says someone who was in the meeting."

[delovski]

mackorisnik.com - Gorenje postaje iGorenje linijom “Made for iPod” hladnjaka (CRO)

"Naime, Gorenje je u suradnji sa Appleom napravilo licencirani “Made For
iPod” hladnjak, sa naprednim funkcionalnostima. Naime osim ugrađenog
docka sa ugrađenim zvučnicima na sredini hladnjaka, hladnjakom možete
upravljati pomoću iGorenje web aplikacije putem vašeg iPhone/iPod Touch
ili Mac računala opremljenog Wi-Fi vezom."

[delovski]

How to: Sync iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPod with Multiple Computers

"Retrieve your iTunes Library ID. Open “iTunes Music Library.xml” with a
text editor (TextEdit on Macs, Notepad on Windows). Find the entry after
<string></string> tags, after “Library Persistent ID”."

[Ike]

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/13/15782200/one-device-secret-history-iphone-brian-merchant-book-excerpt

THE SECRET ORIGIN STORY OF THE IPHONE
An exclusive excerpt from The One Device