Posts Tagged apple
Todays Science Experiment: Disassembling an iPod battery (or: How To Burn Your House Down)
Having finally managed to get my iPod Classic open, I replaced its aging battery for a spiffy new one. Upon reading the label on the old battery, it said: Do NOT disassemble.
Well, that’s fighting talk where I come from, and if Apple said not to do it, I’m doing it!
Here we have the freshly plucked (well, torn) battery:
The pristine, non-violated, battery.
When iPod Art Goes Awry
Having installed Kubuntu Hardy I dreaded the thought of having to recompile the libgpod library to get my iPod Classic (Black) working again. After installing Amarok I thought I’d try my iPod anyway.
Lo and behold, it worked!
Hoorah!
Well, it did. Until I actually flipped through the cover art and played some tracks did I notice that my cover art had gone awry. Drat!
After some tinkering I noticed in my Adept (package manager) that installed was libgpod3-nogtk, when I looked at the description for the library I noticed:
This version does not include artwork support
So I uninstalled it and installed the libgpod3 library.
All good!
Cover art is back (be sure to click the ipod icon at the top of Amarok, and choose Update Artwork). All is good between Amarok and iPods.
Above: the two libraries (and descriptions) in Adept
Black 80GB iPod Classic
I’m not proud of what I’ve done. Not proud at all…
I bought an iPod *sob*
Forgive me! I was tempted by value for money! No seriously it was! 80Gb Black iPod Classic for £160 from OverclockersUK.
The only snag is that it’s 6th Generation and 6G is where Apple altered the iPod’s to only work with iTunes. But fear not! The latest update to libgpod (0.6.0) allows the iPod and Amarok to share some mp3 looooove.
Only problem is: you have to *gulp* compile libgpod!
And with the release of Hardy, there’s no need to compile libgpod! Yaaayyy!
Using a few threads from Ubuntu Forums I was able to get my iPod working fantastic with Amarok. Here’s how I did it:
New Blog, New Look
Since the old blog was art only, it rarely got any posts. This new and improved blog is for the things I love the most: Linux, Art and Gadgets.
I’ve deleted most of the old posts as the majority were all art related. I’ve kept my most recent write up which was for the CECT 599 mobile phone that I bought the other week. It rocks!
So here’s to a new year (soon) and a new blog. Hoorah!
iPhone Clone – CECT 599
Couldn’t resist it. Ebay did tempteth me.
Bought a new mobile phone: the CECT 599 (which is basically an iPhone ‘clone’.)
I’ve written a review of the beast HERE.
For £80 I really can’t find any faults with it!
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