iPod iTouch

[[AK]Clay]

Yes, you can remove quicktime, but I question that decision.

Give the new version a shot. Why remove it if it's working fine now?

Oh my biggest complaint with the original is that it embedded itself in my browser and screwed up some things from working right, and would randomly start playing and doing strange things it seemed. This was a number of years ago, so perhaps it's smoother now.

My second biggest issue is resources. My approach to PC operations is that programs should NOT auto load when I boot up my machine and should NOT be resident in memory unless specifically called upon. Resources are limited, why waste them on something I'm not using? I see now that there's a little QuickTime icon on the bottom of my PC screen when I boot up - which oft means such is preloaded into memory. This slows down my computer and slow computers make the Panda sad. If I can play the media via Windows Media player which I have already, why have two?

Nonetheless, if removing quicktime screws up my iTunes functionality, and iTunes really is all that as folks are saying, perhaps I should give it a shot for a few days

[[AK]Nuts]

I have a couple of .bat files that are full of net stop and start commands.

I have a standard one that turns off everything I don't regularly need like messenger and print spooling... I just don't need them on a daily basis

I have one that turns back on all the defaults (good for troubleshooting a problem)

I have another for gaming... it turns off damn near everything I can get away with... bare bones here. And of course one to flick those back on.

Like clay, I watch my resources as I do notice an improvement in performance when I can shave off 64mb of RAM usage.

[[AK]Hylander]

I use Quicktime alot... in fact, I have the Pro version so I can download and save alot of videos.

I gave up the fight for "services" a long time ago. Ever since I went to 2gigs of RAM, I've never really had a problem with resources. Yeah, I shut down some things If I'm playing a game online that is a graphics heavy beast, etc... but even now I often leave Trillian and even Yahoo Widgets running in the background and never had any issues or noticed any significant difference at all in FPS.

Once I got rid of Norton and switched to AVG a few years ago... most all of my service problems went away.

[[AK]Squidly]

LoL, "sad panda"

Listening to you guys go on about services and eliminating arcane file references from the registry makes me happier than ever that I am no longer on that platform.


Of course as bad as it is it can't touch the bad old days before plug and play actually worked. IRQ conflict! Joy!

[[AK]Hylander]

Of course as bad as it is it can't touch the bad old days before plug and play actually worked. IRQ conflict! Joy!

ARGH!! "Recess that memory, recess that memory".

My old early 3D Rendition Cards! Before 3dfx even. Playing PCI hopping with devices to get Windows95 to play nice with IRQs. Oh the pain.....

[[AK]StitchJones]

Nuts, Squidly makes a very good point. You need to do 200+ things in windows to feel warm and fuzzy about being safe. With Mac you start secure and stay secure :-) It's a pretty darn good feeling.


ugghh... IRQ's suck.

[[AK]Beaker]

I have several computers that I use to download music and would like to use them all to put stuff on the itouch.

When I try it tells me that it is synced to another library and I have to wipe the itouch to add stuff with this directory.

I don't want to wipe the itouch I just want to add this and that.

I want it to recognize all of the computers and let me put the 3 or 4 things I want on the itouch. From whatever computer I am on.

How do I do that?

Do I need some kind of hack ?

I don't see it is a drive on my computer right now maybe I need some other less structured program.

[[AK]Brorlis]

Set up Itunes to manually manage your music instead of automatically syncing your library and all should be well.

*edit*

Heres the link to an article to help you along

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61675

[[AK]Beaker]

Thanks Brorlis!

Unfortunately I got so frustrated with itunes before I read this that I now have winamp on my computer and am running ml-ipod to get it to sinc up, it works pretty well. Still trying to perfect going from itouch to the computer but it definitely now gets to my itouch without asking it to sinc and wipe everything.


Maybe I will go back and give itunes another chance if this one fails me

Sigh all this for some yoga podcasts.

[[AK]Brorlis]

Yikes... Winamp with the Ipod ? I certainly hope that you give it another try because itunes was the one thing that drew me to an ipod vs. any other mp3 player. Its new to you. Spend a few days with it and you'll never go back!

[[AK]Beaker]

I gotta admit I am totally enamoured with the itouch.

I love it!

I blame Rocks for suggesting I get one.

All I have to do now is figure out what apps I want on it.

Anyone have some favorites?

[[AK]Clay]

If you're quick:
http://www.woot.com/

$290 for a 16 GB iTouch is a Hell of a price.

[[AK]The Beast]

Aye. I missed it.

[[AK]Clay]

OK, now I'm annoyed at Apple. They want me to pay $10 for the updated software for the iTouch.

I've been holding off jailbreaking it, since I thought the 2.0 software would give me everything I wanted. Now I'm irritated. Has anyone jailbreaked their iTouch yet?

[[AK]Squidly]

Jailbreaking is ridiculous.

And don't get annoyed at Apple. Get annoyed at Sarbanes Oxley accounting requirements. Apple has to charge something for upgrades that significantly change the behavior of a product. The Touch gets credited to Apple's books immediately in one lump sum. The iPhone is spread over 2 years, and so is exempt from a software upgrade cost.

And for crying out loud, it's only 10 bucks. You'll spend more than that in 5 minutes in the APP store, and be thrilled doing it.

More on the fee charged for upgrades altering existing behavior.