Rick's World

Last night I 'jailbroke' my iPod Touch. What is jailbreaking? That's the term for when you take the iPod Touch (or iPhone), which is normally locked down tight to prevent any third party applications from being installed on it and you break into it and… more »

Ok, this has to be the first time I've ever had a bug in my iPod caused by the case! A while back, I ordered a silicone case for my iPod Touch from eBay. Last night it arrived and I put it on the iPod. Today, I turned on my iPod and started listeni… more »

Why is it that on the iPod Touch, there is no way to search for a song, artist, or album by typing the first few letters of the name? The newest iPod Classics have this, and I think the new iPod Nanos do too. Why not the iPod Touch? Yes, it 'only' hol… more »

Ok, here's bug #2 that I've found on the iPod Touch. One of the features the iPod Touch has is to automatically shut off the screen after a couple minutes to save power. When it does this, it locks the controls in the screen. In order to bring the… more »

Here's the first bug I've encountered on the iPod Touch. Whenever you sync new podcasts onto the iPod Touch, it displays a small blue dot next to the name of each podcast to indicate that it has unplayed podcasts. Once you've listened to the podcas… more »

Yesterday, Amazon launched their new MP3 store. This is big news and I am very excited about the possibilities. The interesting thing about the Amazon MP3 store is that all the tracks are stored in unprotected MP3 files! This means NO DRM! This is… more »

A week ago, I bought a 16GB iPod Touch. I meant to write a long fawning review praising this thing as an incredible device. I never got around to writing that blog. It's a good thing too. Now that I've spent a full week with it, I've had time to get… more »

Ok, it really sucks that there is no note taking app on the iPod Touch. It is such a useful feature that it puzzles me why it was left out. Anyway, if you want to take notes on the iPod Touch anyway, here's a very ugly hack to make that happen. You… more »

Well, I did it. I bought one of the new 16 GB iPod Touchs. It is all set up and I'm typing this message on it. I have to say that the keyboard is much more useable than I expected. I am making almost no typing errors and I've never used the keyboard m… more »

I've been reading reports that the iPod Touches have started showing up at the Apple Stores already. I may have to go by and 'look' at one this weekend. Hopefully I can come back 'unscarred'. :) more »