iHack - The Beginning
A friend of mine passed on his used 60GB video iPod to me, which was very much appreciated as my old Sony MD-Walkman still works, but is hindered by all kinds of nasty DRM. Nasty enough that I have been unable to even change any songs on there in the past three years as I lost the software. Nasty enough that nobody has bothered to reverse engineer it because even with documentation it’s a bear. So I had been planning on getting something, and this was quite a nice graduation present. I immediately replaced the firmware with something a bit more “free”, Rockbox, and named her ‘Katana’. Now I’ve got a nice flat file browser that lets me drop in almost any type of file I want. This doesn’t stop at music and videos, I can also read text files, view pictures, etc. Naturally, that’s not enough for me *wicked grin*. Read on to see some fun hacks that can be had with your iPod.