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Originally posted by djrlewis:[..]

Especially if it's just music Johnny's after. Way to go I say. Much more space.

Originally posted by U2Nick:Could someone tell me how a video avatar is created? Sort of like Jeremy's. Thanks guys

Originally posted by haytrain:[..]

I'm sure there's an easier way to do it, but I created a .gif file from taking screenshots of videos from U2.com. Argh, that was a pain in the ass.....

Originally posted by djrlewis:[..]

Especially if it's just music Johnny's after. Way to go I say. Much more space.

Originally posted by drewhiggins:Hey Nicole! Probably an external USB hard drive of around 250 - 320GB might be worthwhile. iPods just aren't that reliable to store things on. They can fail in an instant whereas a larger and more dedicated hard drive is loads more reliable. Plus you can backup everything else you have too. On that external drive of that size, I can store loads of lossless CD rips, all my blog content and database and still have loads of room left over for stuff like operating system DVD images, internet downloads, HD video etc.

Flash drives would certainly work, but for what they offer are very expensive. For a 32GB flash drive is around $150 whereas a hard drive of 10x the size is $20 less. I know what I'd choose.

I think an Ipod classic should do the job just fine, (storing bootlegs), with the added bonus of being always able to listen to all your bootlegs.

Don't buy separate devices when one does the job just as well.

Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]


Hold down the “Home” button

Hold down the “Standby” button

When it says “slide to turn off”, ignore it. It should restart with a blank screen. Look at iTunes, and your device should be removed. Now lift the Standby button, while still holding onto the Home button.

Keep holding the Home button until the iPod reconnects on iTunes. When the device shows up in iTunes, that’s when you’ll need to lift up your button. If you wait any longer, it will go into Recovery Mode, and that’s not what you want. Your iPod should be blank.

Now iTunes will tell you that the iPod Touch is in Recover Mode. You can now perform a manual restore on it.


There you go. And if you force it into DFU mode, you have to restore - I made that mistake many times over.

Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

The great thing is that you can still use iTunes and buy music and apps from the App Store, but as an addition you can theme your iPod and funk it up with Winterboard, use Cydia to download applications and games and generally make it better. It is known as jailbreaking. But before you even try to Jailbreak it, you have to know how to fix it in case you can't boot it properly. I had to restore about ten times before I got it right!

Check out ModMyI.com, iPodTouchFans.com and MacThemes2.net for what you can do. At those stores, they are trained to sell the product as minimal as possible, but you can certainly download games and apps to it from App Store which needs Software Update 2.0 or higher, minimum. The salesman probably did mean third-party apps, but the App Store is open to all with an iTunes account.