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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.

Originally posted by stj0691:Ok, those pictures you posted of themes from earlier, how do you do that? I've already jailbroken and have Cydia on there, now what?

Originally posted by stj0691Winterboard? Is that the app you use for the backgrounds?

Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

Nice! Did you find it hard to do?

First, you need to go into Cydia and look for Winterboard and install that. When you've got Winterboard installed, go back into Cydia and then look under Themes / Winterboard. Install a theme you like the sounds of (and check out the previews too under More Info). Go back into Winterboard, apply the theme by clicking it and you should be good to go.

Winterboard, I think, has several already-made themes. Not very good themes, but they're decent. Also, do you have Wi-Fi? I can send you my theme if you want and you can do what you want with it, plus you can modify things that way, which I find better.



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It certainly is - it's the next-gen version of Summerboard + Customise which we used to have to use for applying themes, system text and changing backgrounds. I have quite a few apps, actually.

- Winterboard, for changing themes, backgrounds, batteries etc.
- Poof, for hiding and unhiding icons and stuff you don't need or want to see.
- Cydia, for installing applications, games, themes and whatever else.
- MakeItMine, changes the iPod text at the top left corner to anything you want.
- SBSettings, for turning off Wi-Fi / SSH quickly and restarting the iPod interface.

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Originally posted by stj0691:[..]

Thank you so much drew!! This certainly helped! My question is: how do you make your own? I'm hoping to make a Zoo TV sort of theme for it, and so on. What you've done is way beyond what I can imagine.

Also, I do have Wifi, but how would you be able to send them over?? How would one be able to modify or change things via wifi?

Originally posted by stj0691:So after some tinkering around I am working on a Zoo TV theme and a PopMart theme.