after work fun - Apple style waiting for Leopard at 6pm
well, i dragged the wife to the mac store at the local mall. there were about 150 people in line waiting for the store to open at 6pm tonight. pretty crazy considering its a friday night. well, it took about 20 mins but i bought a copy of Leopard (family pack) $199. All went well, […]
taking screenshots on your ipod touch
1. download: http://shouldbefree.net/upload/screenshot
mirror if you cant get the first file: http://shouldbefree.net/upload/screenshot.zip
2. ssh and put the file screenshot inside /Applications/
3. ssh in and run a chmod to correct the permissions:
chmod -R a+x /Applications/*
4. run the command in ssh (not as easy or convenient as 2nd way with dock.app):
/Applications/screenshot
Go retrieve the file at the location it specified […]
customize the carrier icon on the ipod touch
to change the carrier image that is located on the top left of the screen (default icon says ipod)
note: there are (2) images to edit here one that appears on the home screen, and one that appears when you are inside an app
its pretty easy to change
1. in PS create a graphic that is no […]
customize the slider text on the ipod touch
to change the ’slider text’ download this file:
download: http://rapidshare.com/files/62428859/SpringBoard.strings.html
and search for “slide to unlock” replace it with anything up to 15 characters. once that is done simply put it to /System/Libary/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/English.lproj/SpringBoard.strings.
While your in the file, you can also change
sync in progress
slide to cancel
slide to power off
super easy to change, and you can change them whenever […]
rebooting the ipod touch
1. press & hold the power button until the red slider bar appears
2. move the slider bar all the way to the right
3. wait for the ipod to turn off
4. press the power button again
installing 3rd party apps on the ipod touch
1. tap installer.app
2. tap community sources
3. tap install
4. reboot the ipod
once rebooted this will populate the installer.app with a great number of 3rd party apps that are available to install on your ipod touch. remember its best to reboot after you install an app.
create themes for the ipod touch
summerboard themes are pretty easy to make if you follow these instructions:
all summerboard themes reside here on the ipod:
/var/root/Library/SummerBoard/Themes/
you have a folder per theme in there, with the following structure:
ThemeName/StatusBar.png - status bar image (optional, 320×20 PNG, alpha)
ThemeName/Wallpaper.png - the wallpaper (320×480 PNG, no alpha)
ThemeName/Dock.png - the dock image for the large dock (320×91 PNG, […]
installing NES rom’s on the ipod touch
i used cyberduck ftp for this…
1. ssh into your ipod via cyberduck
2. navigate to: /var/root/Media
3. make a folder in Media called ROMs
4. inside the ROMs folder make another folder called NES
5. upload your NES ROMs into the NES folder
Get NES ROMs here:
http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libara…ms_summary.htm
http://www.freeroms.com/ then click NES
http://www.coolrom.com/roms/nes/
http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/nes.html
installing an NES emulator on the ipod touch
1. tap the installer.app
2. tap games
3. tap NES
4. tap install
5. reboot ipod
installing summerboard for the ipod touch
Using Installer.app on your iPod Touch, install SummerBoard 2.11. Restart your iPod Touch. When your iPod Touch boots back up, do not worry if your dock is stuck at the top of the screen.
Download this file and extrat the files to a folder.
Download: http://www.nullriver.com/~zigzag/SummerBoard.zip
Open that folder you created and using the SFTP program, SSH into […]