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  • Linux and Your iPhone / iPod Touch

    Not content with the roadblocks Apple had erected for users who wanted to connect to their digital devices (that they had paid for, natch), Apple decided to up the ante with its iPod Touch and iPhone series. This meant that a whole new round of reverse engineering was necessary just so that, and this bears repeating a thousand times, users could connect to a device that they paid for and actually access content they legally possess. Does that make sense to you? Me neither. Welcome to the 21st century.First the good news – with recent developments in the libgpod library, as well as ifuse and iphone libraries, it’s relatively simple to enable your Linux box for iPhone content syncing with gtkpod. The bad news is that things are still a bit rough around the edges, but I’ll demonstrate the workarounds.Click below to read the rest:

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  • Using Your iPod with (K)ubuntu 9.10

    After a rocky beginning, I’ve been able to do many neat things with my Black iPod Classic with 120 GB, but it hasn’t been without its trials and tribulations. In this post, I’ll write about the tools I use to sync music, add photos, and transcode videos to the correct format. Being a Kubuntu user, note that my bias is towards KDE tools. If you use others, please list them in the comments. As with many things on Linux, there’s more than one way to do it. (Apologies to Larry Wall)Those who know me well are familiar with my unhealthy dislike for all things Apple. Perhaps it’s the way they attach DRM to everything they touch. Or maybe it’s the cult of Steve. Or maybe it’s because they make shiny, overpriced goods that they push to the gullible. Naturally, when my wife looked for something to give me on my birthday, she purchased an iPod. To her credit, she told me what she was thinking before the purchase, and I made a mad dash to Google to see about alternative, friendlier devices. In all honesty, I couldn’t find a better device for the money, and so an iPod it was.Read the whole post:

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