“If you’re fortunate enough to be using an iPod with a Macintosh, you can easily program your iPod. The iPod itself can be scripted with AppleScript. Apple even has a series of samples you can use to get started, and a collection of tools you can download to your iPod,” Matthew David writes for New Riders.
– Clear All Notes is a script that deletes any notes on your iPod.
– Clipboard to Note pastes any text on your Macintosh Clipboard directly into your iPod notes.
– Eject iPod detaches your iPod from your Mac without having to open iTunes.
– Notes from Webpages is a script that works only with Apple’s Safari web browser. With it you can save extracts from web pages into your iPod notes.
– iPod It lets you store personal information manager (PIM) content such as address, email, and calendar info.
– iPod Launcher enables you to launch programs from the iPod.
– Pod2Go is similar to AvantGo, but for the iPod.
“If you’re serious about getting into how to extend the iPod programmatically, the best resource I’ve found so far is the iPod Hacks site. This site gives you all the tricks and tips you need to extend the functionality of the iPod. You’ll even find information on how you can load Linux onto your iPod,” David writes.
Full article here.
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“Eject iPod detaches your iPod from your Mac without having to open iTunes.”
Or you could just right-click (or ctrl-click) the iPod icon on your desktop and eject . . . instead of running a script.
or drag it to the eject thingy
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Sorry, but this isn’t programming an iPod. This is using AppleScript on a Mac to manage the files on an iPod.
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Pod2Go is where it is at.
Word, Pod2Go is incredibly cool, and hopefully will get cooler as time goes on. (Ultimately it could be like Sherlock on your iPod.)
And CHM, out of the box the iPod is NOT set to mount as a volume on the desktop, in which case iTumes is the only way to eject it.
P1SS!NG me off. People (including Apple) no longer note if releases are for docking ipods or all ipods. In this case, for example; any script that writes to “Notes” is not going to work on gen 1 and 2 ipods.
” out of the box the iPod is NOT set to mount as a volume on the desktop, in which case iTumes is the only way to eject it.”
If it’s not mounted, no need to eject
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Watched the “Incredibles” trailer on iTunes? I still think that the video quality is better from DVD, but someone made a very astute assessment that perhaps Tiger will allow iTunes to sell or rent videos online and/or download videos to the iPod.