I know that that picture looks like a normal Finder window, and that may be true, but this one is special; it’s the entire contents of my stupid, stupid, useless 4 GB nano. iPodDisk unlocks any Mac formatted iPod and unlocks it so that you can rip songs from its innards.
To use it, simply enable [...]

By default the iPhone/iTouch’s Safari is pretty lame. Yes it is the best browser for mobile phones out there but it doesn’t have the power that the regular Safari can have. Thanks to some Javascript bookmark hacks a lot of the missing functionality can be provided.
Here’s a list:
1. Find in this page
This really should [...]

The kind folks at Lifehacker have painstakingly compiled a list of their favorite iPhone/iPod Touch applications.
The list includes everything from GPS functionality to Nintendo emulation. I will warn you however that before you go off installing these application, know that the next firmware update, 1.1.3 will BRICK your iPhone if you have any hacked applications [...]

At some point in the last year or two, Apple added basic lyrics functionality to iTunes and iPods. The main thing that makes this useful is that when listening to music on an iPod, it adds a little pane that you can scroll through with the lyrics to the song.
There are various applications that find [...]

One of the big things in the iPhone (and iPod Touch) that disappoints me is that it does not play any of the fun iPod games sold through the iTunes Store, and doesn’t have a good Flash player for playing lots of online games. Hopefully February’s SDK will solve this problem, but for now, you [...]

The reason you can’t buy it is because it, like iSqunt, is free! Handbrake has the ability to rip a DVD to a plethora of formats including the near universal mp4. It is also extremely simple to use; just insert the DVD, open the program, and rip away.
In most cases, the default settings [...]

In today’s world, there are way too many video files: MP4, avi, divX, wav, flv, swf, 3gp, mpg, and h.264 to name a few.
The great new is, you don’t have to deal with them!With iSquint, one of my favorite pieces of freeware, you can convert virtually any video file to the iPod/iTunes friendly [...]

iPhysics is a program for the iPhone (and iPod Touch) to impress your friends. Watch the video below to see what I mean.

To load this on your iPhone start Installer.app. Go to sources, then edit and add–type “http://iphone.r4m0n.net/repos” and iPhysics will become available in Installer.app.
There are a few levelpacks available including Crayon Golf and Milton’s [...]

Hackers at Driven Design have found a way to hack 5G and 5.5G iPod videos to firmware similar to the new iPod Classic. I haven’t installed mine yet, but it is supposed to work pretty well, although laggily and without cover flow. Check it out here.
[Via Gizmodo]

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On-the-Go playlists are a great way to put together a playlist on your iPod while away from your computer, but something not many people know is that the On-the-Go playlist feature can also be used to create a queue for when you want the iPod to know which songs to play next, in a sort [...]