Oh! Apple

My experience of using iPod Touch, iPod Classics, Mac OSX, Coding in XCode, or anything generally related to Apple

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

How to repeatingly play a video on iPod Touch

To play a video repeatingly on iPod Touch, the video must be in Music Video type. You can read these post to learn how to change video type to Music Video. Kind of a hack,but at least it does the job.

Also, you can play a video in slow motion by first pausing the video, and then hold the fast forward button. You can't control the speed though.

Sync only unwatched TV show: bad idea

I found that, at least for me, setting iTune to sync only unwatched TV show to my iPod Touch is such a bad idea. The problem is that to me, the category "TV Show" doesn't just store TV Show, but also reference video for my dance practice. I watch those dance instruction video and ballet terminology video again and again. So I find it better to maintain the video by myself. After all, I always easily delete a video on my iPod Touch if I want to.

Best way to convert eBook

I found that the best way to convert eBook is by using Word format instead of PDF, because Word format allows you to consecutively read all the pages, while the PDF format put a page frame around your text.

Most reliable way to convert video for iPod Touch

I found that sometime iTune failed to convert old Quicktime video for use with iPod Touch. My experience is that so far the most reliable way to convert video for viewing on my iPod Touch is using "WinAVI video converter iPod/PSP/3GP/MP4" and then use the MP4 conversion.

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Damn Evernote on iPod Touch

I can't freaking believe it! Evernote on iPod Touch does not provide a feature to edit notes that I just entered and saved a while ago! How in the world can this app neglect such an important feature! This I stupidly insane! So pissed.

Still not ready to buy an unlocked iPhone 3G yet

Now that unlocked 3G is officially available from Apple HK, the question becomes: should I buy an iPhone 3G now. My answer to myself: Nope.

Not only because I recently brought a iPod Touch 2nd generation, but also because T-Mobile hasn't have their 3G network up and running yet. And even then it will take sometime for them to clear out all the 3G problems.

There's one more problem of getting iPhone: I will ignore everyone else everywhere I go. Already I've been spending too much time staying home not communicating with the others. An iPhone with Internet access will only give me less incentive to talk to the others when I am on the road.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Interesting WiFi Problem on iPod Touch with my home WiFi network

I found out that with my home network, something I need to turn off and turn on the WiFi on my iPod touch in order to get online. Once the connection established, things seen to go pretty smooth.

I read about a situation that is different form my at the Apple knowledge base, but using the same way to resolve the problem.