As beautiful as the iPod Touch is, a common criticism from avid collectors of music is that 16GB simply isn’t enough to store their entire collection. Today Apple have offered a solution: 32GB of flash memory in the same, 8mm thick chassis, and yours for $499.
On Monday Findly Design announced the new release of it popular application iPod Access. The update brings the software up to version 4.2 and is now usable with the iPod Touch.
If you are new to iPod Access it is basically a music and video transfer application. It will allow you to display and sort all of your songs and videos on your mobile device. It can be used to add songs, videos, and podcasts directly to the iTunes Library, rename files and clone playlists into iTunes. It is a free upgrade and only $19.99 to purchase for the first time.
Encouraging investors to buy Apple shares, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster outlined his own vision of how the Cupertino company’s iPod might evolve, highlighting the double-whammy of WiFi and MultiTouch as key leverage in the market. Munster believes Apple’s intent is to steer the iPod line toward “mobile computing and Internet-connected portable devices”, maintaining Apple’s 70-percent share of the PMP market particularly through replacement purchases, as well as reducing overall cost of the units and maintaining its all-important dollar share.
“In order to achieve [15-percent] year-over-year iPod growth, we are expecting Apple to introduce cheaper, innovative iPods with Wi-Fi and multi-touch technology” Gene Munster, analyst, Piper Jaffray
If you’ve already got an iPod Touch running firmware 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 that has been Jailbroken, rather than going to the effort of plugging it into your computer to run though the latest Jailbreak, why not use wunderkinds AriX and Ben’s iJailbreak Mobile, and do the whole thing directly from your iPod Touch.
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Cre.ations.net has posted the first iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak. This will allow you to jailbreak your iPod Touch running firmware 1.1.3. The process is quite simple but not has easy as the JailbreakMe method for previous software versions.
Complete instructions after the jump
Shinya Kasatani has released an application for the iPod touch that allows you to play a virtual guitar. This is yet another example on how the Touch and iPhone can be such a innovative medium to design games and apps for.
This is a really well designed app that uses the multi-touch technology to a max. In fact it can take in 6+ inputs to make different chords and tones. Instructions after the break.
Notcot has reposted some very intuitive concept designs for a potentially future game for use with the iPod Touch and the iPhone. The game uses a unique gesture system to control the skateboard throughout the game.
JiWire announced on Tuesday that members of the JiWire Wi-Fi Advertising Network are offering iPod touch users the option to connect to Wi-Fi networks for free in exchange for viewing a JiWire-supplied advertisements.
Recently Apple has not been so nice to all of their early adapters and see them as just another way to make a few bucks. This started at the “Beat Goes On” Keynote in late 2007. Here they announced the $200 dollar price drop for the iPhone and left many people unhappy.
This continued at Macworld 2008 with the announcement of iPhone apps on the iPod Touch. The apps will of course be preinstalled BUT all of the people who had been there from the start will be slapped with a $20 fee to install the apps for themselves.
At 9to5Mac they have said to have an “extremely senior source” at sling media. They have reportedly said that they will have an iPhone and iPod Touch version of their SlingPlayer client coming soon.
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