Yes it is true, now you can walk into your or your friend’s home or office and get a Mac computer to play the songs that your have on your Touch on his big computer speakers through iTunes.
To do this, navigate to http://mike.home.tl/iphone using Safari on your iPod. This will install a new app source into the Installer.app. Or you can run Installer and add this url to the sources tab. This will make “Firefly” appear on the list of installable objects. Now install and run Firefly (give it about 5-10 minutes to build your database). The length of this will depend on the amount of songs in your library.
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When Apple signed a deal with Google about putting a special app on their new hot devices they both knew it would be great business for both of them. So Google jumped in on the deal. Well they have now reported it has been a great success and is most likely bringing in many more members on the site.
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While losing the iPhone’s cellular guts may have made the iPod Touch a whole lot thinner, it does mean you’re at the mercy of WiFi hotspots when you need your internet fix. And let’s face it, mobile Safari is so luscious that it really should be connected 24/7! So the news that Steve Jobs has shown a particular degree of interest with broadband-sharing community FON - culminating in a meeting at Cupertino last week - opens up all sorts of possibilities. FON - which uses a modified WiFi router to split your connection into private and public networks, giving fellow FON users access to the internet through the latter - has recently signed a deal with UK telco BT, who will be upgrading all their own-brand routers to support the sharing protocol. The rumor now is that Apple envisages a network of pooled WiFi connections that the iPod Touch and iPhone could use instead of relying on EDGE or other hotspots.
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