My brothers’s Xbox has finally come back, and it seems to be a brand new one. Not only is it back but he got a free month of Xbox live. I don’t suppose that makes up for the time it took to return, but I’m not complaining. So yes, if your Xbox has died then be sure to send it off to be fixed, if it happens more than once then you get a free game aswell.
Archive for November 13, 2007
iPod Touch 1.1.2 Firmware
Okay, so as you know my iPod is fine now, or so I thought. Restoring it meant that I have updated to 1.1.2 firmware, which means I am going to have to do a lot of messing to jailbreak it. Seen as I have a proven record of bad hacks when I hack manually, do I take the risk and jailbreak? I used jailbreakme.com to jailbreak my old firmware, but the website says it will only work for 1.1.1.
This is a real problem for me because going from a jailbroken, to a normal iPod will be a huge step down. I had my NES and GBA emulators, I had a txt. Editor and all the handy fun things, but now I just have a media player. I am quite unhappy about this, I will probably resort to doing it manually, but I still do not trust myself, things seem to go wrong just when I don’t do anything.
Oh well, please if anybody finds a one click or one touch jailbreak for 1.1.2 I will be very great full.
p.s. I still don’t encourage anybody to jailbreak unless they know hat they are doing, it is just with me where I will be taking a step down.
Blog Direction
I have thought for a while that my most viewed pages were my technology articles, I realized the reason yesterday when I saw that when you search “jailbreak iPod” in Google, my article shows on the first page of results, this made me think.
If my most viewed articles are about technology, I suppose if I wrote more of these articles I may get more views and have a semi-successful blog. But is that what I really want? I started this blog to just talk about whatever I was thinking about, I did not expect to get many views and I was not bothered if I did or not. But now I have had over 200 views and a record of 40 a day I thought I needed to work out a direction of my blog. Either I write about what people are interested in, or I keep writing my random thoughts.
I have posted this article just to tell people that the purpose of this blog is not going to change, regardless of any dip in views I will keep chatting my rubbish and accomplish what I set out to do, to leave a mark on the Internet. So I hope there will at one point be at least one regular visitor to this blog who will maybe listen to what I have to say, no matter how pointless it is (I am looking at you Peter!)
Another iPod Touch Scare
I was just trying to install the iPhone apps to my iPod touch and there was some sort of problem, my iPod would only get to the apple logo, stay there for a bit, then the screen went black, and then it rebooted into the apple logo again. I could not use or restore my iPod and to be honest I was really scared that I had bricked my device and thrown £270 in the bin.
However, I must be the luckiest man alive because after a few attempts to hold the sleep and home buttons in, iTunes finally recognised the iPod as new and I am re syncing it now. I know I have said this before, and I will probably go against it, but I do not think I will be tampering with it again anytime soon.
So, unless you really know what you are doing, or have money to throw away, I seriously do not recommend tampering with your device in any way at all. It is one of the worst feelings ever to have it there in front of you not working, I hope not to have it again.
If anybody is having the same issue as me, the way to fix your iPod is to hold the home and sleep/wake button at the same time for a few seconds, then when the screen goes blank release the sleep/wake button and keep home pressed in. This may not work the first time, but mine worked eventually and saved me £270.
