[How-To] Run Your iPod in Diagnostic Mode For Troubleshooting iPod hardware issues

If you are someone who is having issues with his iPod, in terms of the hardware, iPod Diagnostic Mode is the safe cover you need to explore. iPod diagnostic mode helps you do some troubleshooting about the hardware issues. Its interesting to know about the various Diagnostic information your iPod gives back and you might be interested in running your iPod in the diagnostic mode just to figure out if all is fine with your little iPod.

1.) You need to restart your iPod before putting it into Diagnostic Mode. Check that your hold switch is off by sliding the switch away from the headphone jack. You should not see any orange. Toggle it on and off to be safe.

2.) Press and hold the following combination of buttons simultaneously for approximately 10 seconds to reset the iPod.

3.) The Apple logo will appear and you should feel the hard drive spinning up. Press and hold the following sequence of buttons:

• iPod 1G to 3G: “REW“, “FFW” and “Select“
• iPod 4G+ (includes Photo, Nano, Mini, etc.): “REW” and “Select“

You will hear an audible chirp sound (3G models and higher) and the Apple logo should appear backwards. You are now in Diagnostic Mode. Don’t worry, running these diagnostic tests will NOT damage or corrupt the data (music, photos, playlists, videos, etc.) on your iPod.

4.) Navigate the list of tests using “REW” and “FFW”. The scroll wheel will not function while in diagnostic mode.

Also, the below embedded video might help you get more insights about iPod Diagnostics and Troubleshooting.

IPod Diagnostic Mode Tutorial – video powered by Metacafe

For further information on iPod diagnostics, refer this link.

If you are having issues with connecting iPod or iPhone with your computer using iTunes, you can even run a Diagnostic test from iTunes.

 

Image: Running Diagnostics using iTunes

From your iTunes application navigate to Help –> Run Diagnostics. Using this you can diagnose problems by running tests for Network Connectivity, CD/DVD Drive tests, iPod and iPhone connectivity tests to ensure that your computer can communicate with the iPod or iPhone. You can even run tests meant for your iPhone / iPod Touch Sync.

 

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[How-To]Transform any RSS feed into an iPhone friendly site.

If you own a blog or any rss feed which you wish to create a neat site out of it for your iPhone subscribers, DoYouFeed is the website to check. By the way this can as well be a good strategy for reader delight and also create a buzz about your blog.

doYouFeed logo

In order to enable your feed or blog as an iPhone friendly site, follow the steps below

1.) Point your browser to http://www.doyoufeed.com/us/index.php

DoYouFeed Add your site

2.) In the textbox titled Add feeds and sites, enter your feed or site URL and press Add.

3.) Once done, DoYouFeed will give you options to tune your settings further, though, all the basic settings look good.

Technofriends on iPhone

4.) Scroll down to see your iPhone friendly site URL.

If you wish to access Technofriends from your iPhone, click here or bookmark http://tinyurl.com/64jtkv

Doyoufeed offers the following features

Your iPhone friendly site built from ground for you has a lit of useful features (and many more to come) :

• Fast load and lightweight pages
• iPhone optimized navigation
• Mix several feeds in one unique site
• Different themes available
• Automatic page refresh
• Relative date (2 hours ago, yesterday, monday…)
• Preview of news content on the news list
• Share news via email and social sites
• Nothing to install on your iPhone
• No registering required

Via: Makeuseof.com

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Bose’s iPod Docking Station: A clear winner

 

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Vaibhav Pandey

[News]Apple iPhone to be released in India by September 2008

So finally the news is out as reported by the Business Standard, Apple iPhone will be available in India from September 2008. Business Standard writes

“The carrier deal for India is being worked out with Vodafone,” said an Apple source, adding: “Vodafone could also become the carrier for the Australian market once iPhone is launched there, though more than one carrier is likely for Australia.”

The 8GB version of the Vodafone iPhone is expected to be shipped and sold in the first week of September, and the price is estimated to be in the range of Rs 28,000 to Rs 30,000. The 16GB version of the iPhone shall follow based on the sales figures.

Also read:[How-To] Scroll to any point in a song on iPod

Apple iPhone and iPod prices set to drop

Bose’s iPod Docking Station: A clear winner

LinkedIn is now available on Mobile

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Vaibhav

[How-To] Get more from your iPod Battery

In one of my previous post, i had written about steps one can take to save mobile battery and make it go longer. However, as we become more technology oriented, saving the battery for longer playback time becomes a concern; iPod is therefore no different. In this post, i shall be talking about a few simple steps which one can take in order to get more juice out of his/her iPod battery.

• When listening to Music, slide the HOLD switch to ON. This in turn disables power to your iPod’s controls which in turn means saving battery power.

• Turn off the Equalizer: Go to Settings -> EQ-> Off. Equalizer settings definitely improves the sound quality but they do suck a lot of battery power as well.

• Turn off the Backlight: Go to Settings -> Backlight -> Off. Switching the backlight to off also saves a lot of battery power.

• Create your playlists in iTunes: We usually have a tendency to create our playlists using our iPod. Although, this is not a sin but it does take some juice of your iPod battery. So in order to save that precious battery juice create your playlists using iTunes application.

• When not listening to iPod, set your iPod to sleep: This is one of the best tricks to get the best from your iPod battery. When you are not listening your iPod, keep the play/pause button pressed till it turns off. This is called putting your iPod to sleep.

Do comment and share your tricks on this. I promise to update them in this post 🙂

Also read:

How-To: Save your mobile battery

[How-To] Scroll to any point in a song on iPod

Are you a Musician looking for Audience? Turn to Muziboo.com

Bose’s iPod Docking Station: A clear winner

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Cheers

Vaibhav

[How-To] Scroll to any point in a song on iPod

Usually i get email request from my readers asking for solutions primarily in the area of Windows/ Java/ AntiVirus/ Outlook etc. However, off late i have been getting email requests from readers querying about Apple iPod functionalities.
One such request has come from Mariana who wishes to know the process for scrolling to any point in a song on her newly bought iPod.

In order to scroll to any point in a song on your iPod, follow the steps mentioned below

1. From the Now Playing screen, press the Center button. A diamond symbol indicates the point in the song that is selected.
   
2. Use the scroll wheel to go to any point in the song. The diamond symbol moves as you scroll, and the elapsed time and time remaining indicators change.
   
3. The song continues playing from the point where you stopped scrolling. You may also press the Center button to continue playing.

Also read:

Bose’s iPod Docking Station: A clear winner

Apple iPhone and iPod prices set to drop

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Vaibhav

Apple iPhone and iPod prices set to drop

Cleve Nettles from 9to5 reports that Apple is set to reduce the prices of iPhone and iPod models by as much as 100$ over the next 2 months.

Cleve writes ” The price drops are likely to make some price spacing for the newer 3G iPhones that are expected to drop later this year – perhaps with the tablets.”

As per the website, the new prices are expected to be:

8Gb iPod Touch $199 8Gb iPhone – $299
16Gb iPod Touch $299 16Gb iPhone – $399
32Gb iPod Touch $399

Also, the clear indication that I am getting from reading the various blogs and News reports is that Apple is already working on the release of 3G iPhone and it may be priced around 499$.

Also read:

Bose’s iPod Docking Station: A clear winner

Apple Update disables Unlocked iPhones

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Vaibhav

Retro Roundup

This post is a roundup of the posts which made it BIG in JUNE’07. This is for the attention of all my new readers. Hope you will all enjoy reading them.

Top 10 iPhone Apps

The much-anticipated iPhone hits the streets today. While developers and users alike aren’t thrilled that third-party iPhone apps are limited to the web, you might be surprised at the impressive offerings that have already been developed for new iPhone users. Today’s top 10 features the best iPhone applications that should be ready for your iPhone […]

Cross Site Scripting: PoC in Yahoo Mail.

The attacking program could obtain your entire address-book, supplementing spammers’’ lucrative database of spam victims. And thanks to Yahoo’s recent integration of instant messaging within its web-mail site, it could also send instant messages to your friends impersonating you. (”You wanna do what to me?!”) Many of your online accounts would then become vulnerable as […]

Add Ajax to your site

Hearing about AJAX constantly, but never have found time to read a lengthy, frustrating, complex tutorial? In the following post, I’m going to explain how to add AJAX functionality to your website in three easy steps. It’s actually quite simple, and I’m going to try and be clear and to the point, but not over […]

How To: Burn YouTube videos to a DVD.

Amit Agarwal of tech blog digital inspiration tells us how to burn Youtube videos to DVD’s.
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How to get free available memory in Java program

Continuing with our interest for java, I decided to write something about getting free avaialble memory in Java program. Below, i am putting the code snippet which will print the total and free memory at runtime to the console.

public class MemoryExp {
public static void main(String[] args) {

System.out.println(”Total Memory”+Runtime.getRuntime().totalMemory());
System.out.println(”Free Memory”+Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory());
}
}

Cheers

Vaibhav

Philips DCD778: Under-Cabinet iPod Docking System

I wrote about Bose’s iPod Docking Station a few days back in my post Bose’s iPod Docking Station: A clear winner. In this post, i shall be writing about yet another iPod Docking Station (Philips DCD778) which was released by Philips a few months back.

Philips DCD778 according to the company is a device which is designed to be used in the kitchen and can be mounted under any cabinet. Following are some of the features of this entertainment system

• Includes 8.5 inch LCD Display.
  
• Capable of adding TV, AM and FM tuning.
• DVD Playback.
• Dual Speakers
• 40 button Remote control.
• Silver design to match many contemporary cabinet designs. ( This is a good feature as the product is indeed an “under cabinet”
• iPod Adapters.
• Cooking timer with a Clock
  

Philips claims the DCD778 Dock Station is compatible with fourth and fifth-generation iPods, iPod minis, and iPod nanos.

Philips DCD778 is available in US for a price around 300$.

Related Posts:

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Bose’s iPod Docking Station: A clear winner

Do let me know about other docking systems and i shall include it in the Reader Contribution section.

Cheers

Vaibhav

Gmail gets IMAP Support

Gmail has officially released IMAP Support for users. IMAP is a two way communication mechanism unlike POP. Earlier Gmail was only supporting POP. This meant that syncing the read mails was not possible from your favorite email client to Gmail Server. However, from now on, this two way syncing is possible. The list of Gmail’s supported email clients goes as Thunderbird, Eudora, Outlook Express/2003/2007 and Windows Mail, Mail.app as well as the iPhone.

Official Gmail Blog states ” As we roll out the feature over the next couple of days, you will be able to use Gmail at work, in your car, or just about anywhere on any device, and actions you take will be automatically synced with Gmail on the web (and remember it works the other way too: anything you do on the Web will be seen on your phone or in your mail client). Just click the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab in your Gmail “Settings” and turn it on. (Psst. If you don’t see the “IMAP” in the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab, then check back soon. We are giving it to users as fast as we can).”

With IMAP support coming into Gmail, users can easily

• Read their Email on Gmail web interface.
• Using their favorite email client mark a mail as Read
• Archive it using iPhone and finally
• View the relevant changes on their Blackberry. 🙂

Isn’t this exciting ?

The below embedded video gives a step by step process of setting up Gmail IMAP on the iPhone in about a minute.

Source: Official Gmail Blog

Cheers,

Vaibhav

Bose’s iPod Docking Station: A clear winner

When stalwarts like Apple and Bose come together, something exciting is bound to happen. This is what has resulted into Bose’s iPod Docking Station which sounds amazing. In my honest opinion this ipod docking station is a clear winner and a must have.

Related Reads: Philips DCD778: Under-Cabinet iPod Docking System

To use this docking station all you need is an iPod. Just dock and play all iPod models featuring a click wheel, including all nano, mini, photo and video models. The system also plays music from your iPhone™.* The iPod charges as it plays for uninterrupted music enjoyment. A custom remote easily controls the system and basic iPod functions. Auxiliary input lets you play other portable sources, too.

The Docking Station has a Rechargeable lithium-ion battery which gives more power and longer playing time than other types of rechargeable batteries. The battery charges whenever system is plugged into wall outlet with power cord (included).

The remote control of Docking Station is very simple. It Controls volume plus basic iPod functions from almost anywhere in the room.

The Docking Station has very Touch-sensitive volume control buttons which easily enables user to adjust volume directly on speaker if remote is not readily available.

Related Reads:

Philips DCD778: Under-Cabinet iPod Docking System

Are you a Musician looking for Audience? Turn to Muziboo.com

Do comment on your experiences with this Docking Station.

-Vaibhav