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Podcast Novel Ordering Solution

I’ve been listening to lots of podcasts recently and particularly enjoying the Solar Clipper series. My main problem has been that the iPod Touch defaults to playing the newest podcast first, so that I always have to skip backwards to get to the next episode.  I found a neat little solution for this that I [...]

App Review: Peggle

Busting some Peggle Moves

I heard about Peggle (buy Peggle on iTunes) several times before I actually tried it.  Being Scottish I can be a bit of a cheapskate when it comes to paying for apps.  There a re a good number of high quality apps available for free and the price (£2.99/$5) seemed quite [...]

Great Games: Day of the Tentacle

Hoagie meets the founding fathers

“Day of the Tentacle” is one of my favourite games of all time.  I played it through as a teenager and I loved the 3 streams of play.

The basic concept is that you play as 3 friends, all separated by 100 years (Laverne in 2176, BerNARD in 1976 and Hoagie [...]

App Review: Sentinel

Zapping the aliens on Mars

I’m a big fan of Tower Defence games.  I’ve played quite a few over the years and I have to confess that Sentinel is one of the best I’ve played (buy Sentinel on iTunes.)

In a tower defence game you face waves of enemies, slowly increasing in difficulty while you build [...]

iPod Hint: Quick Playback Access With a Double-Click

The DoubleClick Menu

Okay, so I’m probably the last person to find this (and it’s probably in the manual which I’ve never bothered to read) but I’ve discovered that a doubleclick on the iPod’s circular button brings up a little control panel for the music settings, allowing you to resume listening, skip forwards and backward [...]

Itunes Hint: locate your Library on an External Drive

Having finally submitted to the march of the iPod (after loving my iriver and i-audio x5)  I’ve had to come to terms with iTunes.

I’m no iTunes fan – never have been – but it’s actually not as bad as I thought it would be.  It’s picky and clunky in parts (and i won’t get started [...]

App Review: Eye Tricks

One of the illusions from Eyetricks

Eye tricks is one of those free apps which I downloaded ages ago and haven’t used much since.

There’s nothing wrong with it but it’s just not that exciting.

It consists of 30 different optical illusions, some animated, some not. The standard is pretty high’ and there are some classics in [...]

App Review: Flood It!

Me on an advanced level

One of the first really good free puzzle games I found for the iPod was flood-it (free iTunes download).  It’s a simple concept.  Your aim is to make all of the board one colour by changing the colour of one segment.  For example if the first square is green, and [...]

Rant: Apple Broke My AV Cable

My AV Cable

A few weeks ago I bought an unofficial AV cable for my iPod Touch (2g) on Ebay.  I used the cable several times and it worked out just fine.

Now I find that – since the update to os3.0 (WHICH I PAID FOR – don’t get me started) – the cable doesn’t work [...]

Ipod Update: I Jailbroke my iPod

Freedom (Image by Dazzie D)

I love my gadgets but I always want that extra bit of freedom with them.  I unlocked my Wii so that I could play games not supplied by Nintendo and I’ve had a hankering to do the same for my iPod touch.  I don’t like having restrictions on what i [...]