Jailbreaking your iPod Touch

Jailbreaking your free iPod Touch

How to unlock your iPod Touch

Are you looking to unlock your iPod Touch so that you are able to use a large variety of applications on your iPod Touch? Your iPod Touch could soon have the same applications as there are on an iPhone!

Simply go here to unlock your iPod Touch.

What is unlocking/jailbreaking?

In short, this is when you override the iPods operating system. You are then able to access the iPod using your computer and then change how the iPod runs.

Videos of what you can do with your jailbroken iPod.

Google Earth, Email, Super Mario Brothers

Apollo, Mobile Finder, Lockbox, SNES Emulator, Sketches, Books, WeDict, Videos, Photos

Click here to get your free iPod Touch

What video formats does the iPod Touch support?

What video formats does the iPod Touch support? Here is a list of all video file types supported by the Apple iPod Touch

Here’s a list of the video formats which are currently support by the iPod Touch. As a simple guide, the ipod touch supports the .mp4 and h.264 video formats.

H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

So you have a load of videos which you want to view on your iPod Touch but they aren’t the right format? To change your videos into the correct format follow the guide below.

To convert your videos you have to first download Videora. It is the software which you can use to convert your avi/wmv files into the correct format for the ipod touch. Clich here to download Videora

Depending on how technically minded you are click Normal mode or Power mode (for advanced users)
Then add the video you want to convert
Click convert
Then use iTunes to transfer the video onto your iPod Touch.
Use the iPod Touch to watch your newly converted video

You can also download videos from Youtube or from DVD. Click here to find out more

Transfer music from iPod to PC

OH BUGGER! Your PC has crashed and you’ve lost all your mp3 files and the only place they are is on your iPod! How do you get them back???

So you’ve got all your mp3 files on your iPod but they aren’t on your PC. Maybe you’ve reformatted your harddrive without backing up or maybe you’ve just bought a new PC. This guide will show you how you can transfer your music back from your iPod to your PC

Follow the steps below to transfer your music from your iPod to your PC:

The first step is to make sure you have the most up to date iTunes. This will allow you to get your purchased music off your iPod easily.
Now connect your iPod to your PC. iTunes will start up. If you have auto sync on you have to close iTunes before it begins to erase your iPod and delete all your songs. If you don’t have auto sync on then you simply press cancel instead of the ‘Erase and Sync’ button.
The next step is to recover all the purchased music you have on your iPod. This can be done by using iTunes.
Simply go to ‘Authorise Computer’ on the ‘Store menu’ as seen below and then enter the iTunes Apple ID and password which you used to buy the music with.
Then go to the ‘file’ menu and then click ‘Transfer Purchases from yourname’s iPod’
Then click ‘Transfer Purchases’ on the next popup window. All purchased content found on the iPod will now transfer from your iPod to your PC and iTunes.
So now you want to transfer songs which you didn’t purchase. To do this you have to either do it manually or use some software to do it for you.
First I will go through it manually. To start with you have to make your iPod act as a disk. Click on your iPod on the list on the left and then click “Enable Disk Use”
Now go to ‘My Computer’ and then by ‘Devices with Removable Storage” should be your iPod. Double click on that. You should see a list of folders. If you cannot see one called ‘iPod_control’ then click on ‘Tools’ then ‘Folder options’ then click ‘View’ then scroll down to ‘Show hidden files and folders’
Now click on ‘iPod_Control’ and then go to ‘Music’ and then you will see folders which contain your music files. Simply drag the files into where you want to store them on your PC. You can even just add the whole folder using the iTunes and then going to ‘File’ and then ‘Add folder to Library’. (you must make folder unhidden first by right clicking ‘iPod control’ going to properties and then unchecking the hidden check. They will not have the correct names until you add them to iTunes. iTunes should then rename the files correctly.

If you do it this way you may not be able to get your playlists, ratings, play counts, last played details etc. back. I would reccommend you using a 3rd party software to tranfer the files as you will then be able to get some playlists back. I would reccommend trying iDump. It is a simple free piece of software which will automatically find and transfer the files to your PC from your iPod. Click here to visit the website to download it Other great software to try out :

PhotoTrans for $20 - transfer your photo files from your iPod to your Pc.
CopyTrans for $20 - transfer files from iPod to PC
iGadget for $15 though 15 day trial is available - transfer files from iPod to PC
iPod.iTunes for $40 - Transfer files from iPod to PC
iPod Access for $20
iPodRip for $15 - 10 day trial available
Music Rescue for $20
SenUti - FREE
Sharepod - FREE
YamiPod - FREE

I hope this article has helped you. It’s a simplified version of one found on iLounge. This version has extra software to help you out and also a few extra tips. With games on your iPod, you can simply transfer using the ‘purchases’ technique.