iPod update

Another update in the iPod saga…

One of the things that I didn’t like about the iPod Touch was the fact that it didn’t include the maps and email apps for no good reason (er, ahem, “business reasons”). With a little bit of quite easy hacking, I was able to install those apps along with a bunch of 3rd-party applications.

Since the iPhone and iPod Touch are so similar, you can literally copy (some) apps from one to the other. Maps and mail were the only ones I really wanted, but there’s a lot of other interesting stuff to play with. Once the system is unlocked, you can installed lots of core unix stuff, such as an SSH server, a surprisingly polished terminal app, programming languages, web servers, etc. I have no need for some of those right now, but it leaves the door open for a lot of cool things. If they didn’t have an annoying signed music database, I’d be able to make it sync via the wireless network automatically whenever I got home. That’s how it should work in the first place…

The Google Maps app for iphone, which I hadn’t used before, is quite awesome. Highly recommended.

I’m waiting for my gmail account to get IMAP enabled before I put the account on the ipod. Hopefully the wait won’t be much longer…