Well, just this afternoon I though, what the ..., let's get them all and
selected Squidgy for download. I was told I couldn't because I need
iPhone 2.1 software. The problem is that I don't have an iPhone, I have
an iPod Touch. Hmmmm.... Connected it to iTunes and after some wild
clicking got that to check for updates and it told me it found a 2.2
update for my iPod. I thought that this might be good enough to fool
the Appstore into thinking I have an iPhone 2.1 so I select "go ahead".
No go, my iTunes cant do it because it must be upgraded itself first!!
Grmmppfff... Okay, let's do that. 30 minutes and a reboot later (music
buffered was almost enough to span the reboot ;-) I started iTunes
again and spend the next 5 minutes agreeing to obscure agreements with
Apple. But after that... I got a nice upgraded iTunes that is
apparently needed to download 2.2 from the Internet. The previous
version was too stupid although it could download 2.0 just fine. I know
they are lying to me but realize I probably need the new iTunes after
installing 2.2 to be able to communicate with it. But I thought Apple
stuck to their own standards? Apparently they let go of the idea of
stability after switching to Intel CPU's and allowing Windhose on their
kit.
Anyway, after again wild clicking at random I got it to check for iPod
updates again and this time it allowed me to start the download. At
this time I notice that it had also managed to put a whole bunch of
apps back onto my iPod which I had deleted from it before. Nice sync
mode, very intelligent too. The download starts... 250 MBytes???!!!
Over Panamanian Internet???!!! Well, at 6 pm I finally and to my
surprise got it. I can even start upgrading the iPod. This process
seemed to take as long as downloading it, after which it starts
checking it before reboot... why not transfer into the iPod while
downloading if it's gonna be checked anyway? But okay, at 6:12 pm I
have it up and running and go to the app store again to try that
Squidgy thingy again. Yes, I am now good enough for it and within a
minute it's downloaded and installed. I start it and it detects SC
okay! As I have disabled the Windhose firewall of course, I don't have
to change it's settings and the squidgy starts downloading my database.
It is still doing that by 6:30. I have less than 7k tracks. But at 6:40
pm I have it running and I must say I am very impressed by it. Nice,
fast and easy to use. No problems so far.

The total time that all this took me was 3 hours ;-)

ciao!
Nick.


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