DeVerm;363244 Wrote: > 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.
haha us old folks get grumpy with Itunes eh? I only use it for the same as you, for my ipods. -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55073 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
