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Misfit wrote:
wanye wrote:i got this case for my touch. its *lovely*

http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=162810
That will do nicely.

Expansys doesn't have the iPhone version, which is a pity as I have a £10 voucher that expires today.

A quick look on eBay suggests about £17 is the price to pay...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0092138545

Although I'm not sure it looks as good as the edges don't come over like on the picture you show:

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they do on mine!

ive just posted a photo to my flickr stream:

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wanye wrote:
they do on mine!

ive just posted a photo to my flickr stream:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spazhammer
I believe you! I meant, I'm not sure the iPhone version looks as good as the touch version you have...

Still. Going to get one anyway.
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If anyone is planning on buying an Invisible Shield for their device, I have a couple of 20% off vouchers spare.
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Ipod touch GET!

Looks sexy! Haven't actually used it yet. Finally got iTunes to stick the music I wanted on it on it...which it is doing now. I really dislike iTunes. :) [edit: though I can see that it'd be perfectly fine if you started from scratch with it, and bought music from the iTunes store etc. And had a Mac] .... I have no interest in having playlists etc, I just want to list tracks by artist. I figured it would sync all the tracks with a check mark next to them, but it seems it will only sync a) all tracks or b) selected playlists. So after individually checking each song I wanted on there, I've just been through individually ctrl-clicking on them to select them to add to a playlist. I now have one giant playlist called "stuff". I really hope it'll list tracks by artist.

It'd be so much easier if I could just drag folders onto it and it would show them. My mp3 folder is already organised exactly how I want it. I'm sure I'm going about it all backwards and stupidly, and there's a much better (or automatic) way of doing it. :D

Another sad thing.... Seems you need a credit card to download even the free apps from the apps store. I don't have one. Doh. Someone on the internets says you can make a store account without a credit card if you use a gift card. Off to buy a gift card in awhile then.

Totally happy though, the ipod itself looks gorgeous!

[edit] ah. someone just drew my attention to the smart playlists function. hurrah!
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nyarla wrote:I figured it would sync all the tracks with a check mark next to them, but it seems it will only sync a) all tracks or b) selected playlists. So after individually checking each song I wanted on there, I've just been through individually ctrl-clicking on them to select them to add to a playlist. I now have one giant playlist called "stuff". I really hope it'll list tracks by artist.
In options you can select whether to sync only 'checked' tracks.

The Touch will show all tracks sorted by artist, album, genre, etc.
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I wouldn't sync your music automatically at all. Tell it you're going to work manually and use drag and drop. That way you're not tied to a single instance of iTunes when you want to copy tunes over.
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PVB: I ended up finding that setting eventually :) thanks.

HGFB: ahh! cool, didn't realise you could just drag n drop. sounds like the way for me. thanks too!
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nyarla wrote:PVB: I ended up finding that setting eventually :) thanks.

HGFB: ahh! cool, didn't realise you could just drag n drop. sounds like the way for me. thanks too!
The 'manual management of tunes' setting is in the same area of settings IIRC. :)
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Yeah I had originally set it to that, somehow without noticing the "only sync checked songs" option (it was greyed out at the time so I ignored it).. and then, not realising you could drag n drop, clicked sync...which didn't do anything. Got it all sorted now.

Went and bought an iTunes gift card and now i'm app'd up. What a lot of useless crap. A few cool things too. :)

I found an album on the iTunes music store which my gf has been after for months. Must've checked every back alley music shop in Melbourne, but nothing. Also found a couple albums I've been looking for, which will have to wait til I get another gift card. This is the first time I've ever bought music online...total luddite I know.

Ok so, iTunes store is great. Why haven't I checked it out before? Because I didn't have a shiny iPod Touch I guess. What's the world coming to!!!!!!!
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nyarla wrote: Went and bought an iTunes gift card and now i'm app'd up.
My iTunes account is linked to my debit card. I can just buy stuff on my iPod without having to do anything...

It's dangerous as anything!
What a lot of useless crap.
Yeah, there is. I think I need to pull my finger out and create my own batches of 59p useless crap ;) If people pay money for torches, they'll pay money for mirrors (turns the screen off) ...
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I've ordered a Griffin iClear. Hopefully it'll protect my iTouch from being dropped.
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P.F.iT.

I like how safari zooms to fit whatever you double tap.

That Air Sharing app is good, and includes decent PDF/html/txt etc viewer.
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nyarla wrote: That Air Sharing app is good, and includes decent PDF/html/txt etc viewer.
How's it work, what's it do?
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I think it's similar to the Files app which RiK mentioned somewhere earlier in this thread, which I just read about (and they both cost the same)...

It lets you upload any files to the ipod over wifi... (you just open the ipod through "my network places" in windows explorer, or the equivalent in whatever OS, and drag n drop).. you can then view the files you've uploaded from the Air Sharing app on the ipod. The viewer seems quite nice... it even does syntax colouring when viewing code. Stuck a bunch of documents I was reading on there and backed up some source code.

Oh and it has a built in web server too so you can let people browse Air Sharing's "public" folder via the web. Probably not very useful, but, yeah.
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