Finally able to use my iPod Touch without Windows or Mac

Posted on Mon 20 February 2012 in Blog • Tagged with iPod Touch

I've finally made it. I can now use my iPod Touch just with Linux. Apple adding over the air updates really helped, but I still couldn't sync my music. I also found that pulling large videos off via Dropbox didn't work as the app would time out. I had been …


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Appigo Todo now supports Dropbox

Posted on Sun 04 September 2011 in Blog • Tagged with iPod Touch

On my iPod Touch I'm using Appigo's Todo application. I had been syncing the data to Toodledo so that I had a backup in case something happened to my itouch. Now Appigo's Todo app supports Dropbox. The advantage here is that the place that I'm syncing to, dropbox, supports all …


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Passwords for iTouch and iPhone

Posted on Sun 07 August 2011 in Blog • Tagged with iPod Touch

Until recently I've been using MyKeePass to store passwords on my iTouch. This allows me to use KeePassX on my desktop. What I'd really like though is Dropbox integration. Well recently on Hak5 they said that there was a free app for IOS that understood KeePass password databases and MyKeePass …


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Backing up cloud data

Posted on Sun 05 June 2011 in Blog • Tagged with iPod Touch, Tech Tips

This year I replaced my Palm Treo with an iPod Touch. To make sure that I could access all of my data on my iPod as well as on my Linux desktop (and anywhere else for that matter) I moved all of my data to the cloud. This is great …


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Passwords on the iPod Touch

Posted on Thu 03 March 2011 in Blog • Tagged with iPod Touch, palm, Tech Tips

On my Palm I used Keyring to keep track of my passwords. This has a nice interface in jpilot to access it on my desktop. When it came to my iPod Touch I needed to find something else to use. I did some searching and found that there was an …


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Offline web pages on iPod Touch

Posted on Sun 27 February 2011 in Blog • Tagged with iPod Touch, Tech Tips

One of the things that I really liked about my Palm was using Plucker to view web pages when I'm not connected to the Internet. I've found a few apps for the iPod Touch that do this and here are the ones I've tried and what I think about them …


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Palm Contacts to Google

Posted on Wed 23 February 2011 in Blog • Tagged with iPod Touch, palm, Tech Tips

I have already been using Google to store some of my contacts for syncing using Zindus. So it seemed pretty natural to use Google to store all of my contacts.  Using Google means that my information is available on any platform. Google provides a nice sync interface for the iPod …


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Convert Palm Calendar to Google

Posted on Thu 17 February 2011 in Blog • Tagged with iPod Touch, palm, Tech Tips

I chose to use Google for my calendar. I already use Google for some of my mail and I sync contacts with Thunderbird using Zindus. Using Google means that my information is available on any platform. Google provides a nice sync interface for the iPod touch.

One annoying thing about …


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Replacing my Palm

Posted on Wed 16 February 2011 in Blog • Tagged with iPod Touch, palm, Tech Tips

I have been using a Palm as my PDA for a number of years. With the decline of the Palm platform I have been looking for a replacement PDA. The smartphones aren't an answer for me as I really don't want to pay for a data plan. I was looking …


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