Usually when we write about jailbreaking iPods here at Cult of Mac, we’re specifically talking about hacking your iPhone or iPod Touch to be able to run unsigned code… not iPods that are actually able ...

Do you dislike proprietary formats? Are you an Open Source aficionado? What if I told you it was quite possible to liberate your iPod from such commercial vices? Let's go... The following statement ...

If someone makes a device, someone else will want to break it open and run their own software on it. When the original manufacturer is Apple this is never made easy, and as [Daniel Stenberg] reminds ...

Fed up with arbitrary format support, frustrating DRM schemes, kludgy interfaces, and the whole boatload of digital media hassles, a group of high-minded hackers has spent the last two years building ...

Robert Frosts's classic poem, The Road Not Taken, concludes with the line "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." If you're a ...

I lost my desktop hard drive a month or so ago and my last iTunes backup was a few months old, not compatible with the latest iTunes.<BR><BR>I looked at Yamipod, no Podcast support. Then I looked at ...

When a beloved piece of technology dies, it's often hard to let go. We've all seen basements and closets cluttered with the corpses of burned-out hardware that once served us well. Perhaps you've got ...

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Got an old iPod sitting around gathering dust? (In fact, maybe you even have three or four of them.) If so, here are 7 fun things you can do with yesterday’s classic iPods to give them new life. In an ...