Digital artists and animators using applications such as Maya, or even Flash, can test their animations by “scrubbing” the playhead backwards and forwards on the timeline. A podscrub takes the same mechanism and applies it to the functionality of an iPod. The playhead is your finger and the clickwheel is the timeline. Simple as that. Link.
Awesome! Want iPodLinux running on your 4th generation iPod, iPod photo, or iPod mini, but hate doing all the steps manually? Well now you can get games, videos, gameboy games, Doom, text input, and much more all on your iPod! [via] Link.
IBM has taken the next logical extension of booting Linux from a flash drive. Researchers were recently able to boot Knoppix from an iPod and run an x86 virtual machine in VMware, which provided an easy way to encrypt the whole operating environment. The tests were conducted on a 60GB iPod photo using Knoppix. [via] Link.
Here’s another turn-old-electronic device in to iPod disguise case project. Link. My favorite one of all time is of course the RetroPod from John Young. But- Sony, in 2004 sent a legal letter and then he stopped making them. You can read more about here.
Nice HOW TO for iPod Linux. Want to watch videos on your iPod? Wish there were better games in your iPod’s list of offerings? Maybe you want to draw pictures on your iPod without getting ink on the screen? [via] Link. You can also do this with iPod photos, see my old HOW TO.
This site offers downloadable maps just for your iPod color. So far they have Boston, Chicago, New York, San Fran, DC, and Hong Kong. All the images are by section and 220 x 176. Technically, you don’t need an iPod color- these could work on Podzilla too. Link.
This will likely unlock a ton of cool projects…PodConsole adds a DB9 serial interface to your ipod, via the plug next to the headphone jack. This can be used for a tty console if your ipod is running linux or you can control your ipod with your computer and the ipod protocol. [via] Link.
