Sunday, March 8, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
My ipod touch turned into a Amazon Kindle.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Ipod touch, iphone, external battery charger, DONE!
Here is a video on how to make an external battery charger for the ipod touch and iphone. There really aren't to many of these around because the ipod touch is a bitch to make a charging cable for because it needs multiple resistors as well, to tell the itouch it can draw power. But I found a ipod connector which had those reistors all prepared for me so I just hacked it up for my purposes!
Parts List:
1. Ipod emergency charger link
(note: the one I used cost 5 bucks at a store called "5 and below", if we could just find somewhere to get the tip, because that is all we need, for a buck then that would be ideal.)
-Dealextreme.com has this one which I think would work as well. Under 5 bucks and FREE SHIPPING!
2. Radio Shack "AAA" battery holder link
3. Soldering Iron
(note: not requires you could just twist the wires together and tape it over)
4. 4 AAA rechargeable batteries
(note: can be had at the bankrupt circuit city for 4 bucks!)
5. A suction cup
(note: picked mine up at the grocery store)
Pics below:
Parts List:
1. Ipod emergency charger link
(note: the one I used cost 5 bucks at a store called "5 and below", if we could just find somewhere to get the tip, because that is all we need, for a buck then that would be ideal.)
-Dealextreme.com has this one which I think would work as well. Under 5 bucks and FREE SHIPPING!
2. Radio Shack "AAA" battery holder link
3. Soldering Iron
(note: not requires you could just twist the wires together and tape it over)
4. 4 AAA rechargeable batteries
(note: can be had at the bankrupt circuit city for 4 bucks!)
5. A suction cup
(note: picked mine up at the grocery store)
Pics below:
Friday, January 9, 2009
DTMF on Fring for iphone, ipod touch
So I ran into the problem that I needed to type in numbers to dial extensions, using skype out, on fring (with my ipod touch), which fring doesn't support at this time. Well, I tricked the ipod to dial them.
I held my ipod touch mic, up to my computer speaker, and used this website to generate the tone's for the numbers and it worked.
So to get it straight: I dialed the number on fring, let it answer and ask for the extension, then I hit the numbers on the DTMF generator on the computer, the extension then dialed.
Now this wouldn't make sense considering I had a laptop computer sitting there and normally I would be using skype on it BUT, if I record my laptop playing those tones, and dump that mp3 onto my mp3 playing cell phone THEN, when I need to dial that extension on my ipod touch, I play the mp3 through my cellphone speaker into the ipod touch mic and BAM! a cheap call made, which required an extension, which otherwise would have cost.
I know this is not a long term solution (FRING!) but it will work in a pinch!
P.S. I would have posted this on the fring community forum but for some reason it kept rejecting me logging in, until it locked me out (TWICE) (FRING!) so in a fit of frustration, I created a gadget blog, to tell the world about this trick!
P.S.S. This will also work to check voicemail.
More tricks to come as I figure them out!
I held my ipod touch mic, up to my computer speaker, and used this website to generate the tone's for the numbers and it worked.
So to get it straight: I dialed the number on fring, let it answer and ask for the extension, then I hit the numbers on the DTMF generator on the computer, the extension then dialed.
Now this wouldn't make sense considering I had a laptop computer sitting there and normally I would be using skype on it BUT, if I record my laptop playing those tones, and dump that mp3 onto my mp3 playing cell phone THEN, when I need to dial that extension on my ipod touch, I play the mp3 through my cellphone speaker into the ipod touch mic and BAM! a cheap call made, which required an extension, which otherwise would have cost.
I know this is not a long term solution (FRING!) but it will work in a pinch!
P.S. I would have posted this on the fring community forum but for some reason it kept rejecting me logging in, until it locked me out (TWICE) (FRING!) so in a fit of frustration, I created a gadget blog, to tell the world about this trick!
P.S.S. This will also work to check voicemail.
More tricks to come as I figure them out!
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