Today, I have finals for my computer and math class. I have to turn in a paper for English as well. I finished the paper last night, but I wasn’t able to complete my take-home portion of the math final :p

As of this moment, I’m in school feeling too lazy to study or do anything. I believe the reason for this was the fact that I woke up at 4 AM in the morning to fix my iPod Touch. Last night, I attempted to upgrade my iPod from firmware 2.1 to 2.2. Something went wrong however, and everytime I tried to do a complete restore, it would fail as well. After searching online and finding no solutions, I gave up and went to sleep thinking I bricked my iPod

Then I woke up at 4 AM, attempting yet again to restore my iPod. This time I tried to restore on a different computer, suprisingly it worked! Unfortunately, all my music, movies, data, apps, etc. were lost.

In conclusion, I believe that computer settings, configurations, or other applications may affect the upgrading process. I noticed there was a problem when the iTunes upgrade status bar was on “Verifying iPod Software” for an excessive amount of time. When I aborted the whole thing, I found my iPod stuck in recovery mode. How I solved this was restoring on another PC. This needs to be fixed! Almost everytime I upgrade my iPod something goes wrong. If I had a million dollars, I would lay it all down betting that something will go wrong again next update

Even though I don’t own an iPhone, I’m a proud owner of an iPod Touch (My number piece of technology)

Despite the innovations the iPhone has brought to the technological scene, there’s always been simple features the iPhone/iPod Touch lacked.

One thing I expected from the iTunes app was the ability to download Podcasts. I recently read an article stating that Apple plans to add wireless podcast downloads to the iPhone! Hopefully, music videos, television shows, and movies will be next This podcast download feature will likely be released with the iPhone OS version 2.2 included with other features that have yet to be unveiled; I can’t until it comes out *sarcasm*.

I have to admit that I am a jailbreak user, and each time an update comes out you end up having to re-jailbreak which is a pain since you lose all your third-party apps and settings. Sometimes re-jailbreaking may go wrong; This happened to me two different times and I had to restore my iPod. All my data was deleted but good thing I backed up my music. Apple can take their time in releasing this update.

I’m happy with my touch as is because recently there has been an essential tool released that makes the iPhone/Touch more worthwhile (I won’t mention what it is ). It’s sad how Apple limited the capabilities of the iPhone, gradually extending it. But with jailbreaking and the use of third-party applications the capabilities of the iPhone are virtually limitless!

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