jeez, a ton of people must have received ipods over the last month, everyone keeps sending in ipod hacks. here’s one that /. covered earlier, putting linux on your ipod. i had played with this before, but this version is pretty solid, new games, sound, recording, image viewing (see picture above) on 3g ipods, and you can dual boot. it’s kinda cool to dual boot and geek out with some penguin flavored ipod, i suspect all the features not in our ipods now might eventually show up on custom builds like this later.

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i’ve posted up the how-to i cooked up on changing the graphics in our ipod hacks sections, but now with the latest version of ipodwizard you can also change all the text (also called strings). for example, in the picture above the legal section was changed. click the read link to see a good step-by-step on this.

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since a ton of you have likely received or bought an ipod for the holidays–don’t forget, when you buy music from itunes, it’s sometimes a dead end and you music is trapped. i have a lot of non-ipod music players and computers i can’t “authorize” to play my purchased music on, so jhymn solves a lot of those issues and it still keeps your info inside the song(s).

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there’s an update to ipodwizard which allows you to change the images on your ipod, like the do not dissconnect screen, battery images, etc. in this update you can view the strings and edit character metrics, the next update that will come out soon will allow the editing of the strings, and that’s when it gets really interesting.

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here’s a follow up…poster “zsk009” on the engadget comments says…

the ipods firmware can be updated without restoring the entire ipod, before running the updater follow these steps:

(the ipod_control folder is a hidden folder)

thanks!

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earlier, we posted on up about the ipod firmware and the graphics / fonts that can be pulled out, we’ll it’s gone to the next level and now you can mod your own ipod’s firmware and display just about any graphic for icons such as power, battery, status, etc…hot! here’s the how-to.

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wow, this is pretty interesting. someone has figured out how to get all the fonts and graphics off the ipod’s firmware. while that’s a pretty amazing feat, i suspect the next thing will be to change the firmware with new graphics, i’ll see what i can figure out!

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