Hack Turns iPod into PDA

Liquidape writes "Provue Development has released a personal info and contact manager app called iPod Organizer. The program enables use of iPod for storing and retrieving phone numbers, email addresses, flight numbers, appointment times and other data. It also comes with a sync feature. " Obviously it is fairly limited just because of the input for this device, but its quite a clever hack.

Comments

If you don't like this one

[fobbman]

Just go into CompUSA and download your favorite PIM into your iPod and take it home.

Firewire Stylus?

[AlaskanUnderachiever]

Now all we need to go with this is a firewire enabled stylus that reads what I write in the air and translates it to incorrectly spelled text and mislabled ToDo lists.

They Beat Apple to the iWalk

[kontos]

Apple isn't going to be too happy about this after they've spent millions developing the iWalk. Look for the DMCA Police to come knocking.

Retrieve to Music

[dthable]

Does the music change depending on what data your retrieving? Like SMB, the music starts to speed up as your appointment approaches.

IPOD supports Office

[4/3PI*R^3]

Well we already know there is an Office port for the iPod. or was that porting Office via your iPod?

Very appropriate layout...

[Anonymous Coward]

I love the new Aqua style put in this story...But just out of curiosity, have you been sued by Apple yet, Taco?

Re:"hack" indeed

[commonchaos]

Well... hack as in "poor, yet, functional solution"

Re:Hopefully

[Anonymous Coward]

"But seriously, the iPod is one sweet piece of ass, and now that you can make it a PDA, just makes it that much more enticing. "

One sweet piece of ass huh? You got some problems jerky.

Re:802.11b on iPod

[whovian]

Mmmmmmm....iFurby.

Re:WTF!

[gmm]

Damn....you saw straight through my theatrical posting as though it were....um....see-through.

And then Disney will cry foul...

[Irvu]

and ask the government to ban 802.11 or, more likely, ALL wireless transmissions (Better safe than sorry). After all, all those people with cell-phnores are really just pirates in the making.

But wait... When I play music sound travels through the air to other peoples' ears! Better get a bill mandating encryption on air, or at least locking down people's ears so they don't participate. Sure we'd all be unable to communicate and, for that matter, breathe but we must preserve Intellectual Property!

Re:"hack" indeed

[Anonymous Coward]

That would be a kludge, then.


Yet another overly-literal nerd sucking all the humor out of the joke.

Limited Device Input

[Anonymous Coward]

Obviously it is fairly limited just because of the input for this device, but its quite a clever hack.

Yeah Taco, we know. It doesn't have a three-button mouse.

Re:Dailtones

[scorcherer]

DTMF (or DMTF, whatever it's called)

I think it's DTMF as in Dial The M*therF*cking number. The specs are released in the .RTF format which, contrary to popular belief, does not stand for 'rick text format' but 'read the fucking'. In fact a subformat of .RTF, used in writing technical documentation, has the file extension .RTFM.

Re:Hack turns POD into PDA

[Anonymous Coward]

Like that's hard ---
s/POD/PDA/g

Hacking iPod communications?

[switcha]

Wow, just imagine a beowolf cluster of these...

Oh, Jeeze. I'm so very, very sorry...