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Hacking iPod and iTunes (ExtremeTech) | 
| Author: Scott Knaster
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 449758
Media: Paperback
Pages: 312
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0764569848
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.5
EAN: 9780764569845
ASIN: 0764569848
Publication Date: August 13, 2004
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Product Description
- Put on the headphones and crank up the action! Here's the one and only, ultimate guide for music junkies looking to squeeze every possible bit of potential from their beloved iPods, both Mac and Windows versions
- Legendary Mac maven Scott Knaster shares more than 100 hacks, tweaks, and mods that unlock both the musical and non-musical tricks in the iPod's repertoire
- Since iPod is the constant companion of music lovers everywhere, they'll groove to the discovery of how to make it download headlines, stock quotes, even driving directions; become a Bluetooth transmitter; or run Linux-and that's before they learn to create and play adventure games with it
- In this latest offering from ExtremeTech, readers learn to tweak Gracenote CDDB in iTunes, hack their own iTunes music library and album covers, and more
- According to Apple's research, an iPod is sold nearly every thirty seconds
- iTunes owns digital music-more than eighty percent of legal music downloads, over seventeen million songs, have come from iTunes since its launch
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 OK but dated June 22, 2007
Bruce Siegel (West Allenhurst, NJ USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's my own fault, but I failed to notice that this book was published in 2004. I'm sure it was excellent then, but today, much of the info contained in the book is dated, many of the websites mentioned no longer exist, and the ipod technology of today (2007) has rendered much of the interesting stuff that can't be found elsewhere obsolete. If Mr. Knaster should release a second, more current edition, I'd buy it.
 Thanks June 22, 2006
M. Conger (Dallas, Tx)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
Have just gotten the book. Saved time and it helped restore my library. Has some cool items. In 30 minutes time have gotten a better understanding of my Ipod and Itunes. Looking forward to finishing the book to learn more. Thanks
 Not hacking or insightful. May 3, 2005
Thomas S. (The Real LA, on the South Coast)
30 out of 63 found this review helpful
I will agree with others that none of the contents of this book are very interesting. All of the information can be found by applying 1) Common sense, 2) reading the product instructions, 3) doing a bit of research on your own online.
Its also not about hacking. To the 'dim bulb' that suggests one is foolish for complaining about that mis-use of the term, just because this is a book in a series: sorry, but your wrong. The term 'hacking' has a specific meaning in technology circles. You don't get to redefine it at a whim or misuse it and expect folks to say, "ok, sure, fine". Hacking is about finding those functions, features, information on a system that are not available in plain sight or documented in the product manuals.
Using the given functionality of something to some interesting purposes is not a hack. Its a use, to be sure. A hack has to be something thats not intended to be known by the maker, or similar. Getting at a hidden service menu - that, is a hack.
Using aluminum foil on a TV antenna is NOT a hack- its a fix. You may be a hack for using it to fix the antenna, but thats another issue. Now if you can use aluminum foil to decypher your old analog HBO feed - that, would be a hack (an admittedly illegal variety of hack, but still a hack).
If the series of books is misusing the term 'hacking' then they are being repeatedly incorrect and misleading people. Calling this a book on hacking is wrong, and the fact that its a series will not make it right.
Save your money and follow your own curiosity over the internet.
If you find this sort of fluff really that usefull and believe this is justifiably using the term 'hacking', then be all means,spend the cash, but don't expect tech savy folks not to giggle and point at you when you proclaim you are using a hack from this book.
Hacking in the sense that bubblegum is food April 21, 2005
killerpooh (Earth)
13 out of 25 found this review helpful
As the reviewer below suggests, this isn't a book so much about how to find cool new features/things to do with your Ipod as it is an instruction manual similar to what should have been supplied with the device to begin with. Most of the info either is available online or somewhat obvious, given the intuitiveness/limitations of the Itunes software and the UI of the device itself.
As much as I was hoping otherwise, this book isn't worth the money. Not even particularly for anyone uncomfortable with technology.
...If you really want to improve how your Ipod operates, check out Anapod Explorer, and spend the money there that you would have spent on this.
 the cool reality of your ipod February 9, 2005
mark harlan (silicon valley, california)
42 out of 54 found this review helpful
scott "special k" knaster is old skool apple, with no less than seven mac books you can buy on amazon right now (and another coming) ... he's so entrenched in the apple psyche and culture that he's almost certainly forgotten more about apple and the mac than any "normal" citizen has ever known ... in short, he's *exactly* who you want acting as your digital tour guide.
reading h.i.a.i. is like having your favorite brother sit down and show you everything your ipod can do. all the in's and out's of the super-cool digital music world are laid out in an easy to read, logical and fun fashion.
no matter how much you like your ipod, you'll like it better after spending a little time with special k.
and these other reviews? some of them just bust me up:
"you can find all this stuff online"
- uh, sure. you can find the whole frickin' world online. is all the stuff in the book online? i honestly don't know. do *i* want to go looking for it all? hell no. that's what a book is *for*. my time, and the permanence of having something on my self, is worth 20 bucks. a library must be a huge disappointment to that reviewer.
"he calls these 'hacks?'"
- it's the name of the series, dim bulb. when you write a book in a series, it gets that title. i wrote "winning at internet poker for dummies," but it doesn't mean you *have* to be a dummy to buy it. if you buy a book like h.i.a.i. and expect to get a "hack" along the lines of learning how launch nuclear missiles with your ipod, you're going to be let down by default.
thanks for reading.
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