My iPod Touch and iPhone used to be on 2.0 firmware and it works great with my third party video out cable which I got for 10 bucks online. The video cable ceased to work after I upgraded to 3.0 and subsequently 3.1.2 as it keeps prompting “This accessory is not made to work with iPhone” whenever I try to play a video file.

Good news if your iPod Touch or iPhone is jailbroken – a patched iapd file solves the problem. Backup-ed the original iapd file in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IAP.framework/Support. Put in the patched iapd, set its permission to 755 and reboot. Viola! Cheap 3rd party cable is working again!

Red packet lantern made by Serene’s mummy

Happy Chinese New Year to you and your family members! Went house visiting the past few days and relatives popped the standard questions – “do you have girlfriend?”, “is your girlfriend the same one? The vegetarian one is it?”, “when are you all getting married?”. Seems like one would get these questions once they reach their twenties.

House visiting aside. Mummy decorated the house this time round! She bought quite a fair bit of deco cos it is cheap! $1 a piece according to her. She bought like 6 to 8 pieces? Serene’s mummy made 2 nice lanterns out of red packets for us! Very cool right? Got to learn from her one of these days/next year.

Time to pack my bag for work tomorrow.

Navigation system working perfectly on the iPod Touch (2nd Generation)

Managed to get the GPS (Global Positioning System) working on my iPod Touch 2nd Generation. Took the above picture while traveling back home from Serene’s place. Yeah, I know it is kind of dumb to take a screen shot when I am on PIE but hey, at least it is working as it should – detecting the vehicle speed, distance to destination, estimated arrival time. Too bad the application isn’t smart enough to check the traffic status and include it in it routing algorithm.

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Met up with Ken and Seen Yee to shop for their house warming gift! Ricky, Daniel! This is where our money went into. Haha!

First time stepping into a Nespresso outlet. First time being offered a cup of coffee. Think they offered me a cup cos Ken and Seen Yee were around. Told them earlier that all Nespresso booth (Tangs@Vivo) and outlet (Taka) didn’t even bothered to entertain me while I was shopping for their coffee machine previously.

Ken! When can I go over to your place and play the machine? Can figure out how to make iced latte?

Picked up the hobby of kite flying recently after attending a kite making and flying event by company. I found kite flying to be an enjoyable process and at the same time, I am able to spend time with my love ones without burning a hole in my pocket. Of course, there are some upfront costs – kite, extra kite line, shades, etc.

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The volume buttons on the ipod touch got a little bit cranky after 9 months of usage. The volume simply refuses to go down despite me pressing very hard on it.Being a diligent customer, I checked my warranty status – valid. Next, I surfed around Apple’s website, hoping to find the contact numbers / addresses of service centers in Singapore – none.I was like stunned for a moment, how come there aren’t Apple Service Centers listed on its website?

Decided to check on Google. It appears that there aren’t Apple Service Centers in Singapore. There are only Apple Authorized Service Centers in Singapore. Apparently Apple outsourced  the servicing.

There are several Apple Authorized Service Centers but I decided to go to eServ @ Wheelock Place after reading several rave reviews and strong recommendations of eServ. Dropped my ipod touch on the 15th and got it back on 19th. Not exactly fast as they got to request for the replacement from Apple.

The service personnel are very friendly. At least they smile. Not like other service centers personnel who shows you a grumpy face (e.g. N*k*a). In fact I was surprised when the staff automatically approached me and ask if I was there for collection! He took over the collection slip and processed it even though he has knocked off (it seems). Cos after processing my collection, he went off.

Some pictures of my new (refurbished) iPod Touch 2nd Generation 16GB.

Plastic wrapper covering the entire iPod Touch

Yeah. Even the chrome back is covered

Time to upgrade my iPod Touch to 3.1.2 and restore all those applications!