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After using the Ipod touch for about a year now, I personally think its one of the best gadgets I have bought in years.Its no news that is one of the best mobile devices with a great and easy to use interface. Its a video and music player,a minimal PDA, simple game console and the list goes on, but there are some features I am wondering why apple opted out on including on the device. I am definitely sure there are readers out there wondering about same thing with this device, I hope the guys at apple are busy working something out on these issues. These 3 issues are currently giving me a big headache on my device.

*Music Search : If you have hundreds of thousands of music on your touchy device, there is no doubt that there is a track hidden somewhere in your gigantic library you want to quickly dig out, wouldnt it be nice if there is a search functionality in the music player? . I dont know why search functionality was not implemented on the music application for the ipod touch /iphone. One cant even edit the playlist on the device. Stuck with the “on the go” list.

* Microhphone : Everyone out there with an ipod touch/iphone knows what I am talking about in this case. Imagine having a microphone on your ipod touch.Skype,Fring? . Does any of those applications ring bells? . Mobile podcasters will greatly benefit from this feature too because they can do their podcasting on the go, upload to some server or so. I am even thinking about live broadcasting or something like that and where is skype for the iphone platform anyways?. You can quickly drop friends a shout out one some social network site, facebook or so. I think that will be nice, not that I am great fan of a facebook, but voip on the ipod touch will be a dream come true.

*Wireless Sync So much for apple’s idea of minimum cables with their iMac desktops, how about placing your ipod touch/iphone on your desk and watch the sweet device hook up to your network and grab the latest songs/podcast/video from your library and we can reduce one cable on the desk?. The device could be lock down to a particular itune application like the remote device, I mean how hard can that be (Apple style i meant, i wouldnt mind multiple libraries)? … It will be nice to leave your device in your car in the garage and let that baby sync itself over night or something.

*Video Download Unless you jailbreak your device and get mxtube, you are stuck with streaming video every time you want to see a video on the go. With 8/16/32GB devices in my pocket,I would love to download those funny “cat playing piano” videos from youtube or so,at least i have the space. I might be saving bandwidth on the long run too because users will not have to download the video every time they want to watch something. My ipod touch brothers out there, once your are out of the coverage of Wifi, you are out of luck.

This list can go on and on and I am sure there plenty of people out there with bigger list, but of all this fustration, I can’t wait until apple announce possibilites to wirelessly sync your ipod tocuh/iphone wireless device.

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This was a quick project on flex that i worked on, it is still a work in progress and the interface definitely suck at the highest level, but i wanted to use some nice web 2.o APIs to create a flex mashup. Once i am able to get the music play at least to stabilize well, I start to flesh the app with some really cool UI .

A couple of things I noted in this project is that , flash has problems with understanding namespaces, it couldnot figure out the namespace of the xspf file that is retrieved from teh music API. very sad

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I just revisited my old web page after a long time hosted on my school server. As graduation time draws near, Time to start packing up my files away from that server. I developed it about 2 years ago, looks ugly to me now and i hope i never do something like that anymore, but its one of those funny projects in my project collections and i am using right now to show students what they can already do at their second year at school. I like the little radio thing though and the equalizer, both were nice tricks in those days , especially the equalizer ;). The project is based on Actionscript 2.0

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This was a class project i worked on, the idea was to put mobile Flash a.k.a Flash Lite to the test, We were to write some really optimized flash code to achieve a game that can run at approximate 15fps. That was difficult on a Nokia 6680 , which was my test platform. The Flash VM wasnt that optimized but the project was fun because compared to doing that with java. The game itself is a little hairy but the idea was to write something fun and flashlite 2.0 .

Press Enter button to start playing , watch out for the mines , the game starts slow and as you advance , it speeds up .

Based on the new layout that i posted earlier here, i have written about 22 pages of the report, I just made the layout out and i am now filling the blanks. The images are still missing but the report shows a framework of what i am getting at.
I really need the feedback so that i can go ahead with rest of the report if i have not deviated away too much.

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I have been using the ipod touch now for 2 months and i can say the device is simply marvelous , that is of course after releasing its potential a.k.a jailbreaking!. This is post on different tips i did not find document somewhere else , do correct me though if i am wrong.These tips for for accessing the music player easily when using other applications. I have listed the tips about the home button here , feel free to leave comments or more tips.

• You can access the mobile music player by double tapping the home button
• One lacking feature of the ipod touch for serious music listeners will be an easily accessible volume button, double tapping on the lock screen will give you a small interface to control the mobile music player.
• When using other applications like photos , mobile rss and others , you can get a quick access to the music player by also double tapping on the home button. you will get a quick interface to switch to the mobile music or control volume or even move backward or forward in the playlist

I will be updating the list as time goes on, probably my next post will be about the most interesting applications on the iPod Touch.

Hope this tip helps someone out.

This is an updated layout, the result of the short conversation that i had with harri advising me to concentrate the thesis around my projects in the SSGUI, so i came up with this new layout. Let me know your opinion so that i can start writing. Thanks
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This was the synopsis i submitted to the institution for approval and it has been approved. I just uploaded it here for quick reference .
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This is very basic layout of my thesis plan . The topics listed in this layout are how i am going to go through the reports.I have started on the introduction at the moment, and soon i will move on to the next topics.

The versioning on the file at the end of the file name indicates the version that the document is at, and i will always keep it as a pdf document unless specified otherwise.
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This is where i keep everything that has to do with my thesis, doing this allows me to easily track my thesis progress and also my instructors can easily follow on my proceedings rather than sending multiple emails all over the place.
I can also easily print all the reports at anytime that i want.I can easily keep these records for future use, who knows when such need might arise, and i also trying to see if this type of set up can actually work in an academic environment