Use Rhythmbox to sync with iPod Touch
Today I happened to be downloaded a music album online and an audio book from Librivox. I want to transfer them to my iPod Touch. The first program that I remembered to have iPod Touch/iPhone sync ability is Rhythmbox so I launched the program. After playing around its interface, I was beginning to love to use Rhythmbox.
Once I started Rhythmbox from the Sound & Video menu, I had to left-click the music player icon on the status bar and select Show Rhythmbox. The name of my iPod Touch was already listed under Devices, I just needed to add the music and audio book files that I downloaded. It automatically added the files when I dragged and dropped the downloaded files into the Music Player window. Rhythmbox doesn’t seem to support transfer the files directly to the playlist created under iPod Touch. I had to first copy the music files to the root of my iPod Touch and then drag them to the playlist.
The music album I downloaded works great on my iPod Touch, but it doesn’t recognize the audio book files as audio book even I converted them from mp3 to m4b using XCFA. Since Librivox provides separate chapter files for each audio book, I don’t care about using audio book feature in iPod Touch very much.
Ubuntu One Contacts iPhone App (Updated)
UPDATE: Screenshots from iPod Touch uploaded
Ubuntu One is a cloud service similar to DropBox. It syncs files in Ubuntu One folder between computers that are running Ubuntu. Recently I discovered an iPhone app called Ubuntu One Contacts that allows you to sync the contacts on the iPhone with the Ubuntu One server. Apparently it is developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu development. One thing that confuses me is how does it accept to the Apple App Store. As I know, developers need to pay almost one thousand dollars to Apple in order to develop official (non-jailbreak) applications on the iPhone. That’s why I never want to develop iPhone apps, except for the jailbreak community. I will post some screenshots for the Ubuntu One Contacts app from my iPod Touch this evening when I get home because for some reason, my college blocked both DropBox and Ubuntu One website:( Here are some screenshots I took from my iPod Touch:
