{"id":95,"date":"2008-08-02T22:11:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T02:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/?p=95"},"modified":"2008-08-02T22:15:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T02:15:21","slug":"apple-app-store-thumbs-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Apple app store: Thumbs up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well firmware 2.0 was rolled out for my iPod Touch last month. After much torture getting iTunes 7.7 to install, I decided to install the new firmware on my iPod. Before firmware 2.0 I was running a jailbroken firmware on my iPod, allowing me to run any 3rd party applications I wanted to. These included an IM application, a terminal emulator (and full BSD core utilities), a bible ebook and a couple other random things that I don&#8217;t remember.<\/p>\n<p>I was a little nervous moving away from my jailbroken firmware, I had gotten rather used to the 3rd party apps. Especially the SSH client! But I am largely glad that I upgraded. Let me say that the app store is quite slick. Right when I upgraded I installed the <a title=\"Pandora on the iPhone (in new window)\" href=\"http:\/\/pandora.com\/on-the-iphone\" target=\"_blank\">Pandora music player app<\/a>. I also installed an ebay application that makes browsing ebay much friendlier than using Safari. I installed a google search app, a new bible app, an AIM client and an iTunes remote control app. All these apps work really well, I&#8217;m pretty impressed.<\/p>\n<p>All these praises aside, I am still missing an SSH client. A telnet client was recently released, but really that&#8217;s not too useful for me as I like my terminal connections to be secure. I really hope an SSH app is on the way soon.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m firmly convinced that the improvements brought on with firmware 2.0 will have me holding on to my iPod touch for quite a while. If I do replace it, it will be with a larger capacity iPod touch or perhaps even an iPhone. Or an Apple Newton 2 &#8212; I can dream, can&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well firmware 2.0 was rolled out for my iPod Touch last month. After much torture getting iTunes 7.7 to install, I decided to install the new firmware on my iPod. Before firmware 2.0 I was running a jailbroken firmware on my iPod, allowing me to run any 3rd party applications I wanted to. These included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,27],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-apple","tag-ipod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}