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  • Flashing the iRiver T10

    iRiver T10 Today I received the iRiver T10 I’d ordered a week ago. Initially, I had been put off by the fact that the players sold inside EU were Microsoft-only. But then I found out it’s possible to flash the firmware to get rid of the MTP crap.

    After having tried the WMP10 approach with my new toy once, this is what I set out to do.

    The Pure and Non-Pure versions were explained at MisticRiver forums. The “Non-Pure” version has an FM radio. Mine doesn’t, so it’s “Pure”. The firmware version my player came equipped with was 1.23P.

    So I picked up the Pure version from mtp-ums.net and proceeded by the instructions provided there. I missed the verifying question about firmware upgrade after the restart, but you can start it from the advanced menu.

    The first flashing took a little under a minute. After the restart there was the ominous “Scan music file…” screen, as promised, and the player was now a UMS device when I plugged the USB cable in. Halfway there!

    I then uploaded the Australian firmware, from iRiver, into the player. During flashing this file, the screen was a backlit black, once again as promised. The flashing took closer to two minutes this time. After this, I had a fully working, UMS-abled T10 with the latest firmware version 1.70.

    iRiver T10 System Info

  • iRiver T series MTP to UMS conversion firmware

    “iriver […] decided to only release Microsoft’s proprietary Media Transport Protocol (MTP) versions of their new T series MP3 players to Europe and the US, thus locking users into using Windows Media Player 10 and Windows XP to transfer music to their players.

    iriver had a good reputation for listening to their customers and now maintains UMS firmwares for their older iFP line of MP3 players as well as firmwares for their own original proprietary transfer protocol. Luckily for us, they did release UMS versions to the rest of the world and so the firmwares were out there ready to be tried. Under normal circumstances an MTP player will not accept a UMS firmware, but we managed it! The conversion process is as simple as upgrading a player normally.”

    mtp-ums.net via charles
    some links added

  • Rockbox – Open Source Jukebox Firmware

    “Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for mp3 players. It runs on a number of different models:

    • Archos: Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio
    • iRiver: H100 and H300 series
    • Apple: iPod 4G (grayscale and color), 5G (Video) and Nano
    • Additional models are in development”

    Rockbox via Boing Boing

  • GWEI – Google Will Eat Itself

    “We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares.

    We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself – but in the end “we” own it!”

    GWEI via Linkdump

  • Fullauto Bookscanner

    “After the invention of hyperpaper, I began to scan my books. Soon I found out that what I expected was true — It was awesomely BOREING!

    If this drudgery were to be automated! […]

    Behold! The work is now complete. Once started, the machine opens the each page of the book and scans the content. The whole process is automatic.”

    a scientist’s toy box via Linkdump

  • "DMCA axes sites discussing Mac OS for PCs"

    “Apple Computer appears to have invoked the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to stop the dissemination of methods allowing Mac OS X to run on chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.”

    ZDnet via Boing Boing

    Further proof for my “Apple is evil” case.

  • AMD Duron Vaporizing

    “They overclock a cpu over 4ghz, remove the heatsink, and boom! “Theres a hole in the motherboard!””

    Google Video via Juha

  • PC in a bottle

    They used to hide bottles inside books once. Times sure have changed…

    “I love to tinker with hardware etc. so I wanted to make something quite unique for a case. I have seen many nice and creative cases before but none of them were made out of a bottle. In November I bought an industrial 3.5” SBC board (with Socket370). For the project I selected a 1.5 litre Ballantine’s bottle for case. That was the proper size and shape for the task at hand.”

    MetkuMods via Boing Boing
    some links added

    Wonder who’ll be the first to combine this with the cooking oil cooled PC mod.

  • ShinyShuttle with English Custom Polishing

    “This time I’m introducing some really great polishing products from English Custom Polishing. This was the first time that I have ever polished anything so this review/modding article will show you how easy it is to start making your computer components shine. While I’m targeting this ST61G4 XPC from Shuttle it doesn’t mean that these products work only with computer cases.”

    MetkuMods via Juha

  • XP Minimal-Requirement-Test

    “The target of this project was to find the weakest system where you can run Windows XP. Keep in mind, that Microsoft official requirements are a CPU with 233 MHz an 64 MB of RAM. But that had to be beaten!”

    Winhistory.de via IRC-URLs