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Othello, Tetris, Pong, and Minesweeper. Download and install iPod Wizard, at ipodwizard.net.

It’s a good idea to download the Essentials Pack, which includes the iPod Wizard, along with tools to make it easier to modify text strings (the words you see on the iPod).

After you download and install iPod Wizard, you’ll need to find the iPod Updater firmware file on your system. If you don’t have it, go to apple.com/ipod/download/.

Open iPod Wizard and click Open Updater. The Updater is usually found in Program Files\iPod\ iPod Updater.

Click Open. Depending on what iPod you have, you’ll need to select the firmware revision from the list.

Once you select the proper firmware, click Load. You now have access to all the changeable items for your iPod!

A quick tour of iPod Wizard will reveal all the images in the user interface by clicking the |<< or >>| buttons, battery indicators, card faces for Solitaire, even the Apple logo. The buttons on the side allow you to load a new bitmap or save the current bitmap.

Changing a Graphic

To change the “Do Not Disconnect” graphic,

More? choose the 89th image from the pull-down list.
There’s a budding community of iPod Linux Save the bitmap by clicking Save Bitmap.
hackers. Be sure to check out the applications The image is a 100x100 pixel image that can
listing from time to time to see what’s brewing. be edited with any bitmap editor on your PC. I
Some of the current projects in process include pasted in the MAKE logo and saved it. In iPod Wiz-
web servers and text editors ( ipodlinux.org/index. ard, click Load Bitmap and import the bitmap you
php/Downloads). saved. From here you can click the Write button
and you’re finished.

Changing the Firmware For Mac users, two tools are available to edit If you’ve ever restored your iPod to its factory graphics. By using alterPod ( podite.com/munity/) settings, you’ve used Apple’s restore utility. It’s and iPodIcons ( ipodicons.sourceforge.net), you can basically a copy of the firmware that resides on extract, edit, and restore the iPod with the new your iPod. This firmware contains all the graph- iPod graphics you create. ics, text, and smarts that make an iPod work, but Of course, you can do a lot more. (Give your it’s also quite modifiable using a free application daughter’s iPod a Hello Kitty theme!) Check called iPod Wizard for Windows users. iPod Wizard the iPod Wizard forums ( ipodwizard.net) to learn can modify all the graphics and text displayed about mod ideas and to get new versions of on your iPod as well as add new display fonts. I iPod Wizard Essentials.