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The Oxford English Dictionary says the word "gadget" is a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember. Like that book-reader thingy from Amazon...what's it called? Spindle, Gindle...Kindle, that's it. Check it out in this month's gadget issue.
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On July 2nd, 2008 Anonymous (not verified) says:
To "if YOU haven't":
I don't know about everyone else, but when I decided to look into Rockbox I just went to the website and started looking around and found that their documentation is GREAT. Personally if I'm going to put something on my iPod, why would I watch someone else's video to find out what it runs on and what it doesn't run on?!? Go check out the website for yourself - the list of compatible devices is second only to the logo!!!
I could just be an ass, but I think people have gotten accustomed to everyone doing their work for them. While I'm hunting around for ideas and questions related to how to perhaps write a new plugin, I run into endless questions that could easily be answered in a 2min trip to the Rockbox site: "will this harm my iPod?", "how to you install this?", "doom says no base wad, what do I do?", "will this run on my particular iPod?" Rockbox developers are so new-person minded that they even include freaking pictures of your device so that if you don't know you have a 5G you can just look and tell it's the same thing that's in your hand. Do what everyone else does - search forums or just GOOGLE your question and see what happens. I find 95% of my answers using these methods.
Lastly (seriously, I'm long winded and realize that), the developers have done an INCREDIBLE job getting Rockbox available on all the devices currently supported. You hope that Rockbox becomes available for yours, which doesn't exactly give you license to say that Rockbox needs a lot of updating. I'm glad you're thankful this video exists and that otherwise you might have tried to install Rockbox on your unsupported device by downloading the... wait a second... you WOULDN'T have been able to even embark on this because you would not have seen a current build for your device here: http://build.rockbox.org/.