Filed under: iPod Family, Hacks
iPod touch as Camera: Take 2
Your computer already thinks your iPod touch is a camera. So why not just take it to the next level? If you stock some pictures into a DCIM/100APPLE folder, you can actually sync your touch to your computer as an image capture device.
Last night, for fun, I decided to create a DCIM/100APPLE folder on my iPod touch. I added a few pictures and thumbnails, all using the standard IMG_10001.JPG and THM format. After rebooting, I connected the touch to a computer. Bingo. My files synced perfectly into iPhoto as if I had snapped them on my touch.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Tyler said 7:12PM on 9-21-2007
That's probably the most useless/pointless bit of info. Maybe i'm missing something, but that was just a waste of a post.
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Ron said 7:12PM on 9-21-2007
What value is this information at all? Am I missing something here?
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Donald Burr said 7:14PM on 9-21-2007
Not really useless. Imagine this situation: You are on vacation and take a bunch of pictures on your digital camera... filling up the memory card. But hark! You left your computer at home. What to do?
Just walk up to a computer (maybe it's your friend's computer that you are visiting; maybe it's the business center computer at the hotel you're staying it; maybe it's at a Kinkos, etc.), fire up the iPod touch disk access program, and copy your camera's memory card to the iPod touch. Boom, pictures are archived, and you are now free to clear your memory card and take even more pictures.
Ok, so carrying a 4/8/16 GB memory stick would achieve the same goal. But what if you happen to be caught without one? Boom, iPod touch to the rescue!
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Nate said 7:14PM on 9-21-2007
Wow. Who cares? Very pointless. Since you have to use a computer to get them on there in the first place! Maybe I'm missing something...
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Donald Burr said 7:17PM on 9-21-2007
Do you really want to leave your photos on your friend's computer, or the computer at the hotel's business center (as in my example above)? No? Didn't think so.
Yeah I know you could go out and buy a memory stick or a blank CD, but (A) what if it's 10 o'clock at night and you have a wedding to go to at 8AM tomorrow morning, no time to pick up such an object; (B) no computer/electronics stores in the vicinity (rare but it's been known to happen), etc.
I'll grant you that it's not the most useful hack in the world, but hey, it'll do in a pinch.
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Brian said 7:20PM on 9-21-2007
I have a theory and think that it shows up in iPhoto so you can drop photos directly into it without syncing and doing extra work.
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Sebas said 7:22PM on 9-21-2007
Not useless at all !
It's a sign of hope for a future function "a la Camera Connector" !
iPod "photo" and 5G can backup your pix from your camera on vacation, then when back home, these iPod are recognized as camera by iPhoto : so iPod touch is not the first iPod to be seen as a photo device by the Mac...
The only pb is that Camera Connector doesn't work (yet ?) on iPod touch.
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Richard said 11:03PM on 9-23-2007
To all the "who cares" people.
Before you knock it ... tell us what progress YOU have made on hacking this gear.
I've followed every available avenue for information on how to gain ANY access to the ipod and Erica and the TUAW team are the only ones showing any progress at all.
Keep it up Erica and all. Most of us appreciate your hard work.
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gonzo66 said 7:33PM on 9-21-2007
She is cool.
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digipimp said 7:49PM on 9-21-2007
wait you mean i can take pictures from my computer, put them on an ipod and then transfer them back to my comptuer, whoa!!!!!!!!
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Jeff said 7:57PM on 9-21-2007
Who says there isn't going to be a future (Apple or 3rd party) iPod touch accessory in the form of a clip-on camera using the dock connector? This would enable one of the key things missing in the iPhone's embedded camera... a forward-facing camera that can be used to video chat via MobileiChat.app.
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m said 8:03PM on 9-21-2007
to richard and all other people who think this post is not pointless:
this post is pointless. its hard enough enduring erica's fight to turn this into The Unofficial iphone/ipod hacking weblog, so this lame hacking (barely) post is salt in the wound, in my honest opinion for the win.
m
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asger said 8:05PM on 9-21-2007
I think that post was just as stupid as I am right now
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Kirk said 8:28PM on 9-21-2007
m,
I couldn't agree with you more. I'm a gadget nerd just as much as the next guy and think hacking efforts, especially on the latest and greatest(?) Apple products are great...But Erica's quest to turn this into a iPhone/iPod hack'n'bitch site, it's getting quite annoying.
For instance, the daily updates on the iPod jailbreak is pretty much not news to anyone at all. There's not been much progress at all. If they hit a milestone in the progress...great! Feel free to post about it. Is the status of the project pretty much the same as it was yesterday? Don't waste your time...I can come to that conclusion by myself with the absence of your 'news'
Erica, please...for the love of god STOP.
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Cory said 8:48PM on 9-21-2007
More iPod Touch news - Apple online units are now shipping.
"Shipped on: Sep 22, 2007 via FEDERAL EXPRESS"
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Mike said 9:02PM on 9-21-2007
Maybee you can transfer your pr0n pics over to neighbouring iPods and then easily sync em up to your Mac ?
Dunno just a theory here.
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RMS said 9:24PM on 9-21-2007
Wow, you guys should stop worrying about meeting your posting requirements. Thank god for real Mac news sites.
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Reg said 10:17PM on 9-21-2007
Average time to post a comment: 1.5 mins (2 mins if it's proofread)
Average time to ignore a headline if it doesn't interest you: 0.25 secs (0.15 secs if you've had coffee)
Average time to read moronic comments on how offended they are that they wasted 0.25 seconds of their morning: 2 mins
Average time to conjure up calming thoughts to undo outrage at said moronic comments: 5 mins
So who's wasting the more time?
Jackasses.
PS The article is actually relevant to the on-going hacking iTouch series (oh, sorry, that's "iPod touch" with a little "t" before all the comments come through - jackasses), as the first attack vector for the Sony PSP back in the firmware 1.5 days was actually a JPEG buffer overflow.
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Brian K said 10:22PM on 9-21-2007
This is a joke... I'd rather see no news than this garbage...
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KiltBear said 12:39AM on 9-22-2007
Um... I think any removable drive that has a DCIM/xxxx directory at the top level, shows up as a camera, no?
I have one of those new SD cards that flip down and has its own USB connection built in... If it has the DCIM/xxxx directory on it, it shows up as a camera in iPhoto.
But, yes, I am confused as to the potential use of this observation specifically to the iPODtouch myself.
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