Doing (lot) more with your iPod! - 2
As a follow up to the previous blog (Doing (lot) more with your iPod!) I am posting the step-by-step guide for running Skype from your iPod. Haven't still tried it on my own, but you go ahead, and let me know if it works out!
(source: forums.makezine.com)
Portable Skype: Run Skype from your iPod
(source: forums.makezine.com)
Portable Skype: Run Skype from your iPod
There has been quite a bit of buzz recently surrounding so-called "portable apps". Portable storage devices such as USB flash sticks (and to a lesser extend, micro HD drives) are dropping rapidly in price/GB, so why just store stuff on them? There's even an industry consortium to promote a standard (U3, see www.u3.com ) to facilitate running apps off portable storage devices. Turns out, you don't actually need a "U3 smart drive" to do this.
There are a number of reasons for not wanting to install a particular piece of software directly onto your computer's hard disk (be it privacy, portability etc), but instead carry it around with you wherever you go and have it ready when you need it. Enter the "Skyppod" (sort of).
Podding Skype HOW TO (the quick and dirty way, here for Win XP):
1) Download a stable version of Skype that doesn't need to be installed on a PC first. Version 1.4.14.84 from the U3.com site works well for that purpose and supports /datapath /removable parameters to be passed to the app:
http://software.u3.com/Product_Details.aspx?ProductId=56
2) Rename the downloaded file .u3p (which is as a matter of fact, a zip file) to .zip and extract it to a folder.
3) Enable disk/manual mode in iTunes- so the iPod doesn't try to sync and enables disk mode ( iPod Options > manually manage ... ). The experience reported here is with an iPod mini 4GB (2nd generation model), which actually has a Hitachi MicroDrive inside, not flash memory; this might be the better choice for using Skype in conjunction with portable storage devices, given the fact that the app itself accesses the storage device several times per minute (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype ) and flash is known to have limited re-write capability.
4) Create a folder eg, "skype14" on the iPod.
5) Copy the Skype.exe file from the "host" folder (located in the downloaded/extracted folder) to the "skype14" folder on the iPod.
6) Copy the "data" folder (located in the downloaded/extracted folder) to the "skype14" folder on the iPod.
7) Create the following 2 lines in a batchfile "StartSkype.bat" with Notepad:
@echo off
start Skype.exe /datapath:"data" /removable
(save as StartSkype.bat to "skype14" folder on the iPod).
8) Optional cosmetics: In "skype14" create a shortcut of StartSkype.bat and move it to where you'd like to have it, eg, on the desktop. Rename to something like "StartSkype" from "Shortcut to StartSkype.bat". In Right mouse click > Properties: Change Run to Minimized (so you don't see the command promt) and click Change Icon to select something appropriate like the little telephone icon. Click on the little icon and run Skype from your iPod!
Note: Remember to log out from Skype when you're done and quitting Skype in the task bar before unmounting/ejecting the iPod.
There are a number of reasons for not wanting to install a particular piece of software directly onto your computer's hard disk (be it privacy, portability etc), but instead carry it around with you wherever you go and have it ready when you need it. Enter the "Skyppod" (sort of).
Podding Skype HOW TO (the quick and dirty way, here for Win XP):
1) Download a stable version of Skype that doesn't need to be installed on a PC first. Version 1.4.14.84 from the U3.com site works well for that purpose and supports /datapath /removable parameters to be passed to the app:
http://software.u3.com/Product_Details.aspx?ProductId=56
2) Rename the downloaded file .u3p (which is as a matter of fact, a zip file) to .zip and extract it to a folder.
3) Enable disk/manual mode in iTunes- so the iPod doesn't try to sync and enables disk mode ( iPod Options > manually manage ... ). The experience reported here is with an iPod mini 4GB (2nd generation model), which actually has a Hitachi MicroDrive inside, not flash memory; this might be the better choice for using Skype in conjunction with portable storage devices, given the fact that the app itself accesses the storage device several times per minute (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype ) and flash is known to have limited re-write capability.
4) Create a folder eg, "skype14" on the iPod.
5) Copy the Skype.exe file from the "host" folder (located in the downloaded/extracted folder) to the "skype14" folder on the iPod.
6) Copy the "data" folder (located in the downloaded/extracted folder) to the "skype14" folder on the iPod.
7) Create the following 2 lines in a batchfile "StartSkype.bat" with Notepad:
@echo off
start Skype.exe /datapath:"data" /removable
(save as StartSkype.bat to "skype14" folder on the iPod).
8) Optional cosmetics: In "skype14" create a shortcut of StartSkype.bat and move it to where you'd like to have it, eg, on the desktop. Rename to something like "StartSkype" from "Shortcut to StartSkype.bat". In Right mouse click > Properties: Change Run to Minimized (so you don't see the command promt) and click Change Icon to select something appropriate like the little telephone icon. Click on the little icon and run Skype from your iPod!
Note: Remember to log out from Skype when you're done and quitting Skype in the task bar before unmounting/ejecting the iPod.
posted by Vishal at 12:24 am
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