[Leica] 1.5GB in a shirt pocket IPOD! aaaaaaaaaaaccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bcaldwell51 at earthlink.net (Bryan Caldwell)]

On Sep 13, 2004, at 5:41 AM, Jonathan Borden wrote:

> Buy a _powered_ firewire hub (~$50-60). Plug the firewire port from  
> the cardreader into the hub, and connect the firewire hub to the iPod  
> (using the iPod cable). What this will do is actually _charge_ the  
> iPod during the card downloads. This way you can download a bunch of  
> cards into the iPod in a hotel room, etc.

Unfortunately, I don't think you can do this with the Belkin Reader.  
The reader doesn't use a conventional FireWire plug. Instead it uses a  
plug that goes into the Apple "dock" socket at the bottom of the iPod.  
You can see a picture of it here:

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore? 
productLearnMore=T7418LL/A

Also note that its listed speed is only 300Kbps per second. Nowhere  
near FireWire speed (or even USB 1).

As simply a portable hard drive, somebody might be able to come up with  
a decent way to download memory cards to the iPod without a computer,  
but I don't think the Belkin card reader is it.

Bryan