// Phreaking Out Your iPod
//
// by t0mMaC
// 
// http://www.oldskoolphreak.com


Disclaimer:
This is for experimental uses only.  Creating a blue box, red box or green
box is illegal and the creator is not responsible for your actions.


When most see a MP3 player, they suspect it to be completely harmless.  But
with Apple’s iPod that mentality will change.  The iPod can do much more
than play your favorite songs.

We all need a DTMF tone dialer, but how on an MP3 player?  Apple has
incorporated a playlist named “On-The-Go,” which can be edited in the field
without a computer.  All you need to do is add the tones or music, and it
will have to be played in event order.  To guarantee that your music will
be played in chronological order you must first go to the settings menu and
then search for “shuffle.”  Make sure it says “Shuffle off”, otherwise
change it.  Good.  Now it’s time to get some digital DTMF tones.  Go to
http://www.phreaksandgeeks.com/tones.html, add the tones to your iTunes
playlist, upload them to your iPod and lets go dial some numbers.  Here’s
how the list works. The number to dial will be NPA 212:

- Go to your list of DTMF tones.

- Select your DTMF tone for 2, select it and hold down the select button.
  The number will blink several times.  That means it has been added to
  your “On-The-Go” playlist.  Now do the same for DTMF tones 1 and 2.

- Go over to your “On-The-Go” playlist and now select the first number.
  Turn the volume up all the way on your iPod, put an ear bud to the
  microphone, press play and listen to it dial.  The list will play in
  event order and stop once it’s done.

This is how the iPod can be used as a tone dialer, but now we must unlock
and open other features about the iPod.  Your iPod can be a Red Box, Blue
Box, and Green Box.  Go back to Phreaks and Geeks and get the needed tones,
or you can use your own.  Now there’s only one problem.  After a tone is
played, the iPod continues to the next song or tone.  So I prefer to add
about seven seconds of blank space at the end of each tone, or if you're
only going to use one tone, you can add it to the “On-The-Go” playlist.
Then all you need to do is to play them.

To conclude, I must travel off topic.  The iPod has yet another feature; it
can read text files.  Just add them to your iPod and you can use them for
field reference or other purposes.  But the for the most part, this MP3
player can play more than songs.

tommacs@optonline.net