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Does Tiger know my iPod mini is Blue?
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wreising
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May 3, 2005, 08:34 AM
 
While syncing my blue iPod mini, I noticed that the icon showed a blue mini.

Is this a coincidence? Or does Tiger know which color the mini is? That would be cool.
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May 3, 2005, 09:46 AM
 
Very interesting...particularly since the default iPod color is white. I can see several ways for the Mac to know what (factory) color an iPod is, but maybe this is a fluke. I'm interested to see if others get a correct indication of their iPod's colors...

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May 3, 2005, 09:47 AM
 
Didn't Panther do this as well?

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May 3, 2005, 09:57 AM
 
I have a pink mini and my G4 iMac has always shown it as silver when in iTunes, however when it mounts on the desktop it shows a pink icon. On Windows XP, the icon in itunes shows up as pink as well though. Studying the OSX resources for iTunes, there are icons for the source list for every iPod model and color, so how come mine always shows up as silver?
     
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May 3, 2005, 10:02 AM
 
Green in real life
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May 3, 2005, 11:17 AM
 
The machine can certainly get what model your iPod is -that is, they should be able to know what generation it is and whether or not it's a Mini- but this is the first time I've heard of them being able to tell what color it is. I didn't think that the Mini was set up to send that information along with the model.
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May 3, 2005, 11:20 AM
 
Originally Posted by Millennium
The machine can certainly get what model your iPod is -that is, they should be able to know what generation it is and whether or not it's a Mini- but this is the first time I've heard of them being able to tell what color it is. I didn't think that the Mini was set up to send that information along with the model.
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Each color mini has a different model number.
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May 3, 2005, 11:20 AM
 
Originally Posted by Randman
Didn't Panther do this as well?
Yes. Pather could tell what colour your mini was as well.
     
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May 3, 2005, 11:38 AM
 
Each iPod has a custom icon, a fact that I am still geeking out over. I would like to collect all the icons. It's similar to the special computer icon that used to be shown in the System 7 About This Mac dialog box. Strangely, though, the OS X Finder still only has one Computer icon, an iMac. (I presume this is still the same in Tiger.)

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May 3, 2005, 12:00 PM
 
Yeah, "Kermit" has always shown as a green iPod mini for me in both Panther and Tiger...
     
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May 3, 2005, 03:17 PM
 
all flavours of iPod mini seem to show up here, along with the rest of the line:
/Applications/Utilities/iPod\ Software\ Updater.localized/iPod\ Updater\ 2005-02-22.app/Contents/Resources/Updates/
     
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May 3, 2005, 03:22 PM
 
Panther also knew that my iPod mini was silver.
     
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May 3, 2005, 03:35 PM
 
This wouldn't surprise me. Lots of Mac models had a suffix to the serial number: a color code. Mac OS 9 used that code to set the default color theme for the system, setting a matching desktop picture and menu colors on the first startup.

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May 3, 2005, 03:47 PM
 
Now if only it could tell that my iPod from Colorware was glittery purple.
I've been thinking I need to design my own icon for that. Now I'm feeling really left out.
     
   
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