I am insistently stubborn.  I don’t know if that’s even a way you can describe stubbornness, but I didn’t know how else to express it.  Some time after I got my iPod touch, I wanted to jailbreak it so I could get some games for free, but Mac, the resident Apple expert, told me I couldn’t because my model is too new.

But it’s only 2G! I exclaimed when he told me it was a 3G.  I then went online to find out how to go about it and downloaded some program with a pineapple logo.  I tried and tried, but alas, I failed and failed.  Perhaps he was right.  I got a scare after restoring it to “factory conditions” and thought I’d lost all the games I had, but it turns out my computer (thank goodness) kept track for me and had saved the last state it was in.  When prompted to sync with a previous version, I gladly agreed and most everything was restored for me.

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Over the past week I’ve been playing this wonderful game on Typea’s iPhone called iZoo, which is basically Bejeweled but with animals.  Some may know it as Zoo Keeper.  Unfortunately, that game is only available to jailbroken iPhones and ipod touches.  Sad.  After spending a week begging and pleading every time I wanted to play, I wanted to get it for myself.  So once again I went on the prowl, first trying to see if there was some other version I could get on my iPod.  I came across an online one, but it just wasn’t as fun (who doesn’t love a touch screen?).

Eventually I found another program meant for version 2.2.1, which I swear is what I have, but try upon try made me doubt the viability of my goal.  I always got stuck when I tried to put my iPod in DFU (I think that’s what it’s called) mode, where you hold power and home forten seconds, then release power and continue holding home for thirty more seconds.  My tries only resulted in no response from my device as I frantically held down the power button, the home button, and both in an attempt to revive it.

In the end I gave up and now my iPod’s sitting here, syncing back all the music and games and other apps that I had before.  It looks like this is going to take a few hours.  Yippee.  I’m still not satisfied though.  I want that game!!!