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Free iPod Nano 6th Generation Always On Digital Watch Face "App"

I created what I call the Slideshow Clock. I have only tested it for a couple hours, but it seems to work great, and should help quench the thirst for those of you who really wanted their Nano watch to stay on, or wanted a digital display. Yeah, it's a little ridiculous but it's all I could do. I tested other ideas, but they all failed.


It would also be helpful if someone would mirror the zip file, as my free host is not known for reliability.


http://nicktech.heliohost.org/ipod-nano.shtml


From the site:


The Slideshow Clock is a set of images to be used as a slideshow on the iPod Nano. These images show the time accurately when the slideshow is started on the appropriate image for the current time. The Slideshow Clock provides functions not otherwise available to the iPod Nano. These include: Always on, never sleep, constant clock face display; digital display; custom display. These functions are primarily desired by those wishing to use the nano as a wrist watch.


To use the Slideshow Clock, make sure your slideshow settings are set to repeat, and 20 seconds display time. Then open Photos and select the image that corresponds to the current time and hit play. There are 3 images for each minute of the day since each only displays for 20 seconds.


Drawbacks:

-Slideshow Clock 1 is a 1.18MB zip file, which expands to 15.9MB, but unfortunately iTunes "optimizes" it into 1.09GB. So you will probably not want many different watch face styles installed on your nano at a time.
-Rapid battery drain. Suggestions: minimum brightness, use only during key geek moments, use while charging.
-Accidentally touching the display stops the clock.
-You have to "set" clock every time you want to use it.

iPod nano

Posted on Jul 5, 2011 11:33 AM

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Jul 6, 2011 6:10 AM in response to znamezsame

Update: I got almost exactly 3 hours of constant runtime using the Slideshow Clock on a fully charged battery, with a brand new iPod Nano, and minimum brightness. This is about the best you can hope to do. You can always just leave a normal Slideshow running to find out. In contrast to this fairly poor news, the clock was quite nifty on the nightstand overnight. Watch band allowed it to be set upright and charger allowed it to stay on.

May 25, 2012 6:47 AM in response to znamezsame

Hello NickTech,


I want to keep my iPod nano on all the time because recently my sleep/wake button stopped woking - it has become compressed. so every time I want to wake it I have to connect it to the charger or I can shuffle around a little with my music with the buttons on my earphones. So i was wondering if you have a solution for that? And if not than I want to Slideshow Clock thing like how you've explained above but that link you provided doesn't open. http://nicktech.heliohost.org/ipod-nano.shtml


Can you help me out?

THANKS!!

May 25, 2012 11:43 AM in response to keely110

You can get the sideshow from http://NickTech.com


But it wont do anything more for you than running a regular sideshow would. It's just so a sideshow can show the time. I'd probably try to find some YouTube videos about tearing the nano appart and see if you could fix the switch. Not really much you can do on the software side for that issue. Especially on a nano.

Free iPod Nano 6th Generation Always On Digital Watch Face "App"

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