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Well, I decided not to give up and try to find an alternative to add a video playlist again. And after much effort of trying, including accidentally deleted my whole iPod contents, I manage to add video playlists successfully from now onwards. Below are the detail steps of how to do it, well, quite some works but I guess it does pay off when come to enjoy the continuous video playing(or even shuffle)on my iPod Touch later.

Step 1: you need to set up iTunes to automatically sync with the iPod. In my case, I still wish to have some control over the “Fully automatic sync”, hence under the main option page, I tick the checkbox of “Sync only checked songs and videos. See snapshot below.

Caution: Make sure you have already backup all your music and videos in your computer before you attempt this! This is for those who have manually manage your iPod like what I did previously, I need to un-tick “Manually manage music and videos”. Once this option is un-checked, iTunes will prompt a message saying all content on iPod will be replaced by content in existing iTunes library. When I did that, hmm… all my entire 3.5G of music and video on my iPod were wiped off completely.

Well, previously I stored my videos in another folder outside the iTunes folder, it is understood that all video content will be wiped off; the strange part is, it even wiped off my music and other music playlists which were already in iTunes Music folder. There is basically no other option to safe-guard this before I un-checked the “Manually manage..” option. So do it at your own risk, Well, the worst situation(in my case) is just to transfer back all my videos and music from my computer back to iPod. Therefore, if you don’t have any backup of your iPod contents on your computer, find a way to back it up first, search in google and you will find tons of utilities out there but this is out of the topic here.

After you have setup above option correctly, the Music and Movies option are setup automatically like following snapshots.

Step 2: Add your videos(if you have not done that previously) into the iTunes Library, all videos will be automatically grouped under the “Movies” folder like this:

Step 3: Right-click on the movie and click on “Get Info”. Then select the 3rd tab “Video”. By default videos added here will be tagged as “Movie”, change the video kind to “Music Video”(see picture below). Click Next to do the same thing to the rest of the videos, once you finish tagging all to music video, click OK and all the videos will disappear from this Movie Library section. Don’t panic, they are all added inside the Playlist of Music Video now.

Step 4: Refer to picture above: You should be able to see all your videos under the “Music Video” playlist now. Now, click on to the lower left most “+” button of iTunes windows to add in your custom playlist, you can also use File->New playlist to add it.

Step 5: Open up “Music Video” playlist now, select the videos that you would like to group them under your new playlist. Right-click on a video, scroll down to “Add to Playlist” and select your custom playlist that you have just created on the fly out window as shown as picture below(I trimmed off all other videos just to give a clearer view).

Step 6: Click on to “Devices” and start the Sync now. Voila, you should be able to see the video playlist that you have just created in your iPod after the sync is completed.

Hope this post will help many iPod Touch fans out there who are lost and clueless of how to create a video playlist. Cheers!

Or watch this video in You Tube

Here wraps up everything about the Tokidoki designer at STCC 2008. My vinyl toys collection coming up in next post, stay tune..

Well, come to the end of the STCC. Although I have still tons of photos in my collection but would not be possible to show them all here. Anyway, there will be another post of Tokidoki Live Art Demo by Simone Legno, stay tune to my blog.

When I reached the entrance of the convention hall, I was first greeted by an Artist Graffiti Wall which was the collaborative artwork by artists which include my all time favorite Simone Legno(Tokidoki), Pete Fowler, Gary Erskine, Mori Chack, Kika and Nada, Devilrobots, Touma and more!
You can read more details about the designers at the Walk of Fame.

Talking about the dreaded “Table” coding, Zen cart has moved away from this since version 1.3.5(well - nearly table-less layout). osCommerce is table-based and codes are pretty messy(to me) where I had to mix around with table and css based div.

Another feature that I like is the template overrides system in Zen cart: you can customize your cart by creating your own custom template folder instead of writing to the default templates and thus any future upgrades will not overwrite the customized theme design. See snapshot below.

With osCommerce, there were several projects that I need to edit over 100 files manually just to integrate my design into the modified templates. That was indeed a tedious task editing all those pages manually even though I did use the “Find and Replace” feature from Dreamweaver.

At the point of writting, I would say that I prefer Zen cart over osCommerce in terms of ease of the template customization. Will post further findings after I have completed and uploaded the new Zen cart designs later.

More resources:

• Zen cart features
• Zen cart official site
• osCommerce official site

Karmaloop: Bought “The Sushi Adios & Ciao Ciao T-Shirt” and “The True Love Ciao Ciao & Adios Z/U Hoody” here(see pictures below).

The Hoody already has 28% savings on it. On top of that you can use this discount code: CG23109 to get a 20% off of your first purchase at Karmaloop and 10% off of every other purchase. This coupon code will never expires! Further more the 20% discount is applicable even with the already discounted sale items. However, take note that if your rep code is used with another promo code, the discount amount will only be 1%.

This shop processed the order very fast. The shipping took only 2 days via DHL ground, it is the fastest among all the 5 shops.

Conclusion: I would definitely come back for more becasue of the generous discount and the speed of order processing. But I do wish that Karmaloop can frequently update new stock on tokidoki products in the future.

The Giant Peach : Bought 3 Nautical clothings here(see pictures below). This is the only shop I know that carries the latest Tokidoki clothings. I love the new Nautical themes so much and could not bear to wait any longer. The shipping took 3 days due to the shop location is much nearer to my shipping destination in USA.

Conclusion: This shop is the fastest to stock up the latest Tokidoki themes clothing. I wish that they can at least absord the local shipping cost if certain purchase amount is reached.

Read Tokidoki online shops reviews Part 1 »

View my others tokidoki collection?

Tobi: The LA Storm T-shirt was bought here. The whole shopping cart system is smooth and efficient. The Tobi stylists, Catherine and Rachel were indeed very prompt on replying my emails and friendly. The shipping took 5 days.

Conclusion: I would definitely come back for a second time. A final thought is that I wish Tobi can add in more new tokidoki products in the future.

Chicki: The Tokidoki Pink Bag was bought here. The shopping cart system has bug? I could not go through the entire transaction properly, at time I was login in, click on any link on site and the next second I was log out from the system again. Vicky from Chicki was very helpful and prompt in answering all my doubts where I have posted my comment here. The shipping took 6 days.

Conclusion: Usually I would not even consider buying anything from a poor shopping cart system but this is an exceptional case. I have read many compliments about this site and on Vicky, therefore I decided to go ahead to make an order via email. Everything from invoice to payment went through smoothly and fast. Vicky told me that the site will be updating the cart system soon and I hope this cart system problem would be able to resolve soon.

Trendystar: When I make the purchase here till checkout, there was no indication whether the shirt that I ordered was out of stock. I received a mail after the transaction went through, saying that it would be backorder for about a week and asked
if I could wait. Well, frankly speaking, I was not so happy but decided to go through anyway. Shipping took 5 days after the stock arrived. The email replies were not friendly, no addressing of my name(lol, I like polite people).

Conclusion: You bet if I want to make another purchase again?

Read the Tokidoki online shops reviews Part 2 »

View my tokidoki collection?