For many months now I've been putting off a project on my car, and I finally decided the time was right the weekend to get it done.  Between my GPS, Sirius Radio, and iPod, I was having serious contention for the sole ("cigarette lighter") power connector in my car.  After a few weeks of using a crappy 3-way splitter (and having it get knocked out ( Read more... )

I've felt out of sorts all week, and I'm not sure why...   I ended up driving to work most of this week, so perhaps that has something to do with it.  I slipped and fell on the way to work on Monday, thanks to some piece of shit who couldn't be bothered to clear their sidewalk...  After I got to work, I hooked up my iPod to the computer and it wasn ( Read more... )

I have been listening to a few different podcasts for awhile now, but the overall workflow of getting them onto my iPod has always been annoying. First of all, there was lots of software to automatically download podcasts, but none of them seemed to have the ability to get the file onto my iPod (and remove it once it's been listened to). Some of ( Read more... )

Talk about an esoteric bug. If you are listening to an AAC Audiobook (m4b) on an iPod Photo, and pause it, and let it fall asleep (or put it to sleep manually), when you try and wake it up, it will be frozen, and requires a reset. But this only happens if you initially navigated to the file via the "Audiobook" main menu entry or a smart playlist ( Read more... )