Question: What if you want to listen to music while your iPod is plugged into a computer?
Say you want to listen to your iPod at work, but discover that your iPod’s battery is dead. If you’re like me, you probably have a perfectly good computer at your desk with perfectly good USB ports which [...]
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I’ve been carrying my headphones back and forth to work in my tank bag. This worried me a bit, because nice headphones are relatively delicate. I looked around, and bought this headphone bag from www.goodcans.com. It is a 10″x10″ nylon bag with a soft lining and a velcro closure. It fits my Grados and iPod [...]
It’s widely acknowledged that the earbuds that Apple includes with the iPod basically suck. In my own experience, they have no bass response at all–and they hurt my ears. So I went shopping for headphones. My basic requirements were:
Full-size, over-the-ear headphones
Good sound
Comfortable (one would think this would be automatic with full-size headphones, but alas…)
Under $100
First, [...]
I too have joined the cult… the cult of iPod that is. On Saturday I purchased a silver 1st-generation 4GB iPod mini from MacSuperstore here in SLO. With the release of the 2nd-generation minis, retailers (including Amazon) are liquidating their stock of 1st-generation units. I got mine for $179.
I looked hard at the iPod [...]
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