Eengstro on February 26th, 2008

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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Eengstro on September 6th, 2007

Opera n. A form of noise pollution that requires more talent than rap.

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Eengstro on June 8th, 2005

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 [...]

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Eengstro on March 23rd, 2005

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, [...]

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Eengstro on March 14th, 2005

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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Eengstro on March 7th, 2005

“Never look at the trombones — it only encourages them.” — Richard Strauss

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