There are few products more popular than the iPod—except when it comes to battery life. The batteries in early iPods fail after a time (300 to 500 charge/discharge cycles or about two to three years) and just won’t hold a charge. Even worse, there’s no easy way to change the batteries. Here’s how to replace it from Joe Grand! Link.
Take your Google Maps on the go with a touch of sleight-of-cursor. This a pretty neat idea- you take all sorts of views to zoom in and zoom out of for the areas you want to map. Thanks Ian! Link.
If you run iPodLinux like I do, here’s a treat- DOOM for the iPod. Mostly playable I need to sift through the Doom post for some key binds. Can load game saves. Can save game. Plays all wad files: Doom I Shareware (won’t play demos), Doom II Shareware, Ultimate Doom, Final Doom wads, and Doom II. Also unless you want Doom to crash in the menu put the help files in the folder too. Link.
Inside that $15 Farnsworth radio cabinet is a Sansui tuner, a replacement Panasonic turntable, a Griffin AirShark, an 8 port USB hub, a cheap-o LCD panel, a Griffin iMic, a Griffin Powermate, a Logitech wireless keyboard transmitter, a power strip, a Griffin AirClick, a Sony bookshelf speaker, a Mac Mini and enough patch cables to encircle the world 7 times. Link.
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