In case you do get inspired to buy one of these, stop for a moment and pay a visit to the experiment listed on the Consumerist website on whether coat hanger wire makes for good sound quality http://consumerist.com/362926/do-coat-hangers-sound-as-good-monster-cables
From Steve Bass's Tips and Tweaks Blog and the EndUser Blog
A couple of weeks back, I went in and deleted some stuff off the player and accidentally ended up deleting something that I probably shouldn't have. It turned my player into almost a brick. Out of the ~80 tracks that I had on it, it could only see 30 seconds of one track. Over the course of the last weeks, I tried poking it and restarting it and reformatting it, to no avail.
So this morning, I decided to go for the heavy action. A couple of hours of looking around the web, led to re-flashing the device (install new firmware on top of the old one) thrice (yup, not once, but thrice), multiple formatting sessions in the middle of all this, and countless reboots later it works!
Back to regular operation as usual. I can once again drag and drop music onto it from my desktop and not have to use custom software to get into the device! :)
Being a geek can be useful.
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Thank you! to the folks from the following places:
The people on the forums at "Anything But iPod" : http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/
The people on the forums of Rockbox : http://forums.rockbox.org/
People on the forums of SanDisk : http://forums.sandisk.com/sansa/board?board.id=c200
Former swordplay trainer to the stars and Star Wars fanatic Jeremy Flynn recently opened "Jedi Gym", a fitness center in Torrance, CA where members channel characters from the Star Wars film series to work out, meditate, and improve their lives."Star Wars is all about the Hero's Journey, and so is working out," says Flynn, " you leave home, battle your demons, and hopefully return home stronger."
Flynn is frustrated with his students' lack of commitment and focus, but when a 7-foot man in an incredibly authentic Darth Vader suit arrives at the gym, Flynn thinks he's found his dream student.
Instead, Flynn and his students learn, first hand, about how powerful the Dark Side can be...
Watch it to the end... Its worth it.
Note: If you are not a Star Wars fan (or don't know the base characters of Star Wars, you probably won't find this interesting.)
Until today, when a friend informed me that the bank robbery was actually at tje bank that is less than 5 minutes walk from where I stay! Which means, this is the bank in which I have my bank account!.
So, in the last few months- the area has had robberies, aggravated assaults, a stabbing incident, an aggravated robbery (mugging) and now an armed bank robbery.
So much for the safety of a small town.
Its official, the firefox team did set a world record for the most number of downloads inside a 24 hour period.
I contributed to it by getting my copy of Firefox 3 during this period (see previous post that has the certificate)
"Do not spend $$$ and install white wall to wall carpets which start at the front door of the house, if you don't want to spend the rest of your life worrying that your white carpet is going to get a stain of some sort"
In fact either don't get carpets at all, or get a color other than white, and you'll find your life at home that much less stressful!
"It makes absolutely no sense to spend $$$ remodeling a kitchen, including a very expensive new counter top, to get a counter on which you can't put anything hot."
What's the point of installing a counter top on which you shouldn't put a vessel that is at a temperature of more than 80F ?
