iPod Shuffle (3rd Gen)

I picked up a new little gadget this week. I have to confess, I was seduced by how it looked on the shelf. Yup, I now own my first iPod – an iPod Shuffle 4GB (3rd generation to be precise.)

I’ve only had it a few days so just a few thoughts to share. For

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Zune Angst

We gave my daughter a 30GB Zune for Christmas. We spotted it on Woot.com back in September — smoking deal, was under $90 for a refurbished brown. Well, they oversold those so we got bumped up to a refurb’d black along with the fancy-schmancy accessory kit (nicer headphones, a case, a wall charger, etc).

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Gym’tronics

As it is once again Fall, and I haven’t been in a gym since Spring, I figured this was the month to saddle back up and return to world of fitness and strength training again.

Since I was a shameless pig all summer, that training will begin as almost pure running/jogging/cross-training. I like to run for

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A Novel Way to Fix an iPod

The family and I have stumbled upon a very clever and unique way to fix my daughter’s iPod connectivity issues.  This is definitely not something we would ever have tried intentionally…

The daughter received her iPod Nano several months ago.  From the very beginning, iTunes on her computer refused to talk to it.  It kept saying

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Want YouTube videos on your iPod?

Techcrunch has a post up today titled, “Put Any YouTube Video on Your iPod” that some readers may find interesting. Nice collection of links and utilities.

Not just for iPod users either — some of the stuff mentioned has a bit broader focus.

[Updates a day later]

Download Squad has some more options for getting YouTube

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