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Build Your Own iPod Battery
OmniVector writes "With various complaints about the iPod battery's life, and its mere 10-8 hours of charge many of us are left looking for a way to keep the tunes kicking a little longer. Drew Perry has come up with a novel solution which can only run you a few bucks for an extra 10 hours of battery life out of a box of playing cards and a everyday batteries. Not bad for that long car trip where you just don't have a firewire charger handy."
Why would I cary around such an ugly thing? I'd rather just buy a 2nd iPod.
explaining your stack of batteries when it shows up on the x-ray at an airport. ;)
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Not compatible with iPod mini.
straight quote.
This article is how to build your own Belkin battery pack for cheap.
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Naughty naughty, you didn't read the article did you
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
We want solar iPod now!
belkin = Belkin online price $69.99
homebrew = 10$ for batteries
5$ for connector
133t value of being h4xxor = priceless
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- Not compatible with iPod mini.
Sold!
'No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them' - Dave Sim
...in his iTunes music library he has the artist of the song "Stuck in the Middle with You" as Bob Dylan....fishy...
I belong to the ______ generation.
It's great that you can lower your expectations to meet the performance of a product. You must be a very easy person to satisfy -
./ has different opinion to you
Problem: new car only achieves speed 30 mp/h despite advertised maximum of 140
Response: of course it won't go the advertised speed unless you plan your routes to only go downhill and arrange to move house to sequentially lower altitudes to avoid ever going uphill... duh!
Problem: doctors at hospital failed to stitch up chest cavity after heart transplant
Response: lie perfectly still on your back and never move a muscle, always being grateful for the magical gift of life
Problem: person on
Response: side with staff in Apple store based on 0 personal knowledge of particular store. Digitally edit photographs to show self being married to Steve Jobs by mayor of San Francisco
Problem: iPod only plays for 15 minutes unless playlist for next 25 years is pre-programmed in at time of manufacture
Response: [you] lose control over what you listen to in order to compensate for design issues; criticise those who do not wish to listen to a 10,000 song playlist in pre-determined order as 'indecisive' [me] return iPod and use my MD player. Criticise Apple for not making a device that meets my expectations (or the performance of a generation 1 iPod for that matter).
Read Pynchon.
Do you really want to use a battery pack from Belkin? It probably highjacks the audio stream so that every other track is an ad for more Belkin products.
I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.
... I'm gonna have it play TV_Themes__MacGuyver.MP3.
"Derp de derp."