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iPod Mini Custom Installation In A Ford Explorer
Johnny Mozzarella writes "MacWorld has a nice write-up on Jesse Melchior, an amateur special effects artist and filmmaker, who used his skills to create a custom installation that is worthy of an iPod mini. The article outlines the materials he used such as latex, plaster and dental acrylic to create an integrated dock complete with blue LEDs and Apple logo in his Ford Explorer."
It has been expressed here previously that the iPod mini has much less bang-for-buck than the regular iPod, which is only a few bucks more but comes with an extra 16GB.
However, if you simply want to buy a Hitachi 4GB mini hard drive, you'll save as much as $150 if you buy the mini and take the drive out over buying the boxed hard drive product.
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
Might as well just get a the full sized iPod or another MP3 player unless you don't mind waiting till July.
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All that work and he still has cables to connect (he doesn't seem to think they're photogenic). I use this FM transmitter called the iTrip that snaps to the top of the iPod 10 gigger and I can hide the whole thing, zero wires. Amazingly (to me), the iTrip uses less battery power than the backlight on the iPod. Appetite For Destruction all night on repeat!
I Can't See half of the full sized pics in Mozilla due to wrong MIME types. When will these web developers ever learn?
smart will be introducing a iPod integration option (complete with charger) in their cars in europe next model year
Sorry to be a pedant, but what skirting ("ground effects") does is induce a partial vacuum, or at least a lower pressure area, within the enclosed underside. The rest of the bodywork produces high pressure over the top of the vehicle, skirting produces low pressure beneath, and Bernoulli does the rest.
The result of all this is increased downforce. FYI, skirting is now prohibited in F1 racing.
Didn't VW have a recent campaign with the iPod? I seem to recall you could get an iPod with the purchase of a Beetle, included a cupholder mount, and Belkin charger...
Visit Here for a press release. The unit will be available later this year. It integrates all control through the head unit, via the dock connector. You can tuck the iPod away inside the glove box. Still requires you to take your eyes off the road and look at the display of the receiver, however. Until Alpine comes out with an easy-to-install aftermarket heads-up-display...
Alpine is coming out with an interface that will allow one to control an iPod from the deck, complete with OSD of titles and all...
http://www.macnn.com/news/22778
i saw the baby, and the baby looked at me
That is funny, but Explorers are surprising reliable vehicles. I know several people that are nearing 200,000 miles on them and my dad has a quarter million miles on his explorer and still no major repair work done on it yet!
Though you implied that people are getting their 10,000 songs by downloading them, I actually have about that many ripped from CD. I've bought all my CD's used for several years now. Aside from new stuff, the used CD's I buy average $4-5 each, so my $20-25 investment in music gets me 40-50 songs rather than 20-25.
Half.com and Amazon's used stuff make getting the real CD cheaper than any of the legitimate download services. Plus, I've got the actual album and can control the ripping.
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So what he said was 'skirting induces a downforce' and what you're saying is 'skirting creates a low pressure area under the car and a higher pressure area over the car and that induces a downforce'.
That's like saying, "No, actually, when you push that button it doesn't turn on the computer. When you push that button it connects two contacts inside the computer, which allows an electrical current to flow through the various circuits inside, thus turning on the computer.'
Yes, you are a pedant, but no, you're not in the least bit sorry to be one. If you were, you wouldn't have 'corrected' him, you would just have posted a quick followup explaining the science.
-fred
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You know what Ford stands for, don't you? Fix it again, Tony.
No, that would be FIAT.
Ford stands for:
Fix
Or
Repair
Daily
I have no idea where you got that, there isn't even an 'R' anywhere in the phrase "Fix it again, Tony".
Life is too short to proofread.
Alpine is coming out with a HU this summer that will allow you to plug your iPod in, and store it in any location (glove box, center console, trunk, etc..) and the HU will display the song info and allow you to control the iPod. Google for more information, here is a quick link to their press release.