Don't cross-post. I'll leave this one open since it's in the correct forum, but the others will be closed.

Why do you need a copy of the iPod's OS if you had "accidentally thrown" your iPod into the water? Anyway, to format it, you need to use Apple's iPod Updater application.

Yeah, just use the iPod application. it should be in Start>All Programs>iPod. Click on restore (that will wipe all your music and files on the iPod), but will restore the OS …

Quote: Originally Posted by malou Please help me folks. I accidentally threw my ipod in a water, it didnt function since then. So, i decided to send it to the technician and he …

actually, my files in my ipod has been erased, i cannot locate it anymore since the drive does not detect, so the technician told me to find an ipod operating system, so what am i …

Go to apple.com and download the latest software updater. This will reformat your iPod (if it works) for either Windows or Mac. If that doesn't work, I could suggest something on…

Quote: Originally Posted by malou So, i decided to send it to the technician and he said, i need the windows operating system of IPOD (apple) to identify the problem. That t…

Hey Randman, can you suggest that thing to do with the mac side? I have a 3rd Gen 30Gb and dropped it while jogging. It slid a little along the wet road. I had a few good connectio…

If you have DiskWarrior, you can try using that. Or reformat it with Disk Utility then try to reformat using the iPod Software Updater/Restorer.

what kind of "technician" is this?

He's probably an Electrician, and the guy got confused. Seems plausible with this fellow...

The Wall Street Journal carried a good article today about how Google's upcoming massive $4billion offering of stock is pointing towards a Google "bubble" which the owners expect t…

Some dude was on the radio the other day talking about Google and how their shares could go as high as $800 per share. I thought he was crazy.

Quote: Originally Posted by baw Some dude was on the radio the other day talking about Google and how their shares could go as high as $800 per share. I thought he was crazy. …

They have an innovative talk service out now.

I think that outside of the search industry and advertisement market, Google has no innovative capacities. I hate to keep knocking Google, because their online & desktop searc…

GMail is not an improvement on existing free webmail services like Hotmail or Yahoo Mail? Um, let's see... 1. When it came out, it offered 1 GB of storage space. What did Hotmail …

GMail is (was) hype. Who has 1GB worth of email? Nobody that I know. Also, nothing is free. The ability to use your own client means that you have to let Google sift through …

Provided Google can address everyone's paranoia about privacy, they very likely have the next best thing as far as a software suite goes since they are cross-platform and accessibl…

Quote: Originally Posted by Kerrigan GMail is (was) hype. Who has 1GB worth of email? Nobody that I know. My Mail folder is 2.95 GB in size. Granted, that's locally on my …

Hey, it looks like I was right about this nearly half a year ago.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kerrigan Hey, it looks like I was right about this nearly half a year ago.

Actually I guess I wasn't right about this, but the WSJ was. Guys, this is another reason why you should read the WSJ.

Quote: Originally Posted by turtle777 Oh, most definitely A couple of years from now, Google is gonna find itself in the same situation as M$ today: Being the market leader,…

Gooogle is a classic ponzi scheme.... Google's advertising model is HIGHLY biased towards making webmasters cheat just to survive... I think Google has its plan laid out just so t…