Quote: Originally Posted by JKT Sounds like a really bad chat up line to me, "...and when I stood up, my 17" flopped into the toilet..." ..... ........ He may have been st…

It can happen if you are chronically bow-legged.

I accidently knocked over a glass of water on my PB 15" directly on to the keyboard, while it was on, wiped it up as best as I could, and it still works just perfectly fine, includ…

So do the number 1 or 2 keys work?

Yes, as do the p, e, and o keys

Quote: Originally Posted by threestain to be fair strange things happen - I just dropped my powerbook and mashed a corner - never dropped it before, and its now 3 years old and …

Water and electronics do not mix. Sometimes a piece of electronics can be taken apart, completely dried out sometimes even washed again. and dried then it would work. However, I wo…

Safeware ins has no deductable!

This is one of the most entertaining threads I have read on MacNN! Thank you... and I hope you really DID NOT drop a new 17-inch PowerBook into your toilet.

The thread is very funny. I don't want to wake others in the room, so I'm trying not to laugh out loud, but its very hard. Hope no Pbook was damaged.

This thread has reminded me that we all should be fully clothed when we take our new Macbooks out of the box. Can you imagine seeing it for the first time and just squirting all o…

thanks everyone for this fantastic laugh! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

Quote: Originally Posted by neiltony This thread has reminded me that we all should be fully clothed when we take our new Macbooks out of the box. Can you imagine seeing it for…

Amateur...I accidently dropped an Apple 30" CD into *my* toilet why I was readin' away.

Don't flush.

Hi All, For specific reasons, I've got iTunes set to "copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to Library". It's been a good system, when all I was doing was listening to mus…

I think iTunes has to do it to convert the video files into h.264 for it to play on your 5G iPod.

Quote: Originally Posted by mrgaskell I think iTunes has to do it to convert the video files into h.264 for it to play on your 5G iPod. iTunes doesn't convert videos. I…

Quote: Originally Posted by analogika iTunes doesn't convert videos. If you want to keep your videos external, why don't you just turn off the "copy stuff to iTunes Music fo…

Egads, you're correct! There's a "convert for iPod" option in the Advanced menu! This is new... iSquint works excellently, by the way, and is free.

isquint has made some crappy conversion of some avi files I had. Most were movies that I downloaded as torrents.

Thanks for the extra info, very helpful. analogika, it took me a while to figure out what you meant in your first post. If I understand correctly, if I turn off automatic updating…

If you are comfortable with command line, try using ffmpeg, which you can find athttp://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php There is another online tool at http://www.video4ipod.org…

I believe you may have misunderstood what analogika posted. If you set our iPod to manually update, add videos onto it, then start automatically updating again, you WILL lose anyth…

Quote: Originally Posted by kellybelly If you use manual update, you can connect your iPod and drag files directly from Finder onto your mounted iPod in the iTunes sidebar. This…