Sounds like a "Beatle's Song"... Lucy falling through the sky with bubbles... a remake for the year 2005.

Quote: Originally Posted by - - e r i k - - For some reason, these didn't work nearly as well. Weird flicker, unrealistic body movements (bodies come apart in the seams) and jus…

That worked better. The body still comes apart when I whip it around though.

go to a trophy shop. sears used to do engraving on zippos and flasks, not sure if they still do. google custom engraving.

I was more intereted in the kind of laser etching that factory iPods come with, so I never though of Things Remembered and the like.

Only windows users.....

Go for it, kill bill. They might occasionally freeze up, but you just hit the reset button and all is well, music intact. They're great little devices. My iPod was my first portabl…

Yep, get a shuffle to start out with then move up. Maybe when the next round of iPods come out, likely at the end of the year.

Well, kill bill, i got an ipod shuffle and ive had some problems, havent retunred it for another tho. It is annoying, but nothings perfect.......right?

I have one of the new color 20gb iPods. I bought it to upgrade from my monochrome 15gb iPod. I've had to "reboot" it several times and it is getting annoying. I loose my place w…

Bah, just had to "reset" it again. I paused to go to the restroom and when I came back I had to do a reset. Grrrrr. J.

Yeah just tried that too... nothing... Any other ideas? Lets say the battery was completely dead, and it just needed charging. Would it still show up in the computer? Would the…

How are you connecting it to your computer? To a Mac or PC? My old iPod had to charge via a wall outlet with the supplied adapter. Until I got firewire then I could charge via t…

Quote: Originally Posted by jhogarty How are you connecting it to your computer? To a Mac or PC? My old iPod had to charge via a wall outlet with the supplied adapter. Until …

Forgive my ignorance, but with my laptop that had USB I had to charge it with the electrical adapter. They may have changed this with the new ones. I know for sure that firewire …

You have audiobooks? You have to give us info to help. We don't read minds (usually).

ok sorry, ive got a 4th gen 20 gig....from the main menu of it, if i select 'music' scroll all the way down to the bottom of the list there is an 'Audioboooks' option. I have some…

Ah, ok. If you get audiobooks from iTMS and/or Audible.com, they will show in the Audiobooks portions. You may be able to edit the info on a book you ripped yourself for it to sho…

What stuff do you have that you want to get onto the iPod? These foreign language audio files, what format are they in? I know a way to get them on the AudioBooks catergory, I just…

They are mp3's

Okay. In iTunes, go to Edit > Preferences > Importing. Choose the AAC Encoding and whatever bitrate you want. Click okay. Import the .mp3 files into iTunes. Find them, righ…

My thanks also for that tip, it'll be good to find my audiobooks in...audiobooks :-) fyi: I used "A Better Finder Rename" contextual menu to do the extension renaming. Very effici…

Quote: Originally Posted by chasg The only drag is that, when I convert MP3 files to AAC (that I can then give them .m4b extensions), I get copies of the original mp3 files in t…

Good tip, and great scripts, thanks for the pointer! Chas