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Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« on: July 25, 2007, 02:16:57 pm »
I have a gen1 iPod shuffle that I bought refurb from Apple for $25. I felt I just needed to comment and say how kick ass durable this thing is.

A few weeks after getting it, I was listening to an audio book while in the bath tub. While getting out of the tub, I dropped the iPod and headphones into the tub while still on! I figured the thing was toast, but to my surprise it was just fine after drying out. Over the weekend, my wife washed my gym shorts that had my iPod in it. :banghead: After I got home, I tried it and it wouldn't come on. I tried to use it in the pc and it wasn't recognized. I let it sit until last night and decided to try it again for the hell of it. Guess what, the dag gone thing worked! The computer recognized it, I could access all my songs from the hard drive, but unfortunately it didn't seem to be charging. After letting it attempt to charge all night it is obvious the battery is shot, however, I have one of those add-on battery packs out of my accessory pack, so my iPod is once again back into full service. ;D
I have NEVER seen an electrical product of any brand bounce back from so much ridiculous water damage. My opinion of Apple products has definitely improved. :cheers:

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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2007, 03:19:57 pm »
Sounds to me that on some subconscious level you really don't want an ipod.

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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2007, 03:36:43 pm »
Sounds to me that on some subconscious level you really don't want an ipod.
:laugh2: :laugh2:

When it fell in the tub, the lanyard thing I was holding it by got caught and pulled of, thus the rest of the iPod dropped like a stone. I'm still trying to figure out how the iPod got into my gym shorts, considering I hadn't used it for weeks. :dunno
Me thinks maybe you are right. ;)

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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2007, 04:36:02 pm »
water + low voltages = short circuit, but you don't usually "fry" anything. Once something is thoroughly dried out, it will work again.

When I was a kid I had an Entex Defender portable game. I opened it up and would purposely (randomly) short circuit parts with a screw driver. This caused all sorts of "objects" to appear in the game level and then I was able to fly around and shoot them. Made for an interesting variation on the normal game.  ;D  And no parts got fried doing that.
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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2007, 04:52:36 pm »
water + low voltages = short circuit, but you don't usually "fry" anything. Once something is thoroughly dried out, it will work again.

When I was a kid I had an Entex Defender portable game. I opened it up and would purposely (randomly) short circuit parts with a screw driver. This caused all sorts of "objects" to appear in the game level and then I was able to fly around and shoot them. Made for an interesting variation on the normal game.  ;D  And no parts got fried doing that.


You think my battery will eventually come back, or is it a gonner.
Too bad this thing is a solid case - I would love to take it apart.

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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2007, 06:16:40 pm »
Yeah, I wouldn't think too highly of it...I had a crappy phone a few years ago that washed a couple of times...just let it dry out and it works fine.

Just don't drop anything with a plug on it into the tub while you are in it...that's a totally different story!!

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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2007, 09:37:38 pm »
ipods are for the ghey dooshes

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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2007, 01:23:59 am »
I have a gen1 shuffle too that has been washed and dried at least 3 times and keeps on ticking....

I'm notorious for leaving ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- in my pockets, and my wife is notorious for not checking them. 

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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2007, 11:35:23 am »
I have a gen1 shuffle too

Thanks for making my point mandal boy.

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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2007, 11:40:26 am »

I have an older 256meg mp3 player I got a few years ago that I still use.  People walk up to me and ask "OMG is that a new Ipod?!"  They're always really disappointed when I say no, except the one chick who didn't believe me, even when I pointed to the logo on it that wasn't Apple.

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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2007, 11:46:13 am »
If you meet a chick like that...you need to get her phone number...or follow her home.  Anyone that can't tell that a different logo on a device means it ain't what you think it is is what some call "easy pickings"

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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2007, 12:19:55 pm »

Eh, she was like 15... "easy pickings" ain't worth jail time.

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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2007, 03:44:13 pm »
I suprised no one mentioned that only chicks take tubs.   lol   ;)

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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2007, 04:52:04 pm »
I suprised no one mentioned that only chicks take tubs.   lol   ;)
I just took a bath, Jerry--A BATH! ... It's disgusting.  I'm sittin' there in a tepid pool of my own filth.  All kinds of microscopic parasites and organisms having sex all around me.

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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2007, 10:13:22 pm »

I have an older 256meg mp3 player I got a few years ago that I still use.  People walk up to me and ask "OMG is that a new Ipod?!"  They're always really disappointed when I say no, except the one chick who didn't believe me, even when I pointed to the logo on it that wasn't Apple.

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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #15 on: July 27, 2007, 12:16:06 am »
I have a gen1 shuffle too

Thanks for making my point mandal boy.

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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2007, 02:37:54 am »

I have an older 256meg mp3 player I got a few years ago that I still use.  People walk up to me and ask "OMG is that a new Ipod?!"  They're always really disappointed when I say no, except the one chick who didn't believe me, even when I pointed to the logo on it that wasn't Apple.

I think they actually came up to you because they'd never seen Superman in real life and the FakePod was just an excuse to hide their nervousness
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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #17 on: July 27, 2007, 05:33:46 am »
 :-* WE LOVED YOU IN CHASING AMY!!!!!!  :-*
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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #18 on: July 27, 2007, 09:39:35 am »
I think they actually came up to you because they'd never seen Superman in real life and the FakePod was just an excuse to hide their nervousness

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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #19 on: July 30, 2007, 12:00:06 pm »
I have a gen1 iPod shuffle that I bought refurb from Apple for $25. I felt I just needed to comment and say how kick ass durable this thing is.

A few weeks after getting it, I was listening to an audio book while in the bath tub. While getting out of the tub, I dropped the iPod and headphones into the tub while still on! I figured the thing was toast, but to my surprise it was just fine after drying out. Over the weekend, my wife washed my gym shorts that had my iPod in it. :banghead: After I got home, I tried it and it wouldn't come on. I tried to use it in the pc and it wasn't recognized. I let it sit until last night and decided to try it again for the hell of it. Guess what, the dag gone thing worked! The computer recognized it, I could access all my songs from the hard drive, but unfortunately it didn't seem to be charging. After letting it attempt to charge all night it is obvious the battery is shot, however, I have one of those add-on battery packs out of my accessory pack, so my iPod is once again back into full service. ;D
I have NEVER seen an electrical product of any brand bounce back from so much ridiculous water damage. My opinion of Apple products has definitely improved. :cheers:
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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #21 on: July 31, 2007, 05:38:09 pm »
PC ? About time you buy a Mac....
Why? 
So you can sit and stare at how beautiful the case design and desktop look and feel SAFE and SECURE that 98% of the free software out there WON'T RUN ON IT.
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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #22 on: July 31, 2007, 06:16:46 pm »
Hahahaha

Or laugh about all the software that is NOT needing any ON-LINE freaking license key stuff ---Cleveland steamer---....
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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #23 on: August 01, 2007, 01:23:23 am »


Couldn't resist.  This thread is starting to resemble that video :laugh2:
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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #24 on: August 01, 2007, 01:43:14 pm »
Hahahaha

Or laugh about all the software that is NOT needing any ON-LINE freaking license key stuff ---Cleveland steamer---....
WHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Have a pleasant day with your PC.....
What's an online license key? Sounds annoying. Oh well, must be a Mac thing.
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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #25 on: August 03, 2007, 06:15:53 am »


Couldn't resist.  This thread is starting to resemble that video :laugh2:

That was funny.

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Re: Impressed with iPod Shuffle
« Reply #26 on: August 13, 2007, 06:37:26 pm »
Think that was funny ?


THIS is funny:



In fact this WOULD be funny, if normal people wouldn't consider this STEALING......