Tag: Digital audio players
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Applecack
Now frequent readers of this blog will know how much I love Apple, and when Charles II the iPod went wrong a few weeks back (problems with the headphone and docking socket, freezes, havign to keep restoring it) 10 months into the warrant, I wasn’t holding out much hope. The speed of Applecare’s response and…
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The Return of Charles
DJ Charles is in the House! The iPod returneth, weird having to create a new directory and dragging everything in and charging it via Firewire, but it’s cool. A sort of generation 2 chunky old-skool cool. Not sure it’s been treat well since John pointed out it was leaking a brown rusty susbtance…err…what has he…
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Why I don’t like internet radio (or Yahoo)
OK so trying to save some battery power on my iRiver and bored at work I try and use Yahoo’s Launch – I used to listen to this online personalised streaming station a lot…first I try Firefox; and get am error code ‘Netscape 6+ not supported’. OK, not great, obviously IE specific but I have…
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hack your iriver: for iRiver IFP-7xx/8xx owners
There’s a modified (ie unofficial) firmware that will allow uncrippled recording on the iRiver iFP7xx and iFP8xx series and works as UMS – ie. a proper flash drive, it appears as a hard-drive on your computer.(Misticriver is a great unofficial support site for iRiver products btw) Not tried it yet but will do shortly…note there…