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	Don't Throw Out Your Broken IPod

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11-8-2007 1:15 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ffffcc;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/56443d59-5f33-4e64-865d-fcaf9e6d6c1b/EA402654-CAC4-4A8A-ADE1-875675C7F6D5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/technology/personaltech/08basics.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/technology/personaltech/08basics.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/technology/personaltech/08basics.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin">A  FEW months ago, Stephen Ironside, a student at the <A title="More articles about the University of Arkansas." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_arkansas/index.html?inline=nyt-org">University of Arkansas</A> in Fayetteville, confronted a minor but modern tragedy: the <A title="" href="http://nytimes.com.com/mp3-players/apple-ipod-fifth-generation/4505-6490_7-32069546.html?tag=api&part=nytimes&subj=re&inline=nyt-classifier">iPod</A> that filled his life with song stopped working.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/technology/personaltech/08basics.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin">The device was out of warranty, and <A title="More information about Apple Computer Inc." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/apple_computer_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Apple</A> would not  fix it  free. So  he left it in a drawer until he happened to read a blog posting on <SPAN class="bold"><A target="_" href="http://CrunchGear.com">CrunchGear.com</A></SPAN> that described how he might fix it —  with a small, folded piece of paper. Mr. Ironside celebrated by posting thanks on the blog: “I’ve been on CDs for months. You saved my life (and my iPod).”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/technology/personaltech/08basics.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin">The author of the blog post, Matt Hickey of Seattle, says that using paper as a shim to put pressure on the hard drive has worked on about 70 percent of the failed iPods he has encountered — even though he is not sure why it works.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EA402654-CAC4-4A8A-ADE1-875675C7F6D5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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