While I was in Saudi, around August, my beloved iPod Shuffle passed away for no apparent reason! I adored the little bugger and I used it everyday for the past year. One day I was updating it and it just conked out on me! I couldn’t format it, I couldn’t mount it, it was bricked! I googled it and I was blown away with what I saw. There were thousands of people that were having the same thing!!! PC users and Mac users alike were experiencing it however the claims ranged from Apple has a built in timer that bricks it after 1 yr! to it was a firmware issue. I thought that neither were true since I hadn’t updated it firmware. Anyways despite my best attempts at administering CPR, I pronounced him dead and I became the proud owner of an iPod Nano 2GB!! Well you can imagine my astonishment when I checked my RSS reader today and one mac blog had an article on the iPod Shuffle. Apparently you could download a tool from Apple that would perform some Voodoo on it and resurrect it! I jumped to the Apple Support page and low and behold the tool existed!! I downloaded it, dug out my dead pod, and crossed my fingers. And then lightning shot from the ceiling accompanied with screams of ITS ALIIIIIIIIVE!! and the little bugger rebooted and showed up in iTunes 7.0!! Happy times indeed! I don’t care what sacrifice was made to the iPod gods but it was worth it because now I have 2 iPods!

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