{"id":3806,"date":"2005-08-14T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-14T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2021-06-08T15:56:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T19:56:44","slug":"ipod-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/08\/14\/ipod-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"iPod Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/gadgetsbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; I had to laugh when I read this at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\">Digg.com<\/a>.  Digger <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/users\/jon13210\">jon13210<\/a> submitted <a href=\"http:\/\/theregoesjohn.com\/DSC00859.JPG\">a photo of a smashed up iPod<\/a>, the end result of his frustration and dissatisfaction with the product. &#8220;My iPod sucked from the beginning,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;I paid $400 for this thing that would crash once a week, and wouldn&#8217;t even reboot when holding the menu\/play buttons. I had to run the battery down every time.  Finally I got a little angry and beat up my iPod.&#8221; (The above link leads to his photo but I&#8217;ve also included it down below, for safe-keeping.)  <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; The funny thing is his iPod is clearly a 4<sup>th<\/sup> generation model. The menu\/play reset only works for 3<sup>rd<\/sup> generations and earlier. What he needed to press was the menu\/<i>select<\/i> buttons.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; No wonder it would never reset!<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Too bad he didn&#8217;t do <a href=\"http:\/\/ilounge.com\/index.php\/tips\/how-to-reset-your-ipod\/\">the tiniest bit of research<\/a> first, before irrevocably throwing $400 down the toilet!<center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/DSC00859.JPG?ssl=1\"><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/DSC00859-sm.jpg?resize=500%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" style=\"border: 3px solid #000000;\" \/><\/a><br><small>Click for larger version \u2026 but don&#8217;t break anything if the link doesn&#8217;t work<\/small><\/center>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I had to laugh when I read this at Digg.com. Digger jon13210 submitted a photo of a smashed up iPod, the end result of his frustration and dissatisfaction with the product. &#8220;My iPod sucked from the beginning,&#8221; he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/08\/14\/ipod-killer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,27,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-photos","category-wtf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3808,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions\/3808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}