The emerging rule in my life is that the only things less reliable than my old American car and Windows PCs are my iPod and iTunes.
Today, the less-than-six-month-old iPod iPiece-of-shit has decided to crash. And I mean really crash. As in it has to be totally reformatted.
Whereas iTunes used to recognize my iPiece as “Nobrainer,” is is now once again just a corrupted “iPod.”
So how does one go about reformatting an iPod? Or even turning off a iPiece? Well I’m sure iTunes will help.
Or not.
UPDATED: Silly me for trusting iTunes to diagnose a problem with the iPiece. It turns out that I just needed to learn the secret handshake.
Yeah, mine has frozen on me several times. The first time it happened I yelled. Loudly.
Then I googled the “secret handshake” and all has been well since.
Stupid piece of crap.