iPod Crapfesta 2009

So, throughout the better part of this, and the last in fact, the headphone jack of my iPod's been dying. First, I couldn't hear anything out of the right earpiece, then more recently, the left has been on the fritz. It's not the headphones, and this seems to be quite a common problem. That, and my warranty has been up for a couple of years, now.

So I opened the bitch up, and I found that I could do nothing about it, save stick a business card inside to create enough pressure to allow the connections to reconnect - which seems to have been the trouble all along.

I learned how from this eHow page.

Now, the left ear piece is golden while the right is getting much more sound out of it now - though hardly perfect. I love Macs, but I's really starting to hate all their little peripherals!



Update: The business card has long since failed on me, and now I've bought another remote control, from a company other than Apple, which seems to be doing somewhat of the trick, but not well enough. I'm tired...