I have a problem. there’s a reeaally teensy screw I need to get out, really really little, but in trying to get it out, I think I’ve messed up the screwdriver place so it won’t fit anymore.
does anyone here know how to remove a REALLY little screw, when you can’t unscrew it?
this is urgent, man!! HURRY!
Drill it out, get a tap, make new threads and put in a bigger screw.
Is it in eyeglasses? Take it to the eyeglasses store, they may be able to fix it cheaply and do it right!
Good luck!
nope, its even smaller than eyeglasses…its in my iPod mini, because its battery is dead and I ordered a new one for it as a sort of experiment. it doesn’t really matter if it dies completely, because it’s an experiment and its as good as dead already…but I’d rather it work. I might try drilling it though, maybe…thanks!
Buy a screw extractor set from lowes or home depot or whatever, its a good investment ($10?), and its easy to do.
DUDE, it WORKED!! HAHAAAA
score:
Michael, 1, Apple, 0!! WHOOOOOOOOOOO
Congratulations!!!
apple scored when they sold it to you. How long did your battery last?
I got it last Christmas, and by now it couldn’t hold a charge for more than about an hour…stupid Apple. I guess they did score when they sold it to me…but in that case, I scored when I bought it, so it’s 2-1 me!
Why oh why is the iPod the most popular DMP when it has a battery that is so difficult to replace? I refuse to buy an iPod or similar DMP till they design one right. Two absolutely mandatory features: 1) gapless playback of MP3s, 2) a battery that is easily replaceable with an available (non-proprietary) battery.
I TOTALLY agree! I had no idea about the irreplaceable battery when I bought it, only when it started to die and I looked it up…I donno about the gapless playback, I don’t think I’ve heard anything with that. there actually is an option on itunes to fade the last song out and the next song in at the same time, so its like gapless…
sux for a live concert though.
Some players try to fake gapless playback by doing the cross-fade thing. But that is not real gapless playback. Try the cross-fade solution with a Pink Floyd album or a Beethoven symphony and you will be very disappointed in the result (the result ruins the music). Proper gapless playback is just like what you get on an audio CD. One song can immediately end and the next song immediately begin without any kind of a pause or gap or blip whatever. I want a DMP to play music just like a CD player and that means proper gapless playback of tracks.
I listen to a lot of Pink Floyd and I also listen to classical music and some live concert music. The gapless playback is absolutely critical for that type of music.
I can’t understand the consumer mindset that people would consider it OK that their $200 or $300 iPod turns into a brick when the battery dies in a year or three. Do they consider it normal that they have to buy a new player every 1 to 3 years? I don’t know what’s going on with that type of thinking that allows the iPod to stay at #1 when people get bitten by the dead battery problem. It used to be that you spent $50 to $150 on a portable music player (like a portable CD player) and it would last for years and you could easily replace the batteries. Now you spend $200 or $300 or more and the things last for a year or a little more till the battery dies and it costs almost as much to replace the battery as it does to buy a new one.
if I had known that my iPod would die in two to three years, I wouldn’t’ve bought it…it’s such a scam. I really want one that can have the battery easily replaced…
Just to be clear, I wasn’t ranting at you. It’s all a general rant that I launch in to when the right buttons get pushed. The rant is directed at the population at large and at the companies that make the digital music players.
Don’t get me started on my anti-copying technology on new CDs rant. That one gets more heated.
Aw heck, here’s my rant as posted recently to a newsgroup.
The topic of the thread was “New music stinks because we’re burning CDs? Whatever”
Which linked to this newspaper article: New music stinks because we’re burning CDs? Whatever
Now my rant.
Some of us have stopped buying CDs from the major labels because we don’t
like being treated like potential criminals by the labels and we don’t
like buying CDs that are intentionally defective to prevent ripping or
saddled with other attempts to prevent ripping. Who in their right mind
is going to buy a CD that attempts to install a driver on your computer
that restricts the use of the CD/DVD drive?
I stopped buying CDs from the major labels four years ago after I bought
two CDs that both came with copy protection. One of them has an audible
pop that I can hear on every one of my audio CD players and is even more
noticeable on the computer. The other CD literally locked up my computer
(Windows 2000) when it tried to read the disk. My Plextor drive got so
confused trying to read the disk that it froze and locked up the OS. I
had to power off and loose all work that was not saved. A drive firmware
upgrade was required to fix the problem that caused the drive to hang.
After that I yelled and swore and sprayed spittle all over the monitor
then promptly swore to never ever ever buy a CD from a label that pulls
that kind of crap.
I have also sworn to never buy a digital music file encumbered by DRM.
I’m not going to buy a file that is not playable on all of my equipment
that I have now and may have in the future. I’m not going to buy a file
that may become useless when I screw up and forget to properly transfer
the incense when I sell the computer. I’m not going to buy a file that
may become useless if I screw up and don’t back it up properly along with
the license and other needed data if my HD crashes. I’m not going to buy
a file that may not be playable on whatever computer system I happen to be
using in 10 years or 20 years.
When I buy music I want to be able to listen to it 20 years from now. I
have CDs that are approaching 20 years old. I have albums that are over
20 years old. They all still play. With care they’ll be playable 20
years from now too. Some of the old disks are getting to the point that
they need to be ripped and backed up because they’re starting to
deteriorate. One is suffering from bronzing. Fortunately all of them are
easily rippable because labels didn’t put anti-copying technology on them
back then. I want, I need, to be able to copy the disks later to be able
to archive them and be able to play them 20 years from now.
That is the same reason I refuse to buy digital music files that have DRM.
I have no way to guarantee that I’ll be able to play the file 20 years
from now on whatever computer system I have at the time. What if I buy a
file protected by Real Audio technology and Real goes out of business?
Will I still get support to be able to play the music I paid for? What if
I buy a song protected by Microsoft’s DRM technology and 20 years from now
I’m running on some variation of Linux that Microsoft doesn’t support?
Same problems with Apple’s DRM files.
When I buy music I want to be able to listen to it later and not just in
the here and now.
So I’ve changed my music listening habits. I now listen to more indie
music. I’ve also always liked classical music so I listen to that more.
I’m listening to anything I like that is not crippled. Right now, as I
write this, I’m listening to free music that I’ve legally found on
artist’s web sites and other legal and honest sources.
So RIAA this middle finger is for you. You want to know why your sales
are down? People like me have stopped buying your music and have found
other sources for music. I have more than 250 major label CDs and would
have continued to buy even more over the past four years had you not
pissed me off so badly. So RIAA, enjoy my middle finger because it’s the
most you’ll be getting from me until you change your ways and stop trying
to screw me.
And thank you to the independent artists and to the labels who don’t hate
their customers. You have allowed me to continue enjoying music.
End rant.
-John
John is really good at gaplessly typeing what i did in longer sentences 
john deserves good rep, he is the only guy i know that knows tech so well but has no cell phone or an Ipod…
( somtimes when i call MSN tech support i ask for J_C and they shutter…even their shudder speed is slower than J_C) sorry stupid film cam joke…im lame.
That was a straight up tirade yo. You should be come a rapper, so you can not buy your CD’s and put those verbose passages to use, dawg diggity.
That wasn’t gapless. I used paragraphs. 
correct as usual King Friday.