Stuck iPod Center Button

I noticed the iPod's center button was stuck. It was "sunk" into the clickwheel. It didn't make a click but the button worked if I pushed down hard. That was unacceptable and my thumbs were hurting. I was a concerned as the 5.5G iPod Video was woefully out of warranty and do not want to shell out ~$20-75 for a repair. The screen, battery, hard drive, clickwheel were perfectly fine. Just that damn single center button.

It all had to do with a misaligned piece of rubber. Now I have an excuse to pry open the iPod.



1. Open the iPod and expose underneath the clickwheel
2. Move the little rubber piece to the center of the metal contact
3. Put everything back to normal and close iPod



The center button works fine now. The process took less than 10 minutes.

Well, I guess don't have to choose between a 120 GB 6G iPod Classic, 16 GB 4G iPod Nano, or 16 GB 2G iPod Touch just yet. Until the LCD or hard disk fails...



Keep on, Maple.

Mice, Mouses, and Pointing Devices

Microsoft Wheelmouse (Ball)
Grudgingly still works and in perfect condition. Rollers need to be cleaned. PS/2 only.
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3 (Optical)
LMB doubleclicks on a click.
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 4 (Optical)
LMB & RMB often doesn't register a click and must be pressed hard.
Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 (Laser)
Exterior is literally falling apart. Rubber of mousewheel flaking off.
Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 (Laser)
The normally loose mousewheel gets stiff.





Time to clean up, Maple.

Staring at the table

Though they're seven years apart, but still.

Getting stuff out of Notepad

Bear with me again.

Slushie is a relatively new polar bear. Normally he would spend time with the other three bears but they've been gone for months. Slushie is bored. Klondike is lazily lying on the bed. Little Klondike and Black Bear are playing video games. Maple for some reason is drinking tea with Sugar Maple. So what is Slushie to do?

It's Maple (Again)

Downloading Observation

Oh no, I need my Windows validated so can get the DirectX run time files.



or I can just go here and download the whole thing without validation


Sure, the web install might save time and megabytes, but whatever.

June Post

Posting to maintain at least one post per month. There. What's with those two dogs? One doesn't like the other. Yet that one will follow that dog.

Another Firefox Observation

Firefox 2.0.0.14
Logon Date: 4/22/2008 7:48 PM
It is now: 5/1/2008 9:45 PM

Look at it go.

An April Post

It's the 22nd. Finally it's over. Oh yeah, there's the PA Democratic primary that hasn't ended at the time of typing.

Ta ta.

Firefox Quickies

chrome.css:
.tabs-closebutton-box {
display: none !important;
}

Change Cache Directory ============================
new --> string
browser.cache.disk.parent_directory --> E:\Temp...

Access Local Files ================================
new--> boolean
security.checkloaduri --> false

Inspirality

Just a made up world.

Movie Monday X

No Country for Old Men

2007

A Firefox Observation

Windows hasn't technically restarted since 2/20/2008 11:57:17 PM
and Firefox has yet to be closed.

It's 3/9/2008 2:26 PM

whee.

Sometimes I feel like this... gah.

Movie Monday IX

Monty Python's Life of Brian
1979