This is a stupid question, Sophia, but have you switched out the caps on your earphones and tried all three sizes?
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Dana - Oct 18, 2007 5:55:27 am PDT #3060 of 25497
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Sue - Oct 18, 2007 5:55:50 am PDT #3061 of 25497
hip deep in pie
I also used to own the earphones a step up in the series and they were great, but 10 ft of cord was too long, and end up being their undoing. (At least me stepping on them and tripping did.)
Glamcookie - Oct 18, 2007 6:07:46 am PDT #3062 of 25497
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I have Sophia's earbuds, have tried all 3 sizes, and still they hurt my ears. I mostly listen to my iPod through the car stereo and my JBL iPod speaker, though, so I haven't invested in new ones.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 18, 2007 6:55:08 am PDT #3063 of 25497
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Thank- I have tried 2 of the sizes and plan to try the others. I think I might just be too old for the earbuds!
Gudanov - Oct 18, 2007 6:59:18 am PDT #3064 of 25497
Coding and Sleeping
I have a pair of earbuds, only they have ear clips. They work much better than the regular buds. OTOH, I generally only wear them under ear protection earmuffs so they are helping to hold the buds in place too.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 18, 2007 10:19:44 am PDT #3065 of 25497
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
ear clips!?! Wow, I m,ight have to look into that.
Also, would it be weird to get an external hard drive for my work computer? I have my ipod synced there, but there is LOTS of room on my ipod, and none on my hard drive. I don't have the internet at home, so don't have itunes. My workplace is pretty lax about things like that, so I don't think it would be a problem as long as I am purchasing the music and videos from itunes and not downloading illegally. How do you attached an external hard drive, and can you make the music/videos be stored on it INSTEAD of the regular computer, or is it just a back-up? As you can tell, I am a bit clueless. However, my ipod has 70G left, while my computer is out of room just having 7 episodes on TV on it!
omnis_audis - Oct 18, 2007 10:25:01 am PDT #3066 of 25497
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Sophia, I purchased cheap-o $10 earphones at Best Buy. They are sony's that have a loop over the ear, so the bud rests in the ear, rather than trying to stay in. They sound fine. Especially for $10. I look at them as disposable items. They sit in my butt-bag, they get tossed about. Last thing I want to do is spend a kajillion bucks on portable ear phones that are gonna get ruined.
I mostly listen to my iPod through the car stereo and my JBL iPod speaker, though, so I haven't invested in new ones.GC is me. 99% of the time, it's in the Transpod dock in the car, iHome dock in the bedroom, JBL speaker station in the bathroom, or connected to the laptop at work. Rarely do I listen in headphones... yet another reason to have cheap-o $10 ones.
-t - Oct 18, 2007 10:31:03 am PDT #3067 of 25497
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Sophia, you can get external hard drives that plug into a USB port or firewire, and you can make the iTunes stuff live there pretty easily. That's how I have mine set up at home.
I love my blluetooth headphones. I just assumed the iPhone has bluetooth.
Theodosia - Oct 18, 2007 1:42:15 pm PDT #3068 of 25497
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I've probably got enough personalization on my new Windows Vista PC that I should back up -- does anybody have a favorite program they'll recommend? Or a fairly inexpensive online solution? Unfortunately, Vista is HYUUUUUGE, and even with the minimal amount of Stuff I've added, I'm probably looking at 180 gigs for a complete backup.
beekaytee - Oct 18, 2007 6:00:56 pm PDT #3069 of 25497
Compassionately intolerant
Speaking of stuff and size and...um...stuff...
Has anyone used Disk Warrior for OSX? I'm seeing that it is getting better reviews than the current version of Techtool Pro 3.
I've been trying to run TP3 all day to optimize a shockingly fragmented hard drive. I had no idea things had gotten so bad. Trouble is, running TP3 in Classic keeps netting me a message that says that there is not enough "contiguous space to optimize: database."
How on earth do I create more contiguous space?
I went looking for programs I can jettison and only came up with two small games.
What I have doesn't seem like that much: Office, firefox, indesign, acrobat...that's about it for what I've added myself.
I'm running an eMac (700MHz), powerpc G4 with 1gb and OS 10.4.3
Any suggestions for what I should do to clean this puppy up?