Keep tangled phone cords organized – with style
I use my leather laptop bag every day to bring my laptop to work, and every day I put my phone charging cord in that bag nice and tidy… yet somehow it gets all tangled up by the time I arrive to work.
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I use my leather laptop bag every day to bring my laptop to work, and every day I put my phone charging cord in that bag nice and tidy… yet somehow it gets all tangled up by the time I arrive to work.
Question: I just lost my ipod that had a ton of songs on it. So now I have to buy those songs all over again and load them on my new ipod! Is there a way for me to backup these songs I’m buying, so that if my ipod goes belly up again then I won’t lose my music investment?
Answer: Wow, sorry to hear that you lost all those tunes – that can be really expensive!
iTunes does have a built-in backup feature, but it requires you to use a recordable CD for each album. You can access this feature by selecting the songs you want to back up, and then selecting the “File” – “Back Up To Disc” menu in iTunes.
That’ll convert your mp3 songs to audio format that you can play from a CD or DVD player, but you’ll burn through a LOT of discs for several gigs of music files that live on most ipods.
A more ideal solution would be to back up all of your ipod music to a single location on your computer, and preferably an external hard drive.
MediaPilot has a slick backup feature that lets you backup all of your ipod music to a single location on your hard drive. No recordable CDs or DVDs are needed with this approach either.

Here’s how it works.


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