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Apparently iPods are like little siblings. All you have to do is smack them around in order to keep them in line.

I’ve been fairly lucky with my iPods over the years. The ugly rumor at the time was that most of the iPods back then died of faulty batteries right around their first birthday, but mine only succumbed never had a problem and only meet minor resistance to life when it was in the hands of my brother for a few hours one day. After sending it in to Apple to get looked at, I had it back within a week and haven’t had a problem with it since.

Until today, that is. As I was working on Hey, It’s Free! and jamming away this morning, my poor iPod suddenly started making a clicking noise that sounded pretty much like the Kiss of Death smooching away at my tiny hard drive. A few seconds later, the sad icon face showed up and it didn’t take long to realize that the help documents on Apple.com were about as helpful as my dog’s suggestion, which was to try and get it off my desk for a nice afternoon snack.

Thus enter Google and my expert searching skills and within minutes, I was jamming away again. That’s right, with just a few clicks, I found a cheap, easy, and totally useful method to fixing the iPod. What was it?

Spanking it. I shit you not, all I had to do was hold the iPod upside down in my hand, smack it’s ass a few times, and suddenly it worked again. The problem I was having was that iPod actually has a tiny hard drive in it that spins when you are using it (which boggles my mind when I see people exercising and running with one…if there ever was a recipe for breaking your iPod, it’s moving it around and shaking it constantly while the disk drive is spinning. It’s the same as if you hired a monkey just to sit by your home computer and shake it all day long as if he was trying to force as many bananas out of it as possible. It wouldn’t take too long for your computer to go kaput…) The hard drive is like a record player, as it has a tiny needle that reads the information and sometimes, the needle can get out of place and freeze up the entire hard drive.

So, you can either send it off to Apple or some third party and pay almost what it’d cost you to buy a new iPod…or, you can just smack it around a little for free.

Isn’t technology grand?