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Filed under: iPod Family, iTunes

iPod Therapy: Bringing your backup failures into the open

We've all done it. We've taken our music for granted. We've skipped backups, misplaced our original CDs, or stored our music exclusively on a work computer--which inevitably gets upgraded and wiped by Intern Bob when we're not looking. My friend Allison wrote me the other day after her husband Scott suffered from the iPod perfect storm: laptop with his entire unbacked iTunes library at the shop for repairs, possibly to be returned wiped clean, and the "restore with iTunes" message on the iPod. Yikes.

This morning Dave Caolo and I were talking about these iPod backup failures--the business computer example comes from one of his stories--and wondering what kind of music failures our readers have experienced over the lives of their iPods. So we're opening up this post's comment thread as a form of iPod therapy. Come and share your iPod music tragedies with us.

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Ask the TUAW Readers: Best use for a Newton

TUAW reader Paul writes in to tell us he just picked up a used Messagepad 120 for under ten bucks. (Lucky guy!) It should arrive later this week. So, now what? As a proud new Newton owner, what are the best ways to use his new gadget?

Well, Paul, before throwing this out to our readership at large, let me suggest that you use the Newton for organizing your life, taking free-hand notes and for shooting off faxes. That's what I used the Newton for when I had one in my life. It was a fabulous (although bulky) companion for meetings and classes--kind of a over-powered and slightly-overlarge Palm Pilot. And that doesn't even begin to address "Newton Poetry", the surreal interpretations of the not-quite-accurate Newton handwriting interpreter.

Readers, what other suggestions do you have for Paul and his new toy? How can he best make use of the Messagepad?

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