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[ Gadget Bloggers] Among other things, iPod consumers surveyed complain that they’re made in Chinese sweatshops and that they are unreliable. (Estimates are between 5% and 15% of iPods fail within the first year.) Apple responds that their iPods would be more reliable if people weren’t dropping them all the time. Apple also suggests the following handy tips to keep your iPod working:

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

[Gizmodo.com] iPod Flea and Other Portable Media: iPod Stories : Gizmodo: Ignoring the irony of a solar-powered iPod charger sold by a band hailing from the land of perpetual gloom (also: bad weather), we feel this co-branding establishes a frightening precedent for slapdash, slap-on marketing that will take a product we like—and we do like the Solio just fine—and turn it into something we’d be a bit embarrassed to have around. Unless they make an Ashlee Simpson rechargable Ni-Cad battery system, which would be so great omg.

[Macnn.com] MacNN | Apple, Macintosh and iPod news: Knox 1.1 ($30) stores files in encrypted "vaults" and allows users to backup those vaults on Apple's iPod. Knox uses AES-128 encryption to protect data, and supports enabling or disabling Spotlight functionality on a per-vault basis.

[Tuaw.com] The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): I'm not talking about the Apple fanboys who can't resist the urge to bash Windows and blindly proclaim Apple's infallibility and perfect security track record (even though neither exist) on every blog post and forum thread they invade. I'm asking: what lengths or depths have you or a family member/friend gone to for that *one* gadget, or for the Mac you're reading this on now?

[Apple.qj.net] QJ.NET - Apple Blog - 24/7 Coverage of the Latest Apple News - QJ ...: If you've got an iSight camera for your Mac, you may be interested in trying the open source project, Gawker. It allows you to create time-lapse movies of whatever the camera is pointed at. You can even grab 'feeds' from other iSights on your network, using Apple's Bonjour networking. Combine various feeds to do a multi-view time lapse from two angles, etc. Seems like a fun thing to try - though I don't know how useful it is. I'll have to test it out and see. If you've tried it and have some thoughts, please share! Course if your iSight is built in - as it is with the new Intel Macs - we probably won't care to see time lapse of you coding or something. Check out the project website for some example movies - the one of ice melting is pretty cool actually.

[Arstechnica.com] Infinite Loop: iPod click of doom solved by intrepid owner: My roommate, who works at Apple, told an iPod engineer my story and he ... http://www.powerbookmedic.com/iPod-Parts--iPod-Repair-F...nuals-p-1-c-383.html ...