How To Unfreeze an iPod

The iPod by Apple has grown to become one of the most popular music/video players in history. Almost every person has one or at least knows of a person with an iPod. If you own an iPod you may notice that the device occasionally freezes and stops working. If this ever happens to you, don't worry - it is quite common. We will provide you with one method on how to properly unfreeze your frozen iPod. One of the most popular and effective ways to unfreeze your iPod is to hold down the middle and top button for about 10 seconds. This should help unfreeze the device. In some cases you may notice that the common steps to unfreeze the iPod are not working and in this case you may want to visit your local electronics store, the store you purchased the iPod from, your local Apple retailer or contact Apple support directly. Hopefully you never have to go through this but if you do - you are now partially prepared.




SOLUTION - HOLD THE CENTER BUTTON AND THE TOP BUTTON (MENU) DOWN FOR ABOUT TEN SECONDS.

Lucky Day 7.7.07

Today is considered a very lucky day by some. It's the almost numerically perfect 7-7-07! As the day falls on a Saturday, many couples have chosen to get married today to add some extra luck. According to Vegas.com, hotel reservations have spiked in Las Vegas six times greater than those for the previous weekend.

Due to release on this lucky day today, is what I think looks like a pretty cool gadget. It's called a wildcharger. It is a wireless charging device for all your gadgets including cell phones and iPods. You simply plug in an adapter on your devices and lay them on the pad to juice up. It looks fairly simple and clutter free, and the best part is the price is rumored to be under $50!

Most Searched keywords

If you go to Google.com/trends you will see a list of the most searched terms for the present day. Here's the list that is showing for today, July 7, 2007:

1. hank kuehne
2. kenna
3. god tv
4. swimfan
5. karen duffy
6. iron carbonate
7. the carpetbaggers
8. kt tunstall
9. the call nashville
10. hank juehne venus williams

I have to admit, I know very little about any of the above topics. Maybe I'll do some searching to find out more about them!

$4.95 Sale Extended!

Due to the overwhelming response from our Fourth of July sale, we have decided to extend our biggest sale ever for one more week! This sale offers our normally-priced $7.95/month Business Pro hosting package for the extremely low price of $4.95/month. This discount is available only on our 12-month and 24-month plans. Hosting accounts will renew at regular rates.

We extended it for only one week, expiring July 13th at Noon (PDT).

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4th of July Fun Facts

30 places have "Liberty" in their name. Example: Liberty, Missouri (Population: 26,232)
5 places have "America" in their name. Example: American Fork, Utah (Population: 24,941)
1 place with "Patriot" in their name: Patriot, Indiana (Population: 202)

More than 66 million Americans will participate in a Barbecue at least once during the year. No matter where you are:

• There's a 1 in 6 chance the beef for your burgers came from Texas
• There's a 1 in 4 chance your hot dogs and ribs came from Iowa
• The chicken most likely came from Georgia, Arkansas, Alabama, North Carolina or Mississippi.
• Lettuce was most likely from California.
• Tomatoes are probably from Florida or California.
• There's a 1 in 3 chance your baked beans are probably from North Dakota.

$128.8 million is the value of fireworks that are imported from China (based on 2002 Census info).

$4.95/month is the price of hosting from iPowerWeb to celebrate the 4th of July!

Have a great fourth of July tomorrow! We're open 24hours a day, 365 days a year to make sure we're available for any of your hosting needs.

How to fix a stuck pixel on LCD Monitor

WikiHow has a how-to guide to just about everything. This guide I found particularly interesting. I don't currently have a stuck pixel, but if I ever get one I'll know exactly where to go to find out what to do. The first method they list to fix a stuck pixel is called the Pressure Method. My luck using this method is that I'd break more pixels trying to fix the first one:

1. Turn off your computer's monitor.
2. Get yourself a damp washcloth, so that you don't scratch your screen.
3. Take a household pen, pencil, screwdriver, or some other sort of instrument with a focused, but relatively dull, point. A very good tool would be a stylus.
4. Fold the washcloth to make sure you don't accidentally puncture it and scratch the screen.
5. Apply pressure through the folded washcloth with the instrument to exactly where the stuck pixel is. Try not to put pressure anywhere else, as this may make more stuck pixels.
6. While applying pressure, turn on your computer and screen.
7. Remove pressure and the stuck pixel should be gone. This works as the liquid in the liquid crystal has not spread into each little pixel. This liquid is used with the backlight on your monitor, allowing different amounts of light through, which creates the different colors.

The second method is the Tapping Method. This seems a bit safer than Pressure method, but still is risky in that you could cause more pixels to break.

1. Turn on the computer and LCD screen.
2. Display a black image, which will show the stuck pixel very clearly against the background. (It is very important that you are showing a black image and not just a blank signal, as you need the backlighting of the LCD to be illuminating the back of the panel).
3. Find a pen with a rounded end. A Sharpie marker should be fine for this.
4. Use the rounded end of the pen to gently tap where the stuck pixel is - not too hard to start with, just enough to see a quick white glow under the point of contact. If you didn't see a white glow, then you didn't tap hard enough, so use just slightly more pressure this time.
5. Start tapping gently. Increase the pressure on the taps gradually for 5-10 taps until the pixel rights itself.
6. Display a white image (an empty text document is good for this) to verify that you haven't accidentally caused more damage than you fixed.

And finally there's the software method which should probably be your first choice and if that fails try the other 2 methods.

1. Try running pixel fixing software (see external links). Stuck pixels can often be re-energised by rapidly turning them on and off.

A note of caution: These instructions will fix "stuck" pixels, not "dead" ones. Dead pixels appear black while stuck pixels can be one constant color like red, blue or green.