Watch Video On Your iPod

Watch Video on your iPod

So you got a brand new iPod and you’re ready to watch movies and shows as well as listen to music. You can either go to iTunes and pay $2 an episode or you can do it yourself for free.

For those of you with TiVo recordings, head over to tvharmony.com and download TVHarmony Autopilot which automatically transfers shows to your PC and also converts them to a playable format.

If you already have a video file on your computer and just need to convert it so it’s playable on your iPod just head over to pspvideo9.com and download PSP Video 9. Install the program and open it up. Go to the settings tab and choose “SP/320×240/29.9fps/768kbps Stereo/128kbps” from the pull down menu. For widescreen movies, change the resolution to 320×176. Click convert, then One-Click Transcode and you should be good to go. The final step is to drag the finished file to iTunes, click Videos, and drag it to your iPod. In your iPod, navigate to videos > movies. Enjoi!

As far as we know you can also watch your DVD’s on your iPod but the Digital Millennium Copyright Act says it’s “illegal” so we can’t tell you how to do it. Those of you who are tech savvy pirates should have no problems though. Good Luck.

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Auto GPS Under $200

Cheap GPS for your car!!

Parts you will need:

  • Laptop running Windows 98 or newer, 2GB of hard drive space, and a USB or serial port.
  • Garmin GPS18
  • Vector 70watt Pocket Power inverter

What to do:

  1. Plug in the Garmin, and install the drivers and nRoute and City Select map software. Take it outside and run the nRoute software to let it find satellites. Turn off the Wide Area Augmentation System to speed up the process.
  2. Mount the Garmin receiver in your car, parallel to the ground. The windshield mount works fine, but running it out a window to the roof will yield better reception.
  3. Familiarize yourself with the software interface and hotkeys. Enter a route. Drive.

Garmin GPS 18 USB ($130 Garmin.com)

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Top 11 Reasons Harry Potter Would Make A Lousy IT Pro

11. Pet owl would attack computer mice and leave deposits on keyboards
10. Wand might misfire at annual meeting, killing shareholders
9. Invisibility cloak would hide him from users, management
8. He’d keep slapping servers and yelling “Repairum Serviosa!”
7. He’d replace data-center door with portrait of password-hungry fat lady
6. Flaming cauldron would set off fire-suppression system
5. He’d behave too much like a manager, waving wand and expecting results
4. He’d write all his command-line interfaces in Latin
3. He’d keep trying to link PC’s via floo network
2. Server-room Quidditch. ‘Nuff said
1. Would you leave a whiny teenager with identity issues alone in your data center?

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