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I don’t know what it is about kids and iPods.  Sometimes I think I should expand my consulting practice to include the fixing, resetting, and yes, disposing of unusable iPods.  Seems my two boys have a knack for doing things to their iPods for which they just weren’t designed. 

Oh, you know: laundering them, leaving them outside in the rain, stepping on them, sitting on their chair on top of them.  And then, they wonder why they don’t work anymore.  Gee, how I wonder. 

One interesting aspect of this is an application Apple provides on there support site that let’s you completely reset an iPod.  It’s called, quite appropriately, the iPod Reset Utility:

So simplistic, yet so powerful.  Think of it as a mulligan for your iPod.  Imagine how nice it would be to have a "do-over" available; the ability to reset after some awful experience.  Let that be our thought for this New Year’s Day.  A fresh start; a proverbial reset button.