Moving on, should you, enterprising reader, want to backup all your iPhone data before jailbreaking said iPhone or something, read on.

Short version: Delete your iPhone backup then Sync. This will force iTunes to create a new backup.

Long version (meant for OS X but Windows users should be able to figure out the differences):

1. Open iTunes
2. Go to Preferences
3. Choose Devices
4. Select the iPhone you want to back up
5. Remove the iPhone backup (press the Delete Backup button)
6. Press OK and exit Preferences
7. Exit iTunes and disconnect your iPhone
8. Reconnect your iPhone and open iTunes if it doesn’t open automatically
9. Sync your iPhone

Thats it. You now have a fresh backup of your iPhone. Have fun.

Updated for iTunes 8!

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All in all, embedding my tumblog into WP was pretty easy. Here’s what I did:

1. Create a file called tumblr.css and put it somewhere.
2. Create a new Page in WordPress.
3. Switch to the code editor of the page and insert the following:

   <style type=”text/css”> @import url(http://www.pathtoyourtumblrcssfile.com/tumblr.css); </style> <script src=”http://pathtoyourtumblog.com/js” type=”text/javascript”></script>

   Make sure you edit the paths in the code snippet before publishing.

4. Save the page
5. Edit the CSS to your liking.

That’s it. The trickiest part of the whole deal is editing the CSS. Tumblr doesn’t have documentation for the various classes you can use to style the js so you have to fly by the seat of your pants a bit. For convenience and the sake of having this written down somewhere, here are all the classes used:

tumblr_body
tumblr_description
tumblr_post
tumblr_quote_post
tumblr_quote
tumblr_open_quote
tumblr_close_quote
tumblr_source
tumblr_photo_post
tumblr_photo
tumblr_caption
tumblr_link_post
tumblr_link
tumblr_chat_post
tumblr_label
tumblr_text_post
tumblr_title
tumblr_body
tumblr_video_post
tumblr_video
tumblr_audio_post

If you’d like a css file to get you started, here’s a modified version of the one I use: http://usefultreats.googlepages.com/tumblr.css

No small wonder that I found myself searching for new earbuds for my iPhone. Though there are a ton of headphones out there with every option known to man, the challenge with the iPhone is the all powerful clicker. True there is the recessed jack to be dealt with too but there are extenders for that. After a rigorous search, I settled on the V-Moda Vibe Duo‘s. They’ve gotten great reviews, aren’t steal-me-white, and have the clicker. When my dad came to visit, I talked him into buying me a pair of the $100 beauties.

The begging heartfelt request was well worth it. True to all the reviews, the Vibe Duo’s are great. No, I don’t use the term lightly, in fact I might call them wonderful. Fabulous. Exemplary. Almost any other superlative I can bestow upon these sound delivering lovlies, I will. Mind you I have owned the much lauded Shure E2C’s and found them…well lets just say not the best, given that the damn things wouldn’t stay in my ears, no matter what little plastic tip I put on them. My Vibe Duo’s are a dream to say the least.  They fit my ears, they have great sound quality, and they have the clicker. Unfortunately, they are not flawless.

See that picture up there? If you can’t see the picture, the Vibe Duo’s are displayed, with the great fabric cord and the stylish metal band surrounding the bud. Ah yes, the stylish metal band. The metal band that can’t help but touch the skin on my ear. The metal band that occasionally delivers a nice little shock when it touches the skin on my ear. No, I am not kidding, these earbuds deliver a little electric charge from time to time. I’m not sure where the voltage (?) comes from, if its from the earphones themselves or if its just static electricity discharge. Whatever it is, the zaps range from a small annoying sound to an actual shock. Not cool.

Last week the shocks got to be unbearable. I stopped using my Vibe Duo’s and switched back to using the inferior headphones that came with my iPhone. I wrote to V-Moda about the problem and haven’t heard anything after 5 business days. Yesterday I got pretty fed up with the default headphones and decided I was going to solve the problem with my Vibe Duo’s myself. I figured if I could cover up that metal band, my headphones would be usable again. The problem was finding something to cover up the band without resorting to tape. Ideally, the covering would not hold a charge (because what would be the point if it did), would be able to stay in place without adhesive, and finally would last a long time. After a bit, I realized I bought the solution to my problem with the headphones.

You know the multiple plastic earbud covers that come with any decent pair of earphones? The ones that are intended to make sure the buds fit properly in your ears? What do you do with the left over ones that don’t fit into your ear? Normally you toss them or tuck them away somewhere never to be found again. In this case, you use them to make your otherwise fabulous earphones stop shocking you every 30 seconds.

I didn’t take pictures while I did the following so you’re going to have to use your imagination.

1. Find a set of the clear budcovers you don’t use because they don’t fit your ears and are just taking up space.
2. Carefully cut the inner ring out of the bud covers so that its separated from the part thats supposed to fit into your ear. Use an exacto knife if you’re one of those pretty princesses that must have everything look perfect.
3. Take the inner ring you just cut away and stretch it using brute force and sheer will so that it fits around the metal band on the earbuds. This will not be easy. Don’t give up hope. You can do it.
4. Be satisfied that you conquered the inner ring and have “fixed” your earbuds while waiting for the company that sold you those earbuds to finish ignoring you.

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