Tip of the Day

Here's some advice for free: Say, just hypothetically, that you're walking down the street, trying to turn your iPod off and it won't so one of your steps in fixing it is to reset all the settings. And let's further say hypothetically that you're checking street numbers to find the right house and you're walking and everything so when the iPod asks you what language you want, well, here's my advice: Stop walking and concentrate on that particular step.

See, if you don't, you might hypothetically hit "Chinese" instead, and instantly all the many control options on your iPod would be in Chinese. And hypothetically, you might happen not to read Chinese, and you'd walk into a house full of dear old friends having a party and catching up with each other, and you might find your iPod predicament so crazy-making that you spend ten minutes silently on the couch, pressing each control, hoping that when the list of languages to choose comes up, the names of the languages won't all be in Chinese. Hypothetically speaking, one of your friends might look at you as you frowningly punch your iPod's Chinese controls one after the other and she might suddenly cry, "His toy is broken!" and laugh.

You would probably discover the language choosey screen eventually. But it's best to be careful during the reset process and avoid that whole situation. That's my advice for today.