Charge and listen to your Ipod at the same time

There is a very stupid trick which you can use to charge and listen to your ipod at the same time if you're connecting it to your computer via USB cable.

Just go to My Computer, right-click on the drive (whatever letter it was assigned by your comp) that says IPOD then click Eject. That's it! Now you'll be using your ipod in hard drive mode, much like a usb stick. This means it's still connected to your computer, which means it will keep charging, but not in "ipod mode" which means you can listen to your ipod while it charges.

Be careful not to confuse that Eject function with ejecting the USB device from the the "Safely Remove Hardware" function that will probably show up on your taskbar when you connect it to the USB port. If you eject the ipod from that screen then it won't charge because pretty much what it does is to turn off that usb port connection until something else is connected to it.

easy-peasy. just not very intuitive.