Extract music from your iPod and other tricks

Wei-Meng Lee wrote up a
nice collection of fun tricks to help you make your iPod even more useful than it already is. The article includes the following five tricks:

• How to record internet radio
• YAPT (Yet Another Podcasting Tutorial)
• How to play music on your Mac from your iPod
• How to manipulate music files on your iPod
• How to extract music files from your iPod

The latter tip could be categorized in the 'fun trick' category, but it almost definitely falls into the 'dead useful' category, as well. It makes use of Broken Helix
(formerly Ollie's iPod Extractor), a small freeware application, to remove the 'invisible' flag on the iPod's music files so that you can manipulate them. Not nearly as quick as sucking down a track from your pal's
wireless iPod would be but hey, we work with what we've got.