Haste Makes Waste

In life there are many lessons, many of which have given birth to age old cliches. One I recently revisited is “Haste Makes Waste”.

I use a Griffin iTrip with my first generation iPod mini. This weekend I was in rush and hastley removed (or more appropriately yanked/ripped) the iTrip from the mini and tore off part of the little connector set on the bottom. Let me assure you the iTrip needs those to work properly. Without them instead of music you get a horrible screetching sound from the radio.

Now what to do? I use my iPod a lot in the car. However, I own two, yes TWO, types of iPods; the iPod mini and iPod photo. I wondered if there was an FM transmitter that would work for both, BUT I couldn’t block the lighter outlet because I liked to use an iPod charger. Well these two requirements were making things a little tricky, but then I saw on Small Dog’s pricelist Griffin’s Auto iTrip. It works with 3rd Generation iPods, iPod minis, 4th Generation iPods, iPod photo/color, iPod nanos, and the iPod with video through the dock connector on the iPod, AND it has it’s own charger!

Wow. It looked like my prayers were answered but then I got to thinking about how I’d been just placing the iPod on the car seat. It has a tendency to slide around. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to have it level with the car dashboard, which would keep it out of view while looking out the windshield? Of course, I couldn’t use the lighter outlet because of the Auto iTrip so what were my options now?

That’s when I discovered the perfect iPod auto bundle. The Griffin Auto iTrip with Small Dog’s iPod vent mount with The Gripper in black!

Folks, this is truly a good deal. The iPod is within easy reach and view. You can charge and play the iPod with the same item. PLUS you can change the iTrip station very quickly with the up/down wheel on the iTrip LCD. No more scrolling about in the iPod!