It’s a fact that nothing lasts forever. Be it human, any gadget (apart from nokia handsets from the late 90s) or animal. Eventually, it all stops working. With regards to this, your precious Ipod will just become an expensive paperweight once it stops working, right?

The smallest damage to any component of an Ipod like its hard disk, the screen or on newer models, the flash memory, can result in a dead Ipod. Despite this, a dead Ipod can still turn out to have its uses. Even with screen damage, your Ipod is still not useless.

The best part about an Ipod is that, it can serve as a portable file container, no matter if the screen is working absolutely fine or not. Even if your Ipod screen has been destroyed so badly that you cannot interact with your applications, you can still use the Ipod to store files. To do that, when your Ipod is connected; check out “Enable Disk Use” in the Summary window in iTunes. Don’t you think that its functionality is quite similar to a hard drive? So now, there is no need to be quite as upset if your screen has been damaged or broken. Make the most out of even a dead Ipod.

Another of the common problems people tend to face with an Ipod is with the battery. Rechargeable batteries only have a limited life, one which is far shorter than the device it powers. Having said that, even with a dead battery, there is lot more you can try out with your Ipod. If the battery of your Ipod is dead, you can still connect it to your computer and play music from your very own favorite collection.

The third problem though is that with the constant hardware revisions that Apple bring out, even if your ipod is deader than a dead parrot, you’ll never actually feel that bad about replacing it as the newer models always offer more features. Crafty old Apple!