My iPod Engraving
Posted March 16th, 2003 @ 12:31am by Erik J. Barzeski
Steven of Panic talked about iPod engraving and I made the comment that mine was engraved, well, as you see to the right. I'd previously owned a 5 GB model (no engraving) and sold it for a fairly paltry sum to upgrade to the 20 GB model. 20 GB is a lot of music, so in order to prevent myself from ditching the 20 so easily to get the 60 (or whatever there may be, maybe?), I had it engraved with my name and a little humor. It narrows the list of potential eBay buyers down to those named "Erik."
It's surprisingly incredibly fun to drop by the Apple Store and engrave your own iPod. Just preview it, change it, preview again. Take screenshots of the funnier ones. I can't recall how many I tried out, but I remember trying things like "Thanks for all the cool ideas - Steve" and "Man, you make me feel like a woman! ~ Shania" and "This iPod contains only crappy music." Steven's post has a few good ones:
Property of RIAA - chiller
This end up. - JP
©2003 Microsoft Corp. - z0mbi
01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011 - August
Frankly, though, I'm surprised at how weak the entries are. Surely you people have some imagination! When iPhoto first came out, some friends and I were tempted to put the face of a certain Steve in some porn scenes and try to order 4x6 prints of the resulting Photoshopped JPEGs, but never got around to it. After all, it's all automated, so surely we'd just be wasting our $0.49. Right?
Anyway, maybe Britney really did give me an iPod…
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Posted 16 Mar 2003 at 12:43pm #
I had my 20 GB iPod engraved with my name and "Ecclesiastes 10:19".
To bad Apple's engraving preview now rejects strings with bad words. I really would have liked to see an iPod with "Bad Motherfucker" engraved on it. 🙂
Posted 24 Feb 2004 at 1:47am #
ipod engraving
the apple engraving game is the best game on the internet. lotsa people have cute engravings but no one has...
Posted 16 Mar 2004 at 6:56pm #
I stumbled across this spot while looking up ipod engraving .
I guess I'm one of the few who could take your ipod. Not many of us Erik with a K Eriks around.
Very funny
Posted 09 Dec 2005 at 9:34am #
I'm still unsure of my future incision on the iPod video model... but what about a classic yet always fashionable: "I Think different. And you?"
???
Posted 30 Sep 2006 at 10:47am #
"Turn Me Over And
Rub Your Thumb All Over Me"
It fits on a video iPod
Posted 03 Nov 2006 at 3:52pm #
how the hell did you get to preview engravings?
ive tried looking on the apple website and i cant find it anywhere :[
Posted 07 May 2007 at 5:06pm #
i would just get some witty quote that doesnt have ur name incase u wanna sell it.
❗ ❗ ❗
💡 💡
Posted 19 May 2007 at 1:39pm #
i left the band to play with myself
Posted 16 Jul 2007 at 1:24pm #
[quote comment="20760"]how the hell did you get to preview engravings?
ive tried looking on the apple website and i cant find it anywhere :[[/quote]
if you click the buy r order button for an ipod on the site, you just choose the ipod you want to 'engrave', then yu'll e able to try the engraving 🙂
Posted 15 Nov 2007 at 5:02pm #
This is a good quote that I love and have on my ipod...
"Some Days you gotta dance"
Posted 19 Aug 2008 at 4:58pm #
mine has...
if found: (my mobile number)
& don't you dare scratch me
Posted 01 May 2009 at 6:17am #
how about +turn me on +
Posted 17 Feb 2010 at 2:38pm #
I'd recommend not getting it engraved if you really don't have a reason to.
It reduces the resale value and if you ever need to get it serviced it'll take several week for Apple to return it. They don't repair the iPod but send a refurb off to be engraved with the old message.
Posted 19 Feb 2010 at 9:47pm #
here is one I thoght was cute...
if my iPod's rockin'
don't bother talkin'