I dunno. I haven’t figured that part out yet. I also noticed that the ear buds don’t fit my ears too well; but I have an extra set of buds from my CD player, so I can use those I s’pose.
I transferred the entire contents of one of my CD wallets onto the IPod (maybe 12 or 13 CDs), and used about 5% of the capacity. I can put every CD I own on it, I think!
I’ve always been a Windows guy. twitch
After some Googleing… it’s the Universal Dock adapter. Apparently if you have some sort of docking station (which I don’t have!) this little plastic thingy allows it to be size-adjusted to hold your nano. On it’s own, it doesn’t do anything at all.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300277
I like the ear buds. Maybe you just have weird ears 
I only have the 4GB version; my mom…um… Santa… bought one for my sister, my brother and me and buying 3 8GB iPods would likely have broken the bank. I’m actually in shock that mom…Santa… actually bought even these!
Santa’s motivation was clear, though… my mom now gets to take my brother’s old 1st generation Nano for herself!
Good point. Look, I truly was not trying to threadshit here, ok? And you missed the accent on Fabergé. 
The silicone skin is thin and doesn’t get in the way. I am not a user who carries it in the pocket. If it’s in a pocket, it’s clipped ON the pocket using the white clip I mentioned that allows it to mate to the transmitter. I clearly see the point for people who drop their iPods into their pockets and carry the unit more or less barenaked. For those folks, who handle the unitl and touch the inscription and/or SEE it on a daily basis, that is a very cool thing to be able to add to a unit.
It just ain’t my cuppa tea. 
When I first got a cell phone, I changed the “banner” on it to say “anna’s phone!” because I couldn’t think of a name for my phone. Most people don’t name their phones, I’m sure, but my best friend’s phone was named Eli Marx and I wanted to be as clever as her. I never thought of a better name, so it has stayed “anna’s phone!”- which especially useful now that my mother and I have identical phones.
So when I got my iPod, I had it engraved “anna’s iPod!” Simple, to the point, and happy, unless you’re the kind of person who doesn’t like exclamation points.
Now that my iPod hangs out in a little Belkin wallet thing, the engraving isn’t visible, but I know it’s there, and that’s good enough for me.