Have a nice iTrip

You may already know that the iTrip mini, a FM transmitter for the iPod, has been declared illegal in the UK. That's despite its meagre range, and despite the fact that you can pick one up from certain official Apple centres over here, er, allegedly. And on eBay of course.

Now thanks to a hot tip from all over the web, you can extend the range of your iTrip without doing lots of scary soldering stuff. All you do is remove the sticky seal on top of the unit (warning: this probably invalidates your warranty). By doing so, you will find a small aerial underneath which can be pushed upwards toward the sky as nature intended. Some sources have quoted a 20-30% increase in range, so now you've got a chance of saving the sanity of the driver in front by drowning out Chris Moyles. Maybe you even want to alert every copper in the area to the fact that you're running your own micro pirate station by doing this.