Having bricked my router trying to use unofficial firmware, i was nervous about trying it on my iAudio x5 (the sucessor to my fondly remembered but increasingly unstable Iriver h-140,) however I decided to be brave, and I’m having a lot of fun.
There is a group who have developed a firmware called Rockbox, which runs on many popular MP3 Players including (shudder) iPods. I was looking for a way to tweak some extra settings, maybe change the theme of the playerm but rockbox does so much more. I’ve just been playing Doom (I’ve arrived – they’ve ported Doom to my mp3 player!) and sudoku (much more my style) as well as solitaire and looking at the various effects.
I like my music to be organised the way I like it, rather than using the database functions in iPods and other players. I know what I want to have where. However, the Rockbox will build an index of all of the files which I have on the drive and let me access that database, as an alternative to the folder system I have. It may not be used often but I’m glad it’s there!
So far it’s won’t play back videos like the original firmware will, but I may not have installed the right plugins and i don’t really care about video on a screen that size. If I want to watch video I’ll use my phone.
These are the ugliest thing i have found on the internet, available from 
I’ve been a big fan of Doctor Who for as long as i can remember. It’s part of my DNA as a British sci-fi fan. I was watchiung the Doctor Who Confidential episode after the most recent episode (a barnstormer by the way, where the Doctor barely appears) and they were talking to people involved with the show about who their first Doctor was.