I don’t have an iPod. However, I do have iTunes. I love having my entire library at my fingertips. The only problem is that it is only as portable as my laptop. I can’t really hook up headphones and listen while I do the dishes.

So being a semi-geek, I decided to improvise with the tools at hand.

My laptop also contains Windows Media Encoder 9 (a free download last time I checked). So I set up my iTunes to stream out of my laptop via WME9.

The next step was to grab my WiFi enabled PDA with Windows Media Mobile, and dial up that stream. After plugging in some headphones, and putting it in my pocket, I can now pick up my iTunes stream anywhere in the house.

“Necessity” is the mother of invention. Geek-dom is the father.