One for the Apple-ites!

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Back in the good old days (well, last week) I used to have a Windows
Mobile
based phone and a 160Gb iPod Classic which were hooked up to a powered USB
hub and all in the world was good ... I would come home at night, drop the
phone into its cradle and it would charge, drop the iPod into its cradle
and
it too would charge. Then if I turned on the PC (which was connected to the
powered USB hub) I could get to the files that were on either if I wanted
to...



...fast forward a week and harmony is broken. The iPod Classic has taken up
permanent residence in the car and has been replaced by an iPod Touch. The
Windows Mobile phone has been replaced by an iPhone in a  change of work
mobile phone contracts. Two spanking new iPod cradles are still connected
to
the powered USB hub and when the PC is on they both charge like good little
appliances but that's the thing - even though they're on a powered hub (and
connected using "proper" Apple iPod USB cables) they both seem to
need the
PC on to charge.



I have a plug in charger which works with either device but that then means
that if I want to charge either without having the PC on then I have to use
the powered charger and only charge one at a time - it all seems like far
too much planning required...



So the simple question is, do any of you Apple crowd know how to have two
iPod cradles permanently hooked up via USB so that they can talk to a
'puter
when required yet still "just charge" when docked (without having
to swap
over cables and plug in the mains charger or leave the PC on all the time)
or am I missing something obvious?



Phil



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