iPod Touch scratched to buggery? A solution.

[Feek]

I had to return my original iPod Touch and get it replaced due to a fault with the on/off button and I'd already got wise to how badly the screen gets dirty so when I got the replacement I was very careful how I took it all out of the packaging and ensured that I left the skin tight plastic cover on the front.

All well and good.

The trouble was that the nice shiny back got scratched and grubby very quickly. I didn't realise how rubbish it looks until I left it face down on my desk at the weekend.

So I wondered about polishing it up but really didn't know what to use. Then it struck me. I have some Cape Cod metal polishing cloths that I bought a few years ago on eBay to polish up a metal watch bracelet which was badly scratched. A quick rub on the back of the Touch removed some of the scratches so I went on the lookout for a protector.

I found one that was cheap and looked as though it'd do the job at Geekanoids so I ordered one on Sunday.

It arrived today so it was out with the Cape Cod again and I spent ten minutes or so piling on the elbow grease to really polish the scratches out of the back of the Touch. When I'd done it looked like new so I applied the protector and apart from quite a lot of small air bubbles (have you any idea how hard it is to get these things on without bubbles?) it's worked an absolute treat and now both the front and back of my iPod Touch are nicely protected