by: One who wishes he could remain anonymous but knows better, Associate Editor
(at least my wife doesn’t read this site)

Let’s say you happen to be passing near a household fixture that regularly holds water. Let’s further say your iPod Touch slips from your grasp. You hypothetically are lucky enough to catch it right as it hits the water. But it still gets a little on it. You quickly turn it off so no power is flowing while you dry it off. A while later you decide to see if you got lucky or not. You turn it on, everything works EXCEPT the headphone jack. Maybe a little drop got into the jack and has not fully dried. What to do?

You leave it in the standard household iPod Touch dehumidifier. Most American homes come with this fixture. Make sure the bottom is in the vent so the air can get into the jacks. A tip, don’t leave it on there too long when your warm air is flowing. It will make the touch pretty hot. Just a few minutes then let it cool and check it an hour later. If you are lucky like the hypothetical person in this post your headphone and all other functions work properly again.

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This writer is not responsible if you try this on your own hardware. Either as an experiment or if you are equally unlucky and then this trick fails to work for you.