Charge your iPod via USB while using it

Maybe I'm a bit slow, but it took me a little while to learn the trick of charging your iPod via my USB port and listen to it at the same time. I usually don't need to charge it and listen at the same time and rarely do, but sometimes I forget to charge it up and find myself at work with an almost dead iPod.

Here are the steps that work for me:

1. Connect iPod to the PC.
   
2. Eject from iTunes (if you have iTunes installed)
   
3. Open Windows Explorer find your removable drive (iPod).
   
4. Right click the iPod drive and click Eject.
   
5. Wait a moment and the iPod menu should appear on your iPod.