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Apple offer free recycling for old iPods and cellphones — Fill in your details, print out a postage-paid mailing slip, and send them in.

Steve Jobs publicly calls for the record companies to drop their requirement for DRM on online music sales: “Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. […] This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat.”

It’s interesting that this news has been released today, when there were (inaccurate) rumblings a month ago that there would be a Beatles iPod commercial during last night’s Superbowl. Makes you wonder if it was planned but pulled.

Wow. What a great move by Apple. Further domination of the iPod-only connector, plus it solves the “iPod batteries only last 4 hours when watching video, that’s too short for a long-haul flight” problem in one foul swoop.

$6 pouch that allows you to use your Nike iPod connector with any running shoe.

Steve Jobs: “I’ve seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times. It takes forever. By the time you’ve gone through all that, the girl’s got up and left! You’re much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you’re connected with about two feet of headphone cable.”. Subtle subtext: “iPods get you laid”

“The greatest trick Apple pulled was to build a market where lock-in is mandated, but convince the world that this was something they did reluctantly, at the behest of the villainous recording industry.”

Cabel reviews the Nike+ shoe+iPod combo. Sounds like the kind of thing that might get me moving, like the Sportbrain of olde.

OSX app which downloads YouTube flash videos, converts them to MPEG4, and loads them onto your iPod Video.

Looks like a splendidly well designed and smartly integrated piece of kit. Uses a small shoe sensor to count your steps, an iPod nano to track them and store the data, iTunes to sync it, and a Nike-run website to visualize it over time. If I were ever planning to get off my arse, this would probably convince me to drop $80 on Nike trainers.

Skins and wraps for game consoles and iPods. I’ve just decorated my DS Lite in the Baseball design, and it’s very fetching if I do say so myself.

Whacky sunglasses-with-embedded-video-screens for the video iPod. I got to try a pair on today, but since I took my glasses off, it just seemed out of focus.

The SoundDock has met its match, I fear.

Head of Real/Rhapsody opens mouth, shite dribbles out.

April 1st has come early this year, it seems.

Bad, wrong, and awesome.

Wikipedia download for iPods, built on top of iPodLinux. We’re not quite there yet, but I guarantee by the end of the year we’ll see some killer apps running on iPodLinux.

Pretty much spot-on.

Obviously, I’m not a neutral observer, but my immediate reaction is that it had better sound good, cause it looks like crap.

Wow, this is a nicely designed piece of kit. Given that Apple’s on “AV Connection Kit” costs the same, and is lacking a nice on-screen display for browsing your music collection, Griffin are going to sell a gajillion of these.