iPod has been a great invention. People have started loving it. You must be wondering why people love iPod? Some of them love the technology. Someone likes the ease of carrying it anywhere and finds pretty useful to ease out stress.

The iPod has been into the 5th generation and today we have iPods which have a capacity of 30 GB. Apple was the pioneer of IPod revolution. IPods are small, easy to fit in your pockets and offers very good sound quality. In spite of its onboard hard drive, it is lighter than our iPhone.

It appears that the Grand Unilateral Conspiracy to Commit Piracy(tm) (GUTCCP) has been a flop. According to Scott, the number of iTunes sales has surpassed 5 billion songs. We all know that iPods are actually storehouse of pirated material.

Apple is always under pressure because of the media prices and rise per-sale revenue. It appears that the current pricing model is a good success. We would like you to all post your comments. Also put your views on the piracy problem the industry is facing.

Until now people knew only one thing that App Stores will be launched soon. But the company has by mistakenly put out the launching date as June 27th on their Australian iPod touch page. Before this, there was no specific launch date ever mentioned by any one.

The company wanted to keep it a surprise but due to some lapse has let the date of launch become public. The post on the Australian website said that the 2.0 firmware and the app Store for both touch iPod as well as touch iPhone will be available from June 27th.

The Kansas University famous for performing arts has struck a deal with Apple and will give away free cards for downloading of free itunes. The cards will be distributed free of cost and will help you download 20 free songs for your Apple iPod. The 20 songs can be selected from the songs sung by performers at Lied Center during the 2008-09 season.

50,000 such cards will be distributed among the people of Mid-West U.S. These cards will help the Center to attract new customers as well as give some free songs to the old and existing patrons.

NSBasic of Canada has come up with a development kit based on BASIC language for creating tools for handhelds. This is especially good news in light of the new that by early July this year, iPhone and iPod should get the StyleTap CrossPlatform, which is a Palm emulator. This means that the iPhone will be able to run many applications that were earlier only accessible through Palm software.  

The simple and easy to use tools will allow developers to write applications in BASIC, which can be run on StyleTap. However, according to NSBasic, they have not developed this for iPhone or iPod. 

Leading manufacturer of peripherals for iPod, Griffin, has come up with a new product called the PowerDock which is a charging platform for charging multiple iPhone or iPods. This is ideal for families or individuals that own more than one iPods or iPhones.

The PowerDock is available in models that can charge two iPods or iPhones at a time or four at a time. The two- dock model will probably sell for $49.99 and the four dock model will be priced at $69.99. However, the prices and release date have not been confirmed.

There is an air around the beta release of SDK 6 and 10.5.3 that has a feeling to mystery about it. The release of 10.50.3 firmware promises to have something remarkable as it has been mandatory if you want to upgrade to this new beta release of SDK 6.

There are many guesses surrounding this whole release mystery. Some of them insinuate that it may have to do with AppStore support or perhaps the iNewton. Some people are wishing that the connection between Beta 6 SDK and 10.5.3 has something to do with improving Keynotemas. However, everything is just guesswork and things will be revealed only later!

Many people may have been upset with the news of Google – Address Book syncing being enabled with iPhone and iPod. However, all you people who are feeling low because of this news can now rejoice! There is a way out that does not require any syncing to iPod or iPhone - editing .plist files.

The .plist files are present with Address Book.app and are created when any iPhone or iPod is synced first. So all you need to do is sync one such device one time only so that the .plist entry is created. However, some people say that if a device is synced two times or more, the entry value may change. So just be careful while using this hack!