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This engadget article is a bit dated in Internet time, but it’s the first I’ve seen it and that may be the case for many of you too.  Still cool nonetheless…

You know how everyone has been saying that the iPod touch is the iPhone minus the phone? Well it would seem that it’s very true. Many sites have been pointing towards the fact that they may even run the same binaries.

It looks like hacking the iPod touch may be a quick one. If it’s true, it will let iPhone and iPod touch use the same software and wouldn’t that be nice? It would also let iPod touch owners get the mail app that Apple forgot to put in. We will only know on the 27th.

The goal of Mobile RSS is to create a native RSS application for managing your RSS feeds on your iPhone.

“Sick of having to keep RSS feeds as bookmarks on the iPhone? Don’t like having to browse to a website to check your feeds? Ever wanted a native RSS reader on the iPhone?”

“Well this project is here to fix all of that.”

“The goal of Mobile-RSS is to create a native iPhone application which will remember all your feeds and give you an easy interface for viewing, adding, and removing. ”

Although the iPhone isn’t our realm, the Touch is.

To go with the launch of all those pretty new iPods comes iTunes 7.4.  People seem to be quite excited about the new ringtone feature to go with their iPhones:

“With iTunes 7.4, sync your favorite music and more with the new iPod nano (third generation), iPod classic, and iPod touch, plus create custom ringtones exclusively for iPhone with many of your favorite songs purchased from the iTunes Store. You can now also play purchased videos with closed captioning (when available), easily rate your favorite albums from one to five stars, and watch videos at a larger size inside the iTunes window.”

For the rest of us with just iPods we’ll just have to pretend this excites us.

Three new versions of iPod’s have rolled onto the market today, including a new iPod Classic, iPod Nano and the all new iPod Touch.

The iPod Classic has seen a size increase, of up to 160GB. Other than that, I dunno, who cares, the classic was always too big in my opinion.

The iPod Nano, arguably the most popular, until now perhaps, has seen some dramatic upgrades. We have smaller, different colored, new UI with Cover Flow and capable of video playback.

And for the cream of the crop we have the all new iPod Touch!

This is the one we’ve all been waiting for, sporting WiFi, landscape mode…. to save time, it’s an iPhone without the phone capabilities. The down side, it doesn’t ship until later this month.

This is big time stuff, no doubt Apple will see a huge boost this quarter.

Floola 2.0 was released a few days ago, which is great. For anyone not familiar:

“Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). It’s a standalone application that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows (Windows Vista is supported).”