Though I have only read reviews and played with a couple of them, I have to say they did a damn good job of showing the top 10 MP3 players. It missed a couple of fan favourite players (such as the Sandisk Clip and Creative Stone), but it did include the ZEN, Zen V Plus, 3rd gen Nano, iPod Touch, Clix Gen 2, Sansa Connect, P2, Zune 8, Sansa View and Sansa E280. If you are looking for an MP3 player, it is definitely worth a glance.

For the article, click over to PC World.

One of the biggest let downs for Apple fan boys world wide was the lack of SDK with the original release of the iPhone. Apple are trying to make things right with the official announcement of the upcoming SDK and version 2.0 of the iPhone firmware. Doesn’t it sound to good to be true?
Ok, instead of writing about the people who are already announced programs for the iPhone and Touch (Salesforce and Will Wright’s Spore), or the new additions that Apple are adding to the new firmware (Exchange support for the corporate user), lets think of ways Apple will turn this against the user.
Apple have this fantastic way of making people pay for everything. If you didn’t know, Apple were the people who started removing the power adapter from the iPods, that caused most other companies to adopt the habit. Now they are releasing a SDK, but you will have to buy new software through the iTunes store. Not just a video, sound and game distribution platform any more.
That isn’t all either. To publish an application you have to pay Apple a fee of $US99, and 30% of sales. It means that if you were planning to make open source software with the SDK, you better think again.
What other evils are Apple planning with this software package? Other then the licensing of ActiveSync for the corporate world (which is utter crap), they have hinted about unlocked phones losing access to the store. This will also include any hacked devices, that are quite happily enjoying free software addons already.
Apple have taken the ability to modify a potentially great device, taking away the ability for consumers to crack it open and change the way the device is used, and turned it into a money making machine for large companies to overcharge people for software that should have come standard with the device in the first place. You will be able to enjoy your Apple induced prison around June of this year.

For more info, click over to DailyTech.

It didn’t take to long to break open Apple’s 1.1.3 firmware, but seems that hackers already have. Jailbreak is now doable on your 1.1.3 iPod Touch or iPhone, with one problem. They haven’t released the info on how to do it. Apparently it is too complicated and they are working on making it easier for the average user. Expect it pretty soon, considering what the Jailbreak team have already accomplished.

For more info, jump over to PMPToday.

MacWorld was great this year for iPhone lovers, who have now been shown an up and coming version 1.1.3 firmware for the device. Apple also showed off a 16GB iPhone, which is a much nicer size then the current 8GB (where is the 32GB?).
Unfortunately if you are a iPod Touch owner, Apple have decided to screw you with a $20 fee for some add-on software. For your $US20 you get Mail, Weather, Stocks, Notes, and Maps. Nice but those apps already come for free with your iPhone for free. Who would have thought that the $US400 you spent on your device wasn’t enough to justify some little applications.
In the case of both devices, you can expect hackers to take them apart and bring them back together with those features and more. For that it will cost you nothing (except maybe a bricked device).