It has been some time since I blogged. Here is something I found very interesting recently. The iPod is one of the worlds hottest selling products. I like it too, except for 2 gripes...

• Battery life sucks
• You cannot transfer songs back from your iPod to your PC / Mac

Now all that is history. Welcome XPLAY2. This small and inexpensive software, once installed, shows your iPod as an explorer window, where you can drag and drop your playlists, songs et al between your PC and the iPod and vice versa.

The best part is transferring songs from your iPod back to your PC. This was not possible using iTunes. The reason it was not allowed with iTunes is the chance of large scale piracy. Though this was a logical reasoning, it stopped people from backing up their playlists on their iPod back to their PC in the case of their system or hard disk crashing.

The other good thing, is that it works with almost all Operating Systems(OS), like Win 98SE, Win ME, Win 2000 and WinXP. This I think is really good, because, not everyone who has an iPod has Win XP as their OS. I, for one still use Win 2000. The software is compatible with all variants of the iPod (See the picture).

Verdict : This software, I think is a boon to all those iPod users, who were frustrated with it being integrated so closely to iTunes. Now if only there was a software to increase the battery life of the iPod 4 times its present battery life.