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Des Moines, Iowa, residents may have one less place to flaunt their iPods and musical tastes now that the downtown bar, the Lift, has been told by Apple to stop calling its popular weekly social event "iPod Monday." iPod Monday gives bar patrons the opportunity to share their musical tastes through the songs on their iPods.

When it comes to clothes, some people would rather keel over and die that go without a favorite sweatshirt or baseball hat. For the gadget-lover, it`s no different. You can see those famous white iPod headphones in the ears of music fans just about anywhere you travel. But one lawmaker has had just about enough of the gadget-loving masses. He wants pedestrians to stop plugging in and to start ...

iPod connectivity is becoming de rigeur in new vehicles across multiple automobile markets and territories.

While there`s no shortage of ready-made options for connecting your iPod to your car stereo, if you want a truly integrated look you``ve really got to get your hands dirty and rip into your vehicle`s factory parts.

Is good, compact sound important enough to you that you`d buy an iPod sound system that looks like a totally freaky space monster? From Crave, CNET`s gadgets blog.

Sure, you love your iPod, but we`ll bet you wish there was a way you could replace that sleek, white case with a big, clunky grayish-white blob straight out of 1989. We hear ya.

Kathy O`Connor remembers being stunned when one of the students in her intermediate Spanish class told her just how much she listened to her language lab CDs after they were put on an iPod. The Tidewater Community College student listened to and repeated Spanish "vocabulario" and comprehension exercises when she cleaned her home, waited in the doctor`s office and while her husband watched sports.