"Ever since Apple released the iPod more than a year ago, fans have wanted the portable music player to do more than just play digital music.
"The long wish list of features includes using it as a universal remote and as a portable hard drive to store digital photos or movies when a camera's memory card fills up.
"However, there's been no way to do these things. Although the iPod has the hardware necessary--it's built like a PDA with a whopping hard drive--the software is a closed system, with no documentation or tools to help developers turn it into something else.
"That is, until now..."
