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We all enjoy sharing our favourite music, photos and even videos with our friends and relatives, but until now there hasn’t been an easy way to transfer digital files between Apple iPods without using a computer as well. This clever little gadget changes that. You simply plug an iPod into either side of the miShare (there are no leads required), press its one and only button, and the last song or video to have been played will be copied from one device to the other. A more prolonged press of the button selects multiple files, or you can set up an entire folder of photos to be swapped with one brief push. Each song should be transferred between iPods in about 10 seconds, while video clips can take a minute or longer, depending on their length. However, the miShare isn’t clever enough to disable the digital copy protection that’s found on certain songs and videos bought from online music stores such as iTunes. And if you want to back up entire libraries of tunes from your iPod to another computer, you’re probably going to be better off using specific software for the job, one good package being Music Rescue, which costs £10 from www.kennettnet.co.uk.