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When Apple introduced the iPod Nano, the Mini was cut from the product line up. With the slim Nano came a flash based, color screened player with better battery life. Nanos flew off the shelf, and the Mini was a “has been.”

However, the Mini is having a second surge of popuarity. Devotees like the colored player, even if it has a black and white screen. Also the 6 GB Mini has 50% more capacity than the larger Nano.

What is Jobs to do? Look at the trend and build accordingly. I wouldn’t be surprised to see an 8 GB player available in colors to be introduced soon. Not everyone wants to step up to the 30 GB iPod.

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Update: I found this hack that uses a Seagate 8 GB MicroDrive to upgrade an iPod Mini.

There is now a solution for ipod mini-users. Seagate Technology has just released a large compact-flash type II+ hard drive called the CompactFlash Photo Hard Drive. Just as many once purchased a mini in order to remove the hard drive for digital photo applications, now you can buy a photo drive and use it to expand your mini’s storage. This works because the drive is formatted to the same ‘Fat 32′ standard that digital cameras and iPod minis use. Of course, you will have to tear open your ipod mini, much the way you would to replace the battery, but once you are in there, its simply a matter of unwrapping some tape and delicately removing a connector to the Hitachi 4GB drive, and replacing it with the Seagate 8GB Photo Hard Drive.

CNN is looking at the “10 Best Web Moments.”

These are Spark’s picks as the top 10 moments in the World Wide Web’s short but impressive life. Vote for the one you think is the most significant:

10. WiFi hotspots — wireless Internet connectivity appears in airports, hotels and even McDonald’s.

9. Webcams and photo sharing — communication becomes visual, and inboxes fill with baby photos.

8. Skype — telephony turns upside down with free long-distance calls, Ebay snaps it up in September 2005 for $2.6 billion.

7. Live 8 on AOL — five million people watch poverty awareness concerts online in July 2005, setting a new Net record.

6. Napster goes offline — Regulators close the pioneering music swap site in July 2001 and file-sharing goes offshore.

5. Lewinsky scandal — Matt Drudge breaks the Clinton/Lewinsky sex scandal in 1998. The blog is born.

4. Tsunami and 9/11 — two tragic events set the Web alight with opinion and amateur video.

3. Boom and bust — trillions of dollars were made and lost as the dotcom bubble ballooned and burst between 1995 and 2001.

2. Hotmail — went from having zero users in 1995 to 30 million subscribers 30 months later. It now has 215 million users.

1. Google — redefined search. Invented a new advertising model and commands a vast business empire.

I’m not sure I really think of Hotmail, or Google as a moment, but count me in for Google. The online search engine brought order to the 5 billion web pages out there- and growing. I would have put down Napster for online, rather than when it was shut down. At the very least, Napster showed the power of peer-to-peer networking for information exchange. You can vote for your favorite too!