The iPod Classic might have one foot in the grave, but it still lives. On your computer. A clever designer made this fully playable iPod for your browser. And it really works, just like your old mp3 player. How awesome is that?

All week the Internet has be forecasting the death of the iPod classic. Well, it looks the classic isn't going down without a fight.

The rumorazzi (yeah, I just made that word up) are predicting the demise of our favorite MP3 player. Well, if we haven't seen spy shots of the thing, then it must be on it's way out. Right?

The new iPod lineup has been announced—fresh and awesome new nanos, touches and shuffles—but nary a word about the iPod classic.

If you're even thinking about buying an Apple product, wait until after you've read this guide to product cycles and refreshes. It's not always a good time to buy—and now might be an especially bad one for some.

Are you trying to find a gift for one of those crazies who's always going on about the superiority of vinyl, or who dresses like a character on Mad Men? Here are some ideas for the retrophile in your life.

Toshiba has just squeezed 320GB of storage into their 1.8-inch 5400RPM line of SATA drives. (That's enough to double the storage of the iPod Classic.) Available this December for an undisclosed price. [Toshiba via I4U]

The iPod Classic just got bumped up to 160GB for the old price of $250. The Shuffles are now at $59 for 2GB, $79 for 4GB and come in black, silver, pink, green and blue. They're all shipping today. Updated

It's here: The official invite for Apple's September 9 annual iPod event. It kicks off at 10AM Pacific—that's 1PM Eastern—and we'll be there bringing it to you live, as always.

Great news if you are Karl Lagerfeld: The new Parasync iPod and iPhone dock—which is the size of a sheet of paper—will allow you to synchronize iTunes content with 20 (yes, twenty) Apple iDevices, as the video shows: