It seems as if everywhere you turn these days someone is talking about getting rid of the middle man. It shouldn't be surprising, then, that someone has cooked up a gadget to ditching the middle man when it comes to moving music from CDs to the iPod. The middle man in this case is iTunes and a PC. The gadget is called the iLoad from Wingspan Investment Partners, of Wilmington, Del.

Ripping Tunes With the iLoad iPod CD Loader