New iPod Software 1.1 with Contacts

is available for download.

"New iPod Software 1.1 adds a Contacts menu to store your address book and a new Equalizer with more than 20 presets and independent settings for each song. 20 EQ Presets Your iPod’s hard drive now holds more than just music: with the new Contacts feature, iPod lets you view names and addresses downloaded from programs like Entourage, Palm Desktop, and the Mac OS X Address Book."

"You can also store your presentations, pictures, documents, and even entire digital movies on your iPod, then carry them across town or across the country in your pocket."

"20 EQ Presets Your music will now sound even better on iPod. A high-output amplifier provides CD-quality sound with an extremely wide dynamic range. And you can customize your listening experience with more than 20 equalizer presets that you can assign through iTunes or on your iPod itself. The result is deep, pulse-pounding bass and sharp, crystal-clear highs."

This is fabulous! We have been fooling with it but can not, so far, figure how to export contacts in .vcf format from Entourage for X or X's Address Book. [Update: Doug Reith-Hart pointed out that if you drag and drop a contact from Apple's Address Book it turns into a vcf file. It works the same for contacts in Entourage for X. So we selected all of our contacts in Entourage and dragged and dropped them into the Contacts folder on our iPod.]

[Update] iTunes 2.0.4 is available for download for both OS X and 9. It was not available by the Software Update preference (or control) panel as of 11:55 p.m. ET. "iTunes 2.0.4 adds expanded AppleScript support, and improved stability and performance."