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In perhaps the surest sign yet of Steve Jobs' rockstar status, Saturday Night Live had a "special report" this evening from an actor pretending to be Steve Jobs during SNL's Weekend Update. During the course of the sketch, Jobs announced that the iPod nano and iPod video are "both obsolete."

In their place he introduced the new iPod Micro, immediately discontinued it, and then introduced the iPod Pequeno, which was the size of a thumbnail and held one million songs. Jobs then immediately discontinued the Pequeno and introduced the iPod Invisa, which holds eight million songs, is invisible, and holds "every photograph ever taken." An iPod Garage exclusive hands-on review of the iPod Invisa is forthcoming. No word yet on Invisa-compatible peripherals.

UPDATE: a video clip of the Steve Jobs sketch can be viewed here. Additionally, one person who placed an online order for the iPod Invisa has received an email from Apple stating that it too has already been discontinued.

I purchased a copy of TextMate some time ago and absolutely love it - lots to learn in that app as well and it seems to be quite popular with the RoR crowd but as I look at my desktop while doing RoR related coding and I've got a slew of applications open at any one time, the browser, TextMate, a few terminal windows, NaviCat (which absolutely kicks database ass) but I just can't help but think that there might be an easier environment to work in.

I heard rumblings about ActiveState's new IDE for Ruby (amoung other languages) a few weeks ago called Komodo which looks promising but it's insanely expensive at $295 and I say that out of complete (ok I admit it) ignorance as I know very little at this point of it's capabilities. From what I can see, it looks highly polished and quite a bit better than some of the others that I've tried so far. By no means am I opposed to paying for quality tools, hell, it's where I earn my living so good tools make my life easier. It's just a mental shift paying for a significant amount for a development tool for a freely available open source programming language like Ruby on Rails. That aside, I definitely plan on checking it out and will report back what I discover.