Hybrid Fire

For me, the iTunes page on Apple.com is not working for the download, so I managed to get a link to it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?y2kzajg3oji

That’s right! All iPod Nanos get a built in camera and a speaker! Also it will feature a built in FM Radio and pedometer so you can sync it to Nike. Also it gets a bigger 2.2 in screen!

So the cheapest iPod Touch is $199 for 8GB followed by the $299 32GB, and finally the $399 64GB iPod Touch.

Ready to pay more for the same music? Good! We’ve just spotted some new “Deluxe Version” albums in iTunes, which apparently are part of the “iTunes LP” experience in the upcoming iTunes 9, if the album blurbs are to be believed. The albums pack in bonus material like art, videos and additional recordings. Sounds just like Cocktail to us, and we’re sure Apple will be explaining it all soon enough.

Update: It’s more or less official now, complete with a non-working “Download iTunes 9″ button and everything. Apple’s mainly touting the new interface for the store in this blurb, but we know it’s just a front for taking more of our hard-earned cash and putting it in the hands of starving musicians. The nerve.

New features mentioned:

• Improved store navigation, including persistent navigation menu.
• Full window iTunes store. For times when that sidebar is just too much.
• Previews from anywhere in the store — don’t have to drill down to preview.
• iTunes LP includes lyrics, liner notes, video, photos and “more.”
• iTunes Extras. It’s like DVD extras, but with iTunes. Not clear if it includes director’s commentaries, but let’s hope.

Update 2: It’s now official, and Apple has fleshed out some more functionality.

• Genius Mixes. It’s like Genius Playlists, but it plays forever like a radio station.

• App management, letting you set up and arrange your home screens on the iPhone and iPod touch. You can drag and drop to move certain apps or whole pages of apps.
  
• Home sharing enables file transfers between up to five local computers of songs, videos and even apps.
• You can send items in the iTunes Store as gifts, add them to a wishlist, and publish them to Facebook and Twitter — look who’s getting all social all of a sudden

iTunes 9 bringing iTunes LP functionality, ‘beautiful new look’.

And he’s at the event presenting! Damn, he looks skinny. And he has the liver of a 20 year old…interesting.

Today is Apple’s “It’s only rock and roll” event, so many websites will be doing live coverage of the event such as Engadget and Gizmodo.

Instead of going through every minute detail, I will be posting  everything significant in a single post that will set off your RSS feeds. Just keep tuned, it’ll begin in 30 minutes!

I haven’t done a review in a long time so I thought I’d start with this.

I got my Macbook Pro 15″ in late June 2009, so I was eligible for the $10 Snow Leopard upgrade. I ordered it the same day.

However, my friend ordered it 2 days before Snow Leopard shipped, yet somehow he received his copy of it on release day while I waited until 4 days later. That, my friends, is bull, but what can you do.

This Macbook Pro is my first Mac after being a long time PC user (like 10 years). I’m not sure how to go through this review so I decided to go on the Apple page for Snow Leopard and just go down the list.

But first, you have to know this: I upgraded from Leopard when I first got it and then after a few days, decided to clean install because I felt it would be faster if I clean installed, so I backed up what I could and have not migrated anything yet for the purposes of this review.

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