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New iPods are out. Apple brought back the colours from the iPod mini times. You can now get the new iPod nano in your favorite colour. The only down side is you can only get the coloured ones in the 4GB model ($229 CAN). The 2GB is silver only and is priced at $169 CAN. The nano is now available with 8Gb ($299 CAN) and it only comes in black. The 1GB nano has been discontinued.
The iPod shuffle has also been redesigned and is now only available in the 1GB model. Not sure how popular it will be with no built in USB connection. It does come with a dock. The price is $89 CAN.

The iPod Video has also been improved with better battery life and brighter screens. The price has also dropped to $299 CAN for the 30GB model and $399 CAN for the new 80GB model.

Click here to checkout the new iPods

Apple, Useless

In 2003 Metallica refused to put their songs in the iTunes store.  I guess they realized that iTunes has over 70% of the digital music market. They obviously made a huge mistake mistake. I think they probably learned the hard way…now available in the iTunes store, Metallica.

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That’s right Microsoft will attempt to compete with Apple’s iPod.  It’s hard to believe that Microsoft is tying to make a portable music device that will be cooler than the iPod.

To giver you an idea of how well Apple is doing with the iPod…..Since Apple has released the iPod in October of 2001 they’ve sold more than 50.8 million players.  In the US that’s about 77% of the market share.  Also, that Apple music store is used for 72% of music downloads.
According to the Taipei Times the digital player will have a wireless Internet connection, enabling users to download music without being linked to a computer, a feature the iPod doesn’t offer, according to people briefed on Microsoft’s plans.

I’m anxious to see what Microsoft will come up with? Hopefully their MP3 or should I say WMA player won’t be susceptible to viruses, spyware and blue screens of death like many of their other products.  That’s one more thing that I don’t want to have to worry about, what service pack my portable media player is at.

Apple, Gadgets, Technology, Useless

Apple is in the news again. Today Apple released the mini with an Intel chip.  The base model which houses a 1.5GHz Intel Core Solo processor starts at $699 CAN.  If you want something that will be a little faster then you are looking at the 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo model that starts at $949 CAN.  The Duo also comes with a 80GB hard drive (instead of 60GB) and a SuperDrive (instead of a Combo drive).  If I was buying one I would definately want the Duo with the SuperDrive.  On the other hand, the Mac mini doesn’t come with a monitor, keyboard or mouse (BYODKM - bring your own display, keyboard and mouse) which makes will add roughly another $450.  Once your all said and done, it’s probably better to just buy an iMac because it has a bigger processor, bigger hard drive and a better video card and it’s only $1499 CAN.

Either way, I would probably wait on this a little bit since they are very new.  Let Apple iron out the bugs and then get a new Intel Mac.

There are talks of a possible VoIP iPod…

Apple, Technology

Apple’s iTunes music store hit one billion songs sold last night.  The one billionth song that was downloaded from the iTunes music store was Coldplay’s “Speed of Sound” Alex Ostrovsky of West Bloomfield, Michigan was the lucky billionth customer.  You think it’s crazy that Apple sold a billion songs…you should see what they gave Alex for being the billionth person to buy a song.  He received a 20-inch iMac, Ten 60GB iPods (5 white/ 5 black) and a $10,000 iTunes music store gift card.  Apparently Apple will also be setting up a scholarship to the world-famous Juilliard School of Music in New York in Ostrovsky’s name. My question is what the hell is he going to do with Ten 60GB iPods?  I guess he will need them to store his $10,000 music collection.  That’s a good way to build up a “legal” music library. I wonder what happens if his computer crashes and he loses all that music?  Could he make an insurance claim?

Apple, Geek

If you’re lucky enough to own a Mac, welcome to the world of worms and viruses. A few viruses and worms have recently been discovered for the Mac platform.

Last week OSX/Leap-A was discovered.  The virus attemps to spread itself through Apple’s iChat instant messaging program which is also compatible with AOL’s popular AIM instant messaging program.

This week a new worm was discovered. Symantec is calling it OSX.Inqtana.A.  It spreads through a vulnerability in OSX’s bluetooth wireless connections.

So if you have a Mac and don’t have an antivirus program installed on it yet, now is probably a good time to do it. Now the Mac users will know what Windows users need to deal with everyday, the bottleneck of an antivirus program.

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