Brand New iPod Range Including iPod Touch!

06/09/07

Apple today announced the all new iPod nano, which now brings video playback, an enhanced user interface featuring Cover Flow, and an incredible new design to the world’s most popular music player. Featuring a larger two-inch display with 204 pixels per inch, the new iPod nano lets you watch your favorite movies, TV shows, and music videos in the same resolution available on the current video iPod. iPod nano comes with three enjoyable games (iQuiz, Vortex, and Klondike), and you can purchase and download other games from the iTunes Store. Encased in a beautiful new all-metal design, iPod nano comes in five new colors—silver, black, blue, green and a (PRODUCT) RED special edition. Available today, iPod nano comes in 4GB and 8GB models, selling for just $149 and $199, respectively. [Sep 05, 2007]
240 Songs. Remixed colors.

The new iPod shuffle, introduced today, comes in four new colors—including the new (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition iPod shuffle—and the original silver. Featuring 1GB of storage, iPod shuffle lets you wear up to 240 songs on your sleeve. Or belt. Or lapel. [Sep 05, 2007]
Introducing the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store

Starting today, you can enter the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store; wirelessly browse, search, preview, purchase, and download songs or albums to your iPhone or iPod touch; then immediately listen to your new music after it downloads. Once you get back to your Mac or PC, iTunes automatically recognizes the new music and syncs it with your existing library. iTunes will even complete the download of any partially downloaded songs or albums. [Sep 05, 2007]
Create your own custom ringtones in iTunes

Using the new built-in ringtone maker in iTunes, you’ll soon be able to create custom ringtones by selecting a segment, up to 30-seconds long, from any of the more than one million participating songs. After creating your new ringtone, and setting custom fade-in and fade-out points, you can easily sync it to iPhone. It costs just $.99 (in addition to the cost of a new song) to create a 30-second segment from iTunes. You can also create ringtones for $.99 from participating songs you’ve already purchased and downloaded into your iTunes library. Use your new custom ringtone as your iPhone’s default ringtone or assign it to a particular caller in your Address Book. [Sep 05, 2007]
Apple and Starbucks will let you wirelessly find and buy music

Thanks to an exclusive partnership between Apple and Starbucks, you can soon take a seat in a participating location and—using an iPod touch, iPhone, or Mac or PC running iTunes—wirelessly browse, search for, preview, purchase, and download music from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at Starbucks. No connection fee or login required—your computer, iPod touch or iPhone will automatically recognize the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store as soon as you enter a participating location. The new “Now Playing” service will even display the name of the song currently playing at the Starbucks you’re in. The iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at Starbucks makes its debut at 600 Starbucks-operated locations in New York and Seattle on October 2. [Sep 05, 2007]
New iPod classic puts up to 40,000 songs in your pocket

Providing 80GB or 160GB of storage, the new iPod classic lets you carry up to 40,000 songs or 200 hours of video—your entire collection of music, photos, video, podcasts, and games—wherever you go. In addition to the features you already enjoy, the new iPod classic delivers an enhanced user interface, featuring Cover Flow, and a new, thinner and all-metal enclosure. Available immediately worldwide in silver and black, iPod classic costs just $249 and $349 for the 80GB and 160GB models, respectively. [Sep 05, 2007]
Xsan offers Scientists Ideal Research Environment

The research scientists at Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society keep way ahead of the global warming curve. Thanks, that is, to the Xsan that hosts their data library. A powerful and freely accessible online tool, the data library lets researcher “view, manipulate, and download more than 400 climate-related data sets. At least 60,000 users from more than 120 countries use the library each year, and they can depend on Apple’s solution to help them quickly locate and download the data they need.” [Aug 31, 2007]
Dorna Sports: Fast Finish

At any track. At any time. In any country. If it’s MotoGP, Dorna’s got it wrapped. Based in Barcelona and Madrid, Dorna cuts “live footage for more than 40 networks across the globe.” Says Manel Arroyo, Dorna Managing Director, “We cut highlights for TV stations almost immediately after the race. Then we produce a DVD of the race within hours, and it’s available to the public within a few days.” Still racing to the finish line, they send video out to “moto.gp, a massive compendium of race videos, rider stats, news, and technical information” and, at the final turn, the high-speed production team at Dorna streams video “to mobile phones across the globe, giving hardcore fans a fix anytime, anywhere. It’s some of the most technically advanced sports coverage ever and the best of it is primed, cut and polished with Macs.” [Aug 31, 2007]
iPhoto ’08 Tip: Reference photos in Aperture Library

“iPhoto and Aperture work really well together,” reports Micah Walter in a recent Inside Aperture post. To take advantage of some of the “really cool and fun tools” that iPhoto offers (e.g., including Aperture photos in a .Mac web gallery or a calendar), you can simply drag Aperture photos into iPhoto. But iPhoto offers an even better option, letting you “reference” the photos in your Aperture library. By doing so, “if you make a change to an image in Aperture, you will see those changes in iPhoto.” Like to give it a try? [Aug 31, 2007]
“Best Phone. Ever.”