Quick rundown:

+ New Shuffle
+ Color nanos (precious)
+ Movies
+ iTV (as it’s code-named) looks sweet
+ Better battery life for iPods in general
+ 80GB? Booyah! And it’s pretty cheap at $349
+ Games on the iPod

- Only 4GB nanos have colors. WTF?!
- Disney movies only so far (will soon add more, hopefully)
- iTV may only support iTunes purchased video (heard from a reliable source inside)
- You have to buy games? Oh rly?
- No turtleneck? What happened, Steve?

+/- Movies at 640×480 (Meh… better than 320×240 I guess)

Ok, and now for my real rant. I was so close to being free for the bonds of Fairplay. I was talking about other Mac-compatible players, planning on burning/ripping all my iTunes tracks to destroy the DRM, maybe even going Media Center in the house. But then they brought out those little color nanos, and the Apple fangirl inside of me gave a little gasp of joy, much like that of a hamster seeing a ferris wheel for the first time and thinking it’s the biggest hamster wheel in the world. Uh… yeah, just like that.

However, those dreams were crushed when I learned that only the 4GB nanos would have the colors. But… but… I wanted a 8GB pink nano, AND I WANT IT NOW!! *ahem* Sorry. I get a little hysterical thinking about it.

The final insult came when I installed iTunes 7.0 on my PC at work. I have iTunes on there so I can check the podcast to make sure it’s loading. After the lengthy downloading and installing process, I went into the program to check things out. I liked the new design, but my podcasts were acting funny. And by funny, I mean not loading. Then Explorer crashed. I tried again. Crash. Again. Crash. You get the picture. I gave up, and went to the BOL forums to get more impressions. Let’s just say that apparently the Windows XP version of iTunes enjoys not only crashing, but taking down the iPod with it. What the hell?

I’m installing iTunes now at home on the G5, so hopefully things will go a little smoother. If you want to hear my hysterics in audio form, check out the Buzz Out Loud and MP3 Insider podcasts for today. And if you’ve gotten this far into the post, let me know what you think about the annoucements.

References: News.com, Engadget (nice work Ryan and Paul!), MacRumors

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My ABC segment has finally come out, and I didn’t sound like too much of a dork. Which is good. Although, I really like how they transcribed me, re: Facebook:

“And it’s segmented by college so you’re not going to bump into people from other schools so you can collaborate on projects and find out who that cute boy in their math class is and it’s kind of a closed community.”

When you take a phrase out of a longer ramble, it doesn’t make as much sense. Apparently I also speak without punctuation. Hah!

From now on I will write the way I talk so that you can’t tell where one sentence ends and the other begins and then you will really get a feel for how I communicate to people on a day to day level and so that’s it I hope I do better next time but I’m much happier with the piece than I originally thought I would be so that’s pretty good I guess.

P.S. The new iMacs and Mac minis have come out today. Ryan and I tried to get to the Apple Store this morning to take pictures, but they had the audacity to not be open at 8:45 AM. Bastards!

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Ryan and I finally agreed on something regarding Macs: it’s so freaking annoying when you have a window minimized, and you’re tabbing through open applications with apple-tab, but when you get to the application that’s been minimized it doesn’t pull the window out of the dock and onto the screen. HELLO?! Does it not make sense that maybe I’d want to view the window? Is there no key combo or anything that will maximize a window from the dock, without having to click on it?

Please, prove me wrong.

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1. Break it in half with your hands (very easy to do) and use the glass viewing screen’s broken edge as a razorblade to slice the jugular when they are looking the other way.

2. Take off one sock (a dress or tube sock; pantyhose will work in a pinch), place the Nano in the sock, swing it around as fast as you can (being careful to not hit yourself), and whack the intended target right on the temple.

3. Take the reflective shiny part and catch the sun’s ray and shine it in a vehicle driver’s eyes, or if you are at a rock concert and the lead singer is prancing around on a center stage that protrudes into the audience like a phallus, you can use the same technique.

For five more suggestions, visit the article in McSweeney’s that I stole these from!

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