Apple - To all iPhone customers. You’re getting $100 back. Also, you know apple is rolling in it when they can just dole out $50M in refunds.

Fiest’s video for “1234″ is in the new ipod commercial. it’s all happening. via ram.

Apple launches 3 new ipods: a nano with video, a bigger standard ipod, and the ipod touch. which is basically an iphone without a phone.

Aurora - Free iTunes and EyeTV Alarm Clock for Mac OS X. it’s really nice looking too. via ram.

Retro MacOS Theme for Wordpress. that’s pretty unreadable actually.

Facebook for iPhone. a very usable iphone page.

Netflix Community Blog: Instant watching on Mac, Firefox, and more. basically, mac and firefox support for Netflix’s “Watch it Now” won’t occur until 2008. boo.

Maniacal Rage: Strange layout on the new Apple Keyboards. that’s unfortunate.

new iLife

I think there’s a couple really cool features in iLife 08 which Apple just released today. Most of the features in iPhoto didn’t impress me much but the seamless integration with .Mac Web Gallery is really well done. The demo gallery that apple put up shows off the slick UI that they cooked up. I think that mouse-over image scroll is awesome. It looks nice and is crazy functional. The other slick feature they added was sharing. You can let other users upload photos to your web gallery and then iPhoto automatically syncs those photos on to your machine. The fact that you can upload an image from your iPhone to the web gallery and it would be automatically synced to the owners machine is genius. I really thought someone would have cracked this technology prior to 2000-and-fuckin-7.

I thought the most impressive thing in the upgrade was some of the UI features added to iMovie. The demo video really shows off how quickly you can build movies with the new video-skimming navigation. I’ve only used applications like iMovie/Premiere/FinalCut a few times and it always seems overwhelming and tedious cut video. I think Apple’s new solution is a perfect mix of simplicity and power. Hell, it makes me want to get an HD video camera.

As for the iWork update: Bor-ing. I really don’t need flashy animations in Keynote. One of the reasons I like Keynote is that it’s simple. I really don’t need another spreadsheet app in Numbers. And I never use Pages but the revision tracking feature they added looks pretty nice.

Apple - Keyboard. yup, literally buying this as soon as the apple store gets back up.

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Damn, I am so busted, yo. the fake steve jobs actually works for forbes magazine.

Chipt Productions: Backpack widget. I use backpack for my general todo list so this is a handy widget.

YouTube - Quicksilver Tutorial Screencast 3.0. some great tips for quicksilver users.

Useful Shell Shortcuts | Ruby on Rails for Newbies. damn that’s useful. how did i not know this shit?

How to build OS X GUI applications with Ruby and RubyCocoa. some links on the topic.

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. fake steve jobs is pretty funny. though the real Steve Jobs might have topped him with comparing iTunes on Windows to “a glass of ice water in hell”.

AppleInsider | Closing the book on Apple’s Mac mini. appleInsider is claiming that Apple is soon going to discontinue the mac mini. a shame considering how expensive the cheapest mac pro is.

MacFusion | The GUI for MacFUSE. very cool. now i have my blog’s ftp site mounted as a drive. via ram.

Transmission. bittorrent client for mac’s which you can use on most private torrent sites. god i hate the bloat that is azureus. via kyle.

MarcoPolo - Automatic location switching for Mac OS X. interesting. via ram.