What do I think of Apple’s new offerings today? In terms of surprise, there isn’t much since it’s expected that they will have movie download and they will update ipod and ipod nano. The living room device codename iTV is an expected move that people talked about ever since Apple provides TV download. But the surprise is the ipod Shuffle! Look how amazingly tiny that thing is!!! it’s totally adorable! I have no use for a music player that’s only 1 GB, but this is just something very attractive! As for the Nano? my word is Mini is back! and he breed with Nano and become this second-generation Nano!! I have to go see the real thing for myself and to see how much of an improvement it is from Nano or Mini.

How about the one thing that I am waiting to spend money on? the big ipod? Well, All I am going to say is 80GB and Bejeweled!!! Bejeweled!! my favorite tiny time-wasting game!! You bet I will get this machine soon after all the reviews are in! As for the software iTunes 7? I love the Coverflow view!! It’s great that Apple bought Coverflow and put it right into iTunes. I had Coverflow’s original preview on my machine and I tried very hard to like it, but since it’s a preview beta, it is just isn’t a complete product that I would use – now it’s all completed and right inside iTunes! awesome! And as a librarian, of course my attention immediately go to which hidden improvements they have on organizing – besides these fancy view – well, I found two added field – Skip Count and Album Artist. Skip Count is easy to understand, but Album Artist? There’s already a field for Artist…. I am waiting for someone to explain this~ Last but not least they have a much needed improvement on ipod management, it is so much clearer! and finally Auto Album Art for your own imported music? FINALLY!!! Now where is auto Lyric?? Anyhow, I like the iTunes announcement more than anything else in today’s event. I guess it’s because this is the only one I can get my hands on now, and it’s free~ hehe

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