Author: Aaron Zollo

  Another week filled with Apple information with the new iPod Nano, Touch, Classic, iTunes 8 and 2.1 Firmware.  We also had some updates with the Zune and a scientific experiment that could have ended life as we know it.

9/8/08 – Spore’s DRM is Unevolved – [Here]

9/8/08 – Zune 3.0 Coming This Fall – [Here]

9/9/08 – Zune 3.0 Update Videos Released – [Here]

9/9/08 – Fall Let’s Rock Event Tomorrow, Check Back at 10:00AM PST/1:00 EST – [Here]

9/9/08 – Nano 4th Gen Revealed, Now in 9 Colors – [Here]

9/9/09 – iTunes 8 Now Available for Download – [Here]

9/10/08 – Particles Smash and We’re All Still Here – [Here]

9/11/08 – Cooliris Brings Video to Firefox With Apple Style – [Here]

9/12/08 – So iPhone Firmware is Out, Any Real Difference? – [Here]

  So we all know by now that the new software is out and it promises better battery life and signal strength and so on.  We wanted to see the new changes for ourselves and see any differences that might be unmentioned within the ever sparse update documentation Apple usually provides.

  Spore is a great game and there is really no doubt you will get a quality game when it comes from Will Wright, the creator of Sim City, The Sims and many other similar games.  The one major downfall is the DRM that EA decided to use to keep pirates from stealing the game (see past article here).  More After the Jump..

  MyTunesRSS allows you to watch your videos or listen to music locally or via the internet with its browser.  This program allows access to everything in iTunes and then streams it to wherever you are.  There are other products that are similar but few allow videos and that is where iTunes RSS has the advantage.  The file browser can also look in folders and look at media there as well.  You can also listen to your music via RSS feeds on many devices like the Nintendo Wii or the Playstation Portable with the latest firmware version.  The amount of things you can do is pretty impressive.

  This is one of the best syncing apps you could use.  It does everything you want automatically when it comes to files and storage.  When you install it, it puts a dropbox folder in your finder or explorer.  You can set it up so if you have the application installed on multiple computers, whatever you drop into the folder will appear on the other computer and vice versa.  One of the coolest things it does though is provide 2GB online storage free and if you want to give someone access to at file without providing them your password, you can give them a link to a temporary URL which allows the download of the file.