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Apple Special Event

Today, Apple announced a slew of new products including the new iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, Apple TV and iTunes 10.

iTunes 10 comes with a new feature called "Ping", that enables people to see what songs friends or music celebrities are buying. Users "follow" each other (like Twitter) and get updates of their friend purchases, much like Blippy does, but iTunes stuff only. You can also rent TV shows for $0.99 but we'll see if that hits our shores or not.

The iPod Touch is basically an iPhone 4, without the cell service, in the fact that it has a retina display, HD video recording, FaceTime, etc.

The Apple TV gets Netflix, YouTube and more. By more they mean, Flickr and your MobileMe Gallery. Again, Netflix is not available in our country, so pffft meh sif as the cool kids would say. Still, the price is very good and I think Apple will sell a lot more of these than they did of the first generation.

For iPad users, there was also confirmation that the new iOS 4.2 will be available to them by November, 2010. This is good news, because I really want that PDF ability in iBooks, that I currently have on my iPhone 3GS, oh and not to mention background tasks.

Anyway, check out the live stream for full details.

Pinball Magic

Pinball Magic is a little device that you can slide your iPhone into, and with the help of a free app, you can play a full pinball game live on a little miniature table.

There's a real ball plunger, flipper buttons, a full LED backlit display, and even a Tilt detector, so you can hit all the usual lights and gadgets.

You can pick it up from Best Buy for $39.99 USD, which is a little steep, but if you want that nostalgia feel, this is right up your alley.

Burn Notice Prequel Movie

Today at Comic-Con, it was announced that a "Burn Notice" prequel movie, starring none other than Bruce Campbell, was under way.

Campbell will produce and star in the project, said USA programming chief Jeff Wachtel, which will focus on Sam Axe's last day of military service and how he became the character he is today.

Burn Notice is currently in it's fourth season.

Rinse FM iPhone App Updated

The Rinse FM iPhone App has now been updated to 1.6.

With 1.6, the app now supports iOS 4.0 (formerly iPhoneOS). One of the many benefits of iOS 4.0 is Background Audio, so now you can listen to Rinse FM and switch to your other favourite app, whilst still staying locked on.

We've also added a Timer / Snooze feature. You can preset how long you want to listen to Rinse and when the timer is up -- the music will stop. Handy for when you want to listen to some tunes before going to bed.

We've made some changes to the Schedule page. At present, it's currently offline -- more soon on that. Plus we're working on some other cool features -- look out for 1.7 soon.

Apple Worldwide Developer Conference

Today, Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference kicked off in San Francisco at the Moscone Center West and this time, I was there in person (actually 12 rows from Steve).

Speaking of Steve, he showed off the new iPhone 4 and the new features in the iOS (formerly iPhone OS). The new screen on the iPhone 4 looks amazing, iBooks gets an update and now supports PDFs, FaceTime Wifi video chat, folders and more.

Click here to view my WWDC gallery.

The Magical iPad

This would have taken ages to do and it finally adds some credence to Apple's "magical" device.