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» Late Night Thursday Update

It’s long weekend here in Sweden because we are celebrating the midsummer time. It’s always fun even though it seems like we are getting the sucky and pretty common, rain! I’m not taking any days off work and blogging because I’m behind, but I will be going away for the weekend, from Saturday through Sunday, with net and computer

• Apple has announced today that the iTunes Music Store has sold a total of five billion songs over the years, which is a pretty big achievement. Many congrats to Apple on their milestone.
   
• If you are editing a lot of CSS code you might be interested in a CSS Code Editor. The guys over at Smashing Magazine have tested a few of the available ones and come up with a nice test on their website.
   
• Who doesn’t like the Adobe Exchange? You can get a lot of cool stuff for most of the Adobe CS apps on there. However, a new addition is that there is a new category available, all for Lightroom. So if you like presets etc. visit the Lightroom Exchange.

» Monday News Stuff

It’s another crazily busy Monday around here, as all Mondays are but I’m able to get in this post still with the latest things happening today which is a little bit of everything, from Adobe news, to Apple news and to birthday wishes! Also stay tuned for another interview coming soon this week!

 Adobe discountinues GoLive

Adobe has announced today that they’ll be discontinuing GoLive in favour of Dreamweaver which they say is a better product alltogether. Dreamweaver is really now the industry standard in WYSIWYG editing and features much nicer code than previous. If you are a GoLive user you should read the Dreamweaver page.

iMac recieves updates!

Today we have some welcome iMac updates with processor speeds now up to 3.06 GHz! Also improved is the processor cache as well as the graphic cards available. They are available immidiately from any Apple Store or Apple retailer starting at just $1,199.

iTunes Music Store celebrates its five year anniversary!

iTunes Music Store is today celebrating its five year anniversary in business. Also announced was the fact that they now have 10 million songs in their library, available! Shoppers today in the music store was greeted with a special new section where they showcased music happenings over the years.

Happy (late) Birthday Larry Becker!

The all around amazing guy, Larry Becker, executive director of NAPP, had his birthday yesterday and I just want to wish him again, a very happy (late) birthday. Hope you had the really best one, you definately deserve it!

 

» Apple releases some new stuff, MacBook Air among them!

 

Hot off the Apple keynote we have seen some pretty cool releases and some that is far from that cool as well. Lets get to the main news first doing it the other way around than Jobs

 MacBook Air

Yep, we got it, the highly rumored MacBook Air did indeed release and here are the specs. It features a 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Due processor, 80 GB HDD (optional 64GB SSD), 2 GB RAM, Full-sized backlighted keyboard, one USB port as well as one headphone jack and a micro-DVI port. Of course there is a MagSafe adapter that looks a little bit different now, so updated It’s quite a nifty computer but I don’t know if it lived up to my expectations. Now also, the lack of optical drive is replaced with an external, custom made SuperDrive for $99 for the MacBook Air. Starting at $1799.

Updated AppleTV

I never thought I’d hear “El Jobso” admit that an Apple product were not good, well I doubt he had unless he had a new version of it for display so here is revealed a new version of the Apple TV, which now can surf the iTunes Music store, .Mac and more without the need for a computer, which is basically the main news. However, if you had the old Apple TV, don’t feel left out as it is a free software upgrade! Also they have reduced the price to $229!

Updated iPod Touch!

The iPod Touch got a slight upgrade as well with some applications now available for the iPod Touch as well and all new iPod Touch’s will be shipping with it. Downside on the upgrade is that of course, you can upgrade the software but they are charging you $20 for it! Bad! I’m still waiting for the iPhone release here in Sweden.

 Movie Rentals in iTunes!

Yes! We all saw it coming and it is here, movie rentals in iTunes is reality, at least it will be when the new version of iTunes ships very very soon. Well so far only US folks will be able to rent movies although Jobs did say that they “look forward to get it out to International folks as well” so I hope that will be very soon as well since I actually can see myself using the feature because I have a long way sometimes to a movie rental store and we don’t have any net rental places here around really.

Time Capsule, wireless Time Machine!

We’ve been waiting on this since Leopard and well frankly it just seems like another way for Apple to earn some more money. Time Capsule is basically a hard drive with wireless network connection (500GB or 1TB available in sizes). Perfect if you have a network with many computers to back up or if you want to use as a network disc (which you can), of course it is a perfect match for the MacBook Air as well

Frankly I think it was a little disappointing. I’d been hoping for some more stuff to be released and I had certainly hoped that if there were to be movie rentals, why couldn’t Apple release it in the whole world… Now I want to hear your opinions on it!