The Apple Music Event Oct 2004 is available to view online. It was staged at the California Theatre in San Jose. The same theatre that was featurerd in the first ever Rip. Mix. Burn. ad for iTunes when it was launched back in 2000 (the one with Barry White and De La Soul). Also Apple will start selling iPod Socks and you will hear The (printer guy) Edge speak and play piano!

With all this iPod updating, iTunes and Quicktime got an update too. They should be available via Software Update soon. Before I forget, the iTunes Music Store is now available across most of Europe.

iPod goes Colour! The iPod Photo has everything we presumed it would. It comes in 40 and 60GB sizes both with a sharp colour screen. You can: Keep up to 15,000 songs in your pocket; Take up to 25,000 4MP photos wherever you go; Auto-sync your music, photos and album art with iTunes 4.7; Sharp, vivid 2-inch Colour LCD screen displays 65,000 colours; Connect iPod Photo to a projector or TV and give slideshows — complete with music; Enjoy up to 15 hours of continuous music thanks to extended battery life. No movies playing ability though. Next year, perhaps.

Apple unveil dodgy looking iPod U2 Special Edition. It's only 20GBs but it includes a bold, black enclosure with a unique red Apple Click Wheel; On the flip side: find the autographs of all four U2 band members; Includes an iTunes Music Store coupon you can use to save when you purchase "The Complete U2", a digital boxed-set that includes more than 400 songs and more than 25 rare and unreleased tracks; and an Exclusive U2 poster. Yes. But it still looks WRONG.

It's rumoured that the U2 event next week will see the launch of a BLACK iPod! Very metal.

There's a new Power Mac G5 base model. It has a single 1.8GHz G5, with 600MHz of frontside bus and a SuperDrive. The remaining spec is the same as the Dual 1.8GHz G5. It costs £1099.

Today Apple have updated the iBook G4. They're faster (up to 1.33GHz) and have Airport Extreme built-in. Even better is that they start at £749 for a 12" 1.2GHz, 30GB Combo Drive. It makes my 1st-gen 12" PowerBook look puny. Goddammit!

MacCentral: Special Apple music event planned for Oct. 26 Jobs, Bono and the Edge will host a special event in San Jose. Could this be something to do with the upcoming new 60GB iPod?

Apple have started charging more than the usual 79p for single tracks but they're doing it in a very sneaky way.
Some tracks are listed as only available as part of an album but when you click on VIEW ALBUM you will see that the album has only one track. This one-track album costs £1.49!
Look for yourself: Lola's Theme by the Shapeshifters has many remixes. But some (the one's over seven minutes long) are 'album only'. A few of these are part of EPs, but not the Norman Jay vocal mix, for example.
Yes, these tracks are longer than usual, so do Apple charge less for track that are less than a minute long? Of course they don't! Best Foot Forward by DJ Shadow is only 48 seconds long but you'll still have to fork out 79p.
Rather sly don't you think?

There's a new iTunes TV Ad featuring no other than U2 singing their new single 'Vertigo'. The ad follows the same silhouette against a bright colour theme as before, but this time they haven't completely blacked out the faces of the stars - why would they pay all that money for U2 if you can't see who it is? There's a thirty second TV spot and an extended 2 minute video. You can see them on the Apple site or on iTunes.

All the signs are pointing towards a launch of a new 60GB iPod.Think Secret have posted details from a reliable source. The new iPod will have a 2" colour screen, iPhoto synchronsation and audio/video out capabilities (plug it into a TV) for around £400. It's design will follow the current 4G iPod but be slightly thicker and heavier. Earlier this year Toshiba (who make the mini hard drives) let slip that Apple had ordered it's new 60GB drive. So this videoPod doesn't come as much of a surprise at all.