"But now bring me a man who plays music. And when the man played music, the groove came upon them."
Rejoice. For $12.95 you can turn your shuffle into a stylish crucifix. See the iBelieve at devoted1.com

Someone called Geoff has versioned 50 Cent's "In da Club". It's was in an attempt to raise enough 50 pences for a new iPod. Well it worked. Read how he did it here.
Here the Pants Mix at his website Geofftech.co.uk
...so you can get free iPods from the internet.

New Dual Core Power Mac G5s.

The Power Mac G5 Dual, with a suggested retail price of £1,399 (inc. VAT), includes:

• dual-core 2.0GHz PowerPC G5 processor;
• 512MB of 533 MHz DDR2 SDRAM expandable up to 16GB;
• 160GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 7200 rpm;
• NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE with 128MB of GDDR SDRAM
• three open PCI Express expansion slots: two 4-lane slots and one 8-lane slot;
• dual Gigabit Ethernet ports;
• 16x SuperDrive™ with double-layer support (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW); and
• ships with Mighty Mouse and Apple Keyboard.

The Power Mac G5 Dual, with a suggested retail price of £1,749 (inc. VAT), includes:

• dual-core 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5 processor;
• 512MB of 533 MHz DDR2 SDRAM expandable up to 16GB;
• 250GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 7200 rpm;
• NVIDIA GeForce 6600 with 256MB of GDDR SDRAM
• three open PCI Express expansion slots: two 4-lane slots and one 8-lane slot;
• dual Gigabit Ethernet ports;
• 16x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW); and
• ships with Mighty Mouse and Apple Keyboard.

The Power Mac G5 Quad, with a suggested retail price of £2,299 (inc. VAT), includes:

• two dual-core 2.5GHz PowerPC G5 processors;
• 512MB of 533 MHz DDR2 SDRAM expandable up to 16GB;
• 250GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 7200 rpm;
• NVIDIA GeForce 6600 with 256MB of GDDR SDRAM
• three open PCI Express expansion slots: two 4-lane slots and one 8-lane slot;
• dual Gigabit Ethernet ports;
• 16x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW); and
• ships with Mighty Mouse and Apple Keyboard.

Build-to-order options include up to 16GB of NECC or ECC DDR2 SDRAM, up to two 500 GB Serial ATA hard drives running at 7200 rpm, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics card with 512MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth module, Apple Wireless Keyboard and Apple Wireless Mouse, Xserve RAID and Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card.

New PowerBook G4s with higher-resolution displays and up to one hour more battery life on the 15- and 17-inch models.* In addition, every new PowerBook now includes a DVD burning SuperDrive™ with prices starting at just £1,099 (inc. VAT).

“The Apple PowerBook continues to deliver the ultimate in portability, performance and innovative features,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Our mobile customers are going to love working on the new high-resolution PowerBook displays and appreciate the added productivity that one more hour of battery life delivers.”

The new higher-resolution PowerBooks provide significantly more screen real estate and include the 17-inch PowerBook with a 1680-by-1050 pixel resolution—36 percent more than the previous generation—and the 15-inch PowerBook with a 1440-by-960 pixel resolution—26 percent more than the previous generation. Ideal for business and creative professionals, the new 15- and 17-inch PowerBooks make reading text and viewing images even easier with brighter displays—up to 46 percent brighter on the 17-inch model. The 15- and 17-inch PowerBooks also provide up to an additional hour of battery life to get even more work done while on the road.

The PowerBook line includes three models: the 1.5 GHz 12-inch PowerBook with an 8X SuperDrive and the new 1.67 GHz 15- and 17-inch PowerBooks with an 8X SuperDrive with double-layer support. Both the 15- and 17-inch PowerBooks include ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics with 128MB DDR dedicated video memory and now feature built-in Dual Link support to drive Apple’s groundbreaking 30-inch Cinema HD Display as an external monitor, providing more than four million pixels of additional workspace.

Apple reveal an iPhoto for the pros. Aperture is the first all-in-one post production tool that provides everything photographers need after the shoot. Aperture offers an advanced and incredibly fast RAW workflow that makes working with a camera’s RAW images as easy as JPEG. Built from the ground up for pros, Aperture features powerful compare and select tools, nondestructive image processing, colour managed printing and custom web and book publishing.

Oh, not another new product launch!
This time it's aimed at the photography market. See this: Apple preps October 19 special event.

After all that business about Eminem sueing Apple for using a track without permission, he's only gone and let them use the same track in the new iPod TV Ad.

The webcast of Apple's special event can be found here.

Buy music videos and programmes with iTunes 6!
"iTunes® 6, the next generation of the world’s most popular music jukebox and online music store. iTunes 6 lets fans purchase and download over 2,000 music videos and six short films from Academy-Award winning Pixar Animation Studios for just £1.89 (inc. VAT) each. Also, in a landmark deal with Disney, iTunes is now offering current and past episodes from two of the most popular shows on television, “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost,” as well as the new drama series “Night Stalker” and the two most popular shows from Disney Channel, “That’s So Raven” and “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody”. Customers can now purchase and download their favourite television shows from iTunes the day after they air on TV, watch them on their Mac® or PC, and Auto-Sync them onto the new iPod® for viewing anywhere. Download it now."

New 'media hub' iMac with remote and built in iSight!
"Apple® today unveiled the new iMac® G5 which features a built-in iSight™ video camera for out-of-the-box video conferencing and the debut of Apple’s breakthrough Front Row media experience. Front Row gives users a simple, intuitive and powerful way to play their music, enjoy their photo slideshows, and watch their DVDs and iMovies, as well as popular movie trailers from apple.com and music videos and television shows purchased from the iTunes® Music Store, on their iMac from up to 30 feet away using the new bundled Apple Remote. The new iMac G5 comes in a sleek, new design that is even thinner than its predecessor, and starts at just £899 (inc. VAT). It's smaller than the last iMac too and is available next week."

New video iPods!
As widely expected, Apple today introduced the long-awaited new iPod with video playback capabilities. The new device is up to 30% thinner than the previous full-size iPods and features a larger 2.5-inch color screen that can play video including music videos, video Podcasts, home movies and television shows, in addition to displaying album artwork and photos. The new iPod is available in both white and black versions in 30GB and 60GB.

Macbidouille has obtained some leaked screen shots of a PowerMac running on 4 Intel Processors! Bring it on!!

One More Thing...?
As reported on AppleInsider Apple have another treat in store for us on the 12th. Could this be the ViPod? Or even an Intel Mac? Or what about something completely new? That would be nice.

Probable new products:
New HHD iPods (I reckon in black and white).
Last pre-Intel PowerMacs and Minis.
Rumoured:
Special Edition Pink Madonna iPod. The fansite says nano, but Madge's back catalogue won't squeeze into 4GBs.
iVidPod as a PSP contender.