Songbird this week finally made its 1.0 release:

What is Song Bird?
Songbird is an opensource music player build on Mozilla technology, VLC Player & SQLite. Purely based on Mozilla’s Gecko engine, the same engine that powers Firefox. Like Firefox, Songbird allows for tabbed browsing, themes and addtions of add-ons to customize the extendibility of your media player. So far packed with more then 90 Add Ons you can customize SongBird as you want.

“Songbird promises to be the Firefox of media players” according to Aaron Boodman, Greasemonkey.

SongBird is currently in its early stages but have a very active development teams, this week they released there 1.0 release, powered with an addition in features, performance according to their blog post

• Drastically Faster Search: Searching in Songbird is now anywhere from 10x faster for small libraries to 1000x for large ones.
• Reduced RAM Usage: There’s a 70% reduction in RAM usage when importing and using large (100,000 track) libraries.
• Faster Media Importing: Importing media into Songbird is now 2-4x faster.
• Reduced Startup Times: Large library users (10,000 tracks or more) will notice that Songbird startup times are now twice as fast.
• Efficient Scrolling: Scrolling through your library now uses half the amount of CPU.
• Snappier Sorting: Sorting your library is now 3-4x faster, which adds up to significantly smoother browsing when scrolling and filtering.
• Optimized DB Size: We’ve optimized the database in Songbird and reduced its size by, on average, 60%. This leads to a variety of performance improvements throughout the application.
• Fewer Crashers: We’ve worked hard to identify and fix 11 of the most common crashes in Songbird.

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Holiday season and this time you can gift an iPhone 3G easily with the help of iPhone 3G gift card being offered by Apple. Simply log on to the site, fill in the form add a person message and the iPhone 3G gift card will be delivered to your loved one who can pick it up from any Apple store close to their home. An once the person redeem it, an Apple Store specialist will take care of every details and setup the iPhone for all features and give a sort of personalized service.

Give someone an iPhone 3G Gift Card and when the lucky recipient comes in to redeem it, an Apple Retail Store Specialist will take care of every detail. The Specialist will get your recipient’s iPhone 3G up and calling, set up email, and help customize the Home screen, choose some great iPhone applications, personalize ringtones, and find favorite songs.

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Is Apple going to come up with Mac Tablet or commonly known as MacBook Touch. The rumor is on and i think it might be true, many clues have been detected such as a job for QA tester for “iPod and Mac Touch Interfaces” on Apples website which was quickly removed from the website, later a number of Mac Sites pointed to a U.S. Patent application granted for what would appear to be the mythical Mac Tablet. MacDailyNews also received a tip from an anonymous source who previously leaked information about Apple’s Wireless iTunes store week before the company debuted it. So is the Mac Tablet or MacBook Touch really coming to life.

Well so far the BUZZ is around and we might be able to see the new MacBook Touch by the end of this year, so how will the new Mac look? There are bunch on concept designs / pictures of MacBook roaming around the internet so lets take a sneak peak into these leaked or concept designs for the new MacBook Touch.

Top 5 New MacBook Air Pictures & Concept Designs

via Gizmodo

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Apple today announced the fourth generation of iPod Nano, the thinnest iPod ever with curved aluminum,  two-inch display & glass enclosure in nine vibrant colors.(silver, purple, blue, green, orange, yellow, pink,  RED and black. )

Apart from look & design the new Nano also incorporates some functional feature enhancements that includes (more…)

Is apple getting ready again to shake the word, with iPhone will there be a Macbook touch, will we be free from the keyboards, mouse and will only interact with our computers using the touch screens, will it be accessible for all computer users.

Well the Rumor has started picking up, ‘Mac Daily News‘ reports Apples Secret Product Macbook Touch and Gizmodo says it too ‘Rumor:MacBook Touch coming in Oct‘.

Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi. Possibly with Immersion’s haptic tech. Slot-loading Super Drive. Accelerometer. GPS. Pretty expensive to produce initially, but sold at “low” price that will reduce margins. Apple wants to move these babies. And move they will. This is some sick shit. App Store-compatible, able to run Mac apps, too. By October at the latest.In all honesty, we may have passed this story up, but we’ve heard vague reports from reliable sources that Quanta is busy building a touch product for Apple. This latest information seems seems to compliment what we’ve heard

Source [Mac Daily News] , [GizModo]

With iPhone 3G hitting the market and high speed internet access is easily available on cell phone, more people are using their cell phones to browse internet. Access to internet via mobile grew up to 147% in 2007 and is expected to take a huge jump after the 3G networks & cell phones goes common. Being a blogger its time you should think about accessibility of your blog from a cell phone. So how do you make your blog cell phone friendly. (more…)

Steve Jobs at WWDC 2008 announced the new iPhone 3G, combined with all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking, built-in GPS, and iPhone 2.0 software that supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs hundreds of third party applications built with the iPhone SDK.
iPhone 3G comes in two models:

• 8GB costing $199
• 16GB costing $299

So whats new with the iPhone 3G, well iPhone 3G the next version from Apple have worked out on improving a bunch of stuff, its more thinner, solid metal buttons, gorgeious display, camera, flush headphone jacks and improved audio. The Battery life has been improved to 300 hours of standby with a 2G talk-time of 10 hours (prviously it was 5hr). (more…)

President and Chief Executive Officer of Rogers Communications Inc. today issued the following statement:

We’re thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Canada later this year. We can’t tell you any more about it right now, but stay tuned.

May 21′s is expected to be the launch day of iPhone ins Canada. No price or package information has been released.

Apple Launched MacBook Pro Review
The macBook Pro model features the latest Intel Core 2 duo processor running upto 2.6Ghx with a 6MB of L2 cache.  The latest processor launched by intel on that performance is  t9500, t9300 , t8300 .

With addition to the processor Apple also updated the graphic processors to the latest NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 512MB of video memory. Apart from the specs update apple has also introduced the multi touch gesture previously released in MacBook Air. You can pinch, swipe, or rotate by simply moving your fingers.

How much it costs ?

• 15″  – 2.4Ghz = $1 999.0
• 15″ – 2.5Ghz = $2499.00
• 17″ – 2.5Ghz = $2799.00

Should you buy a MacBook Pro  or MacBook Air
MacBook Air is the worlds thinnest Notebook, we agree, its light and is very sleek one of the innovation that attracted allot was it had a multi touch gesture and was total wireless i.e. no ROM etc.  The MacBook Air the worlds thinnest PC is a 1.6Ghz or 1.8Ghz processor with a 13″ screen and costs around $1799.00 to $3098.00 means its slow, its just wireless and its way to expensive and buying it for the sake of its sleekness is ……………………..

On the other hand the multi touch features one of the only usefull feature in MacBook Air is not available in the new MacBook Pro. The pro is packed with really fast processor, supper fast and supper powerful then the MacBook Air and costs $1 999.0 for a 13″ display as compared to  MacBook Air starting at $1799.00 so for an added $100 you can get a MacBook Pro definitely not the worlds thinnest Notebook but the worlds fastest Notebook.

Apple Inc. Today announced the release of Aperture 2 an apple version of photo management / editing software. As innovative as Apple is Aperture claims to be next generation software specifically made for photo editing and management. Some of the key featuers of Aperture are :

• Auto Image Management Tool, just plug-in the memory card and let it manage the images for your by adding tags, meta tags, copyright & caption. You can even add rating to your images, store them at specific locations with the Auto Image Management tools in Aperture. Aperture keeps track of every photo. Organize photos logically in projects, folders, albums, and Smart Albums. If you are photographer who deals with 100′s and 1000′s of pictures every day this is the essential app to manage your photos. I know how imp is rating and tags it quite annoying to search for images when you don’t have them organized.
• After creating a library in Aperture you can review you images side by side, search by keywords, zoom and rest of the standard features
• Aperture has an image adjustment tool build into it just like the rest could not find something extraordinary into it.
• Exporting Images to flickr, publish to Mac Gallery, Create a book for print and order, or you can print with a 16bit printing.

So far apart from the Auto Image Management Tool rest seems quite same old, and cost to the product $199.00 for a new purchase or $99 for an update to the previous one. Keeping that in mind I think I will still stick with the Picasa which is free to use ….