Apple have released some brand new updates for this quarter of the year. There first major update has been to iTunes, they have released iTunes 8.

So, what’s new in iTunes 8 you might ask?

Well there is loads of new features, such as:

You can now download HD TV-Shows from the iTunes store, although HD is not new to the store it is new to the TV-Shows. Also apple have created a brand new way for you to browse through your library, you can now view your song’s by there album artwork in a grid.

Also they have a new visualizer which looks great, it now has 3D image’s:

But the best bit of this new update for iTunes i think has to be “Genius”. Genius is a new feature which will enhance your experience with you music. You simply set up Genius and the when you are flicking through your songs on iTunes and you hear a song you like, and you want to hear more like it, you simply click the Genius button and iTunes compares your library and makes a playlist of songs that sound similar to the song you are listening to (it’s great). genius helps you rediscover music that you may have forgotten about.

Apple have also updated there ipod touch. It now has a new contoured stainless steel design, and best of all it now has built in speakers with volume control on the sides. They have also upgraded the battery life on the touch, it can now play 36 hrs of music or 4 hrs of video. Also they have dropped the price of it, it now starts from just $229 (€164)

Also Apple have released a new ipod nano, it is the thinnest ipod they have ever made.

It has great new features which include the new Genius feature that apple have made. The screen is now shaped into i kind of oval shape and has a full sized colour screen just like the last nano. The accelerometer feature that can be found in the iPod Touch and iPhone can now be found in this new nano.

When you are going through your library you can now flick your ipod onto its side and view the artwork or watch a movie full screen, and also play games with the new accelerometer.

Also they have used this feature to enhance the party shuffle feature, sometimes when you are going through your songs you don’t know what to listen to, so if you simply shake the nano it enters into party shuffle mode and plays a random song from you library.

Also there is a variety of new colours available, and prices start at just $149 (€107)

You can watch the new Apple Keynote HERE to hear all about the latest from apple.

Below is the new ad for the iPod Nano:

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Just thought i would let you know that there is a new “Social Network” type of thing set up by Chris Pirillo you can find it here: geeks.pirillo.com

Visit Geeks!

I just thought i would leave a quick post to show everyone the site i have been working on lately. It has lots of content, from music video’s to TV-Shows to Documentaries (Hosted on DocumentaryWire) and Music. I have been working on getting lots of content on it lately and i plan to have at least 5 times the amount on it by this time next week, which will be a lot of work to do.

So my new site is: The EntertainmentClam

Since the wordpress 2.6 upgrade came out, which allowed you to preview your themes before you applied them, i could not get this feature to work. Whenever i clicked to preview a new theme it would just show my site and the theme that was already on my site, this was annoying i wasn’t able to see how the new theme would look on my website. I wanted to be able to preview it so that if it didn’t work properly it would not effect the appearance of the site.

After a while i began searching on the internet to see if this happened to anybody else and it has happened to a few, but there was no answer on how to fix this so that the theme preview section would work.

A few days ago i was editing another site of mine when i wanted to preview loads of different theme’s so the quickest way would be to use the wordpress theme previewer however it would not work so i had to apply each theme which takes longer. So i got bored of continuously applying and reapplying the different themes so i went around the wordpress setting’s trying to find a way to fix the theme preview section.

And success i managed to find out how to fix it, if you go into the general setting’s in wordpress there is two boxes one says: WordPress address (URL) and the other says: Blog address (URL). I found that if you change the two of these website addresses to be the same then the theme previewer would work perfectly, it is strange but i dont know why it wouldn’t work if they are different, but i am just happy i now have that feature working.

Today i started studying again. I have to repeat my maths exam for college on the 14th of august so i decided to start doing a bit of studying now. I really hate the taught of studying i always try and do everything else and avoid the studying but once i get started i dont really mind it.