Apple today announced that the price of the iPod shuffle is now priced at $49, apple is also introduces the 2GB iPod shuffle that now comes in five different colors silver, blue, green, purple and red. The new iPod will be priced at $69.

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Apple is now doubling the capacity of both the iPhone and iPod Touch for new customers and all this will cost you is just an extra $100 more. So now you get double the storage for music, pictures, movies and podcasts. Pricing on the existing iPod and iPhone models stays the same. It was announced yesterday that the 32GB iPod Touch sells for $499.

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Here is a look at the world’s present thinnest laptop disassembled. The MacBook Air is as thin as 0.4mm. The disassembling was done by iFixit a website that offers solutions on fixing your MacBook, iPod and also doing upgrades.

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A U.S. Food and Drug Administration researcher has reported that portable media players such as iPods, Sony Walkman and Zune are unlikely to interfere with heart pacemakers. Testing of variety of iPods showed that they do not produce enough electromagnetic field to interfere with the devices. They measured the magnetic fields produced by four different iPod models: a fourth-generation iPod and an iPod with video, and an iPod nano and an iPod shuffle.

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Apple Tv is full of features but check out this AppleTVesque mod called the Nanoscope. It was a 35mm silde viewer but a few moments later you get the Nanoscope. The device was repurposed through a bit of Dremel/cursing to fit an iPod Nano (because it happens to have a screen size not so different from 35mm film.)

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Another Apple product that was in the news yesterday is the New Apple Wireless Hard Drive also called the time capsule. The hard drive (Time Capsule) is a companion piece for Time Machine, the automated back up system built in to OS X. The box has a Hard Drive and a Airport Extreme N adapter for wireless communication with you Mac’s in your home. The Time Capsule can be set to automatically backup all of the Macs you own on a regular basis. Will be available in 500GB ($299) and 1TB ($499) storage.

There is an ultrathin MacBook in town, Intel you have some real competition. Apple unveiled the MacBook Air yesterday January 15th, “We’ve built the world’s thinnest notebook—without sacrificing a full-size keyboard or a full-size 13-inch display,” said Steve Jobs, apple’s CEO. This has been a rumor for awhile and is now confirmed to be true. Shipping starts within two weeks for $1,799. More information from the press release inside.
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CREATIVE INTRODUCES XDOCK HD - THE ONLY IPOD DOCK THAT UPCONVERTS VIDEOS
Yet another iPod add on but this time it takes from your iPod videos and convert them to HD video format and can transfer it wirelessly to another device. Read Press Release.
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