This week’s biggest announcement was obviously Apple’s preview of iPhone OS 3.0. That said, other things happened. I had quite the experience with my new iPod shuffle, and Kirk has another old, hard-to-find Mac game that he wants you to dust off. And of course, our iPhone Podium stand winner! If you didn’t win, don’t worry, we still have one more to give away this week.

Last week Apple released the 3rd generation iPod shuffle. I’ve owned every generation so far; why stop now? I went to my friendly local Apple Store to pick one up, and thought I’d unbox it on video for you guys. It’s no Mac Mini unboxing, but it’s still fun. Let’s see what I got.

Is it just me, or is there something completely different about taking a new piece of Apple hardware from its box and introducing it to the real world? Perhaps the same goes for every box full of $900 worth of stuff. In any event, I thought you might be interested to see the latest Mac Mini being ripped from it’s minimalistic packaging and being examined on video. After all, half the fun of buying something new is unboxing it…and video taping it?

iWeb, iMovie, Garageband and iPhoto have all been upgraded. These are the applications that comprise the iLife suite. If you own a Mac, chances are you use one or more of these applications just about every day. Apple seems to be updating the software with new features about once a year, and this year everything gets a major improvement or two. Some of these new features are very powerful tools that are actually used by law enforcement (Faces). Kinda cool that we can use face recognition at home now. So, lets get to it.

Hoping to get an iPhone for Christmas?

Still lusting over Apple’s great gizmo?

This video from SuperDeluxe and Olde English Comedy feels your pain.

Created for the launch of the iPhone last year, it follows one man through the familiar path of technolust: desire, joy, loss, grief, acceptance, more grief, even more grief, and finally, comedy.

Video after the break.

Popular iPod accessory maker ezGear has announced a new video cable that will work with current generation of iPods and the iPhone. The ezGear video cable for iPod lets you connect your iPod or iPhone to a television or ezVision Glasses to play movies, music, TV shows, YouTube Clips or view pictures. These video cables more »

Want to put the external disk option in your iPod to good use? I mean, your iPod Shuffle, Nano, and 5th generation with with video models are all good as portable disk drives, right? So why let a good feature go to waste because of Apple’s closed system? With a new product called miShare, you more »

Something went wrong in the Apple iTunes/iPod world, which has created havoc among the 5G iPod user community. Well, not really. However, the old but still loved media player is having some issues. Videos purchased from iTunes simply will not play, which includes any and all type video purchased from Apple’s iTunes store. After several more »

Computers. Displays. Cell phones. Music players. Online music. Storage. Networking. Apple is already in a ton of markets, many of which, unfortunately, are tightly tied together. However, Apple is still a relatively young company and can branch out so much more. The questions is, if at all, where? Will they enter the digital camera market? The gaming market? The GPS and auto market? Or maybe even video cameras? It could be any of the above, especially given the fact that Apple has applied for so many patents lately. It will be interesting to find out, but heres my thoughts:

Apple has just released an update for Apple TV. This update, 2.0.2, is the second one since the Apple TV Take 2, but there is no word yet on any big changes besides the normal bug fixes. It appears that this update came at a perfect time as you can now use your newly updated more »