I just wrote a fantastic, inspired lengthily analysis of yesterday's Apple product unveilings, and then the frickin' WDM hit some bad memory of something and froze. Probably some kind of malicious attempt to stop me writing about decent hardware. Bloody computer.

In my anger I have decided to not do any links, or even paragraphs. Instead you will have to suffer with a bullet point overview:

• iPod updates - clearly savvy to add kick to the product line before Xmas
• iTunes 7 - Really great updates, including Coverflow integration. This works better on Mac than Windows, but such is the way of poor graphic handling by Microsoft.
• Movies in rebranded 'iTunes Store' - US only, but upped resolutions sounds tasty
• Automatic artwork grabbing great but not 100% reliable. A coup by Apple as everyone who didn't have an iTunes account will now sign up and be forced to browse to find the correct naming for their albums. Especially if they are sticklers like me. Very clever.
• iPod nano 2nd generation - reserving judgement until I see it in real life. Anodised finishes are cool, adverts are great, but I liked the old design. Need to hold it.
• iPod Shuffle 2nd generation - fantastic reinvention - will sell at least the number they sold before (10 million). Beautiful industrial design work; loving the hinge/jack. Will people miss the direct USB connectivity; I don't know. I think sales figures this shows that Apple knows what they are doing, unlike all the people who say "What's the point of the shuffle?" - clearly kids and people not wanting to fork out loads love these, and now they have even more reason too. Beautiful.
• iTV - odd that this was preannounced, very un-Apple. I predict we will see other manufacturers producing similar wireless video-streaming products before or during the Xmas period, and Apple knew this so they warned the audience they knew would hold off until the Apple version was available. I think it probably was due to be released this quarter, but something technical stopped it as it would have made a great Christmas buy.
• Use of the terminology 801.11 technology, and not specifying 'g' or other indicates to me this is going to be a higher spec wireless; probably seeing the new and faster 'n' version being used.

Well that was about as much paraphrasing as I can stand, so the next paragraph will be in proper prose.

I've been applying all the new found PHP/MySQL knowledge into my replacement folio site. I replaced it early this year with a stop-gap design that I never liked, and so have put together a decent one that I feel happy with. I'm still working on it, but aim to launch very shortly. Still can't believe this bloody computer! D'argh!