Kevin Rose claims to know what the new iPod nano is going to look like and if he's right, Apple is going back to more of the original look. As you'll see in the photo below, they are ditching the "fat" look and going for a longer/slimmer look:

Here are some claims Rose has made about this new nano and other Apple products:

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Tutorial Thursday

Windows; Mac
One of the things that Apple hasn't made easy for iPhone owners is providing a way to create custom ringtones in Windows. If you're a Mac owner you can use GarageBand, but Apple doesn't provide that application on Windows. Instead what they expect you to do is

One of the benefits of purchasing music online versus a physical CD from the store is that you don't get taxed, at least here in the United States, in most states. With digital downloads becoming popular, states are trying to push a new "iTax" that would change things. Digital downloads have become a massive industry and states realize this.

There are a few states in the United States already

Apple really surprised us by launching an update to the iPhone firmware last night.
We knew that version 2.1 of the firmware was supposed to be coming in September sometime because it will have the push notification system for 3rd party apps that everybody has been talking about, but we definitely didn't know that Apple was working on 2.0.1. It's now available and some of you

Microsoft/Mac Monday

Today we're taking a look at our Top 10 applications for the iPhone followed by a list of some of our other favorites. For those of you who have your own favorite apps, let us know what they are in the comments...

NetNewsWire is an RSS reader for your iPhone and it's a favorite because we have found it to be the fastest way to read feeds

Apple apparently likes to do whatever it can to push its applications and services onto as many Windows users as it can. A good example of this is when trying to download QuickTime where you are required to install iTunes as well. Similarly Apple recently pushed Safari onto Windows users as an "update" regardless of whether it was previously installed.

They are at it again, but this time with their rebranded .Mac service called

The next 24 hours is going to be pure chaos for Apple fans, and the madness started early this morning when Apple released iTunes 7.7. That was then followed by the App Store launch, then a "leaked" iPhone 2.0 firmware, and more. It's madness I tell you.

I'm sure you've seen plenty of Apple news on the gadget sites already, and so we wanted to throw all of the news into one convenient post. Here's a