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Cue new iPod nanos, iPod touch and the Beatles coming to iTunes. September 5th will be a date to remember. We’ve already put our iPods up on eBay!

Just letting you know we’re still here. Just nothing to post really. Expect limited news over the next 2 weeks because we’re busy working on something new and big for the site.

Don’t like the “new” iMovie? Well Apple is letting you download iMovie HD 6 for free! The download weighs in at 154.6MB and requires iLife ‘08.

P.S. We love you too.

First up we have the new wired Keyboard. This retails for $49 and as you can guess by the name - is wired. It features a full key set and includes a new “media” buttons such as Play/Pause, Dashboard and Exposé. It also has 2 USB ports on it, goody.

Secondly there is the new wireless Keyboard. This retails for $79, $20 more than the wired version but contains less keys! It’s a basically a laptop keyboard for desktops (although of course you can use it for your laptop). It connects via Bluetooth and also has the new “media” buttons. Look below for a picture of the “media” button set:

Apple today updated their Mac mini range to sport new processors, specifically the 1.83GHz or 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo’s which make these little Macs 39% faster than their previous incarnation. They are available now and come complete with iLife ‘08 starting at $599.

Update: Thanks to Austin again for reporting this.

We’ve used too many exclamation marks. It’s banned for the next week! But wasn’t it great to go through an Apple Event and not hear anything about the iPod!

Apple has updated its .Mac services suite. In addition to Web Gallery, which was introduced as an integrated part of iLife ‘08, Apple is bumping up the standard storage size from 1GB to 10GB. The price remains $99 for a one year personal subscription. Thank you Apple.

Apple today announced iWork ‘08. Featuring brand new versions of Keynote, Pages and a new spreadsheet application Numbers - completing Apple’s productivity suite. Numbers is described as “spreadsheets for the rest of us” making gorgeous looking spreadsheets quickly and can also import/export as Excel documents. Priced at $79 and £49 - it’s available now.

Apple also today announced iLife ‘08. Featuring brand new versions of standard iLife apps and brand-new .Mac Web Gallery which lets you create enhanced, Web 2.0 photo galleries compatible with any browser. You can “contribute from anywhere”, allowing you (or anyone) to add to web gallery from the internet or from the iPhone. It is shipping now for $79 or £49.

As expected, Apple today announced new iMacs with a new streamlined retro look. The new iMacs feature a new sleek aluminum and glass skin with brand new speedier innards. The iMacs start at $1199 and come in 20 and 24″ form factors and feature 2.4GHz Core 2 Extreme processor, up to 4GB of memory, ATI Radeon HD graphics card, up to 1TB of hard drive storage and 802.11n plus Bluetooth 2.0 built-in. Snazzy.

We shall be reporting live from the event via an affiliate site. So you can keep checking here in addition to Gizmodo, Engadget, Slashgear and MacObserver.

Update: Indeed we did. Links thanks to Austin.

Update: Yay, Apple did remember our little friend.

We’ve no specs or anything at all but we can confirm this Tuesday there will be new iMacs released with new keyboards. We’re presuming that the Mighty Mouse will be updated as well to suit the new color scheme. Hurrah! only 2 more days…

Details are scare at the moment, but on Tuesday afternoon Apple informed developers that there would be a new update, Mac OS X 10.4.11, coming soon. This update might be to bring support for new hardware and software released next week.

You can tell we’re just a little excited over this. Apple has sent invites to sites (not us though, boo) for a “product presentation for Mac” at Apple Town Hall in Cupertino next week. What will we see? New iMacs? iPods? iLife? New apps? Totally new hardware?

Apple announced today that they have sold over 3 billion songs through the iTunes store. Apple last hit 2 billion songs little over half a year ago in January 2007.

Graph courtesy of Jeffrey903 at MacRumors

Engadget reports that you can currently score a 30GB or 80GB iPod for about $20 off at Amazon, Best Buy, Circuit City and J&R online stores. Could this be a sign of new iPods or are they just competing with Apple’s aggressive Back-to-School discounts?