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In the latest update of Garageband Apple has added a new way to “share” what your created (or imported and chopped) music. Now you can make custom Ringtones, send them to iTunes and sync them to your iPhone.

You know how we feel about making little posts on all these little updates Apple release. To be up-to-date with all your applications, simple click “Software Update” in the Apple menu or alternatively check your version against our list:

Numbers 1.0.1, Pages 3.0.1, Keynote 4.0.1, iWeb 2.0.2, iDVD 7.0.1, iMovie 7.1, GarageBand 4.1, iPhoto 7.1 and iPhone 1.1.1

Nearly 4 years after purchasing Logic, Apple has finally updated the program today with Logic Studio 8 and Logic Express 8. They describe the new software as:

“From the fun and intuitive GarageBand to the all new Logic Studio, there’s never been a better time to be a musician on the Mac,” said Rob Schoeben, “For less than $500, Logic Studio transforms the Mac into the most powerful musical instrument in the world.”

Logic Studio is available now for $499. Logic Express is available for $199. This prices the software aggressively against similar software like Reason and Protools.

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.

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.

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?

So this took ages to finalize but CUPS today announced they have been purchased by Apple. Apple has also hired CUPS author Michael Sweet to continue work.

In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired me (Michael R Sweet), the creator of CUPS. CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop and support CUPS at Apple.

A new job posting by Apple on June 13th 2007 reveals that Apple is seeking software engineers for the “next generation of iWork”. Specifically, they are looking for a programmer to work on 3D features and should have experience with “OpenGL and other 3D technologies”. We’ve no idea what this could be for? A 3D word processor? New effects in Keynote? And if they’re just looking now will we see these new features in iWork ‘08 or ‘09 only? Come on Apple, iWork is pretty ancient already. Get a move on!

MacRumors report that Apple is working on an advanced version of iWeb Pro (if it appears it won’t have ‘i’ in it’s name). Seems plausible as iWeb is the only iLife component that doesn’t have a “Pro” counterpart.

“iWeb Pro” is said to offer an easy to use web authoring interface for small to mid sized companies. While the current version of iWeb is more of a complementary tool to .Mac, “iWeb Pro” is said to be a complete stand alone product. That said, tight integration with Apples iLife suite remain an important feature, allowing easy publishing of multimedia content.