The long-waited ‘Let’s Rock’ keynote is over, and Apple has revealed 2g iPod Touch, 4g iPod Nano and iTunes 8.

Here is a brief summary of the keynote’s revealings:

iTunes 8:

• HD-TV Shows. $1.99 in SD, HD will be $2.99.
• New browsing.
• Genius. Allows you to make playlists from songs in your library that go together. And helps you rediscover music in your library.
• WILL BE AVAILABLE TODAY (9th SEPETMBER) ON APPLE.COM

iPod Nano 4G:

• Thinnest iPod ever made. Oval shape. Curved glass.
• Accelerometer. “Turn it sideways and you’re in coverflow — you get full size album art — again with photos, just turn the nano. Video is fantastic, and another cool thing is you push and hold the center button for a popup menu, you can use the Genius, you can browse.”
• Calendar, stopwatch and voice-recording.
• SHAKE TO SHUFFLE (using the accelerometer).
• 24 hours battery life for music, 4 hours for video.
• $149 for 8GB, $199 for 16GB

iPod Touch 2G:

• iPhone 3G-like back, but in stainless steel. FANTASTIC!
• Integrated volume controls on the side.
• Built-in speaker.
• Genius playlist creation.
• Nike+ receiver integrated to the iPod.

36 hours of music, 6 hours of video

• 3 models: 8GB, $229, 16GB for $299, and a 32GB for $399. AVAILABLE FROM TODAY.

Other:

• New in-ear headphones. Have a pause / play and volume control, double click goes to next song, triple click goes to previous, right from the cable, and there’s a microphone for voice recording.
• Other new in-ear headphones. They ship with 3 earbuds, and they’ve got 2 drivers each, a woofer and tweeter — they’re going to sell for $79.
• iPhone OS 2.1 firmware. Available this Friday

Photos (from engadget.com):

More will be added later.

Well.. Google wants a place in the browser market. Good luck.. :o) Think that IE, FF, Opera and Safari is enough for us, but will Googles giant success with search engines, video sites and software like Google Earth really help them on this market? Time will show.

I couldn’t resist downloading this new browser, so I went to http://www.google.com/chrome, and downloaded it.

My first impression: Whoa.. That’s a simple piece of software. It can do browsing, tabs and some other features, but that’s all. Not many features like it’s big competitors IE and FF, but that’s maybe why the whole browser feels so stable and nice to use.

Click the thumbnails for large pictures.

This is how the browser looks the first time you open it. You can view a mosaic of your most visited sites, do a search, and see your recent bookmarks. Chrome does automaticly import the bookmarks and browsing history from IE or FF.

As you may notice, the GUI is really slick, only the tabs in the top, an address bar, bookmark line, nothing more. There’s to buttons to the right of the adress bar where you can change your settings, or print the page, view page info etc.

When you delete your browsing data, you can choose in which period you want to delete.

Of course there is a developer tool, which lets you view page source etc. Each tab works as seperate processess, so you can easily see how much RAM every tab uses, and kill it, without killing the whole browser. This do also mean, that if a page in a tab crashes, the whole browser will not crash, but only the tab. In other browsers, if a tab page crashes, the whole browser will crash.

This is how it looks, when you begin visiting websites.

Every browser nowadays have tabbed browsing. So of course Chrome do also offer this. The tabs look really slick and confluents with the title of the window. This makes the whole browser look more robust, and I feel it’s very nice done.

Google Chrome do also have an awesome bar-like address bar. However, the “Type to search” text makes me thinking of a “search-application”, and not a webbrowser. This should be “Type to browse” or something.

Conclusion: When I first heard about Chrome, I was very sceptical about it, and I didn’t think that it would ever be used by someone. After trying it, I have changed my opinion. It’s really nice to browse using this browser, and I would recommend it for non-computer-nerds (like my grandmom - ha ha), but I would personally stay with IE.

Remember, this is just a beta of the browser, so it might change later on.

Just got a mail today from Microsoft, announcing the release of IE8 beta 2, because I’m registered betatester.

I’ve really looked forward to this beta, since IE is my favorite browser, and IE8 B2, should have some pretty cool features.

So.. How is it? AWESOME! I’ve noticed that the Javascript engine is working 100% now (in beta 1, it was slow, and sometimes it didn’t work, e.g. in iGoogle’s drag&drop).

Other things like colored tab groups, a visual search bar, an adressbar like FireFox’s awesome-bar, caret browsing and more has been added to this release.

I’ve took some screenshots, and will try to explain the new main features (click for full-size):

This is how the main interface looks, when you open IE8B2. Not slightly different from IE7, but you may notice some design changes. The tabs looks more plain and slick, not that fancy web 2.0 3d-glossy look, just simple and flat. Nice!

Notice: In a standard installation, there is a “Favorites” panel over the tabs, I don’t really like it, so I’ve minimized it, so it just shows a “Favorites” button on the left of the address bar.

I will point out other new things in the following images.

Let’s take a look at the upper left of IE8. You can see that in http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en, google.com is highlighted. This is because you can easier see the domain name. This will also help you to easier recognize fishing sites (if the phishing filter doesn’t catch it).

You can also see that the tabs are more streamlined, and now when I write about the tabs, I have to write, that tabs of the same site, are divided into colorgroups:

 

Now to the address bar.

This is how the address bar look. You may notice, that it looks a bit like the FireFox’s awesome-bar, however, I do like the IE bar, because it’s smaller, and doesn’t fill up the whole screen. The shortcuts on the right are also pretty nice.

The upper right corner doesn’t look much different than IE7. But you can see, that Microsoft added a button to the left of the refresh button. So.. What is that strange little button with a ”broken” paper?

Well.. It’s the Emulate IE7 button that was introduced in IE8 Beta 2, they have just fit it into the design, and called it “compatibility view”. It’s made because some (older) websites may be parsed incorrectly and showed because of the new IE8 rendering engine. This button is parsing the current website using IE7s engine, so it will be parsed correctly. You can even add a whole website to a list, so everytime you visit it, it will parse as IE7.

Caret browsing is a new feature in IE8. It allows you to easily browse the webpage and select text easily with the keyboard.

Image from IE blog.

Another new thing in IE8 is the new, more featurerich search bar. When you search,  it will automaticly search in your history, and the overall searchbox is more streamlined. Visual Search is also introduced in IE8 beta 2, and allows you to see images from your search query. 

When you open a new tab, you can see this page. This allows you to reopen closed tabs, use an accelerator, or start InPrivate browsing.

 

The beta is open to public, and you can download it at: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/

I’ve noticed that there are many Windows 7 wish lists on boards all over the web, many of them incomplete, hard to figure out etc.

So I wanted to make a complete list of wanted Windows 7 features with the help of users on a lot of boards.

This post will be updated continually.

Enough talk. Now to the list.

Interface/GUI & Usability:

Security

Performance

Bundled software

Other

Ideas? Please post a comment with your ideas and wishes!

On an unofficial T-mobile blog, it has been revealed, that a phone based on the infamous Google Android (Gphone) will be released September 17th - which means in about one month.

The phone will be produced by the well-known HTC, and the name will be HTC G1. The rumoured specs is the following:

• 5″x3″ touch screen. Which means 5.8 inches diagonally, compared with iPhones 3.5″.
• 3 megapixel camera.
• 3G networking (Tturbo 3G aka HSDPA).
• Built-in QWERTY keyboard.

As you can see, the phone can be compared with HTC Touch PRO, but how much it will look like it, will the time show.

The rumour says that the phone only will be available for T-mobile subscribers the first week at $150, after that, everyone can buy it at about $250-400, where (I think) the price will be higher with more internal memory.

I will follow up on this

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