New Apple Ipod Shuffle Talks To You!

VoiceOver is the exciting new feature that makes iPod shuffle the first music player that talks to you. It entirely changes the way you browse and navigate your music. Say you’re listening to a song and want to know the title or the artist. With the press of a button, VoiceOver tells you — without interrupting your music.

But the fun doesn’t stop with songs. For the first time ever on an iPod shuffle, you can have multiple playlists, because VoiceOver announces their names, too. So you can easily find the right mix without taking your eyes off your run, your ride or whatever you’re doing. Neat!!

Priced at €75 including VAT, the new 4GB shuffle holds up to 1,000 songs

iPhone OS 3.0

Apple will be showing the iPhone OS 3.0 at an event on Tuesday 17th March.

No details yet as to whats new (i doubt a hardware keyboard some how!)

Check out the info on 9to5mac.com

iPod Shuffle (3rd Gen)

Apple unleashed the 3rd Gen iPod Shuffle yesterday and I've currently got some concerns about it.

From what I can tell there's no way to play the music with out the "special" headphones with the remote on the cord.

There are only a couple of these type of headphones currently available and from that i can see they are a bit on the expensive.

So i get it that these are really designed for the Gym / running / exercise based activities, but that's not saying you wouldn't have it with you at a party.

what happens if you want to play a track off it. I can't see any way you can (and correct me if i'm wrong!). You need the remote to play, pause etc!

Anyway, I'm going to reserve further judgement until i get some hands on time with one!

In a related note, Apple released iTunes 8.1 this morning that adds a few new features... Apple DJ to name one. It also supposedly runs and boots faster (thankfully, mine was currently taking nearly 1min to boot!)