Apple released more than just a few things today. Now available is iTunes 7 incorporating movie sales, games (Bejeweled, Cubis 2, Mahjong, Mini golf, pac man, tetris, texas holdem, vortex, and zuma) for the iPod and bigger TV shows; 640×480 (h264), up from 320×240.

Movies are $12.99 for new releases, preorders and first week. After that up to $14.99, however older movies go for only $9.99. It’ll take about 30 minutes at a 5mb/s broadband connection. Movies come with Dolby surround sound and are near DVD quality. Heck, you gotta risk something for getting them on demand and cheap.

Ahh it’s a bitter sweet time. A few days ago Apple announced all new iMacs with twice the processor speed at a lower price. Now, I love my iMac, but it’s always hard to see the new machines arrive just months after I got mine.

Being in the forefront of technology is next to impossible these days. As soon as you get an iPod, the new version arrives with more features. When you get a sweet new cell phone, it’s generic before you know it. Technology is great, but seeing your purchases go out of style style so fast is a little depressing.

My Dream App contest has been announced!  It’s loosely based on the American Idol concept where contestants enter and then the public votes for one application until it becomes a reality!

The good news is, you don’t have to have talent!  Just come up with a great idea for a Mac application, enter it, and you could win.  Even if you don’t make it to the top, the top 24 ideas all get an iPod or a Mac.  How sweet is that?

It wasn’t long ago when I was researching ‘junk drawer’ type applications. I wanted something to keep track of all my random information. Blog posts, images, URLs, notes and whatever else. My research ended with VoodooPad Lite; until now. Browsing MacUpdate, I came across Journler and I’ve never seen such a great application, especially for free!

Journler has it all. It works as a notebook that I can fill full of text entries, it ties into iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie and iWeb, it can auto convert any entry to my iPod, can access all Safari or Firefox bookmarks and can even record audio or video! That’s just the start of the range of Journler.

I’m not sure how long ago Apple added an iTunes screensaver but I just got around to playing with it. It’s kind of fun. It loads up all your album artwork and displays it on the screen. Then albums flip and change into new ones. It’s like an iTunes ad for your personal music.

What would be really cool is if it were to be like the iTunes TV ad where the album covers build up a city and then scatter. How great would that be?

American Idol’s Katharine McPhee now has music available. Her single has been released via .

Included is her original song My Destiny and the beautiful Somewhere over the Rainbow.

Each song can be downloaded for 99cents or both for $1.98 and are available today on

It doesn’t matter if you have a video iPod, iPod Nano, Shuffle, Mini or a basic iPod, there are thousands of accessories out there. From cases to fm transmitters, car integration and speakers, there are plenty of iPod accessories to match any taste and price range.

There are so many accessories available that it can make your head spin. Good news though, iLounge is giving away a free iPod Accessories Book that you can download today!

It’s full of iPod addons that you’ve never heard of any plenty that you have heard of. I can almost guarantee that there is something in this free book that you will think is the coolest iPod accessory yet.

I mentioned it the other day, but check out the simply amazing pictures of the new NY Apple store/cube on the official Apple site. This is a thing of beauty and it’s open 24/7/365

Inside the cube looking at the entrance.

I just downloaded Daniel Powter’s self titled album. After getting addicted to Bad Day I thought the rest of the album had to be worth a look.

Daniel Powter’s CD is not something I’d usually consider myself liking. He has a high pitched voice at times and he reminds me of Prince or Michael Jackson. However, I’m very much enjoying the album. There is something addicting and cool about it.

Definitely work a look and a great addition to my iPod!

Track List

Listening to the radio yesterday I heard a great new song that I was certain was the Dixie Chicks. So I looked up the website this morning and Not Ready To Make Nice is the first single of their new album Taking the Long Way.

Being such a good song I immediately opened the iTunes Music Store to buy it and found nothing. I then did a Google search and found a radio station that was asking it’s viewers if they liked it or not. To my surprise the sound clip was the entire song! So I quickly downloaded it and added it to my iPod.