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The newly redesigned iPod Shuffle which Apple annouced awhile back will finally be in stores this Friday. I personally like them a lot better than the original design. If you haven’t already seen them, check them out on Apple’s website below.

http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/

I thought this was a pretty cool use of Flash and Flash Video.

http://www.saab.com/microsites/pilotswanted/GLOBAL/en/index.shtml

Adobe has announced a brand new sound editing application.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/soundbooth/

Pretty awesome.

Mozilla released the highly anticipated version 2 of their award-winning browser today. Check out the list of new features below.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features.html

The iPod turned five today, so run out and buy a couple to help celebrate the birth of such an amazing gadget. Love it or hate it, you can’t deny the fact that iPods have influenced the digital era more than any new product in the last ten years. Check out the awesome story below to find out how the iPod came to be.

http://www.wired.com/news/columns/cultofmac/0,71956-0.html?tw=rss.index

Why use my animation system? First and foremost, the code is very clean. It is written and maintained in a manner that is very easy to understand and extend upon. You can tween any property/variable or even get/set functions. It is also very efficient. I have done tests with as many as 900 boxes on stage pulsing with no serious performance loss.

Included in the zip are all the necessary packages required to use the animation system, including the event system, core objects, and managers. Again, I am putting this out there for others to explore and learn from, and of course, to do some learning myself as I (hopefully) recieve feedback. Thanks and enjoy.

Download ‘boostworthy_animation_AS2.zip’

Sony announced that use of it’s PlayStation 3 online service will be free unlike Microsoft’s competing service. In addition, you can purchase a game online, download it, then give it to up to four of your friends for free. The first 500,000 consoles will also ship with a Blu-Ray copy of the movie Talladega Nights.

It’s pretty obvious that these tatics are in response to all of the negativity surrounding the $600 price point the PS3 will be sold at this November.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/games/0,71982-0.html?tw=rss.index

Google Labs is currently working on a project which searches through public source code. The fact that you can use regular expressions in your search is awesome.

http://www.google.com/codesearch

Google is on fire.

Adobe announced today that they have acquired a company by the name of Serious Magic, a company specializing in video technology. Adobe plans to use this award-winning technology to further advance Flash Video.

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200610/101906SeriousMagic.html

Grant Skinner has put together some really nice notes on the topic of garbage collection and optimization in FP9.

http://www.gskinner.com/talks/resource-management/