Apple has sent out invitation to its annual iPod event which is on next Wednesday Sep 9 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco.

The invite features Apple’s standard iPod silhouette graphic with the text “It’s only rock and roll, but we like it”. We are certain to see new generations of iPod players, the following are some rumors for this annual event:

• New iPod touch featuring camera. Some site even speculate the iPod classic to get a camera too.

• The Beatles catalog on iTunes. It is probable as The Beatles is set to re-releasing its entire catalog and the game The Beatles:Rock Band next week.

• Possible introduction of iTunes 9 with social networking features.

It is unlikely that Apple will reveal its rumored tablet device at an iPod event. We expect Apple to hold a special event to unveil a new product range.

Apple has published in a support document a list of incompatible software for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

When you install Snow Leopard or upgrade to Snow Leopard, the operating system by default moves known-incompatible software to a folder named “Incompatible Software” on your hard drive. The list of incompatible software includes:

• Parallels Desktop, version 2.5 and earlier
• McAfee VirusScan, version 8.6
• Norton AntiVirus, version 11.0
• Internet Cleanup 5, version 5.0.4
• Application Enhancer, version 2.0.1 and earlier
• AT&T Laptop Connect Card, version 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.10.0
• launch2net, version 2.13.0
• iWOW plug-in for iTunes, version 2.0
• Missing Sync for Palm Sony CLIE Driver, version 6.0.4
• TonePort UX8 Driver, version 4.1.0
• ioHD Driver, version 6.0.3
• Silicon Image SiI3132 Drivers, version 1.5.16.0

Snow Leopard also prevents known-incompatible software from opening. The list of software that Snow Leopard will not open and run:

• Parallels Desktop, version 3.0
• VirusBarrier X4, version 10.4.4 and earlier
• SPSS 17, version 17.1
• Director MX 2004, version 10.2
• EyeTV, version 3.0.0 to 3.1.0
• Ratatouille, version 1.1
• AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow, version 4.2.5

Visit Apple’s Snow Leopard Support Page for more help on installation, manuals and tutorial.

Updated

For a more comprehensive list of what software runs with Snow Leopard, visit Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Compatibility List at Wikidot.com.

Google Books announced in its blog post the availability of its over one million public domain books archive in EPUB format, in addition to existing PDF format.

By adding support for EPUB downloads, we’re hoping to make these books more accessible by helping people around the world to find and read them in more places. More people are turning to new reading devices to access digital books, and many such phones, netbooks, and e-ink readers have smaller screens that don’t readily render image-based PDF versions of the books we’ve scanned. EPUB is a lightweight text-based digital book format that allows the text to automatically conform (or “reflow”) to these smaller screens. And because EPUB is a free, open standard supported by a growing ecosystem of digital reading devices, works you download from Google Books as EPUBs won’t be tied to or locked into a particular device.

Visit Google Books or click here for the mobile version for iPhone.

We bet there are still many Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) users running Mac OS X 10.5. The bad news is Adobe CS3 and earlier version have not been tested to run on Snow Leopard. Adobe is asking CS3 users to upgrade to the latest CS4 (retail at $699.99) if they want to run the new Snow Leopard operating system which Apple is releasing tomorrow.

John Nack, principal product manager for Photoshop at Adobe, wrote on his official Adobe blog announcing the availability of Adobe document on Adobe Creative Suite and Mac OS X Snow Leopard compatibility:

Apple and Adobe have worked closely together (as always with new OS releases) to test compatibility. As for CS4, everything is good with the exception of auto-updates to Flash panels (which I guarantee you’re not using*) and Adobe Drive/Version Cue (which doesn’t work at the moment on 10.6). CS3 & earlier haven’t been tested. Please see the FAQ for additional info.

Adobe CS4 apparently does not require any product upgrade to run on Snow Leopard. But for older version of Adobe Create Suite such as CS3 or Macromedia Studio 8, Adobe has this to say:

Older versions of Adobe creative software were not included in our testing efforts. While older Adobe and Macromedia applications may install and run on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6), they were designed, tested, and released to the public several years before this new operating system became available. You may therefore experience a variety of installation, stability, and reliability issues for which there is no resolution. Older versions of our creative software will not be updated to support Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v10.6).

Read the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Solutions and Mac OS X Snow Leopard FAQs PDF document for details.

Apple has cleaned up the blood stain of its poster pet Snow Leopard on its website and in the retail box. The second picture shown below with traces of blood around its mouth, is in Mac OS X Snow Leopard itself as a desktop background.

Via Gizmodo.

Apparently one quadrillion is too much for Google’s calculator. Beside 999999999999997, you get the same 0 result if you minus with 999999999999998.

Well if you add a ‘1′ digit in front of the number, you get the 0 result early, starting from 1999999999999994:

1999999999999999 – 1999999999999994 = 0

1999999999999999 – 1999999999999995 = 0

1999999999999999 – 1999999999999996 = 0

1999999999999999 – 1999999999999997 = 0

1999999999999999 – 1999999999999998 = 0

If you increase the number further, you get the 0 result earlier further:

2999999999999999 – 2999999999999991 = 0

2999999999999999 – 2999999999999992 = 0

2999999999999999 – 2999999999999993 = 0

2999999999999999 – 2999999999999994 = 0

2999999999999999 – 2999999999999995 = 0

2999999999999999 – 2999999999999996 = 0

2999999999999999 – 2999999999999997 = 0

2999999999999999 – 2999999999999998 = 0

For ‘3 series’, the 0 result starts with 3999999999999988 and for ‘4 series’ it is 4999999999999985.

Interesting if someone could reveal the algorithm used for this faulty calculator. Hope Google can correct it asap.

Nokia is making the world spin this morning by announcing Booklet 3G, its first entry to selling computer. Never-mind that Nokia called its N-series smartphone a computer, we are looking at a full fledge computer with an Atom processor, 10-inch screen, netbook form-factor, integrated 3G/HSPA, build-in A-GPS, Wifi, Bluetooth, front facing camera for video calling, 2cm 1.25kg aluminum body, HDMI for HD video output, 12-hour battery life and runs Windows 7.

There is no release date or price yet. More news about Nokia Booklet 3G will be available during Nokia World 2009 happening next week.

Apple has announced that Mac OS X 10.6 will go on sale this Friday August 28 and Apple online store is now accepting pre-orders.

If you have an Intel Mac, Snow Leopard is a no-brainer upgrade with loads of refinements to 10.5 Leopard and its $29 low upgrade price. Among them are: core support for 64-bit processor, system applications such as Finder, Mail, iCal, iChat, Safari etc are now 64-bit; more responsive Finder; Mail loads messages up to twice as fast; Time Machine backups 80 percent faster for initial backup; build-in Microsoft Exchange Server support; new QuickTime X; 64-bit of Safari that is up to 50 percent faster.

When you are writing for the web, such as blog posts or comments on forum, it is a good idea to learn the basic of HTML. HTML is the markup language for web pages, it is the formatting language understood by web browsers. Writing using HTML is not as easy as using a word processor such as Pages or MS Word for text formatting but it is simple enough for most computer users. Nonetheless there are alternative markup languages other than HTML that aims to make writing for the web even easier.

HTML basics

• To denote a paragraph, you enclose the text with the open tag <p> and closing tag </p>, for example

  <p>The PlayStation 3 Slim gaming console from Sony Computer Entertainment is not only smaller and cheaper, but adds hardware enhancements that make it speedier, including a new Cell microprocessor.</p>

• For headers, you use the tags <h1>, <h2>, <h3>..etc and end the heading text with respective closing tags </h3></h2></h1>,,…etc.

  <h2>Third episode of new season’s Mad Men leaks out</h2> <p>The third episode of the Emmy-winning drama’s new season was briefly made available by mistake to holders of an iTunes Season Pass on Tuesday evening.</p>

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Facebook has submitted the latest major revision of its iPhone app to iTunes App Store for review and approval. There are lots of improvement and new features in version 3, check out the video:

Follow Facebook engineer @joehewitt where he twits about the development of the Facebook iPhone app.