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# My web service provider, NearlyFreeSpeech.net, is moving their servers to a new data center on Monday, September 10. That means that this site will be off-line from 3pm until 11pm or thereabouts on that day.

# Apple - New iPod Line - if you live on Mars, you may not have heard about the new iPod line. The Shuffle comes in new colors, for $79. The Nano is wider, has a 320x240 video screen, and comes in 4GB for $149 and 8GB for $199. The disk-based iPod has been renamed iPod Classic. It comes with 80GB for $249 or 160GB for $349. There's a new iPod Touch, the iPhone without the phone. 8GB for $299 or 16GB for $399. The iPhone's price has been reduced by $200 to $399 for the 8GB model. The 4GB model is available for $299 while supplied last, but Apple won't be manufacturing it any more. You can watch Steve Jobs' keynote for demoes of all the new features and two songs by K.T. Tunstall. And there's an iPod Touch Guided Tour. Ringtones for iPhone, though I couldn't find any ring-toneable songs in the iTunes store, purchases on your iPhone or iPod Touch, and one-touch purchase of the last 10 songs played in your local Starbucks, once that service is rolled out. Gizmodo has video of the new Nano and Classic packaging.

# Steve Jobs - To all iPhone customers - paid more for your iPhone than you'd pay today because you decided to be an early adopter. Hey, that's how technology works. Get over it. But, we're gonna give you $100 for your trouble, anyway, just because we're nice guys, and some of you are angry enough to have a real effect on our bottom line. [everybody]

Third, even though we are making the right decision to lower the price of iPhone, and even though the technology road is bumpy, we need to do a better job taking care of our early iPhone customers as we aggressively go after new ones with a lower price. Our early customers trusted us, and we must live up to that trust with our actions in moments like these.

Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store. Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple's website next week. Stay tuned.

# John Gruber at Daring Fireball - The Price Cut Heard Round the World - some common sense form a man who obviously understands capitalism. [daringfireball]

Here's where we disagree. A fair price is whatever people are willing to pay in an honest, competitive market, and doesn't necessarily bear any relation to the cost to produce the good or service. Price collusion between supposed competitors is unfair, but a high price set by one competitor in an honest market is not. When a product is in high demand, it's natural to charge a high price. A company is under no moral obligation to limit themselves to some sort of maximum "reasonable" profit in the face of consumer demand that would bear a higher price.

# Digg - Don't Update To iTunes 7.4 Yet! It Destroys iPhones! - if you jailbreak your phone, and then sync with iTunes 7.4, you get a brick that won't boot. Likely fixed soon, but if you have a jailbreaked phone, don't upgrade. I noticed, on my non-hacked iPhone, that the first sync after installing iTunes 7.4 took a very long time. Subsequent syncs were normal. [irc]

# Freeverse - Big Band Sudoku is available for iPhone. Worked for me in Firefox. Fastest way I found to get to it on the iPhone, without a link to tap, is "freeverse.com/iphone". It's big, though. Likely slow to load over Edge. [macworld]

# jinx.de - JollysFastVNC may bear watching if you need a remote access client. Still alpha, but it aims to "become the best VNC client on the Mac." Haven't tried it. [macosxhints]

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