There are a bunch of “apps” that do not work for me. Most of this is because of InputManagers have been removed by Apple. It will be interesting to see what will happen from this and how, if ever, this applications will work again.

So because of InputManagers being removed, one popular app that no longer will work is PlugSuit aside with aFloat. This allowed me to keep certain applications on top of others no matter what. While I barely use this anymore like I use to for my own reasons. I will be able to live without this I am sure.

iStatMenus also does not work and no update has been released yet even after all this time they had to update it. They are working on an update (2.0) and it is in beta already and should be released in the next few days the developer says.

Chax is another InputManager application that does not work. But do not fear as it is its own app now with iChat inside of it. Chax Alpha 1 is out that gives you bare minimum of the Chax features. A lot that you will miss and have to wait for as the developer has time to code and release updates. [UPDATE] Alpha 2 is out and released more missing features that you may of used that I used such as auto-accepting features and bug fixes to some features that did not work in Alpha 1.

Okay, aside from those applications. I have not really had much of a problem with others or have had a lot of time to check all of what I have. Moving on though, I am absolutely still loving Snow Leopard. Expose got a HUGE upgrade that is 10x better than before. Expose now includes minimized apps and even a better interface than before. You will notice some menus like long clicking dock icons look more iPhone-like too.

Overall, I am impressed with Snow Leopard even if some applications need to be updated or may never work again because of InputManagers being removed. Maybe we will see something different with this in the future from Apple or not. I do recommend the $30 or less upgrade. If you are upgrading from 10.4, you can upgrade to 10.6 from 10.4 so do not cave in and pay the even more increased price and save money by getting the $30 version as they are both the same.

First off, I understand that Apple is getting much bigger than they were years ago. They have many, many new stores now with more stores to open up. Also the fact that their website is much better and to buy from. So they no longer really need to get out to the world on what is new or going to be coming out and when. Especially with how many blogs there are today and newspapers that report on new Apple products and such.

Now, that being said. I am still sad to hear this is the last MacWorld. I have always enjoyed not only watching it when they come out (I have not watched them all..) but I have always been there to watch live blogger posting pictures and text of what Apple is announcing at the time for them being there. I do not think it would be such a big deal though for them to cancel it, if Steve Jobs would actually be attending the last one. You would only think he would do that for the Apple Fan Base. But I guess not.

iTunes 8.0 was the first update to be introduced. A new feature ‘Genius’ was introduced. Which is just an awesome feature that I can not wait to play with. One part of it, is that it picks similar artists and songs related to what you are listening to that you may like that you do not own. It also will create a playlist for songs similar to what you’re playing that you may love too. I highly suggest checking this out and playing with it yourself! All of this information is sent to Apple anonymous, so there is no need to worry if you were.

Next, new iPod nanos! Yes, Kevin Rose got another thing right too. Not only did he first mention this and later iTunes 8.0 coming on his video rumor. The new iPod nano is very slick. Thank god they learned that no one liked the design they just came out with. They have a very nice design now, sporting a slightly bigger screen, too. New price is $149 for 8GB and $199 for 16GB. You will get 24 hours of music and 4 hours of video, typically. The Genius feature is included as well and can be used by simply pressing and holding the center button.

New in-hear headphones. They ship with 3 earbuds and have 2 drivers each, a subwoofer and tweeter. They will sell for $79.

Updated iPod Touch coming out! It will have the same display but also be even thinner. It will have a contoured stainless steel design (like the new iPod nano). They’ve integrated volume controls to the side now and now comes with a built-in speaker. Steve Jobs even mentions that it was hard for them to do that with the iPod Touch being even thinner now. App Store is now built in and of course, comes with Genius feature that is in iTunes 8.0.

Continuing with the iPod Touch, they enhanced the UI and better artwork on albums. They’ve built-in Nike+ now with the Touch. So the receiver is built-in but you will need the transmitter in your shoe. You will get around 36 hours while listening to music and 6 hours of watching video. The 8GB will sell for $229, 16GB for $299 and 32GB for $399.

iPhone firmware 2.1 was introduced. Steve Jobs says this is a big update and fixes lots of bugs. Fewer dropped calls, big battery life improvements and no crashes with Apps. Backing up is also faster too. This update will be free to all owners this Friday, September 12th, 2009.

That ends what was shown and talked about at this Apple Event minus some additional talking of statistics and such.

I will not resort to creating an ugly playlist for this but for the meantime I am going to have to deal with storing them in Movies.

Also, Apple needs to fix, what I imagine is a bug, “Get Info” from any of the Movies or Videos that I add so I can edit their name and all the other information for the them. It just will not bring up the box when I right click get info.

Take a look at the plans here: http://www.apple.com/iphone/easysetup/rateplans.html

Let’s start with the Individual Plans, the prices are actually not bad for what you get except for the SMS text messages, whoever thought about giving only 200 SMS text messages per a plan is a moron, I can totally understand if Plan 1 was 200, then Plan 2 was 300 and Plan 3 was 400 and then as they already stated, each plan can have more text messages be added but 200 across the bored? That’s ridiculous. What genious over at AT&T thought about the minutes per plan too? Why not make Plan 1 400 or 500 minutes instead of 450 or Plan 3 1300 or 1400 minutes instead of 1350? Sigh.

Oh and I just noticed Plan 1 has 5000 Night & Weekend minutes, they should just give you Unlimited too since basically everything else would then be the same except for more regular minutes.

Moving on to the Family Plans. Why must we have prices such as $80.00, $100.00 and $120.00? Why not $79.99, $99.99 and $119.99? For one, they look cheaper and two, now I have to pay 1 penny more? I’m glad that switching to get an iPhone would actually make me go bankrupt because I really do want one but I’m with T-Mobile, I love T-Mobile and I have a family plan already that I would have to go through all the trouble switching all 3 phones, paying a shit load of more money, especially the first month and be on AT&T’s network, which I don’t want to be on.

At least the Family Plans have minutes that look good, nothing like 750 minutes for Plan 1 and such. But 200 SMS text messages for FAMILY?! When you will have at least 2 phones, most likely more. That’s retarded and that’s NOT per phone, people text a lot these days so you will be paying more to get more text messages added.

I know in the end, the plans are not so bad because you do not have to pay for Data (Email/Web) or Visual Voicemail.

End rant.