Am I the only one to think that the design of the new Nano, purportedly being announced this coming Tuesday 9th September, is a bit of a step backwards ?

Well the rumours have come true. Apple has sent out invites for an event titled “Lets Rock” for next Tuesday the 9th September. The event will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco rather than the usual Moscone Center. The design of the invite suggest as widely predicted that the event will be an iPod event.

DropBox is the latest and greatest file and photo sync service available on the Internet. Currently in closed beta access to the service is invite only but UKMac.net has a number of invites available to anyone who wants one, simply post a comment on this blog post and we will send you one by return email.

Tiler is one of those applications you won’t need often but when you do you can never find a way to do it. Tiler, as the name suggests prints out documents as “tiles”. The number of tiles, horizontal and vertical, can be added to to increase the size of the final output. So if you want a large banner for a birthday party create and save the banner as a PDF using your favourite application, then load the PDF into Tiler and scale up to the desired size.

The iWork suite of applications ( Numbers, Pages, Keynote ) comes with a number of really well made templates designed to get you producing superb quality, impressive looking documents in no time at all. But what if the pre-installed templates aren’t quite what you need for your current project or task ?

Apple have yet again updated the ever popular iMac. Todays announcement introduces a new high end model sporting a 3.06Ghz Core 2 Duo, upgraded graphics in the form of an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS and 512MB of dedicated video memory and hard disc capacities of up to 1Tb.

There was a time not too long ago when controlling what your kids got up to on the Internet was easy. There was one family computer linked to the Internet by a slow dialup connection and it was probably located in a communal room, so your teenage son didn’t get much opportunity of surfing the seedier side of the Internet ( at least not when the rest of the family was around ! ).

Ok, so I saw this meme over at Fiddyp.co.uk and thought I would take up the challenge. The aim is to produce your name ( or in this case the name of this site ) as an image then upload to your site. Continue reading for full instructions.

Apples .Mac service is an excellently put together package of services that compliments the iLife suite of software and OS X perfectly, however, there are some people for whom the additional cost of .Mac cannot be easily justified. With Leopards new Time Machine providing instant and invisible backups of all your local documents the .Mac iDisk facility is perhaps less necessary than in the past, although an offsite copy of important documents is always worth investing time in if your information has any value at all.

Now I am not sure if this is just me and I somehow missed the big announcement but who else knew that McDonalds restaurants in England now have FREE WiFi ?