Happy Tuesday,

Well, since last week, we have an all-new Mac mini, a new iPhone hitting shelves and mailboxes tomorrow and a new iPhone operating system called iOS 4.

I downloaded and installed this new operating system on my iPod touch last night, but I haven’t had time to really get to know the new features. It’s only a second-generation iPod touch, and not all the features are available; third-generation iPod touch is required for all the features, and the software is unsupported on first-generation iPods. This new operating system is a great excuse to get that next generation iPod touch when comes out, whenever that happens to be. iPhone 3G is mostly supported, and iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 offer full support.

Kali wrote an excellent roundup of the features for this week’s issue, and for our blog, Barkings!

The new Mac mini is striking, and Jon made one of the first unboxing and RAM installation videos. Mac mini is a powerful, energy-sipping solution, and I’ll be upgrading mine soon. In fact, Mac minis are slowly taking over our server room, replacing Xserves left and right. We’re already seeing energy savings, not just from the servers themselves, but the powerful air conditioning system is less stressed—this saves even more energy than the server switches themselves.

Apple also substantially upgraded MobileMe in the past week.

As always, thanks for reading, and keep in touch.

Matt
matt@smalldog.com