Apple didn’t announce anything spectacular yesterday. Their iPods got upgraded. Especially the Nano, now called Nano Chromatic.

The Nano got a motion sensor now also allowing to view images in landcape just by rolling the Nano. And a cool new feature called the “iPod shake”: just shake your iPod to shuffle to a next song on your Nano.

Art2blog is going on holidays for 1 week to Bodrum. We’ll be back on October 4th. In mean time don’t stop reading our favourite colleagues. If you still have some holidays planned, check out Fasten Seatbelts where you can find the “Do’s and Don’ts” of the country you’re visiting.

We will certainly remember that:

• In Turkey, it is rude to show the sole of your shoe.
• In Turkey, the “OK” sign is very rude.
• In Turkey, in crowded busses (Dolmus), the way to pay for your ticket is to pass the money from passenger to passenger towards the bus driver.
• In various countries, you may be asked to remove your shoes before entering a home.

The last few days it has been quiet…well…now you know why. I moved our blog to my own hosting.http://www.art2blog.be is the place to be now…I’ll make some more changes the coming days on the design but all credits go to Design Disease which created this great 3 column wordpress theme. Furthermore you don’t have to change your rss feed address, that stayed the same (http://feeds.feedburner.com/art2blog)!

Hope you enjoy…

Received several mails from contacts to join their social network on the Quechup site. Ignore these! Don’t know what the final plan is, but once you register the engine behind the site proposes to import online contacts from your webmail account like Hotmail, Gmail, … once imported all these get a mail from you inviting to join Quechup again. Pure spam with hopefully no other harmful intentions (viruses?) behind.

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If you are a real MS freak and want to hide your iPod or iPhone, this is the solution :-)
Hide your iPod in a Zune…just click order now and see ;-)

http://hideapod.com/

Back in business like Kristof said. What a relaxing holiday, finally I had the time to listen to the tons of podcasts on my iPod which are on there since a while :-). While doing that I came by some very good ones, one I liked a lot was 360view; very interesting subjects and speakers and a good way of tackling the subject. Another one I love a lot is the PhotoshopTV videocast. The way it’s put togheter is just awsome! Good tutorials, tips and tricks and more. If your a photographer or designer, beginner or expert…you can’t miss it! I learned some really cool tricks for my holiday pics…

On the way back home we were on the flight with a BV (bekende vlaming), Ellen Dufour (first Big Brother winner) who was in Thailand for the P-Magazine bikini special. We actually had a chat with her in the airport and she’s a pretty straightforward friendly girl…not like most other Belgian models. A pitty we didn’t know where the photo shoots took place ;-)

Same as Kristof I have tons of RSS feeds to catch up with, one I like a lot is the The Big Kiss record. They’re gonna try to break the world record “the most people kissing at the same time”. Of course to do that you need a lot of people together at the same time and they’ve found just the place (and time) Rock Werchter, Belgium’s biggest music festival.

As dessert this arty iTunes banner. Too bad Wordpress doesn’t allow playing Flash files, or including them as image.

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Announced for June back in February, Apple kept its promise: introducing the iPhone. As always the ads are awesome: “How to” - “There has never been an iPod” - “Seafood“.