1) Home sharing: This is my favorite feature of iTunes 9: a legal way to share media between 5 authorized computers with almost no setup. Granted, it only works with 5 authorized computers, but its sooo cool. And this is not streaming stuff, its downloading and keeping it. It works with music, videos, apps, podcasts, basically anything thats in your library.

2) New layout for the iTunes store: Another cool feature, this one less helpful unless you are buying stuff constantly. The iTunes store has a brand new look with a navbar at the top of the window for getting to all the different categories super-quickly. I like the new layout, but it takes time to get used to it.

3) Improved syncing. App management for iPod Touch and iPhone is easier, as well as managing content you always want synced in addition to the auto-syncing. I’ve been waiting for this for a while, as have many others.

Overall, iTunes 9 is a good upgrade, and its free, so go get it at apple.com if you haven’t yet!

Click there to download the widget for Mac OS X’s dashboard. If you want to know how I made it, its called Dashcode, and its a part of the iPhone SDK that is avaliable for free. Its completely GUI based, and I simply tweaked the icon and added this feed. I’ll post a tip on how to use it when I get the chance. A review of iTunes 9 is my priority now though.

1. The most important thing (and the only thing that actually mattered for the stock price) was when Steve Jobs walked out at the beginning. Steve gave the keynote, yes! He thanked the person who gave him his new liver and also asked everyone to be as generous as that person was. For some reason, the stock price went down anyway, but that is probably because of the underwhelming announcements.
2. Next, iTunes 9 was introduced, and it has my favorite thing ever: Home Sharing. Now I can finally share my music between my computers through iTunes. And keep the music, not just stream it. My netbook is so happy that it has my music and TV shows now. Its also more full, but whatever. Also included is a new iTunes store layout, along with extra content for select Albums (iTunes LPs) and Movies (iTunes Extras).
3. The new iPod touch was announced, and it doesn’t even have the camera. What a terrible suprise. It barely has had any changes, but storage upgrades and price cuts were announced. The 32GB is $300, while the new 64GB is $400.
4. The shuffle got colors and a new 2GB model for $59.
5. The nano got the big upgrades of the day. A video camera (no still photos for some reason), a microphone, a speaker, a pedometer, and an FM radio (wow) with live pause (stop the radio and resume from where you left off, basically DVR for radio). The camera was no suprise, but the radio blew my socks off. I never expected an iPod to have a radio, and if any ever got one I thought for sure it would be the touch. Also, the 16GB is 20 dollars cheaper. The colors are nicer (somehow) and they (along with everything else) shipped yesterday.

Overall, I thought the event was good. I was especially happy with Steve, iTunes 9, and the Nano. Lets hope the touch gets the camera soon though…

Update: I just uploaded my first site to my Churchill Portfolio. Click here to see that! (Hint: Its the same site that was uploaded before with a couple of tweaks)