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IT'S TINY AND IT'S SHINY: Previewing at the MacWorld expo, shipping to the US in February and the UK in time for Easter: iPod minis. Smaller, prettier, cheaper, and still holding three days' worth of music.

We know iPods aren't about music so much as wrapping people up in a world where they think of Apple as the only choice for portable electronic gubbins so that when they come to launch a handheld mini-super-computer not only will people not remember Windows CE, but also won't remember Newton, but even without that element of stealth, these things are quite, quite gorgeous.

At the same time, Apple have announced Garageband, which claims it makes making music as simple as iDVD has made authoring DVDs and iMovie has made splicing films together. In other words, Liam Gallagher could use it. Classy.