• 3G and EDGE logo changed
• You can now see how much space Apps take up in iTunes 8 on the status bar in the Summary section with the iPhone attached
• It seems you can now sync apps with one Mac and Music with another
• You can pause the installation of apps by clicking on the icon when installing them directly on the iPhone
• When listening to music with your headphones you can click the mic 3 times to go back a track
• The camera is now part of the parental settings
• New status indicator for videos - Half circle next to partially watched tv shows, podcasts or movies
• App icons stay put after an update so you can keep the order you setup
• Apps install faster directly on iPhone or with iTunes
• Backups and syncs are much faster - took only 4 minutes to backup my iPhone with 95 apps and 5 email accounts
• In iPod under songs it now has the name of the album and artist under the song name
• Pass code exploit is now fixed. Double tapping the home button does nothing until you enter in your pass code
• BIG ONE for me - play visual voice mail audio over Bluetooth headset. I could not get this to work in the past
• It might be me, but the speaker volume sounds louder or improved
• Genius playlists feature is a killer feature for me. I had hoped for something like this since I made my first playlist on my first iPod

Apple announced earlier this month that the iTunes Store surpassed Wal-Mart to become the number one music retailer in the US based on data from January and February of 2008 from NPD Music Watch.

iTunes accounts for approximately 70 percent of digital music sold worldwide. Wired notes that in the next five years, Apple's media service may well account for a staggering 28 percent of all music sold worldwide.

The software requires a Windows PC and can still convert recorded TV shows to formats playable by iPods and the PSP. A Mac version of TiVo Desktop that matches these new features is still in development in tandem with Roxio, TiVo says. The DVRs themselves are also still set to receive YouTube support later this year. TiVo Desktop is priced at $24.95 for new users but is a free upgrade to anyone running a previous version. The standard TiVo Desktop for Windows software is a free download with less features.

MetaX is a meta-data tagger for MP4 and QuickTime movie files. It uses a modified version of Atomic Parsley at it's core to write the tags. MetaX will automatically search the internet for movie posters and search IMDb for movie and TV show information (Amazon and Yahoo). MetaX can use your iSight camera as a bar scanner to a lot of the work for you. Scan your DVD barcode and MetaX will search for the tags.

Files can be added to your iTunes library automatically after writing tags. Your tag data is automatically archived, and can be exported to share with your friends. MetaX also supports a preset feature so you do not have to add tags for TV shows as you get each episode. MetaX includes a plugin found in preferences that allows you at re-write the tags for movies and TV shows you already have in iTunes.

MetaX can directly write meta data tags to mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, m4p, and mov files. Other formats such as avi can only be tagged if they are first placed inside a QuickTime mov container. This can be done with QuickTime Pro.

I found the application to work pretty well and be very useful. I did experience some bugs however. The bar scanner did not always work for me. It could not write ever file I asked it to, but this is to be expected since the files I was testing came from various sources. Most times it worked well. I found MetaX better than the other tagging apps I have tried.

MetaX 2.3.5 is available as a free download for Mac OS X Leopard and MetaX 2.3.0 is Tiger compatible. If you find the software helpful make a donation to the developer.

Two other tagging solutions for the Mac are vID Infiltr8 and Lostify.