Without any big announcement, Apple has updated the Time Capsule, the wireless device that integrates an Airport access point and a backup system. Initially, the offer featured two different types of hard disks: 500Gb and 1TB, and the new generation doubles the capacity: the two new versions are respectively 1TB and 2TB.

The price remains untouched, hence the cost per gigabyte is lowered to half. The new Time Capsules are already available on the Apple Store Online.

Apple has started to ask the developers to add keywords when submitting an application to the App Store, in order to make the research easier. The developers will have to hurry to send the keywords also for those applications already in store. They will need to send an additional file with maximum of 255 characters.

Now that the applications on the store have reached a rather high number, for Apple it became essential build a search system that can be more precise, in order to give all applications a good visibility.

Apple has distributed another build for their Leopard update: Mac OS X 10.5.8 this morning: the changelog from this latest release could indicate that the final release date is really near, as the changelog doesn’t mention any “known issues”.

In fact, Apple has been distributing builds to selected developers who are asked to verify the corrections made and report bugs; now it seems the work has been completed and it’s likely that users will see a Software Update around the first days of August.

Apple has released a pre-release beta 3 version for the iPhone OS 3.1 (7C116a) for iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPode Touch 1/2G. According to what the first developers have said, this version introduces the copy/paste for small video files and also offers the possibility of controlling the tethering service usage.

As it’s common on betas, the developers have already discovered and reported a few bugs and a slower operating speed when compared to the beta 2 version. Also in this version, the hack to activate the tethering doesn’t seem to work. No further details are available.

Apple has released yet another build of their Snow Leopard beta for the developers: the build 10A421. This update comes 10 days after the previous one and it’s rather big: 741MB.

The description that came with the update doesn’t say much; it mentions a general enhancement in stability, compatibility and security. The official launch for Snow Leopard is scheduled to September 2009.

The build 7C106 for the second beta of the iPhone 3.1 was released to developers last night. Besides generic bug fixes, there are some new features such as:

- Implementation of new API for video and image editing, allowing a better control
- Update of the baseband to the 05.10.01 version
- The iPhone should suffer less overheating

From the tests done, the problem with the battery duration and continuous crash with the Mail and Messages application continue. It’s the beta testing, however, so there’s still hopes that the bugs will be fixed by the time of the launch.

According to the Taiwanese website InfoTimes, Apple would be launching their first tablet in October, with a 9.7″ multi-touch screen and less-than-welcoming prices: $800 or more. The site mentions that some Asian assemblers such as Foxconn, Wintek and Dynapack would have received the task of manufacturing and assembling the new product.

Despite the unusual display size, there seems to be little new features on this supposedly new iTablet: it should be (if the rumors are indeed true) a combination of a MacBook Air and iPhone.

Snow Leopard moves closer to its final version: Apple launched a new build to developers last night, the 10A402. The changelog for this release isn’t really that detailed on the explanations, limiting itself to highlight that the new build “Includes general stability, compatibility and security enhancements”.

The final version of Snow Leopard is scheduled to launch in September, and a golden master version should be ready in August.

Apple has released an update for the Mac OS X browser, the Safari 4.0.2 this morning. The update is advisable to all users that have Safari 4, since it enhances the general stability and security, and it also enhances the stability of the Nitro JavaScript engine. For more information, here’s the link for the official support page.

The update is downloadable from the Software Update or directly from the official page.

According to an Asian source, Apple would have ordered a huge number of photocameras, enough to make it so that every iPod, except the Shuffle, could have one on their next update. According to this rumor, Apple ordered photocamera lenses similar to those used on cellphones, but in too big a number to consider their usage only on iPhones.

This announcement actually backs up the rumors about the iPod Nano and iPod Touch updates with photocameras and the new rumor arrives just when the first images of the possible iPod Nano 5 and iPod Touch 3 cover images start to be found around the net, and both of them show a hole on the back part of the cover that could justify a photocamera. None of this covers was claimed to be for the iPod Classic, which could mean no modifications if it will still be on the list, which is already unlikely.

Of course, some sources are less than reliable, but the one seen for iPod Nano would back up the rumors about its new size. It also seems to match with the rumor of a job offer that Apple published a while ago; before the company changed it, the job offer advertisement searched engineers that could develop photocameras for iPhone and iPod.