This week’s top Apple-related headlines:

• Steve Jobs had liver transplant two months ago, return to Apple imminent?
• iPhone OS 3.0 fixes 46 security bugs
• AT&T denies $55 additional monthly charge for tethering plan
• Rogers in Canada allows users to tether with iPhones for free until 2010
• AT&T hot-spots now auto-connect in iPhone 3.0
• Apple releases bluetooth, safari updates
• AT&T updates upgrade policy for iPhone 3GS
• iPhone OS 3.0 is now available
• Apple releases help document pertaining to non-Apple devices syncing with iTunes
• Quicktime X supports .flv files?
• Apple releases critical Java update
• Snow Leopard Up-to-date program announced for new Mac purchases
• AT&T won’t charge extra for iPhone MMS
• New 13″ and 15″ Macbook Pros shipping with Slower SATA?

This Week’s iBAM Posts:

• Shovebox: the digital data dumping ground

There is no lack of information retention and note-taking software available to mac users, but one of the emerging players is Shovebox, a new piece of software from WonderWarp.

Unlike some of the other applications available for this purpose, Shovebox acts as a menu bar application, not a program with a huge interface and lives in the dock. There is a window that you can open up for organizing and viewing documents, but many functions can be completed using keyboard shortcuts and the menu bar.

The methodology for Shovebox is also slightly different, as it serves as a dumping ground for information, and aims to make it easy for you to do so. You can import photos, text documents, websites, PDFs, bookmarks, and many other file types. Files are, by default, deposited into the Inbox, which can be then organized into folders, flagged, and labeled with colors.

Shovebox also allows for taking iSight snapshots and writing text files from within the application. In fact, Shovebox is able to ‘quick-jot’ by invoking a keyboard shortcut and writing a quick note. Notes that are created can have comments, keyboard shortcuts, export abilities, formating fonts, and titled.

Luckily, there is also a Shovebox iPhone app. You can read my Macworld review of Shovebox Mobile here. Because Shovebox is relatively simple. it can often be used in conjunction with your current productivity and note-taking system easily. If you’re on the lookout for a replacement to your current note-taking system, Shovebox can be implemented with ease.

It is available for download and purchase on the WonderWarp software. After the 30-day trial, it costs $24.95, while the iPhone app costs about $4.

This Week’s Top Apple Related Stories, Post-WWDC Keynote:

• AT&T Sells out of iPhone 3GS Pre-Orders
• Apple starts seeding Mac OS X 10.5.8
• Safari tops 11m downloads in 3 Days
• Use that SD Card Slot for More
• iPhone 3GS Specs Revealed
• Apple Launching iDisk App with iPhone OS 3.0

This Week’s iBAM Posts:

• Scanning Delicious Library
• WWDC ‘09: What Just Happened

Taking inventory of your possessions can be an immense task, if your faced with entering information into a database or spreadsheet about every product. Luckily, there’s a much more elegant and easier solution in Delicious Library.

With its revolutionary barcode scanning technology, Delicious Library allows one to scan in products using an iSight and have the computer automatically find the information. Items can also be added manually. All the products can then be viewed on virtual shelves, or by list.

The library of items are organized into a series of different groupings, such as ‘Movies’, and ‘Software’. These groups are automatically determined based on the product, but custom shelves can be created for custom groupings. Smart shelves can also be added based on a set of given criteria.

Delicious Library also allows for tracking items as you loan them out. ‘Friends’ can be added to Delicious from the OS X Address Book and their loaned out items can be tracked in iCal.

There’s also functionality within Delicious that allows for exporting to the web. Libraries can be exported to MobileMe, iWeb, using FTP, or to a local folder. The templates generated are beautiful, similar to the interface of the desktop application. Online libraries can also be imported into other users Delicious Libraries under the ‘Friends’ tab. For instance, you can add your friend’s library based on their online MobileMe Delicious Library. Libraries can also be exported to an iPod.

The application is beautifully designed, and works like a dream. If you’re interested in taking inventory of your various items, Delicious is definitely the easiest and slickest way to go. At $40, Delicious Library isn’t cheap, but the functionality provided makes up for it, and many will find the application useful. It can be purchased or downloaded for a free trial from the Delicious Monster website.

You might be in a whirl after Apple’s announcements today at WWDC, or you’re simply looking for what happened. Here’s a breakdown of the keynote’s events:

Macbooks

• Macbook Pro Updates: Updated (and better) battery using technologies in 17-inch for all MBP models, SD Card Slot replaces Express Card slot, Faster Processors maxing out at 3.06ghz, Up to 8GB DDR3 RAM. Integrated Graphics only on the 13-inch and low-end 15-inch models, advanced graphics on high-end 15-inch and all 17-inch models.
• 13-inch Macbooks are now apart of the Macbook Pro family, starting at $1,199. The ‘macbook’ is the white model from here on out.
• Speed update and price drop to the Macbook Air
• Mac users are now 75million, tripled from 2 years ago

Snow Leopard

• Snow Leopard pricing is $29 for single-user and $49 for a family pack
• Apple Introduces QuickTimeX – with improved UI, HTTP Streaming, export to web, improved editing, performance and quality improvements, and a brand new icon!
• What we already knew: Snow Leopard introduces 64-Bit support, exchange support, OpenCL, GrandCentral
• iChat has better a resolution and video quality when AV chatting; Time Machine backups are 50% faster; PDF selection is refined; Disk Eject is improved, safer; File Sharing is improved; Automatic time zone setup and automatic printer driver updates via internet
• Install footprint from Snow Leopard is lighter, freeing up 6GB of space and 45% faster than Leopard
• Dock Updates: New ‘Click+hold’ menu and functionality allows to operate exposé from the dock; Stacks are now scrollable and can drill into folders from within stacks
• The Finder was re-written with no UI changes, but speed and performance enhancements

iPhone OS 3.0

• Update will be available worldwide on June 17, free for iPhone suers and $9.95 for iPod Touch users
• New Find My iPhone – MobileMe service allows users to locate their missing iPhone, make it ring (whether or not in Silent Mode), can remotely wipe iPhones
• HTTP Streaming support, HTML5 Support, AutoFill in Safari, 3x Faster Javascript performance, support for audio/video tags; 30 more languages supported
• Can now download TV Shows and Movies, rent Movies using the built-in iTunes app on the iPhone
• Tethering Details: sharing connection via USB or Bluetooth, PC Or Mac, available by carrier support. NO AT&T SUPPORT IN THE US
• Apple recapped announcements and features from the March event; had developers demo their apps with new SDK. (TomTom demo’ed new turn-by-turn app with hardware kit for car – very cool)

iPhone 3GS

• Will be released on June 19th in the US and other countries, 80 countries by August. (Apple showed off a new commercial featuring the 3Gs)
• iPhone 3GS is priced at $199/16gb $299/32gb. iPhone 3G 8GB will continue to sell for $99 (All prices are subject to carrier subsidization).
• Battery life is improved – Internet life: now 9hrs (was 6hrs), while watching video: now 10hrs (was 7), listening to audio: 30hrs (was 24, 2G talk time: 12hrs (was 10)
• New built-in compass – integrated into Maps and standalone app, orients to direction for maps, developers have access to the APIs for compass
• 3GS comes with text-to-speech functionality, built-in Nike+ Support, Hardware encryption, encrypted iTunes backups
• Voice Control – Hold down the home button to open up voice control interface that allows you to make phone calls, see various iTunes functions, and more by using vocal commands
• Video Recording – from within the Camera app, 30fps VGA, auto-foucs/white-balance/exposure. Video Editing and sharing from within the iPhone – send via MMS
• Camera is improved to 3 megapixels, with better light sensitivity, autofocus, auto-white-balance, can tap to focus, and auto-macro
• iPhone 3GS (s for speed) announced with major speed improvements – messages launch 2.1x faster, SimCity loads 2.4x faster, Excel attachments load 3.6x faster, NYTimes loads 2.9x faster. 3G HSDPA is 7.2mbps