Welcome to the blow by blow run down of the September 9th Apple “Let’s Rock” keynote presentation.  Apple has invited members of the press to an event simply titled “Let’s Rock’ which suggests that today will be all about music, iPods and iTunes. 

Below we’ll be updating the news from the event as soon as we get.  You can see the events unfold on our Twitter account.

As you would expect, todays proceedings begin with the Apple Store closing for ‘updates’.  New updates at the bottom, pictures to follow later today.

07:30 - Apple Store Down
09:50 - Coverage starts on The Blog of Ross C Brown and AppleLive Twitter Account
09:52 - Welcome to our coverge.  The press are in, it is time to rock!
09:59 - Touch Me.

10:00 - Jobs is on stage.  Usual outfit.
10:03 - iTunes, 65 million customers.
10:05 - iTunes 8 and NBC is back on iTunes
10:06: HD TV shows for $2.99, SD for $1.99
10:07 - New iTunes is all about Accessibility and Browsing
10:08 - New! Genius, song that go together, together.
10:09 - Smart playlists, but well smarter.
10:10 - Demo time
10:10 - Looks very iPhoto-esque
10:11 - Go download iTunes

10:15 - iPod time.
10:15 - 73% Market Share
10:16 - Thin is the new thick.  120GB for $249

10:18 - New iPod Nano - same as the spy photos.  Cool :-)
10:19 - Has the accelermoter from the iPod Touch.
10:20 - Coverflow, better User Interface (UI)
10:23 - Shake to shuffle!
10:24 - 24 Hours battery, unless you want video then it drops to 4 hours.

10:25 - It is also good for the Environment.  Well, it is not ‘bad’ for the environment!
10:27 - $149 for 8GB, $199 for 16GB
10:27 - The come in colours, lots of ‘em.
10:28 - New headphones (not included), $79 and they sound lovely.

10:30 - iPod Touch
10:31 - Thinner, volume controls on the side and a built-in speaker.  Like the iPhone.
10:32 - Better UI, and built in Nike+, all you need is the ‘thingy’ for your Nikes.
10:35 - 100 Million Apps downloaded in 60 days.  Thats ‘100000000 over 60′ a day!
10:37 - Demo time (or time for us bloggers to rest up a little).
10:40 - Spore Origins for the iPod Touch
10:42 - Real Soccer 2009
10:45 - Steve.  He is back.
10:45 - 36 hours of tunes on the refreshed iPod Touch and six hours of video.
10:48 - 8GB for $229, 16GB for $299 and 32GB for $399.

10:50 - iPhone Firmware 2.1, things fixed.
10:52 - Crashing Apps fixed, backs up faster and out on Friday.  Free if you own an iPhone.  Also free if you don’t, but I don’t see why you would want it!
10:53 - Some dude called Jack Johnson is playing…

11:04: - Steve thanks us for coming out today.

That’s it folks, stay tuned for the rest of our coverage on the blog today.