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Well, it seems an Apple store employee may have given up the latest addition(s) to the iPod shuffle line. Josh Spear was at the Apple store and came across an employee wearing a grape colored iPod shuffle. If this proves to be true, it seems Apple will have almost completed the rainbow of shuffles. Perhaps Apple is planning a spring line of colored iPod shuffles? One thing is for sure though, I’m still waiting on a black shuffle.

This wasn’t just a cover, and I don’t think I was hallucinating; it was a delicious, grape-popsicle shade of shuffle, darker than the magenta color shown here, and if he had one (and wasn’t getting fired for wearing it on the floor), odds are we’ll all be able to get our hands on it soon enough.

And yes we know the image above is photoshopped.

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Last we told you Apple and Nike were offering their sports kit for preorder. Well wait no longer to start getting in shape because today Nike and Apple have released the sports kit. If you don’t remember, the Nike+iPod Sport Kit allows Nike+ ready footwear to communicate with the Apple iPod nano through a sensor in the Nike+ footwear and a receiver plugged into the nano. The Nike+iPod Sport Kit allows the runner to receive audible updates on speed, distance and calories burned upon request throughout the run. Apple has also integrated this with athlete playlists on iTunes and the hardware come with tracking software so you can keep tabs on your progress.

Niketown locations in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles will host launch events to celebrate the Nike+iPod product being available at retail. Mariano Rivera (New York), Chien-Ming Wang (New York) and AJ Pierzynski (Chicago), basketball player Ben Gordon (Chicago), retired basketball player Cynthia Cooper (Houston), Olympic speedskater Chad Hedrick and Olympic snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis will all be at today’s New York launch.

Niketown Chicago will host an entire day of music in connection with the adjacent Apple store on North Michigan Avenue between Erie and Superior. The day will feature a lunchtime concert by Mae from 12:00pm -1:00pm and performances by Chicago cover band Underwater People from 10:00am - 7:00pm.

Niketown Los Angeles will host a retail celebration hosted by local personality Carol Lewis and featuring Jeff Garcia from Power 106.

The Nike+iPod Sport Kit will retail for $29 and all Nike+ enabled footwear will be available at retail for $80-$100.

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It was great catching up with our resident comic Dave, now that I am back on the East Coast. We chatted over lunch and no other place than Whole Food’s and then meandered over to the 5th Ave Apple Store. This was my first time seeing it, and it was nice but nothing so special on the inside. Funny enough I was in a suite and Dave was in a shirt and jean, much like the commercials. We were going to act out the skit but opted not to. Here’s what Dave had to say after the visit:

Went to the new Apple Store on 5th Avenue today. It’s quite an impressive display of nerds and cool people all in on place as a functioning unit. As usual, I was right smack dab in between the nerds and the cool people in that little space where I flourish. That place, of course, was the bathroom. Which, by the way, was very nice.

Read [The Daily Dave]

Apple has been selling iPods and Apple branded accessories in Best Buy for a few years now, and most recently added the Mac mini. But in an un-Apple like move, the company will start setting-up shop in your local Best Buy.  The new MacBooks, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini and iMac systems will all be showcased together on prominent Apple displays within the computer section at Best Buy. Two stores already have these kiosks and more are expected to added inventory.

This should not only get Apple into areas where there are no Apple store, but consumers will finally be able to compare PCs directly to Macs. I guess Apple is really confident about this whole Intel-Mac thing.

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Not like I haven’t been to an Apple Store before (I have actually been to quite a bunch) but it is nice when they open up around the corner. Finally, I will have this cool white luxury 15 minutes away. Apple has opened a new store in the Freehold Raceway Mall in Freehold, NJ for me to come in and snap some pics, play with the products etc. Once I get back I promise a hands on review on the MacBook that many of you have been asking for.

Until then cross your fingers that I got in line early enough so I have a t-shirt to giveaway.