The new Guardian and iTunes 5

In reverse order, I’ve finally got my iPod shuffle working with iTunes again. Lots of installing and reinstalling later I'm still not entirely sure what the problem was but I’ve written out what I did in a post over at the Apple Discussions site.

Anyhow, over the weekend The Guardian printed a preview of the new Berliner look which I was impressed with, and the new paper today was good to. The Berliner is roughly the same width as a tabloid, but taller. The tabloid-sized supplements are now predominantly Berliner sized apart from G2 which is magazine size, following the preview edition on Saturday. The paper seems a bit lower quality than the preview, but that’s probably a good thing for environmental stuff.

All pages are now in colour, which gives scope for more interesting design and the new typeface, discussed in more detail by Mark Bolton looks good and definitely makes a nice change. The smaller format and wider columns are going to make it easier to read, though. The digital version of the Guardian is free until September 26th, so may be worth checking out.

And we won the Ashes, of which I saw rediculously little. Working hours seem to have a habit of coinciding with daylight hours. :-(