You’ve been asking for more Apple-related posts on Bitterwallet and we’re always happy to oblige you, the kind reader. So here’s the motherlode; if you missed this evening’s keynote event which saw the return of liver-rich Steve Jobs, here are the highlights:

- new firmware; OS 3.1 for the iPod Touch with new features, including Genius for apps – Genius will suggest apps based on the apps you own

- 30,000 ringtones from major labels will be available for the iPhone, priced at $1.29 (UK price – probably 99p, we’d guess)

- iTunes 9, which should be available this evening and includes:

• Genius mixes
• improved syncing
• the ability to share songs between authorised computers
• app management (drag, drop and delete apps, move between pages)
• iTunes LP (known previous as Cocktail) – interactive photos, videos,  memorabilia, chronology, liner notes and all that old stuff that the elderly will remember getting with LPs when music was still music and had a tune you could hum, etc
• iTunes Extras, which are DVD-style bonus features for films
• arrows next to the buy buttons which let you gift items, add them to a wishlist or share on Facebook or Twitter

- a 64GB iPod Touch for $399 (£279, perhaps) as well as a 32GB for $299 and a new entry level price for the 8GB Touch at $199 (probably £149 in the UK, we reckon)

- the iPod Classic gets a memory upgrade – 160GB for $249

- the iPod Shuffle is available in new colours at a new price – $59 for 2GB, $79 for 4GB and a stainless steel 4GB special edition for $99

- Apple takes on the Flip, by adding a video camera to the iPod Nano, with one-click send to YouTube; it’ll also have a voice recorder app, a pedometer, external speaker and an FM radio. The 8GB will be $149, the 16GB is $179.

Photos from CrunchGear - thanks to MacFormat for the live blog!

Dream on fanboys; rumours that a new iPhone Nano was to be announced next month were re-animated when Crunchgear posted a case design for a smaller iPhone companion. Seemingly, accessory manufacturers receive such spec before announcements are made, so that’d be vaguely believable.

This meanwhile, looks like nothing more than ten minutes spent loafing about on Photoshop:

Crunchgear are labelling it as a “concept photo”; we’re not sure how you’d begin to use the keyboard on one of this things. It’d also mean no Apps Store, since the screens appear to be very different dimensions.

What will Apple announce at the annual Macworld Expo next month? Probably not something as radical as a new iPhone, that’s for sure; Steve Jobs isn’t even attending the event.

[Crunchgear]