To mark our bicentennial celebrations, Apple would like to wish us and all our readers a happy birthday by offering a brand new iPod Touch 16GB as a prize; well, it was brand new when we organised the competition - so, in fact it's the older, first-generation iPod touch.

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In this edition of MacFormat This Week...

Chris Phin reviews Apple's new iPod announcements - the iPod nano and the iPod touch. We talk to The Filter about Apple's new Genius music recommendation system that features in iTunes 8. Plus: AppleCare discussion, September shareware picks, and our regular Q&A!

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Get your hands on a huge amount of storage to go with your Mac

This month MacFormat has teamed up with Western Digital to offer three lucky readers some whopping desktop hard drives. These are Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II 2TB boxes, which should solve all your storage needs.

These are the biggest desktop drives that Western Digital offers, with a capacity of two terabytes. They are also RAID-enabled and use 30% less power than their predecessors. Each has two FireWire ports (1x 400 and 1x 800), a fast USB 2.0 port and even a cutting-edge eSATA port, and can read and write to them in blisteringly fast times from your Mac.

These drives work right out of the box, but software is included to help you partition the drives and set a backup schedule if you want to use it. You could use OS X’s Disc Utility or Time Machine to do the same job.

All Western Digital drives have light indicators to show you how the drive is operating, how full it is, and whether any warnings are afoot that you should take notice of. For more information on Western Digital’s various offerings for the Mac, please visit www.wdc.com.

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