A great new Mac blog has started up that typ­i­cally reviews new/old Mac appli­ca­tions, but has added a tuto­r­ial for Garage­band ’09 that would be worth check­ing out if you’re inter­ested in start­ing your own dig­i­tal band:

Get­ting Started with Garage­band ’09

Update: Speech is over. New ver­sions of iLife and iWork (sites not updated cur­rently), updated 17″ Mac­Book Pro and the news that the iTunes music store is going com­pletely DRM free by the end of this quar­ter, as well as vari­able pric­ing on songs (no more $0.99 only, now the song price will range from $0.69 to $1.29 a song).

Apple’s got a big keynote speech today in San Fran­cisco where they’ll be announc­ing new software/hardware to the world. Fol­low along at some of our favorite sites:

• Macrumorslive.com (cur­rently hacked and annoying)
• Engadget.com — Great pho­tos and coverage
• Gdgt.com — Sim­i­lar to Engad­get (for­mer Edi­tor of Engad­get, Ryan Block, runs gdgt.com)
• Ustream with Chris Pir­illo — if you want to lis­ten to the keynote and watch a nerd’s reac­tion, this is the stream for you.

So far, a new ver­sion of the iLife suite, iLife ’09, has been announced. Expect a new ver­sion of iWork to fol­low, along with pos­si­ble updates to iMacs, Mac minis and maybe AppleTV? What else are you hoping/expecting to be updated?