iTunes LP is a 256kbps unprotected AAC album that includes digital extras.

These digital extras include photos, videos and notes.

When you download an iTunes LP it includes all the .M4A music files along with a large (potentially over 500MB) .ITLP file for the digital extras. At this stage Apple has not released a dedicated iTunes LP Development Kit.  However it is still possible to create your own .ITLP beacuse it is simply a standard Web Archive containing a bunch of HTML, JS and CSS files along with the media files.

To view the contents of an .ITLP you need only to right click it and select "Show Package Contents":

You can find more information on building an ITunes LP on Jay Robinson's blog.

Didgeroo can also create iTunes LP. If you have an album on iTunes and you would like to turn it into an iTunes LP then contact us today.

Our friends at Smashing Magazine have posted a fantastic article on Google Analytics.  Be sure to check out the section on setting goals and custom reporting.

For some time I've been using the same Mac Dashboard widget the article recommend - Dashalytics - check it out if you have an Apple Macintosh.

The article also recommends a couple of excellent iPhone Apps for Google Analytics.

[Read more via Smashing Magazine]

Both the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G came with a pitiful 2 megapixel camera with no focus control.  This was bad news if you wanted to read QR codes.

Things have improved somewhat with the release of the new iPhone 3GS. The built-in camera now has auto-focus, and its resolution increase to a slightly more respectable 3MP.

Given these improvements I was curious to see if this meant the iPhone could now handle smaller QR codes so I perfored some tests.  Here are my results:

These tests where performed using BeeTag Reader.  I have tested the half a dozen or so QR code readers available from Apples App store and I have found BeeTag to be the best of them.

Looking at these results you can see the new iPhone 3GS can read QR codes that are 40% smaller than the older iPhone 3G.  This is great news and definitely a step in the right direction, however it's still not sufficient to read many of the QR codes that appear on things such as postal mail and retail packing. For this to happen the iphone would need a switchable macro lenses like the mobile phones in Japan.

Tired of forgetting all your mates birthdays?

Sick of having to manually add facebook events to you iphone?

Well now you can have your facebook events and birthdays wirelessly syncing with your iPhone!  The brilliant people at mixin.com have built a fantastic facbook app that does all this for you for free.

All you need is the following:

• A facebook account
• iPhone or iPod Touch updated to version 3.x

Instructions after the break.