This is completely a rumor, but an awesome one. Citing a "pretty reliable" source, Boy Genius Report is saying that the next version of iTunes will add a bunch of new, highly requested features. Specificially, BGR's source says iTunes 9 features Blu-ray support, a new way to organize iPhone apps within iTunes, as well some kind of integration with Twitter, Facebook and possibly Last.fm.Each of those features have been talked about for some time now on the web. But as BGR notes, the talk of Blu-ray does line itself up well with an AppleInsider report from yesterday that very vaguely suggested Apple has new iMacs due shortly with features that have long been on the wish-lists of Mac owners. Blu-ray is certainly on that list, and seems like a pretty good candidate, despite Steve Jobs' calling the format a "bag of hurt" as recently as October of last year.

When you have nine pages of apps on your iPhone, it’s basically impossible to try to reorganize them. Sure, you can do it manually on the phone, using the “wiggle” method (when touched for a few seconds, apps wiggle, indicating you can move their icons), but when you move an app to a new page, if that page is already full, it pushes the last app to the page before it. So if you really want to rearrange things, you first have to pre-arrange icons so that ones you want to stay on certain pages don’t get moved. If that sounds like a mess, it’s because it is. And just to further illustrate it, a concept video for how app management should be handled has popped up on YouTube.The video, first posted on Gizmodo, features some things that we absolutely should have when it comes to app management, considering how closely the iPhone is tied into the iTunes desktop software. For example, you can drag to select multiple apps at one, and move them all at the same time. You can also “lock” certain apps to stay in the same position even when you move other ones. You can also sort apps, both alphabetically and, most importantly, by “Most Used.”Even if you don’t have nine pages of apps, a solution like this would be welcomed by everyone — it’s one of those things that just makes sense. And if Apple anticipates the App Store to keep growing — it has over 20,000 apps now, though Apple won’t yet confirm that — it’s simply going to need a better system of management for purchased apps.Of course, I’d bet that Apple realizes this and is working on some kind of solution of its own. A few months ago when I complained to the company at an event about the lack of an easy way to go back to the first page of apps if you’re on the ninth, an iPhone development team member sort of smiled and said it recognized that problem. Two days later Apple rolled out the solution (clicking the home button to go back to the first screen)...