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Digg is one of the first things I read in the morning to get my daily scoop of news. Today when I visited I saw this on the home page.

I can’t lie, I’m a little giddy about the upcoming MacWorld keynote too. I don’t even own a mac, but I do get to play on my parent’s G5 with 23″ cinema display.

I am contemplating switching to a mac, but right now I can’t justify the cost.

Artist KT Tunstall performed at Apple’s 2007 keynote speech with her song Black Horse And The Cherry Tree. I must say she is very talented. For those of you who didn’t notice she is using a loop machine to provide the background instrumentation and vocals. She creates the loop on the fly when she starts the song.

The first miss for Apple’s new iPhone is not allowing 3rd-party apps on the device. I can live with this for now, but I would hope that eventually Apple will open the iPhone up to developers.

You can read more cons of the iPhone at Engadget.com. I still want one and it will probably take alot for me to not want one.

Apple introduced the iPhone today at a keynote speech and I am giddy as a school girl. This thing is amazing. This is what I have been looking for in a phone for years, but no one has ever got it right.

iPod / Phone / Internet Communicator
Check it out @ www.apple.com/iphone

Steve Jobs held a press conference Tuesday and announced new features for iTunes and some new products (or at least updated products). Here is a run down:

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This new release of iTunes adds movie downloads from these Disney affiliated studios: Miramax, Pixar, Touchstone, and Disney. Pricing will run 12.99 for pre-orders and the first week of release, 14.99 after that for new releases and 9.99 for older titles. Oh yeah…and you can’t burn them to DVD. Bummer.

iPods
The iPod video received a storage boost and some price adjustments on the lower end models. The nano got a colorful facelift now with 5 colors to choose from (silver, black, green, blue, pink) and a storage boost. The Shuffle was redesigned the most and is now half the size of its predecessor. I think this was a much needed design update.

iTV
This one was the climax of the show. iTV (I don’t know if that’s the final name) is a hardware device which uses WiFi to stream movies/photos from a PC or Mac running iTunes to your TV. It will be released Q1 or 2007 and will retail for $299. Last winter I started on a project similar to this, but I was side tracked by a more viable business idea. I hope to one day complete this project.

I found out about a neat little service called PodAPic (Pod A Pic) this week from Jeff Nunn. We have all seen the iPod commercials and billboards with the bright colored background and the blacked out figure with white iPod headphones contrasting against the figure.

With PodAPic, you can turn any photo into an iPod style photo. Just upload your photo to PodAPic and in about 3 business days you’ll have your PodAPic waiting for you in your inbox in all its iPod’ish glory.

This service reminds me of the funny picture booths at amusement parks, yet obviously this is web based. This is a great novelty gift idea and I can see people buying these for their friends. An option that I would like to see is the ability to have the PodAPic photo sent back in printed form on some nice glossy paper for an extra fee, but I would imagine most consumers would probably just do this themselves on their home printer. I think this is a Great niche service, so go check it out!

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