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Being the sucker Apple aficionado I am, I watched the the entire 90-minute Stevenote on Apple’s web site last night. (Yes, I followed the livebloggers too, but I wanted visuals. And I stopped watching when Randy Newman started performing; I find him exceedingly meh.) I could have saved myself 89 minutes (minus Randy Newman) if [...]

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Apple

Third Party Applications on the iPhone: Steve Jobs wants third party apps on the iPhone (and iPod touch) after all, and promises a software development kit (SDK) by February. [more at Apple Hot News]
Jobs confirms iTunes Plus price drop across the board: Not a full day after our initial report that Apple planned to drop [...]

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These are my links for 18 Jun:

Daily Blog Tips - You don?t need to know much about SEO to realize links are the golden road to blog promotion.
Fluther: Tap the Collective - A new twist on social question and answer sites.
25 Web Sites to Watch - The Internet is evolving in new and inventive ways [...]

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As a moderate Apple fanboy (Actually, I don’t really consider myself a fanboy, but I’ve been accused of being one.), I’ve been following coverage of Steve Jobs’ keynote at the World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) on three different sites: MacRumors, Engadget and the Mac Observer.
Of the three, MacRumors is probably the most stable and up [...]

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The Secret of Apple Design - Apple, Inc. has made an art of not talking about its products. Fans, journalists, and rumormongers who love it or love to hate it have long had to practice a sort of Kremlinology to gather the merest hints as to what is coming next out of Cupertino.
Cool business card [...]

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Apple and EMI Music inked a deal to sell DRM-free music on iTunes. The agreement allows iTunes to sell DRM-free songs at a higher bit rate (256 kbps versus the current 128 kbps) in AAC format for $1.29 each.
The lack of DRM will also allow these premium offerings to play on other digital music players, [...]

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DC is slowly returning to business as usual after this week’s winter storm. Most school systems in the area are still closed; you still have to take up miniature mountain climbing to navigate the streets on foot; two women were killed by a Metrobus last night; but at least no one’s dodging a snow plow [...]

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Lots o’ news from the good folks in Cupertino today.
At an invitation-only event in San Francisco, Steve Jobs unveiled the Rokr mobile phone, capable of playing music from iTunes. The project was jointly produced by Motorola and Apple and was in the works since May 2004.
Apple also introduced the iPod Nano, a slim, scaled down [...]

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