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With everyone and their mother chiming in about the iPhone, I figured I should probably say a thing or two about mine.

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Are you a seasoned, graphic designer, web developer, video editor, or multi-media guru? Are you excited about the new Adobe CS3 products? Do you already know which CS3 applications you want to upgrade to? Are you a little frustrated that not all of the applications you want come bundled in any of the CS3 Suite packages? Do you need help determining the most cost effective way to purchase the CS3 applications you know you need?

I am and I do. I thought others might be too, so I made the Adobe CS3 Configurator.

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After reading John Gruber’s thoughts about Tantek Çelik’s Three Hypothesis of Human Interface Design yesterday, I felt compelled to contribute to the subject. For those of you mildly interested, but scared of large words, I recommend reading the Daring Fireball post. You’ll get the general idea.
At first I considered sending an email to [...]

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Steve Jobs just served the world a big fat slice of DRM reality pie:

• iPods play music purchased from stores besides the iTunes Store.
• Apple does not lock down music to keep their iPod on the top.
• 97% of music on iPods was purchased somewhere other than the iTunes Store.
• 90% of music sold by the “Big 4″ does not have DRM protection.

The biggest, most exciting remark was to urge the industry to put pressure the Big 4 to stop requiring retailers to sell DRM protected music. He backed up this statement by saying that Apple would jump at the chance to sell music in the iTunes Store without DRM protection.

I’m thinking big changes are afoot.

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Twitter is all the rage. I’ve had an account for about a week. While I personally find it distracting and somewhat egocentric, I still see its benefits and feel obligated to give it a fair try. The iconfactory just released a freeware app called Twitterific that lets you tweet (post) and stream the tweets of your friends in a cute little floating window. Unlike most things released by the iconfactory, it’s not quite up to snuff.

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I was just downloading the Macworld podcast of Cable Sasser and John Gruber from Macworld.com and spotted an ad for a website I spent the last few weeks building out. I’m sure Dan and Greg (project manager and designer respectively) will be equally as tickled to see the fruits of our labor being hocked above two of our favorite Mac bloggers/Developers.

Sorry if I embarrassed you in front of the ladies, guys.

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They essincially turn the OS into a web browser if you don’t activate. That’s fantastic! The only use I have for Microsoft Windows is to see what parts of my sites need fixin’ in IE.

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A little late to the party, but I’m making a retraction to my innitial thoughts on Leopard. It’s worth the $98 to $130 it will cost you. If you don’t think so, you’re Mac will work fine without it, but you will be left behind like the stingy looser you are.

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John Gruber may have just almost—not exactly, but kind of—validated my iMac dropping the “i” for just “Mac” prediction.

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Is that cancer still hanging out? Rumors are starting to go around. He looks a little scrawny…

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