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I saw on the news this morning that Sony Ericsson and Fossil are joining forces to create Bluetooth watches. The watch will have a caller ID on it to show you who’s calling. When I first heard this, I thought the watch(es) would only have a digital face. As much as I liked digital faces on watches when I was a kid (I was too lazy to bother with the hands), I prefer analog watches nowadays. The only downside to this is that the watch needs charging, which won’t be too bad if it had a USB connector like my RAZR and Bluetooth headset. I’m not going to buy one of these for a long time since the price is going to be $400.

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In a little more than 2 months, Clerks II comes out on DVD. This also means in a little more than 2 months, I’ll get to see my name in the closing credits of a movie. The movie officially comes out on November 28.

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I was searching the web trying to find directions on how to add more RAM to my eMac and I came across the MacAddict message board. While I was looking for what I came for, I happened across a thread about .Mac. .Mac is a service Apple offers with the following:

Share and access files, photos, movies, and more:

* Host web sites and publish web pages and photo albums from iPhoto.
* Send and receive email with an IMAP/POP .Mac Mail account and use webmail to access it from web browsers.
* Enjoy access to email, contact information, and favorite bookmarks from the web.
* Purchase up to 10 additional email-only accounts.
* Instant message with .Mac member name and iChat.
* Turn photos into slideshow screensavers with .Mac Slides.
* Publish iCal calendars online and share with friends and family.

Store all your important data:

* Back up files to FireWire drives, iDisk, CD, DVD, or other mounted volumes, and use one-step backups for iLife files.
* Store, publish and share files with iDisk, your personal hard drive on the Internet.
* Designate 1 GB of combined storage space between iDisk and email based on your needs.
* Set read/write access to and password protect the iDisk Public folder.

Synchronize your most important information:

* Keep iCal calendars, Address Book contacts, and Safari bookmarks in sync between your Macs and available to you online.
* With Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger” keep critical Mail information—including Spotlight-driven Smart Mailboxes—as well as stored passwords from your Keychain in sync and access them from multiple Macs.

Create a .Mac space online for groups:

* Use a group email account to send and receive group messages.
* Access group messages, photo albums, movies, and web pages.
* View the group online calendar and subscribe through iCal.
* Share files using the iDisk Groups folder.
* Publish group web pages.

And more:

* Get exclusive tutorials on .Mac, iLife, Mac OS X, and more in the .Mac Learning Center.
* Receive freebies, discounts, and other surprises throughout the year with the .Mac member benefits program.
* Get comprehensive email-based support when you need assistance.

It’s free for the first 60 days and then after that it costs $100 a year. I tried it and the only thing I liked about it was the online storage that came with it. While I was at the message board, I found a thread about a free online file storage service called Box.net which also gives 1GB of online storage. From the thread, supposedly I can set up an iDisk on my Mac which points to my Box.net account.

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I dumped Text America for Flickr. I’d been thinking about it for a while and finally decided to do it when I noticed the latest image I uploaded didn’t appear on my website. I almost dumped them when there were supposed to go a pay only service but then they decided to keep the free portion of their site. Text America also only allowed me to show one image at a time. Now I can show up to 10 images at once but I don’t think I’ll show more than the last 3.

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I went into NYC yesterday to check out the Feast of San Gennaro. It was really crowded but worth the trip. I went with my friends Holly & Kevin. I took them to Vincent’s Restaurant, at the corner of Mott and Hester, for a late lunch/early dinner. Then we walked around for a bit. At least 75% of the booths were food related. We ended the day at Ferrara’s, on Grand, before coming home.

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Apple released iTunes 7.0 today which includes movies along with music and TV shows currently available. The pricing is comparable to buying the DVD in the stores except it’s basically already ripped so you can watch them on any PC/Mac or on an iPod including the new ones they released today. Apparently they realized how popular the different colors were for the iPod mini so they decided to release the iPod nano in the same colors. The new iPod shuffle was also redesigned and is now not much bigger than the click wheel interface to control it. iTunes 7.0 can now do gapless playback, which a lot of customers have been screaming for, and automatically import album artwork into the songs you import into your library. Before iTunes would only add the artwork for songs downloaded from the iTunes Music Store, so you would have to add the album artwork on your own. iTunes 7.0 can now sync with Outlook for your contacts and calendar information. Previously, you had to export vCards from Outlook and then copy them to the iPod manually.

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I just got back from Best Buy where I picked up Star Wars Episodes IV-VI on DVD with the original theatrical releases of the movies. That means I don’t have to settle for a CGI Jabba or Gredo shooting first in Episode IV. It sucks that they didn’t release them this way in the first place but I’m glad I have them, even though it cost me $50 to get them.

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I was getting caught up on Digg.com and came across an extension for Firefox that allows anyone to sync your browser settings across multiple computers.

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.

I just think this is awesome. It’ll help me keep the same bookmarks on all 5 computers (home PC, home Mac, home laptop, work laptop, and work PC) and the copy of Firefox that I have on my SanDisk U3 USB Drive.

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That’s what NHRA is calling the new multitiered playoff system for determining a champion in each of the four pro categories (Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, and Pro Stock Motorcycle). Basically, it copies the “Race to the Cup” that NASCAR uses. After the first 17 races, the top 8 in points move on to compete for 4 positions. The points get reset starting with 2,070 for first place, 2,060 for second, all the way down to 2,000 for eighth place. After the next 4 races, the top 4 in points move on to compete for the championship. The points are reset again, this time with first place getting 3,030 through last place getting 3,000.
Personally I don’t like this new system because I just don’t see the incentive for the other 12+ teams to go to the races. They never said what happens to the points system for the teams that either don’t make it into the top 8 or the 4 teams that make it to the top 8 but don’t make it to the final 4. What would happen if someone that finishes outside the top 8 winds up with more points than someone inside the top 8? There’s too much they didn’t mention that I’m still confused about.

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