So I am trying out the iPhone WordPress app and I have to say it’s pretty nice. I can’t imagine writing an entire entry on here but it’s decent enough for live updates and such. It’s ability to post pictures and manage multiple blogs is rather convienent. It is, however, lacking a spell check as I am sure you are well aware of by now. Overall, it’s usefull, free, and will like result in an encrease in my blogging habbits.

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“It must be ice,” said Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson. “These little clumps completely disappearing over the course of a few days, that is perfect evidence that it’s ice. There had been some question whether the bright material was salt. Salt can’t do that.”

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Tod Machover of MIT’s Media Lab-inventor of the technology behind Guitar Hero-introduces Dan Ellsey, a composer with cerebral palsy who uses the lab’s tools to write/perform his own music. Ellsey conducts his “My Eagle Song,” in a performance that underscores music’s power to give you chills. This how the use of technology can truly enrich peoples lives. Moving to say the least.

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A demo of amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. This was a multi-ovation demo from TED2008 and to top it off he does it all for the most noble of causes. For more of Johnny Chung’s Wii remote hacks check out his website.

I would also like to point out for anyone not familiar with Carnegie Mellon and the work that comes out of this amazing school. If you don’t already keep a close eye on the technology coming out of this world class facility you might want to start.

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The list of features on the new Buffalo LinkStation Mini is amazing.

• 1 TB of data
• Raid 1
• Buffalo’s proprietary Web Access feature
• Remote Power on
• DLNA server (Media streaming support)

I could careless about the size but couple this with a 3G phone and you have your data anywhere. Now all I need is that 3G iPhone I have been waiting for. Legit!read more | digg story

Today CEO of Revision3, Jim Louderback, announced a new deal with mobile video provider Transpera to bring their content to virtually any internet connected mobile device. This is big as revision3 slowly provides new and better ways to get their content to the masses any pay possible. I for one am extremely excited for this and can’t wait to see how this plays out. Go check it out at m.revision3.com

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Well, I was going to wait to start blogging a little longer but quite frankly I just don’t think I can. So I will start off with Apple’s big news they threw at the world earlier today. I made sure to read Engadget’s live blog of the keynote in San Francisco in class as it was happening. The world knew what Steve Job’s planned on unveiling from the moment invitations where sent out to the press. I even warned a few friends of purchasing new Apple gear previous to today so as to avoid any impending disappointment. But enough with the hype here are the details:

iPod Shuffle: New Colors

iPod Nano: Redesigned to accomidate a 2″ screen for video. It’s much squatter and fatter but should still be pretty small. The battery will play up to 24 hours of video and 5 hours of audio and comes in 4 GB and 8 GB models priced at $149 and $199 respectively. Personally, I think its ugly but a step in the right direction nonetheless.

iPod Classic: Yeah you read that right what we have all come to know as an iPod is now an iPod “Classic”. Besides the name change, it now comes available in 160 GB and 80 GB mobels at a price range of $249 and $349 respectively.

iPod Touch: Basically an iPhone minus the phone. It has wifi, safari, and all the touch screen iPhone visuals. They seem to have fixed a few iPhone snafus with the operating system like typing in landscape mode (this is likely to carry over with the next iPhone update later this month). Battery life is said to be 22 hours of audio and 5 of video and it comes in 8 GB and 16 GB models at $299 and $399 respectively.

So that is all the big details. They anounced the ability to browse and buy from the iTunes music store from both the iPhone and the new iPod Touch (via wifi). They also announced a new Starbucks partnership that allows you to browse and buy music being played in Starbucks and use their wifi for free on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Most of those details are less then exciting. The last few exciting things to come out of all this is with the mention of an iPhone firmware upgrade coming later this month as well as an iPhone price drop from $599 to $399 on the 8GB model. This comes at no surprise being that they discontinued the 4 GB model and will likely release a 16 GB and 32 GB model in January (thats just my guess). For more details check out Engadget’s coverage.

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I think this video says it all really. Lets keep making phone calls to our representatives and see if we can’t get this job done.

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I am finally home from a wild and crazy four days and now I am finally able to show and tell the world all the Google Developer Day goodness. I took a number of photos but unfortunately most are not that great only giving enough information to give you an idea of what it was like to be there and such. The day consisted of seminars at the San Jose Convention Center on all of Google’s different API’s and an evening at the Googleplex. The seminars were great, very informational, and full of fellow geeks. Most of what was talked about was largely of no immediate use to me and my current projects but the experience will likely prove useful for later projects. I did, however, find the talk on the Google Maps API and the tiles over lay to be rather interesting because of the future possibilities this type of flexibility offers.

The real fun didn’t come until later in the evening at the Googleplex. Google threw one hell of a party and boy do I mean it. They basically had every kind of food imaginable and open bar. Everything tasted great and of course it was all free. All of the table surfaces were white boards so people could leave notes and messages, they had Google cups that lit up in Google colors, and they opened up there night club/play area to the party goers. I met a tun of cool people and networked until the moment it was over. As promised below are some of my favorite pictures and I even composed a panorama so… enjoy… and of course I posted all of the photos in the gallery for you all to hunt around and look at. Lastly, for more information on the talks and presentations from Google Developer Day 2007 be sure to check out the Developer Day website and the YouTube channel for videos of all the goodness.

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