“If you won’t be better tomorrow than you are today, then what do you need tomorrow for?” - Author indeterminable but sourced at ESPN.com’s story on Priest Holmes
Apple today, along with announcing new iPods, end-of-life’d the 4GB iPhone and dropped the 8GB iPhone price by $200 to $399. While Apple maintains a 14 day price match guarantee, and is honoring it for iPhones purchased during the previous 14 days, there doesn’t appear to be much in the way of a financial refund or rebate for early adopters, or “rollout buyers” as quoted to me by an Apple representative. In other words, if
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I haven’t had a daily roundup in a couple of weeks so here is a new edition with some leanings toward the upcoming football season. There is a lot of stuff happening in the web space with regards to fantasy sports. Since it has become a multi-billion dollar industry, here are some of the new things happening in the space: QB1 was a huge hit for the bar and restaurant entertainment network, NTN Buzztime. Now,
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Microsoft has released an updated beta of their Open XML File Format Converter which now supports .docx, .docm, .pptx, .ppsx, and .potx. Still no sign of an Excel (.xlsx) converter. Download the latest version of Microsoft’s Converter for Mac. Note: You will need MS Office 2004 or MS Office v.X. Update: Alternatively, you can download the free NeoOffice, a Java-based office productivity application which can read/write in the open XML format.
From my inbox, Jason asks: Do you mind if I ask what some of your favorite domain tools are? I always struggle to find a decent domain for my side projects. Here are a few that I use: http://www.bustaname.com/ http://pickydomains.com/ http://instantdomainsearch.com/ Appreciate any tips you care to share. I mainly focus on expiring domains these days, while keeping tabs on current events for other opportunities. For the expired, I have a couple of my own
10 Unsolved Mysteries of the brain. Interesting, especially about how the brain makes up for deficiencies in the senses (see #7). Dealing with information overload. My step #1, turn off the damn browser. And of course, in violation my previous statement, 100 Essential Web Resources worthy of keeping your browser open. I picked up iLife ’08 today. Pretty damn slick. Included was a 30-day demo of iWork. I don’t do many presentations these days, but
“But there’s some stuff in our industry that we wouldn’t be proud to ship. And we just can’t do it. We can’t ship junk. There are thresholds we can’t cross because of who we are.” – Steve Jobs (during Q&A of the new iMac Press Event in response to a question about going after the low-end market)
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