I covered FriendFeed rooms already and I think it’s a good addition to an already successful system at FriendFeed. Yesterday, FriendFeed rolled out new features for FriendFeed rooms.

One of these features is pretty significant: Semi-public rooms. Semi-public rooms allow an administrator of a room to have control over the posts [...]

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Today, Apple plans to announce the roadmap for third party development of iPhone applications. This is done through a Software Development Kit or SDK. One thing I would recommend is to set your expectations a bit low. Although Steve Jobs promised a SDK in February, there is no indication that there will [...]

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Chris Pirillo prefers Rhapsody over iTunes. Music subscriptions (Rhapsody) would be a waste of money for me and are not a viable solution at all. Here’s 10 reasons why:

I barely spend $15 every 6 months on music, let alone every month.
I listen to great podsafe music and I buy the music [...]

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On my podcast, I utilize many promotional tracks for my show from IODA. I’ve gotten great feedback from my listeners and I know why: Independent music is great. I love jazz music and I thought what better way to promote some jazz music than to create some iPhone ringtones! Here are [...]

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Now that everyone’s had a chance to digest the new announcements from Apple at Macworld 2008, I’ll go ahead and express my thoughts on each announcement:
Time Capsule [link]

From Apple’s perspective, this creates a great incentive for users to upgrade to Leopard. I believe users will see the benefit of Time Machine and also justify [...]

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One of the improvements in Mac OS X Leopard is a new voice called “Alex”. This voice has some realistic characteristics about it and definitely bests the old 1984 sounding voices in Mac OS X. The text to speech functions in OS X are great for those who have vision impairments or those [...]

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Apple, Inc unleashed their newest operating system, dubbed, Mac OS X (pronounced “Oh Es Ten”) Leopard, or just “Leopard”. You haven’t heard? I’m sorry. Well this update to the popular operating system, “Tiger”, has been on the hearts and minds of Apple geeks for almost two years. If [...]

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