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Fall is fast approaching, and that means new product announcements from Apple. I have written about some of Apple’s new developments earlier on my blog–you can find my previous posts here and here. Apple is set to make some new announcements in mid-September, and the word is that a new iPod Video [...]

The Google Maps Mania blog recently did a post on the educational uses of Google Maps and Google Earth. For those who have not experimented with these services, Google Maps is Google’s web-based mapping program (similar to MapQuest or Yahoo! Maps), and Google Earth is a desktop-based program (that still uses the internet) [...]

Google recently announced that they are making out-of-copyright books available as free PDF downloads via Google Book Search. See this Technorati post for more information. Here are some of the books curently available:
Ferriar’s The BibliomaniaA futurist from 1881’s 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth CenturyAesop’s FablesShakespeare’s HamletAbbott’s FlatlandHugo’s Marion De LormeDunant’s [...]

Merlin Mann of 43 Folders clued me in to this recent post by 14 year old New Zealand blogger Glenn Wolsey. Dealing with e-mail is becoming more and more difficult over time, and it is probably going to get worse rather than better. Even excluding spam (of which I get at least [...]

A really interesting meta idea that just caught my attention is SuprGlu. This is a really interesting new Web 2.0 service that allows you to pull much of your digital content floating around into one page. You give SuprGlu some blogs (Blogger, Xanga, LiveJournal), photo sharing sites (Flickr), and social bookmarking sites [...]

The Punk-o-Matic is truly awesome. This is a Flash-based punk rock track generator. Click on the squares to increase the number of drum, rhythm guitar, or lead guitar repetitions. Once you start playing with it you will be hooked. You can save your tunes or load old tunes as well. [...]

The Nashville Symphony is set to open its new $120 million Schermerhorn Symphony Center this fall. This orchestra has really turned itself around in the past several years–it is now one of the fastest growing orchestras in the United States.
Here is a quite from a recent Polyphonic.org story:
Did you hear? The’?re building a $120 [...]

I recently wrote a post (Wordpress.com versus the new Blogger) in which I compared the feature sets of the new Beta Blogger with the freely hosted blogs available on Wordpress.com, and also what new features are being rolled out in the new Beta Blogger.
This recent post from the Googolians blog makes some interesting points regarding [...]

Picking the right set of bass strings can be a difficult and expensive process. Experimenting with a variety of brands is the only way to find strings that work for you and your bass, but each set of strings runs $150-200, which limits experimentation. Some (but not most) local luthiers will let you experiment with [...]

September begins my tenth month of blogging. I was recently going over my archived posts from my first couple of months with this blog, and it is pretty painful to read these old posts. My blog (to me, at least) has gotten a lot better over the months, and I hope that [...]