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For those that missed the Apple Event earlier today, the legendary Andy Ihnatko did an excellent live commentary of what happened.

Its a great way to experience the event, get Andy’s take on the bits you’re interested in (for me Apple TV, iOS4.1 & 4.2) and skim read the rest

Apple Event – My Live (to tape) Blog:

Steve takes the stage and starts by showing off the glam new Paris Apple Store,…

Always enjoy a good Merlin Mann video and davebriggs pointed me towards another goodie:

Merlin Mann - Who moved my brain? (via Rutgers)

It looks like Gmail may have just got even better for all you GTD geeks out there, with their new Gmail Priority Inbox (via Google)

StreamToMe by Projects With Love:

StreamToMe is an application for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch that plays music and video files (in a wide variety of formats) streamed live from your Mac or PC. If you connect the video-out cable…

StreamToMe is an application for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch that plays music and video files (in a wide variety of formats) streamed live from your Mac or PC. If you connect the video-out cable for iPhone/iPod/iPad, StreamToMe can play through your TV, turning your iPhone/iPod/iPad into a wireless home media center.

Ely Cathedral in the Afternoon Sun

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Why You Can’t Work at Work | Jason Fried | Big Think

Some great insights by Jason Fried from 37 Signals on how to avoid interruptions in the workplace

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Why You Can’t Work at Work | Jason Fried | Big Think

Some great ideas by Jason on how to avoid interruptions in the workplace

Bluelounge:

Bluelounge was founded by designers Dominic Symons and Melissa Sunjaya as a multidisciplinary design studio. The partnership creates a true synergy of product, graphic, and interactive design, as…

MindNode:

MindNode Pro and MindNode are elegant and simple-to-use mindmapping applications for the Macintosh that help to visually:

* collect, classify and structure ideas.
* organize, study and solve…

MindNode Pro and MindNode are elegant and simple-to-use mindmapping applications for the Macintosh that help to visually:



  * collect, classify and structure ideas.

  * organize, study and solve problems.



Mind maps can be used for many different tasks – including to-do lists, brainstorming, holiday planning, research, writing, project management – and in many different environments – school, meetings, workspace.

Why you would want to use Gmail in the browser on the iPad over the Mail app I don’t know but if you do, there are some nice updates available now as Mashable outlines

Google Updates Gmail for iPad With Stacked Cards:

Shortly after Yahoo launched its HTML5-based version of Yahoo Mail for iPad, Google has refreshed its version of Gmail for Apple’s popular tablet.

(Via Mashable!.)

There is obviously a lot of money in Internet security and antivirus!

Intel Acquires McAfee For $7.68 Billion:

Intel has agreed to acquire McAfee Inc. for approximately $7.68 billion ($48 per share in cash), the company announced today. The boards of directors of both companies have approved the deal, which is expected to close following shareholder approval and regulatory clearances.

(Via Mashable!.)

Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.

Bluelounge was founded by designers Dominic Symons and Melissa Sunjaya as a multidisciplinary design studio. The partnership creates a true synergy of product, graphic, and interactive design, as well as original illustration.



The studio now designs, manufactures and distributes simple solutions to daily problems with a constant drive to transform even the most everyday items into objects of desire.

I’ve been playing around with a new iphone app called Diptic.  The concept is pretty straight forward in that it allows you to combine multiple images to create a new image, sounds simple but is actually a lot of fun.  There is an iPad version as well which I suspect is probably really nice with the larger screen.

Below is an example of one I created using photos from my recent visit to the…

Great article by TechRadar on how your online presence makes you a brand and reviews of some online tools and services you can use to monitor this.  I personally use a number of these myself and can highly recommend them.

In Depth: Why you must keep track of your online profile:

You might not realise it yet, but you’re a brand. All this time you’ve been walking…

Dictamus - Dictate & Send:

If you’re looking for a dictation app for your iphone then you should take a look at Dictamus.  The killer feature as far as I am concerned is the integration with Dropbox which has just been added