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Its thrilling selling that old Apple IIgs sitting in the basement on eBay for a cool $250 dollars so you can buy your new iPhone. However when it comes time to get paid you suddenly feel a little ripped off. You see not only do you get to pay eBay’s fees but you also get to pay a PayPal fee. Now you can take out the guesswork with the PayPal calc. Just insert the money you plan to get and PayPal Calc will tell you what you really will get. A simple way to save the paypal fees is to tell your customer that they pay the paypal fees in the auction. Send them to this calculator to find out what they really should pay. Chances are most people will bid before checking thinking its a small amount, but that small amount can add up if you sell many items on eBay. So save those extra dollars with PayPal Calculator.
Virtually Smudge up your Virtual iPhone
This one is not really useful but if you want to virtually own a iPhone here’s your chance. Its called the My iSmudginator and lets you virtually smudge up a brand new iPhone. When will all of this craziness end, and how do I ever look at my Treo and think its cool again? Oh I know, realize I have an extra $300 more in the bank.
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Thats Hot, Paris Hilton’s assistant waiting in line for iPhone
That’s Hot, Well it seems hype needs more hype. Paris Hilton’s assistant was seen in line today waiting in line to get her recently incarcerated and released hands on the latest greatest Apple phenomenon the iPhone. Seems even the great Hilton Heiress’ pull is not enough to get her an early iPhone peek. Of course Apple is probably not bending over backwards for ex-convicts. But who else is waiting in line?
According to the LA Times others taking part in the media whore iphone frenzy are anyone from Cher to Steve Wozniak (what!). It seems even the rich in famous are forced to wait in line for the iPhone. An Apple spokesman says “No one is getting special treatment”. Paris should be used to not getting special treatment by now but even Oscar winners aren’t getting cuts. So today while you wait in line to get a iPod look around you, you may be surrounded by the rich and famous (or hyped) maybe you can sell your spot for a few hundred thousand dollars.
Google adds Dictionary is there more up their sleeve?
Google Translate has a made little noticed yet important change, introducing a dictionary. Now when you translate something you can use their dictionary to look up how a foreign language’s word translates as well as its meaning in their language. They also go on to use the word in a few translated sentences so that you get the complete meaning of the word.
Is Google is working on their own full fledged dictionary? It makes sense, when Firefox spellcheck cannot get the proper spelling of the word it sometimes is easier to google the word instead of launching Microsoft Word. You usually get an idea very quickly of its correct spelling and links to dictionary.com.
People have been using the term “Google it” for a while now to define words or phrases. As Google is becoming less of an information aggregator, and more of a content provider it still fits nicely into their model. A dictionary would compliment Google Documents nicely as well as Blogger, Firefox with Google Toolbar, not to mention their search engine. Of course ad revenue from the dictionary would only increase their bottom line.
On this one we have no inside information, however it does seem like a logical direction given the latest development.
New Google Powered .Mac or will it be Yahoo?
Apple has been on fire in so many arenas recently that its hard to believe that anything related to Apple is struggling, but struggle .mac has. With subscriptions in steep decline Apple is planning on partnering with its ally Google to “Google Power” their web applications and maybe get a renewed boost. The new iPhone being released in a couple of days, featuring browser based applications Apple has a great opportunity to upsell iPhone customers into the new and improved .mac. While Google stands to share in .mac subscription fees, marketshare, and branding, Apple just has too many balls in the air lately. Merging their .Mac development with Google will allow them to focus on other key products while maintaining brand control.
The new .mac services will be paid branded services combining Apple’s user interface with Google’s bandwidth and back end. .Mac’s email will be a reskinned Gmail with 10 Gigs of space, some of the user functionality of the new .Mac interface will make the jump with the new “Google Powered” version so that most users will barely notice a UI change. Apple will also get a version of Google Calendar which syncs directly to iCal “with the touch of a button”. Some development is already underway between an Apple team and a Google team to find a way to integrate the user accounts of .Mac customers and Google Accounts.
Our sources tell us that a integration of the two services has been in the works for quite some time and that Google already has most of the work done and had just been waiting for Apple to jump on board. Reportedly the web applications being “Google Powered” were shown in a very early iteration to Steve Jobs himself and were given a thumbs up. Some “whiteboard” ideas offer a way to integrate iTunes Store music in a web client for .mac customers that wish to take their music with them on the go. While we are not privy to whether iTunes Store mobile made the cut, we can see how this will benefit the new iPhone immensely, inability to wirelessly downloading music has been one of the reasons competitors are claiming that the iPhone is not a good as their product.
Some of the collaboration between Apple and Google has brought back up talks that Google’s search engine could be set automatically highlight iTunes artists searched for by Google with purchases occurring through iTunes Store. The major sticking point for Apple is that they do not want to rely on Google Checkout APIs for the iTunes Store, a current requirement for the deal. Our assessment is that Paypal will not be pushed out and eventually Google will play ball with Apple in this regard, one never knows though. We plan on writing more on the .mac web applications as soon as we can get some clarity on what else may evolve from the Google and Apple partnership.
Update: As this story was being written Apple was also meeting with representatives from Yahoo in regard to .Mac, we have to wonder if something fell through with Google or if they are just weighing their options. We will be sure to report back to you if .mac turns a different direction. One observation recently sited the screen shot of Safari for Windows with a Yahoo page on the front. While Steve Jobs has been known to change his mind midstream many people see the Google partnership as the most optimal solution.
Create your favicons the old school way with Web 2.0
Want to create a favicon for your website, take a stop by favicon.cc to find a simple bit by bit editor. This editor takes care of your favicon the old school way no importing just bit by bit editing like the old days of ResEdit on the Mac. Its still a feat that you can do this live on the web instead in a separate application.
