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“My favorite [Zune] color is the brown. The pictures don’t do it justice.” [via] And I can actually imagine that making sense.

 

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Zune vs. iPod: About the Same Size, Both Stuck in 4:3. A three-inch diagonal is one-fifth more than a 2.5-inch; that’s just exactly the same ratio as a 24-inch versus a 20-inch iMac. About the same size, yeah, right. When you’re watching TV shows on the subway, that’s going to make a hell of a difference. (Not to mention that menu navigation in portrait mode makes it look like the screen is huge.)

 

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Credible rumor, for once: Microsoft might have withdrawn prices from their announcement because they were taken aback by the iPod’s low prices. Could be true, could be false.

 

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This Chinese Zune clone is interesting — not because it exists, but because it’s ugly, whereas the Zune looks pretty (in black). Which goes to show that they must be doing something right.

 

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Alternate-reality iTunes on Apple support pages. For real. And not going to stay online for long. Isn’t it oddly reminiscent of Windows Media Player… or Microsoft Media Center, of something like that?

 

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iTunes 7 introduces “Album Artist” metadata. I’m sure it’s got to have its uses, but I… don’t exactly understand how.

 

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Macros to transform TextMate into a Movable Type / WordPress blogging client. Complete with image upload. I have no use for a MetaWeblog client (because my blogs use custom software, with lots of custom fields and bilingual support), and I don’t use TextMate (because it’s a codepage nazi that insists on only handling UTF-8; also, it favors Unix shell integration over AppleScript), but the possibility of this is just… wow.

 

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My Dream App contestants list. Meh. Nothing I really look forward to.

Of course there is a GTD app — but I wouldn’t put any money (figuratively) on a GTD app coded by a GTD outsider; you’ve got to grok it (and if they already did, they’d already have coded their own app). I guess the one with most chances of success is the .Mac-less sync utility. There’s a market for that, obviously.