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The latest from Apple, you just have to have one of these. Be sure to watch it to the end.

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Take the world by storm- bell.ca

The new BlackBerry® Storm™, coming soon from Bell.

The Storm — the first ever touch screen BlackBerry® smartphone — features a high resolution screen so you can surf the Internet in full HTML format.

And, its 3.2 megapixel camera has built-in flash and autofocus capabilities so you can capture the moment no matter where you are.

Best of all, you can take it anywhere. The BlackBerry Storm smartphone runs on the fastest, largest network across North America1 and works around the world on both CDMA and GSM networks.

Check back soon to find out how to get your own BlackBerry Storm from Bell.

You’ve probably seen this or heard of this Internet video phenomenon.

The thing I didn’t know when I first saw it a couple of years ago, was that the music is TSO and they ROCK!  After seeing them live last year in Fargo, I’m hooked and we’re going to the Winnipeg show on Nov. 3rd.

Well this year TSO has issues a challenge to top the above video. Check out the contest and some of the other outdoor lighting extravaganzas set to TSO music.

Ubiquity, was a hot recommendation from and internal IBM blogger that I followed up on. It certainly looks like it has great potential, so I’ll be trying it out and tracking it’s progress. Have a look.

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

en route to serving up my blog to twitter via twitterfeed, I succumbed to OpenID. Seems like a great idea and I hope more sites start using this kind of technology. I really have way to many userid/passwords already and anything that will simplify this plus increase security, I’m all for it.

I’ve just upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5 and all seems to have gone well, whic is a good thing since I’m going to bed now and really didn’t want to have to stay up to sort things out. I’ve had enough issues with upgrading PC software lately.

Just doing a little blog reading and idle surfing with a cup of coffee and up pops the Apple Software Updater window. “Hey”, is says, “I’ve got something new for you!”. But, it’s not the usual update to iTunes or Quicktime, but a cross proportional up sell to try and switch me to Safari. For some reason I click “accept”. You’d think I’d learn after spending a better part of a week trying to track down why my computer would automatically re-boot on it’s own ever 3-4 hours. Why just yesterday I told myself, “Self, no more installing random software, at least not without backing up everything is sight first”. So much for that resolution

I’m a fan of using mind mapping techniques in brainstorming sessions and for lots of other tasks. I’ve purchased MindManager from Mindjet after seeing a demonstration at a conference. While it has a lot of capability, it’s not inexpensive either. For a lot of the more basic mind mapping activities bubbl.us is very impressive and free, which is generally a good thing.

bubbl.us – free web application for brainstorming online

What is it?
Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

Why use bubbl.us?

Because you can:

* Create colorful mind maps online

* Share and work with friends

* Embed your mind map in your blog or website

* Email and print your mind map

* Save your mind map as an image

And it’s FREE!

UPDATE: It seems there are several good mindmapping web apps out there, and Mind42 doesn’t have advertising. So, how do they make money, and why do they put these kinds of applicaitons out there?

Mind42 – Free Online Mind Map

mind42.com

In Mind42, 42 is not only the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything! 42 means FOR TWO and indicates the collaborative character of mind42, because that is exactly what mind42 is: A collaborative browser-based online mind mapping tool.

It allows you to manage all your ideas, whether alone, twosome or working together with the whole world. As mind42 runs inside the browser, installing mind mapping tools is no longer needed – for a hassle-free mindmapping experience. Just open the browser and launch the application when needed – it behaves like a classical desktop application!

Mind42 is a web application – however, this doesn’t mean yout have to set your comfort aside. Mind42 is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) mind map editor supporting keyboard shortcuts, drag and drop, zooming and much more. No forms and lists which are generally used in web application. A real application – within your browser.

Hsve a look at this presentation. Quite well done, funny & scary all at the same time.

The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

I’ve been working at getting my “stuff” under control and as part of that I’ve read GTD and am working at getting is implemented and established as a habit in my life. So far, it’s going fairly well, but time will tell. Hey Google, runs GTD courses for it’s employees!

An empty email in-box seems like a nirvana goal, and it has some appeal to me. My work email has over 200 things in the in-box that may have been read, but not processes. I’m reading the series in 43 Folders and just watched the video. It’s good stuff.

43 Folders Series: Inbox Zero | 43 Folders

New: Merlin’s Inbox Zero Presentation

Merlin does a live presentation on Inbox Zero from time to time. The latest version of the presentation was delivered on July 23, 2007 at a Google Tech Talk in Mountain View, CA. You can download a PDF of the slides for the presentation and can watch the 58-minute video of the talk and Q&A right here: