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When you reply to a message that was sent to an email address other than your gmail.com one, it is now smart enough to use that address as the “from” when replying. You have to manually turn on this feature, but it is one I have been wanting since they added the ability to send emails from multiple addresses.

Well it’s a …well who cares what day of the week it is, Google came out with a new beta project, Pages aka Page Creator. It is very similar to GeoCities, but obviously easier with a clearner interface.

It’s a highly WYSIWYG web page creator. There is no integration with Blogger, Google Video, Gmail, or any other type of Google service offered currently. I’m sure that will come in time, after all it’s beta

It has about 30 or so themes to choose from, the abilty to chance the layout, upload images, format the text, and anything else you would expect out of a web based editor.

This is in direct competition to Apple’s iWeb service, although iWeb has blogging and web site creation tied very close together.

It is getting hit pretty hard right now, so don’t be concerned if it goes down for a bit.

Check out the Page I made in about 2 minutes here (http://nickstarr.googlepages.com/home). I like that the domain links are nice and small (unlike iWeb).

So will Google be selling domain names? That would be a great step into building the Google Grid (aka Google’s complete dominance of your digital life). I guess we will see.

I don’t think I won, but that isn’t to say I wasn’t trying. I was buying a few songs at a time tonight. It doesn’t say who won, but they are going to be one happy customer.

Congrats Apple…perfect timing. This can totally be played up at the Feb 28th announcement. Thanks for making a great way to purchase and play our digital media.

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Ahh, there’s an Apple announcement, so enter the photoshop kiddies, blury photographic evidence, and people who claim they KNOW what the new products are. This and the Keynote itself help aid in the Steve’s “Reality Distortion Field.”

“I only got about half a sec to look around back - there are a bunch of ports (and maybe a button or two) neatly arranged on the back (?) of the cube in a line along the bottom edge. It’s about 8-inches square and 8-inches tall - a perfect cube. It seems to be made out of a similar material as a Power Mac - aluminum perforated with a round hole pattern, but they’re smaller holes than found on a Power Mac.” - MacDailyNews

Is it an Apple Media Cube? Is it fake? Who knows…we will find out on Tuesday.

UPDATE: Looks like this might just be an Apple Design Award.

Okay, I REALLY hate making speculations about new apple products, but I am having a hard time wrapping my head around what Apple products are considered “fun”.

Fun usually isn’t related to their pro lines, and laptops are cool, but fun??? I don’t know.

iPods are fun! iPod boombox could be fun. Photobooth is fun, but is software a product? What else though?

Then it came as if it was staring me in the face.

“Mac mini provides what you need to have more fun with your music, photos and movies — right out of the box.”

That is word for word what is on the very first line of the Mac Mini product page.

There is not much else I can say. Am I saying new Mac Minis? No. Do I want to replace mine though, oh hell yeah!

It had to happen sooner or later. Apple has pulled the 15″ powerbook from it’s online store (even the Educational store). You can still get it on the Special Deals section for $1599 at 1.67Ghz 80gig HD. This is the most recent version of the PB when they went to DDR2 and higher screen resolutions.

I say for $200 more you get dual core, faster processor, iSight ($150 value), Front Row + Remote ($30 value), brighter screen, and the cool MagSafe power connector, PLUS it is new vs “refreshed”….go for the MacBook Pro.

Don’t know how this will impact the Apple event next week, but I’m sure they will tell us how well the MacBook Pro’s are doing. It’s going to be an exciting Tuesday.