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Take a deep breath — smell that? That’s the smell of higher education. Yes, it is a little moldy. Most colleges have been around for awhile.

Regardless of what school you’re going to, there is a certain essential set of tools that every college student needs in order to survive. These are the “college gadgets,” and nobody who’s anybody should be without them. These gadgets are:

• The Laptop
• The Printer
• The Flash Drive
• The Router (if your college doesn’t have WiFi)
• The External Hard Drive
• The Portable Media Player (aka, iPod )
• The Speakers
• The Headphones
• The Phone

Ready to go? Let’s get started! (more...)

I’m just putting the finishing touches on the first fully-working (and actually useful) TuneConnect 2 plug-in: a Last.fm interface. For those not familiar with it, Last.fm is a music-based social networking site, that uses the music you listen to (automatically submitted to the site by various players, a process called “scrobbling” ) to make recommendations, and also connect you with people who have similar tastes. You can see some of the stuff TuneConnect has already posted to my profile during normal use.

Thanks to Laurent Baumann, the designer of both of TuneConnect’s new icons, for the Last.fm sidebar design. Credit where credit is due.

And for those of... (more...)

Just yesterday, TuneConnect 2 Beta 1 was released to my loyal and wonderful beta testers. It was indeed an exciting moment.

With the release on OS X just a little over a month away, it’s time to start some serious marketing. Word on the street is () that the best way to market is by word on the street.

That is, get the Mac bloggers talking—get anyone talking, for that mater. The more people get excited about a product, the more people will want to find out more. I’ve sent emails to all of the major Mac blogs (complete with beta access ), and I’m even talking it up with a... (more...)

TuneConnect 2, my little pet iTunes remote control project, has been coming along very well over the past few months, and I wanted to share with you a bit of information on its progress. With a video.

TuneConnect in a Nutshell

Enjoy!

Team Solitaire? Touch controls? Seriously, it’s like a giant iPhone, who wouldn’t love it?