Apparently the new 27″ iMac can also be used as an external display — and at $100 less than the non-LED 30″ cinema display, this almost sounds reasonable. But wouldn’t anyone else like to see a standalone 27″ cinema display also at a price point closer to $1k? Just seems wasteful to have a whole (brand-new) computer that I don’t use.

I don’t often use Word for Mac and think to myself, Gee, what a delightful computing experience! (Usually, the sentiment is closer to, *&$#, are you ever going to finish “optimizing font menu performance”?!) But I recently upgraded to Office 2008, and I had to convert a DOC to PDF today — something I usually dread because PDFMaker fails, oh, about 90% of the time and I end up using Preview to convert to PDF and then putting in hyperlinks manually in Acrobat. Today, I thought that I’d skip PDFMaker altogether and go straight to Save As, and there, waiting to greet me, was a format of PDF. Hallelujah! Does this have anything to do with the fact that PDF finally became an open standard last year?

We need a Shazam-esque app for movies. How many times do you turn on the tv and flip through to a movie and have no idea what you’re watching? If I’m at home I can use a guide, but I’m usually watching movies on tv in hotels or similar places. Sure, I can get onto IMDB and look for Clooney’s movies from the approximate era of the one I’m watching, but isn’t that the film equivalent to Googling a line of song lyrics?

I never thought this day would come, but I’ve migrated this little bloglet to Wordpress. Farewell, MovableType — it’s not you, it’s me.

I say, “Call hotel that’s holding Josh’s shirts hostage.” Jott transcribes, “Call hotel that scolding Josh is truth toss it.” (!?)

July 11 cannot come soon enough. To-do lists, AIM and Flickr apps running natively on my iPhone, among others. Fifteen days and counting.

“Over the decades as the company grew and expanded, first into dyes and punches, into copper, corrugated steel, synthesized rubber, piping, milling equipment, engines, instruments, weaponry, and so on, I still felt at home, because tin was the core of the business.” Whoa.

I cannot even express how excited I am that I can set a custom icon for any iPhone webclip. There are things that I buried on the second (or third) page of my iPhone menu just because they’re missing icons. Oh yes, it’s true. Other iPhone goodies found today: 17 useful bookmarklets, some icons (Graphr), some more icons (Ikony) and even more icons (AisleOne).

“Your philosophy is better suited for rock carving than web design.”

How is Ryan Allis the same age as me? Handsome, well-spoken and wildly successful… a dangerous combination.

This is, of course, the week of the almighty iPhone (25 hours to go, for those who are keeping track), and amongst the many reviews, parodies and articles, Gruber’s response to David Platt is my favorite written piece while David Pogue takes the video award.

Microsoft has been quite busy lately trying to keep up with the Jobses: Photosynth (very cool demo, although demos like this always leave me wondering how the software really performs with average user-input data) and Surface.

Sexy and sustainable: the Asus Ecobook. Clean bamboo exterior, recyclable interior.

In Nietzsche-like fashion, Paul Graham declares the death of Microsoft. “I’m glad Microsoft is dead. They were like Nero or Commodus — evil in the way only inherited power can make you.”

An algorithm that makes your (photographed) face just a little prettier. Can’t wait for them to get a demo running so I can alter some MySpa—I mean, test it out.