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Google had a super-bowl commercial for the first time.  You know, just in case you had not heard of them.  If you missed any of the others, you can see all the super bowl commercials here.  Oh yea, and congrats to the Saints.

Cleveland.com just posted the first interview with Bill Watterson since 1989.  Is the iPad the savior of the publishing industry?  Did it live  up to the hype? Who knows.  But if someone figures out how to put a Calvin and Hobbes app on this thing, there is no amount of money I wouldn’t pay.

I didn’t go to Yale.  I went to UVA.  There’s a reason Thomas Jefferson considered The University Of Virginia one of his greatest achievements.  But I give credit where credit is due:  Not bad Yale, not bad.  Bonus points for the Brian Williams cameo.  Who knew going to Yale was like an episode of Glee?

Rumors! Hype! Steve Jobs! Giant iPhones! The End of Newspapers! Ebooks! Pizza!

What: Watch the Apple Announcement with Cloudbrain
When: Wednesday 1/27, 1pm-2pm
Where: Cloudbrain Office (above Christian’s Pizza on the Mall)

The entire tech world is freaking out about the rumored Apple iTablet / iPad / Giant iPhone supposedly being announced this week.  It’s like nerds waiting for Christmas.  There is a lot of discussion concerning whether or not this device, if it exists, will change books, newspapers, magazines and publishing the way the iPod and iTunes changed music.  If it does, this could be a really big deal.

Cloudbrain (because we’re cool like that) will be watching the live blog this Wednesday at 1pm and we’d love for you to join us.  We’ll order some pizza and beer from Christian’s downstairs and ring in the dawn of a new era together. Also, hanging out at lunch is fun.

UPDATE: Wow! Lots of excited people out there. The more the merrier.  Twitter or email us if you are planning to come so we know how much pizza to get… (@cloudbrain)

If you have ever moved your iTunes library (say, to an external drive) or rearranged your music folders than you have run in to this problem.  iTunes maintains its own database of information about your music files and expects you to make all changes to songs via iTunes.  Moving song files outside of iTunes causes iTunes to “lose” your songs – it thinks the songs in the new location are completely new songs and it can no longer find your old songs (because they were moved).  Lame, I know.

TidySongs make it easy to remove iTunes duplicates.  A duplicates feature is built in to iTunes – but it only finds songs with exactly the same information and won’t remove them for you.  You have to click and delete each one by hand and your out of luck if you have duplicates that are spelled slightly differently.  TidySongs makes all this easy.

People have no time or patience anymore.  If you want to succeed, make sure your thing isn’t confusing.

What button do you push for the UP elevator in the picture above?

Watch at least the first 30 seconds of this video (on YouTube).  You won’t be disappointed.

If you are new here or are reading this in a Feed Reader you should know that we just re-designed the cloudbrain.com website.   Thanks to Kyle for knocking the design out of the park.

For the curious:  This is still a Wordpress powered blog / site.  Kyle designed everything in Photoshop and we used the PSD2HTML service to slice everything up in to html / css / images.  That same service also did the final Wordpress theme coding.  (Yes, we could do all that ourselves, but why?).  Once the theme is installed, it took an hour or so of tweaking to get everything the way we wanted it (making sure the widgets worked, small design details etc. etc.).

I’d love to hear your thoughts.