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An iTunes phone?

French newspaper giant Le Figaro has a piece (English Babelfish translation here) saying the iTunes-compatible phone being developed by Apple and Motorola will finally launch tomorrow, with at least one American phone carrier agreeing to support it.

I caught this article while checking my RSS feeds. This looks pretty cool. I’m an iPod owner and have bought some of my songs from iTunes. I would love a phone that I could put some of the music I’ve bought from iTunes. I like having options for the things I buy. I think having an option of purchasing music, ringtones or other options for your phone promotes competition and variety. Alot of times you won’t find that one song you’re looking for, but you’ll find it at a different site.

Prior to reading this little commentary on John’s Thoughts blog, I didn’t know there was an alternative to a hardware KVM (keyboard, video, mouse). I ts called Synergy, and it emulates a hardware KVM switch.

Synergy is a software that I recently found which allows me to use two computers with one keyboard and mouse. A sort of KM switch without the wires. It works over your home network passing the mouse and keyboard info to the other computer via network. When I move the mouse off one screen it switches to the other computer.

Until I read this blog I never knew such a piece of software existed. I had to go and buy my hardware KVM switch, which I love btw. Is has come in handy a bunch of times. Especially when I’m refreshing computers for friends and family. With a KVM switch (hardware or software), I don’t need to do a complete separate setup when I’m working on someone else’s computer. I just plug it into the switch, and viola! Its easy for me to go from one system to another.