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Wow. Crazy past few days. Versailles, Hotel Invalides, es cargot, Eiffel Tour, and smart cars everywhere.  Our Hotel, Duquesne Eiffel, about a mile from the tower, is freakin awesome.  Great view, location, and friendly helpful staff.  Sarah and I are pretty much over jet lag thanks to a full day at Louie the XIV's Versailles Chateau.  Napoleon's large bread-shaped tomb was pretty impressive as well as the WW1 and 2 wings.  Today we're off to Notre Dame and the Orsay Museum.  Au Voir!

Just a quick post to let F&F know about my "In Europe" live photo blog.  We will be in Europe for the next couple weeks and if you're interested in seeing our trip in photos, as it happens, check it out.  I aim to publish a few photos a day.  When I can snag a free WiFi connection, I'll shoot off some photos from my iPhone that will be posted there.  Sarah has also started a Europe blog. She plans to use the Typepad iPhone app to update her blog as well.

Hopefully I can keep somewhat connected to see what we get at the Sept 9 Apple event. At any rate, keep stopping by for the latest while Sarah and I take a Rick Steves tour of Europe!

While I love Safari for Windows, after 10 minutes of playing around,  I now heart Google's Chrome.  Wonderfully slick, minimalistic and quick, Chrome returns bloated web browsers back to what's important- the friggin website. Can't wait for a linux/OS X version so I can actually use it.  My PC is a professional-grade dust collector. 

Objectified looks like it will only feed my obsession with cool stuff. From the director that brought us Helvetica.

So if you haven't seen my tweets, I'm having quite a bit of fun with the iPhone software 2.0 update. The App store is amazing, and the updates to the existing feature set are very welcome. Earlier today I did discover a new feature I hadn't read yet on any of my favorite Apple blogs. I was listening to Pendulum's "In Silico" album that I purchased from iTunes. It came with 3 music videos. Normally, when I listened to the album, my iPhone would play the music videos, but only the music. It just displayed a video still while the music was playing. If I wanted to view the actual video, I would have to select "Videos" from my source list, and select the video there. Well I was pleasantly surprised to see the "Granite" music video playing as I was listening to the music. When the phone is in Portrait view, you can choose to fill the screen or view the proper aspect ratio. Yes, I also welcome the handy screen cap trick too! (hold down the home button for a few seconds, then press the sleep/power button)