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the day the music died a better connected plaxo iPhone camp guides and a virtual desktop computer you are seconds away from being all cued up hey there what's going on I'm rich demuro with Cena TV in New York City this is the cue congratulations Hastings Nebraska your name greenest city in America by Yahoo funny I thought people actually had to live there to qualify on to your must click moment a digital newsstand talking the day's headlines in a way the old newsprint never could and made from a used vending rack an LCD monitor and a mac mini throne a little apple script and the digital newsstand collects and displays news just like him back to the future if you're trying to tune in your favorite internet radio station today to help you get through the day and it seems to be offline there could be a reason you won't get static but you will get a National Day of Silence on Tuesday jun 26th thousands of webcasters turning off the programming to protest impending royalty rate increases on July fifteenth some streams will be shut off others will replace music with uncomfortably long silence and public service announcements all right there's my contribution now I don't spend a lot of time playing with plaxo but I've used it for years and it just seems to work well to sync your address book without a lot of fuss but now they're getting all web two point oh we on us plaxo version 3.0 is the first major overhaul in a while it'll now sync your address book and calendar between various sites so you can have the same info on outlook gmail yahoo AOL mac and your cell phone and more 15 million people use plaxo and it's good for getting automatic updates to your address book just watch out you have to be on your toast and say do try to push a premium paid version pretty hard I'll be covering New York for the big iphone launch on cnet TV and no doubt there'll be lots of people waiting outside for the hype phone or at least we hope so it'll make good video but the smart ones will have checked out the ultimate iPhone campout guides compiled by travel site grid skipper the guides clue you into nearby cheap hotels places to eat and drink free bathrooms and Wi-Fi all near the apple store of your choice you're covered in New York LA San Francisco and potentially even more places finally the beta when you're sick of lugging around laptops flash drive other ways to keep everything everywhere all the time vivio is the next best thing to a virtual desktop now I haven't actually tried this one myself but it seems pretty cool it's like a poor man's computer for 13 bucks a month you get a virtual desktop complete with windows XP five gigs of storage virus protection and free applications including itunes OpenOffice quicktime and firefox if you pay a bit more month you can get access to microsoft office there's also a sync program so your data on your real computer is there when internet isn't very cool idea can't wait to try it myself sign up for beta hopefully the invitations in the mail that's it for today I'm rich demuro with seen a TV in new york city do yourself a favor don't lose too much sleep over the iphone see ya you