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One of the problems of using a variety of online services is how do your friends keeping track of what you are doing. Facebook solves this, for people that haven't discovered RSS, in it's News Feed feature. However, I'd much rather read in the comfort of my familiar RSS reader than on Facebook. This is where FriendFeed comes in.

FriendFeed aggregates the feeds from all the services you use. Short-form updates from Twitter, long form updates from your blog, favourite tracks from Last.FM, shared links on del.icio.us are all combined into a single feed. Users can choose to read the feed on FriendFeed.com or can subscribe to the aggregated feed in their RSS reader. As long as you keep your services in FriendFeed up-to-date, your friends will only ever need to subscribe to 1 feed for all of your online activity.

Give it a try. You can find my feed here.

If you are going to ask me a question then give me the information I need to provide an answer.

Version 0.0.0.3 (aiming low) of the ITunes Tag Helper is now available to download here. Two new features:

• Remove files from the ITunes library which have been deleted from the HDD.
• Add missing .mp3 files to the library from the HDD.

Usually disclaimer that this was built in a very short space of time and will probably crash on your system. It's only been run on Windows Vista and ITunes 7.5.0.20. Backup your ITunes library before running some random code against it.

While messing around trying to fix-up some song tags in ITunes at the weekend I threw (kinda literally) together a little project which makes use of the ITunes COM API - the ITunes Tag Helper.

At the moment this pathetic little application has only 1 feature. It can look at the artist tag against all your tracks and if they are in the format QUEENS OF THE STONEAGE, will change them to Queens Of The Stoneage.

Win32 binaries (version 0.0.0.2) can be downloaded here. The source code (available under GPL3) can be found as part of the Google Code Project.

If you have any ideas for the project then feel free to drop me an E-mail or raise a Type-Enhancement issue over at Google Code.

Usually disclaimer that this was built in a very short space of time and will probably crash on your system. It's only been run on Windows Vista and ITunes 7.5.0.20. Backup your ITunes library before running some random code against it.

Downloading now... :)

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I was very happy to learn today that there will be a new Bionic Commando game. This was one of my favourite games on the C64 in which I couldn't get passed the second level. Yay for games Iain finds very hard.

Anyone who gets a lot of E-mail should watch this video.

I had to stop watching this after 60 seconds.

Some photos from our recent trip to Rome.

The following videos are a recent joint interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

If the embedded videos don't work then you can view the videos here.

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More Wiimote generated music.

Found via Dani, good video about web 2.0.