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+Our sister site Gadget Lab [dug up a new Apple patent][1] for "Portable Home Folders," which could mean that it'll soon be easier to carry your entire User folder on all your portable devices like the iPhone or iPod.
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+It's possible to achieve this now with a bit of hacking, but be sure to check out Gadget Lab for the details on how Apple plans to do it.
+
+In other Apple patent news, AppleInsider [reports][2] that the company has filed for a patent that allows dynamic lyrics display for iPods and iPhones.
+
+The gist of the system outlined in the patent is that your iPod (or iPhone) would store lyric information and if the information isn't already available would then query a service to retrieve it. In the case of the iPhone this could probably happen from the device via WiFi or Edge, but otherwise would be tied to iTunes (unless a WiFi iPod is in the works).
+
+The process as described in the patent works like this:
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+>identifying an audio file for a media item to be played, the identified audio file including at least encoded audio content for the media item and encoded lyric codes for the media item; accessing lyrics pertaining to the media item; processing the identified audio file to extract and decode the encoded audio content and the encoded lyric codes; playing of the audio content that has been extracted and decoded from the identified audio file; displaying a portion of the lyrics such that the portion of the lyrics being displayed corresponds to that portion of the audio content being played; and distinguishably displaying, based on the lyric codes, a specific part of the portion of the lyrics being displayed from at least one other part of the lyrics being displayed.
+
+Can a mobile karoke phenomena be far behind?
+
+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/07/apple-patent-wa.html
+[2]: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/07/19/apple_working_on_dynamic_lyrics_display_for_ipods_and_iphones.html
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+Plaxo is the latest high profile web service to [announce support for OpenID][1], the standard for online identity management. Plaxo's recently unveiled beta of Plaxo 3.0 has been updated to offer support for OpenID and the company says it plans to become an OpenID provider in the near future.
+
+In addition to the OpenID support Plaxo is now encoding contact and event information in the microformats [hCard][3] and [hCal][4] in an effort to both improve the sites ease-of-use and raise the profile of microformats.
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+Both OpenID, which is a decentralized single sign-on system that enables you to securely use the same login information across multiple sites, and microformats, which are standards-based markup formats that wrap calendar events, contact information and more in code which allows them to be easily shared with other services, are fast becoming *de rigueur* for web platform services.
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+For a reasonably complete list of sites that support microformats see the [official microformats wiki][5] and if you haven't already set yourself up with an OpenID account, be sure to [check out our earlier guide][6] (note that while we specifically looked at ways to use your own domain as an OpenID provider, you don't need a domain to take advantage of OpenID).
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+As part of the release, Plaxo has also [published a handy guide][2] for other developers looking to support OpenID logins on their sites.
+
+Plaxo joins other high profile companies like AOL, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and others who  support the OpenID standard. In a press release Plaxo writes that "open standards that have blossomed out of the user-advocate community, we hope to accelerate the emergence of a truly open social web."
+
+[1]: http://www.plaxo.com/about/releases/release-20070718
+[2]: http://www.plaxo.com/api/openid_recipe
+[3]: http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard
+[4]: http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar
+[5]: http://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page
+[6]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/how_to_make_you.html "How To Make Your Own Domain An OpenID"
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+Rumors of a Vista Service Pack continue to surface, the latest coming from Winbeta.org which [posted an e-mail][1] the Windows Driver Kit mailing list which seems to hint at a service pack release in the very near future.
+
+The e-mail in question tells driver developers that "This WDK beta release to Connect coincides with the recent OS beta release for Vista SP1 Preview," however, Microsoft later [issued an apology][2] saying that what it meant to write was Windows Server 2008.
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+But that hasn't stopped the rumor mills. [PCWorld reports][3] that sources close to the company have been told that SP1 would be released by now and since today is the day Microsoft will announce its fiscal 2007 fourth quarter and year-end financial results, SP1 would be a nice way to cap those off.
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+Given the many users, particularly large corporate companies, have said they will hold off on upgrading until the first Vista service pack update is available, even a beta release of SP1 could boost Microsoft's sales.
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+Microsoft also needs to contend with the upcoming release of Leopard, Apple's next OS upgrade and a Vista SP1 could be a good way to steal a bit of Apple's thunder. 
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+For its part Microsoft remains mum about any specifics regarding a Vista SP1 release.
+
+[1]: http://winbeta.org/comments.php?id=8475&catid=1 
+[2]: http://winbeta.org/comments.php?shownews=8497&catid=1 
+[3]: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134748-c,vistalonghorn/article.html
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