I spammed my friends and associates to get the word out about the iOpener/iCan idea last night. This morning I received an astute comment from a friend who notes that she would prefer it not synch with iCook, but rather a software interface named “iOrderOut.”

This makes it clear that in future, ALL iDevices should have phones built into them.

This one would be handset-less of course and all you’d have to do, after iOpener tells you that all your pantry and frig hold are flour, olives and some generic soda, is say clearly “CALL – Pizza.” It would fax an order to your fav joint and moments later – dinner arrives. What’s not to like about that? I think the upgrade would be to make it pre-programmable – Wednesday Chinese, Thursday Indian, Friday Pizza, Saturday, for a change, reservations out.

Thanks Gwen!

The end of a weird, long week in Apple Store Land First off the entire world it seems, or at least the cultist apple-related world, has gone rumor crazy.Speculation abounds as to what will be announced and debuted at MacWorld Expo on Monday. People have come into the store all week asking questions as though we would give them an answer. uh huh. We are awaiting word along with the rest of the world. Let me put that another way so I’m clear…. we.don’t.know.

We’ll be showing the keynote, mystery-revealing speech by Steve via Satellite on the big screen. I’ll be curious as to how many people appear to watch. Cheaper than going to San Francisco.

Just so you heard it here first, I’m promoting my addition to the Apple Digital Hub. Prepare to be amazed!

Meet the….
iOpener.
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Let’s see what else. Well, a couple too many really touchy-invading-of-personal-space types. Some weird scenarios played out. One request for a receipt that would appear to be from Canada (uh, hello – no STORES in Canada, eh?). Sent an email to someone from their own hotmail account reminding them to log out when checking mail from a public site and hoping they had a nice visit to the Apple store. Counted out $3300 in hundreds for a sale.

Picked up the mail today. Mega junkmail and stuff, bills, and the white flower farm catalogue with a beautiful rose bush on the cover. Oh yeah, tax forms.

**No NDA was harmed in the presentation of this MacRumor!

OK, so I didn’t have my lawyers do a search first. There seem to be a few instances of iOpener in use already – especially this which is especially geeky. Hey, whatever, my guys will call your guys, we’ll all do lunch. There’s always my original concept-name – iCanopener or iCan for short.

Finally, I wanted to make note of this cool iPod shareware program that lets you import contact info from Entourage.

From a “featured blogger” winterspeak.com – an interesting article about managing your email. I particularly enjoyed the last ideas:

– Too much email is a pointer to over-extension in other parts of life. Unsubscribe to newsletters you never read, get off useless lists, and involve yourself with fewer projects.

Good email habits and non-intrusive technology that lets people manipulate their digital information directly makes it pretty easy to handle about 500 emails a day, more than enough for most.

If you haven’t been lately to the Virtual Union Square, a collection of art and responses to 9-11, there are some new works shown. For example this photo.