Last week YISTA (and many others) had reported on the leaked image of a new video iPod. After much speculation it has been discovered beyond reasonable doubt that it was a fake. The following video is just the beginning of the proof:

Turns out the big tip off was that the blacks on the LCD are [...]

WHOOo WHOoo!! Last night Google jumped on board the Mac OS X Widget Wagon (WW for short (pronounced dub dub)) in a big way, and it was about time. Google released 3 new widgets, including one that connects you to a quick view of your Gmail account. This widget lets you see that last few [...]

The people over at iFixit have added the MacBook Pro guide to their list of detailed how-to guides. The guide includes things like how to replace your display & logic boards, memory upgrades & access to you optical drives so you can upgrade to that superdrive you always wanted. The site is complete with decent [...]

It sounds gross, it looks gross but it tastes oh so good! The notion of cold-brewed coffee sounded to us, frankly, weird.
After all, heat seems intrinsic to the coffee process. Why would you possibly want to leave grounds soaking for half a day in an ugly plastic pitcher, like so much Kool-Aid? There’s only one [...]

Some are saying this leaked photo (to MacShrine) could be the new video iPod that will be announced next Tuesday. It is similar to the leaked photo that was circulated on the morning of the “One More Thing..” event. This also could be related to the Apple tablet project with the multi-touch screen software… w00t!
What [...]

Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan purchased the 1 billionth song when he bought Speed of Sound by Coldplay. As the grand prize winner he will receive a 20-inch iMac, 10 fifth generation 60GB iPods and a $10,000 gift card good for any item on the iTunes Music Store. In addition, Apple will establish a [...]

Google has released a Web 2.0 editor. Check it out. Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes. It would be cool if Google used this engine on blogger.
UPDATE:
Nik Cubrilovic of TechCrunch is playing devils advocate with [...]

Linbox Converter is a client/server application written in Python language. The client transfers to the server the MS-Office documents to convert. The server does the convertion into the requested file type (PDF, PostScript, HTML, text, RTF, or TIFF) and send back the result to the client.
Linbox Converter makes a company conversion project, from MS-Office to [...]

reviews first year as a pro blogger - 1,450 people donated a total of $39,900, but almost entirely in the first three weeks.
So what’s going to happen with kottke.org? I’m not quite sure at this point. In the short term, it’s going to be taking a back seat to some other things going on [...]

Shortly after reports of the first virus for Mac OS X, a new security flaw has surfaced. The culprit is the option “Open ’safe’ files after downloading” in Apple’s Safari web browser. This feature is activated by default. Its function is to automatically display images and movies after they are transmitted to the user’s computer, [...]