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Lawn Mower VS. iPod nano

June 18th, 2006

John Deere vs. iPod nano …. fight!

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Rumored AppleBerry!?

June 6th, 2006

The “AppleBerry” would actually be the fruit of a partnership between Research in Motion and Apple Computer to develop an Apple-style version of the BlackBerry, according to an analyst report.
Peter Misek of Canaccord Capital issued a research note on Friday musing that Apple and RIM might be working on a product together based on the [...]

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SmackBook Your MacBook

May 25th, 2006

Umm…. w00t
Much more useful than the MacSabre app. but not funnier than the Star Wars Kid MacBook.

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Fast OS Switching on MacBook With Parallels

May 22nd, 2006

This is a demo of a brand new Apple MacBook (black) with 2GB of RAM running Virtual Machine from Parallels (beta 6) and Virtue desktop emulator.
In the video the user switches from Mac OS X to Windows XP (Media Center themed) to Ubuntu using the native Mac OS X “Fast User Switching” mechanism. This is [...]

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Guide To Performing A Complete MacBook Disassembly

May 21st, 2006

The fine people over at iFixit have added the newly released Apple MacBook guide to their list of detailed how-to guides. The guide includes a how-to remove the following:

Battery
RAM
Hard Drive
Upper Case
Optical Drive
Airport Card
Fan
Heat Sink
Fan Housing
Logic Board
Display

Complete with pictures at every step, this guide is a must see and will surely come in handy too many [...]

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Apple Closes Intel OS X Kernel

May 18th, 2006

As Mac OS X has gone through subsequent versions, Apple changed the Darwin development process. Eventually, some Darwin drivers were released without the source code and Apple shifted its focus away from Darwin development to Mac OS X development. Now that Mac OS X is up, running, and widely available on Intel Macs, Apple has [...]

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MTV’s URGE To Copy iTunes Music Store

May 15th, 2006

Now the cable network group that helped popularize music videos two decades ago is entering the online music fray with URGE, a new service that makes its public beta debut on Wednesday.
URGE comes integrated into the newest version of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Media Player, which users of Microsoft’s Windows will receive in coming weeks as [...]

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iAlertU :: MacBook Pro Alarm System

April 9th, 2006

iAlertU is based on the Carpenter’s Level Dashboard Widget by Pall Thayer but is a totally different idea. The iAlertU software utilizes the built in motion sensor technology, iSight camera and the infrared remote control turning your MacBook Pro into a high tech alarm system. iAlertU is aimed at being a tamper/theft deterrent system for [...]

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Apple Updates 30″ Cinema Display

March 29th, 2006

It appears that Apple has bumped up the specs on their 30″ cinema display to match Dell’s 3007WFP, their comparable 30″ model.
Those specs are; 400 cd/m2 brightness and a 700:1 contrast ratio, as opposed to the former 270 cd/m2 and 400:1 specs. The price remains the same, at the ever-astronomical $2500, which is pretty damn [...]

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XP on Intel iMac contest officially won.

March 16th, 2006

It is final, the judges have confirmed the winning submitter has a working solution and has XP runnong on his iMac 17″. The winner has won the final cash prize of $13,854 (before taxes?). Further updates are to be posted with further information regarding the final solution and implementation details.
This is [...]

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