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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

iPhone 3G Launching On The 11th, 00:01, NZ Time

Vodafone just went public with the information you already knew, New Zealand will see the world's first iPhone launch at 00:01 local time on the 11th. That's almost a full day before any New York, propaganda farmer gets his. In the UK, O2 is now taking pre-orders (one per customer) on a first come, first serve basis.

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WSJ' Mossberg: General Tips For Switch to Mac From Windows

Sales of Apple's Macintosh computers have been growing much faster than PC sales overall, with many new Mac buyers switching from years of using Windows computers.While the Windows and Mac user interfaces are broadly similar, they do have subtle variations in day-to-day use that require some re-education for switchers.

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Apple Spurns Intel, For Now

Intel's technologists revealed Monday that the chip giant will not win a spot on Apple's iconic iPhone anytime soon, even as he outlined Intel's plans to keep growing as it turns 40 on July 18. Apple appears to be going it alone for now, buying chip designer P.A. Semi for $278 million in cash earlier this year to power its next generation of phones

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Where Should You Buy an iPhone 3G, Apple or AT&T?

When the iPhone 3G hits, it will be available at both AT&T and Apple stores. So is there anything different between them? What if you need to start a new plan or transfer a number? Will both work? Actually, AT&T has told us that there will be no limiting difference between the two stores, except for one thing.

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iPhone Apps: To Pay or Not to Pay?

It's probably been a while since you bought new software. That's because so many tech firms — buoyed by ads placed in Web-based applications like the Google Docs word processor and the thousands of apps on Facebook — can now afford to give their programs away for free. But don't expect the same deal when you're shopping for add-ons for your iphone.

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Monday, June 30, 2008

Five undisclosed features of Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Apple is billing Snow Leopard as an OS without any new features, but this couldn't be further from the truth. Under the hood improvements offer users much to look forward to, including the benefits of a new multi-touch framework, dramatic file size reductions, text-processing features, auto activation of fonts, and full read and write ZFS support.

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iPhone 2.0 Golden Master Could Hit this Friday

According to a sources inside the Cupertino's iPhone software development effort, it is "highly probable" that the iPhone 2.0 Golden Master will hit this Friday. The final version could arrive two weeks before the introduction of the new iPhone 3G and just in time for the promised June release. Current 345 build activates two code-signing features

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Apple to Offer iTunes Remote Control App for iPhone and iPod

Apple released a pre-release version of iTunes 7.7 for developers tonight. In the Read Me of the iTunes installer is a hint at a previously unannounced iPhone/iPod Touch application:Use iTunes 7.7 to sync music, video, and more with iPhone 3G, and download applications from the iTunes Store exclusi...

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MSI Wind Running Mac OS X Also Thinks It's a Mac Pro

It's not even out yet and people have already hacked Mac OS X to run on the MSI Wind. Like with other non-Apple Leopard boxes, the little computer believes it is a Mac Pro, so the hack is good for both your egos. The port is still lacking some fine tuning, but it runs quite well according to Insanely Mac forum member Jav:

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Sunday, March 2, 2008

MacBook Pro teardown reveals... not much

Whenever Apple releases a new product, it doesn't take long for someone to tear it apart. Before the first flood of reviews, we get a peek inside.

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