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Drool-Worthy MacBook Touch Design

“Designer Tommaso Gecchelin isn’t oblivious to all the rumors surrounding a [tablet-like Mac] made by our favorite fruit manufacturer. We try not to indulge in rumors here at YD but sometimes they do provide fuel for inspiration, such is the case with this MacBook Touch,” Yanko Design reports. “Gecchelin reasons if Apple were to go small, [...]

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RUMOR: Snow Leopard Screen Recording in QuickTime X

With the introduction of Snow Leopard, QuickTime X Player will assume more of a utilitarian role, with screen recording features reportedly joining the software’s exiting repertoire of basic audio and video capture capabilities. People familiar with the latest betas of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard have been reporting over the past several weeks the addition [...]

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Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” Ready for Download

Ubuntu 9.04, a.k.a. “Jaunty Jackalope” has just been released. This is the latest version of the open-sourced Ubuntu operating system, and boasts of faster boot times (reported to be 21.4 seconds), better power management, immediate system access after hibernation, a new system-wide notification service, and broader device support for intelligent switching between WiFi and 3G networks. [...]

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Lisa Simpson Uses an iMac

Well, well. America’s most loved family has gone Mac! In the latest episode of The Simpsons, titled “The Good, The Bad, and The Drugly”, Lisa Simpson is seen in her room, working off a thin all-in-one aluminum computer that is unmistakably an iMac. From an angle it certainly looks like one of the Cinema Displays, [...]

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Review: qTweeter App from Cydia

A new app from Efiko Software called “qTweeter” has just been released into the public Cydia repositories. This is a refreshing, new app, and seems to be built out of several never-before-seen APIs. The app is a background process and functions similar to SBSettings, another jailbreak-only miscellaneous system utility from Cydia. What qTweeter does, is it [...]

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Tip: Multiple Uses for Airport Express

The Apple Airport Express is often an overlooked product. It’s unlike any of the other routers on the market, mainly in terms of design. This looks no different from Apple’s MacBook charger blocks, and plugs directly into a wall power socket. Included on it are 3 ports: Ethernet, USB, and Audio In. How the Airport [...]

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Oracle to buy Sun for $7.4 billion

Oracle today said it would buy Sun for about $7.4 billion, or $9.50 per share. The move gives Oracle both a significantly stronger position in databases, letting it produce the servers that run its apps, as well as access to Sun’s software. Oracle will have access to Java as well as Sun’s Solaris operating system [...]

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Apple Airs 4 New Get A Mac Ads

Apple has just released 4 new ads from their “Get A Mac” campaign, all of which seem to be targeted directly at Microsoft and its new PC ad Campaign. The four new ads are titled “Biohazard”, “Legal Copy”, “Stacks”, and “Time Traveler”. Watch them below or on Apple’s Get A Mac site. 1) Biohazard 2) Legal Copy 3) [...]

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RUMOR: Apple Prepping iPhone HD Launch

Talks have begun that Apple has advised Apple Authorized Resellers to begin placing on clearance both the Apple Composite AV Cable and Apple Component AV Cable. These current cables are not selling well, due to their lack of flexibility and bulky nature. It seems that Apple has realized this and is hence clearing them, making way [...]

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RUMOR: Hulu Planning iPhone App

The new kid on the rumor mills says that he’s got wind of a certain video mega-service Hulu prepping an iPhone app for the App Store. This app will be a video streaming app with capabilities for multi-touch browsing of TV shows. Not many other details are offered at this time, but hey: wouldn’t it [...]

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