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Filed under: HardwareIn an interesting test by the folks over at Tom’s Hardware, solid-state drives (SSDs) suck more power than their platter-based counterparts. Why should you care? Because the MacBook Air features an SSD in its higher-end configurations.
Tom’s looked at four different SSD models, and compared them with a 7,200 RPM disk of the same […]
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Filed under: iPhoneApple’s Senior VP of Industrial Design Jonthan Ive has won yet another design award, this time for the iPhone. The Mobile Data Association recognizes “those UK companies and individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the uptake and success of mobile data over the last 12 months.” Ive won the MDA Personal […]
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Filed under: Hardware, Peripherals, LeopardThe Mac OS X 10.5.4 update might have made you restart your Mac, but it also added “RAW image support for several cameras.” While Apple didn’t tell us what these cameras were in Software Update, they did later update the RAW support page for Mac OS X Leopard. According to the […]
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Filed under: Software, DeveloperCornerstone made a dashing premier as a full release recently, outpacing the much-anticipated Versions in its development cycle and leaving many of us wondering: why couldn’t we have had such polished Subversion clients back when Subversion really mattered? With friendlier and more flexible version control systems like Mercurial and (my recent favorite) […]
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Filed under: Apple Corporate, Retail, iPhoneBoy Genius Report is reporting that Apple may allow sales of the iPhone at BestBuy and RadioShack retail stores in the U.S. This, of course, is in addition to it being sold at Apple and AT&T stores. This would be the first time since the iPhone’s introduction that a third-party […]
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Filed under: VideoYesterday, I was reading through our sister site TV Squad and saw this post about Broadcast Flags that prevent PCs from recording shows. Broadcast flags, which are signals sent in a digital TV data stream, indicate whether shows should or should not be recorded by third party equipment such as PVRs. Curious, I […]
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Filed under: .Mac, MobileMe
The above message has been posted to the .Mac Tips website. As you can see .Mac members are being told to sync their .Mac bookmarks to a computer (Mac or PC) by July 6th because web access to bookmarks is no longer going to be supported in MobileMe (.Mac’s replacement). The July […]
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Filed under: iPod Family, Odds and endsI like my iPod as much as the next guy (as long as I’m not standing next to Chris Breen, that is. He REALLY likes his iPod, a little too much if you ask me) but I’ve often found the device not to be ‘Olde Timey’ enough for me. […]
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Filed under: SoftwareAdobe has released version 9 of its Adobe Reader PDF display software. The newest version includes a number of changes including faster launching, “PDF Portfolios” (bundles of PDFs and other document types), native Flash support, and support for the online Acrobat.com beta (through Adobe AIR) with a variety of online PDF services.Adobe Reader […]
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Filed under: Apple Corporate, Apple FinancialIn another chapter in the scandal surrounding Apple’s choice to back-date options granted to key executives (including Steve Jobs), two plaintiffs have filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court against two former executives and members of Apple’s board of directors.
Apple was sued similarly in 2007 by the New York City […]
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