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Refurbished second generation iPod shuffles have been quite rare for months now. These Apple Certified Factory Refurbished iPods offer real, tactile controls right on the body of the unit with both 1GB and 2GB models available.

As with all refurbished iPods and Macs, you get a full Apple warranty and free shipping.

• 1GB iPod shuffle, $39 (49)
— Includes Free Shipping
— Holds up to 240 songs; Up to 12 hours music playback
— Apple Earphones, Docking cable
— Pink
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Here’s a free location aware iPhone app that makes finding food both fun and a little competitive. Foodspotting puts you on the street in cities around the world with insider information on what and were to eat with incentives for finding new and interesting fare.

Foodspotting (iTunes, free) is the companion iPhone app to Foodspotting.com which launched in January and has since attracted 7,000 members. Featuring more than 20,000 kinds of foods in cities across the globe, this app and its creator landed in the spotlight at this year’s South by Southwest Festival.

“The time was really right for something like this,” Alexa Andrzejewski, a user-experience designer from Adaptive Path, told CNN. “We’re kind of like the Foursquare of food.”
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To date, Apple’s let it be known that the iPad will display free books that are compatible with Barnes & Noble’s ebook reader application. Now, the bookseller says its brewing a full version of their app for the device.

Already available for the Mac, PC, iPhone and and iPod touch, Barnes & Noble is saying that their free eReader application is also coming to the iPad.

Designed specifically for the iPad, our new B&N eReader will give our customers access to more than one million eBooks, magazines and newspapers in the Barnes & Noble eBookstore, as well as the existing content in their Barnes & Noble digital library. (That includes eBooks and content customers have downloaded to their nook eBook reader.)”

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For every app on my Ma, there’s a tried and true backup. For Safari, that’s Firefox; iWork, NeoOffice. When Photoshop’s unavailable or not up to the task, GraphicConverter gets the nod.

Lemkesoft is now shipping GraphicConverter 6.7 (release notes), an update of their popular and extremely useful shareware image editing and manipulation application.

New, tweaked and fixed features include:

• scrap file import added
• HMR import added
• dm2 and dm3 import added/updated w/ display of the dm3 metadata
• HD Photo import support for grayscale images added
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Do you believe you have skimp on features when you browse on your iPhone or iPod touch? Then you need to buy and download iCab Mobile — spend a little and get a lot.

Alexander Clauss has released iCab Mobile 2.2 (iTunes, $1.99), which comes to market with the following fixes and features:

• Fixed a bug in the Download Manager for iPhone 2.x
• New option in the Settings App to restore the last session either offline or online
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When Apple deals you out, the best you can do with those lemons is make lemonade. Here’s how Spring and Verizon are trying to market the few drops of juice that they’ve got.

Forbes reports that Sprint, like the folks at Verizon, which is instructing retail associates to push the company’s MiFi mobile 3G router, is marketing their Overdrive mobile hotspot solution to iPad owners. Sprint sells the hardware for $100 and charges $60 per month for the service — this is the part that really hurts — with a two-year contract.

Interestingly, Sprint considers Overdrive to be a “trojan horse” to be used in getting the growing flood of Wi-Fi only device users onto their high-speed 3G and 4G networks. Thereupon, Paget Alves, president, Business Markets, says that people want to “have the same [online] experience as in Starbucks,” which by the way charges for Wi-Fi access.
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Jonathan Rentzsch, the creator of ClickToFlash, noticed a problem with his baby — sometimes, YouTube would challenge the user, saying that the installed version of Flash is out-of-date and needs to be updated.

That said, your Flash installation was just fine. What need is a fresh version of ClickToFlash.

Well, before Rentzsch could address the issue — travel, illness, blown back, etc — a group of guys decided to take matters into their own hands and fix this open source Safari plugin.

ndfred filed an awesome bug report. I started reversing YouTube’s obfuscated JavaScript, but was beaten to the punch by Justin, ssp and lapcat.
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