From the interesting tidbits departments comes a report from AppleInsider indicating that Mac OS X 10.5.7, the next incremental release of Leopard, contains the seeds of support for Intel’s Nehalem CPU and ATI HD 4000 graphics.
It’s commonly thought that Apple will use Nehalem-based Xeon processors at the heart of its next Mac Pro workstations and [...]
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Mozilla has announced the release of Thunderbird 3 beta 2 (release notes), another step down the good kings highway for the open source group’s stand alone mail client for the Mac, Linux and Windows.
New features in this release are said to include:
New Activity Manager
New ability to Archive email
Much more useful Growl notifications [...]
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For more than a few Mac users, Gecko-based browsers rule, but Firefox is too, well, ugly and “unMac like” to use on a daily basis. Luckily for these aesthetes there is a way to have your cake and eat it (as if cake is good for anything else).
CaminoBrowser.org has announced (blog) the release of Camino [...]
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Other World Computing (OWC) has announced two instant rebates—after $100 off the Modbook 13.3″ model, now for $2,139.00 and Modservice at $150 off, from $1,149.00.
The Axiotron Modbook solution is available equipped with up to a Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz processor, Intel X3100 or Nvidia 9400M video chipset, up to 6GB of memory, up to 750GB [...]
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Everyone’s favorite steaming pile of “white hat” hacker hubris is coming to the iPhone. Yes, Tipping Point’s Pwn2own contest at CanSecWest 2009 (March 16-20) will include not only Windows, Mac or Linux notebook hacking challenges—if you are the first to hack into the device, you get to take it home, and perhaps some prize money—but [...]
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For a limited time, Apple Store has dropped the price of the Apple-Certified Refurbished iPod shuffle. The 1GB shuffle is now only $29 and the 2GB shuffle is only $39 (prior generation colors & current generation silver).
• 1GB – $29 (was $39)
—Available in Silver, blue, green, purple
• 2GB – $39 (was $59)
—Available in [...]
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What’s new with Steve Jobs health? That is quite rightly none of your effing business!
However, what’s new with MobileMe, Apple’s $99 per year mail + cloud services package, can be found in this news brief. Um, sorry, the actual information can be found in this knowledge base article, which reads in part:
Mail compose window address [...]
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