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Deals, Mac »

[22 Oct 2010 | One Comment | 910 views]

Apple shipped two new MacBook Airs on Wednesday and now the company’s offering one refurbished model at a pretty good discount. And, yes, it comes with the usually goody bag of stuff, including free shipping, free (after rebate) printer and …

Apple luv, Mobile, Music, movies, TV »

[22 Oct 2010 | One Comment | 1,648 views]

White earbuds everywhere. Anymore it’s just assumed, but it was new and insanely great on October 23, 2001 as Steve Jobs introduced the iPod. When this documentary was released back in 2007, Apple had “only” sold 70,000,000 iPods, a total …

Mac, Software »

[22 Oct 2010 | No Comment | 1,439 views]

Available for Mac, Linux and PC, Opera’s one of the relative few browsers available run on the three most widely used platforms — good for folks looking to standardize on a single client. There’s admixture of new, innovative features and …

Mobile, Software »

[22 Oct 2010 | 4 Comments | 1,808 views]

I’m always on the lookout for a better iPad news reader app. Thereupon, I recently purchased Pulse News Reader in the hope that it just might help feed my need for continuous ritual gratification. So, is it worth the developer …

Mac, Mobile, Software »

[21 Oct 2010 | 3 Comments | 3,035 views]

I just finished a quick FaceTime session with my friend James in Taiwan. The audio and video came through just fine, and establishing the connection was really fast. Further, there wasn’t any lag or echo, but that’s where the good …

Apple luv, Mac »

[20 Oct 2010 | One Comment | 1,053 views]

Back in the day, we had to wait hours for Apple to turn around the cached stream of their live event broadcasts — no more. Almost as fast as it was over, the company is already offering the cached stream …

Audiobooks, Deals, Music, movies, TV »

[20 Oct 2010 | No Comment | 2,332 views]

From the Book Prize-winning author of the The Remains of the Day (Amazon) and When We Were Orphans (iTunes), comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it mean to be human. …

Mac, Software »

[20 Oct 2010 | No Comment | 908 views]

When it rains it pours. On Monday, we noted the arrival of updates for MS Office, OpenOffice (LibreOffice), ThinkFree and NeoOffice. Today, it’s a who’s who shortlist of internet clients and chances are you’re using at least one of these …

Deals, Mobile »

[19 Oct 2010 | One Comment | 1,246 views]

Everybody loves the iPod touch, but in these tough times paying full retail just isn’t an option for many of us. The new sweet spot in Apple’s iPod touch product line isn’t new — it’s the refurbished third-generation 32GB iPod …

Apple luv, Music, movies, TV »

[19 Oct 2010 | No Comment | 1,405 views]

Everyone was surprised, pleasantly on the whole, by Steve Jobs appearance on yesterday’s results conference call with analysts. Whether you think he talked a lot of smack or nailed the state of tech today, there’s a lot of meat available …