cultofmac.com - 12/12/2008
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How To Turn Your Hoodie Into A MacBook Sleeve 2:57 pm, December 12th, 2008, Giles Turnbull macbook-hoodie-20081212.jpg Eelke Dekker has found a way to transform ordinary everyday clothing into functional, wearable notebook computer sleeves. Wrap a hoodie around your MacBook and hey presto! ...
blog.wired.com - 12/16/2008
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blog.wired.com —
Apple will launch an upgrade to its low-end
desktop, the Mac mini, at January's Macworld Expo, according...
to an Apple corporate employee who contacted Wired.com. The source, who wished to remain anonymous (to keep his job), could not disclose ...
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Rumor: New Mac Mini Coming to Macworld 2009
macyourself.com - 12/13/2008
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macyourself.com —
An upcoming video adapter will allow new unibody
MacBooks and MacBook Pros (and refreshed MacBook Airs) to...
be connected directly to high definition television sets. Since Apple introduced the new aluminum MacBooks and MacBook Pros a couple months ago, ...
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MacBook owners rejoice: Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter ...
jkontherun.com - 12/11/2008
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jkontherun.com —
The appearance of the Apple firmware upgrades released
yesterday for late 2008 MacBooks, MacBook Pros and MacBook...
Airs was welcome news to me and other owners and many applied the upgrades immediately. I was one of those in that crowd and my ...
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Mac firmware upgrades do NOT fix the 4 GB RAM problem
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Mac News Roundup
Technology - Channel Feed —
... layout amid developer unrest [via AppleInsider]
According to AppleInsider, Apple has tweaked the App Store interface in reaction to feedback by developers and users. Apple has separated the Top Free Apps, Top Paid Apps and segregated it into categories as well.
Apple Releases Firmware Updates for ‘Late 2008′ Portables [via MacRumors]
Apple released EFI and SMC firmware updates for its late 2008 Macbook, Macbook pro and Macbook Air notebooks.
AT&T Sells iPhones Online With Home ...
Why Apple Keynotes Are On Tuesday [Apple]
Gizmodo —
... aim for Tuesday as an important day to break news for all the reasons above. It's just that most companies don't get noticed for this, because their news isn't received by millions of cultists. I'm still not sure when this pattern started, but Woz said that the tradition started after his time at Apple, and if I had to guess, would keep going far after print news is gone. I mean, why mess with tradition? [Thanks to the ex Apple PR folks, as well as Leander Kahney of Cult of Mac for this information (and Woz for being Fuzzy and Nice)]
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Why Apple Keynotes Are On Tuesday [Apple]
Gizmodo —
... aim for Tuesday as an important day to break news for all the reasons above. It's just that most companies don't get noticed for this, because their news isn't received by millions of cultists. I'm still not sure when this pattern started, but Woz said that the tradition started after his time at Apple, and if I had to guess, would keep going far after print news is gone. I mean, why mess with tradition? [Thanks to the ex Apple PR folks, as well as Leander Kahney of Cult of Mac for this information (and Woz for being Fuzzy and Nice)]
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MM na MWSF 2009: entrevista com Leander Kahney, editor da Wired.com e autor do livro “A cabeça de Steve Jobs”
MacMagazine —
O MacMagazine está em San Francisco cobrindo a Macworld Conference & Expo 2009, a convite da Gol Mobile.
Em parceira com o Sergio Miranda, editor da revista brasileira Mac+, realizei hoje para o MacMagazine uma entrevista com o Leander Kahney, editor do portal Wired.com, criador do blog Cult of Mac e escritor de livros bastante famosos, como o recém-lançado “A cabeça de Steve Jobs” (título original: “Inside Steve’s ...
Psychic predicts Jobs will return to Apple as scheduled
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... How odd that a psychic would divine the most unremarkable outcome possible! She does this for $200 an hour.
Steve Jobs will return... [CoM] ...
News: Poor Russian iPhone sales force $8.8m lawsuit
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
... matters, MTS rival VimpelCom acquired a 49.9% stake in Euroset last autumn. Overall sales of the iPhone in Russia have been disappointing, with the three major carriers—MTS, VimpelCom, and MegaFon—agreeing to sell 3.5 million units within two years, but having collectively sold only 250,000 through the first quarter of 2009. The carriers stopped buying iPhones at the beginning of the year, according to the report, and are working with Apple to renegotiate their contracts. [via Cult of Mac | via ...
News: Mix: Namco, T-Mobile UK, iPhone payment, FTC
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
... is testing the system, which consists of a small square credit card reader that attaches to the iPhone’s or iPod touch’s headphone jack and transmits the card number to a companion application. The customer then “signs” for the purchase using their finger on the screen, and can enter an email address to which their receipt will be sent. The payment is processed by Square for a small percentage plus a fixed fee, and the funds are transferred instantly to the retailer’s account. [via Cult of Mac ] The Federal Trade Commission has released an ...
News: ‘iPod Mechanic’ gets 13-month jail term, $656k restitution
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
Nicholas Woodhams of Kalamazoo, MI, once known as the “iPod Mechanic,” has been sentenced to 13 months in prison after pleading guilty to mail fraud and money laundering earlier this year. Woodhams was also ordered to pay $648,568 in restitution to Apple and $8,066 to the U.S. Postal Service. “This was not a victimless crime,” U.S. Attorney Donald Davis said in the press release, “because the costs of fraud are borne by both the consumer and the taxpayer, perpetrators of such crimes must be held accountable.” According to an earlier lawsuit filed by Apple last year, Woodhams allegedly ...
Snow Leopard Is Less Secure Than Windows, But Safer
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... When discussing security, another issue to consider is that the landscape of internet threats has evolved over the years to be less platform-centric, said Leander Kahney, owner of the Cult of Mac blog and former news editor of Wired.com. Phishing, for example, is a security threat that involves tricking the user into handing over personal information. ...
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New MacBook faults reported —
T3.com News 12/10/2008
The new Apple MacBook got a favourable review when we put it to the test, but it seems that some of the new machines are developing serious problems just a short time into their computing lives.
And amazingly, one of the problems could be too ...
Sugar iPod error is worst tech prediction —
T3.com News 12/10/2008
Futurology has its moments, and some glimpses of the future can be laser-beam accurate. Then, there’s the other side of the coin…
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New Apple MacBook, Pro and Air Firmware Updates available —
I4U News 12/11/2008
If you got one of the new Late 2008 MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air, then you should check out the new firmware updates Apple released for the latest Apple notebooks.
For each of the above mentioned Apple computers two firmware updates are ...
iRiver takes aim at the iPod with the E50 —
T3.com News 12/11/2008
iRiver is once again tempting us with something more stylish and versatile than the iPod, this time the E50.
And style is certainly the big selling point, a slimline, brushed aluminium case you'll be more than keen to flash on the bus and train. ...
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