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Hack

Watercooled, Overclocked PowerBook a Hoax

German blog Der Eigenbroetler claims to have overclocked a PowerBook G4 17-inch to 5.86 GHz. In order to keep it cool they’ve added a liquid cooling system that uses distilled water. According to the Blog it’s a “little bulky.” Original German page, translated English version. The author admits in the comments that it’s a hoax.

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Mobile Phone

Sync iTunes to More Handsets

The reason I don’t see any purpose to owning a new Motorola ROKR, as I said before, is that it isn’t innovative. It does, however, make the final step of getting music onto the handset trivially simple, but any number of devices have great media playback capability and using the fantastic SyncTunes means any device […]

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iPod

Griffin Ships iFM for iPod

Griffin Technology Inc., has announced that the iFM (US$49.99) is now shipping. iFM integrates brings a long-missing feature to the iPod – FM radio tuning with recording and remote control functionality, in a tiny aluminum enclosure. With the flip of a switch users can now switch seamlessly between controlling their music library and listening to […]

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iPod

Screaming About iPod nano's Scratchability

Slashdot: “The Register reports iPod Nano users have discovered that it is unbelievably easy to scratch the screen, which quickly makes the colour screen all but useless for viewing album art and photos stored on the machine. Apple’s discussion forums are already host to hundreds of threads on this topic.” Click through to Slashdot for […]

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Hardware

Apple Considering Integrated Video Cameras in PowerBooks

AppleInsider posted some dirt on Friday about a recent patent filing from Apple suggesting that they’re considering integrating a tiny video camera into the latch of an upcoming Powerbook, which Sony pioneered with their Vaio PCG-C1 notebook in 1998 and most recently in their TR line of notebooks (like the Vaio TR3A. The filing, made […]