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iPod

"Bye-Pod" Warning Posters Cropping up in UK

Such is the popularity and visibility of iPods that police have issued a poster warning people to conceal their little white ear phones at night following a surge in inner city muggings across the UK – all related to iPod theft. (Contributed by Neal Hoskins).

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Software

CoconutBattery 2.0 Available

One of my favorite PowerBook applications is Christoph Sinai’s excellent CoconutBattery. Version 2.0 is a major update that adds a dashboard widget, preferences menu for custom values and it’s FREE. coconutBattery is a tool that reads out the data of your notebook-battery (iBook/Powerbook). It gives you live feedback, what’s going on in your battery (not […]

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Intel

Intel's Yonah Processor to Take the Stage in SF

MacRumors recently posted this entry about Intel’s impending announcement of their new low-power portable CPU (code-named “Yonah”) that will be the heart of the 2006 iBooks and PowerBooks: CoolTechZone claims to have insider knowledge of Intel’s official launch date of the newest processor from Intel — codenamed Yonah. Intel’s Yonah is a dual-core chip based […]

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iBook

13.3-Inch Widescreen Intel iBook

ThinkSecret is reporting that Apple plans to shuffle the screen sizes of the iBook lineup when they release the first Intel portable at Macworld Expo next month in San Francisco. According to TS Apple will replace the 14-inch iBook with a 13.3-inch widescreen model sporting “WXGA resolution of 1280×720, serving up about 15 percent more […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: Google Earth for OS X in the wild

Leave it to the creative kids out there. If there’s a new application floating around in a software publisher’s R&D department, they’ll find it and release it in no time. That appears to be what happened with the much aniticipated Mac OS X version of Google Earth. Google Earth puts a planet’s worth of imagery […]