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Software

Cool Find: Safe Sleep 1.0

It may not be iPhone-related news, but developer Tomis Erwin may have come up with something useful. SafeSleep 1.0 is a free AppleScript front-end that taps into various Terminal commands to improve upon Mac OS X’s sleep features. Here, the computer can save the contents of the memory to the hard drive before shutting down […]

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News

Apple Adds YouTube Support, BTO Options for Apple TV

On Wednesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the company would be adding YouTube support to its Apple TV device via a free software update available in mid-June. According to Macworld News, users will be able to select YouTube from the Apple TV’s main menu, then browse through content from the YouTube web site. The […]

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Rumor

Rumor: iPhone Data Plan May Retail for US$30 a Month

With less than a month to go before its release, the iPhone rumors have been almost nonstop. A recent but fairly credible entry is now claiming that AT&T will require customers to purchase an unlimited data plan with each iPhone sold. Additional details can be found at Jason’s ZDNet Blog The Apple Core. If you’ve […]

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Fun

Google Eyeing Facebook According to Odds-Makers

Someone once said that gambling was the finest thing a person could do, provided they were good at it. Granted, this is paraphrasing, but the same logic still applies; if there’s something interesting out there, people will bet on it, especially if there’s something to win in the end. Gambling and game site bodog.com has […]

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Software

iTunes 7.2 Released

In the midst of yesterday’s update-o-rama, Apple released iTunes 7.2, the newest version of its cross-platform media jukebox program. The new version, a 29.2 megabyte download, allows users to preview and purchased Digital Rights Management (DRM)-free iTunes Plus music from participating music labels. These files have been encoded at higher bit rates and have been […]