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Apple proposes ‘blank’ iPod/phone/MacBook just add buttons

Apple has just filed a new patent application for the adding of physical controls (like buttons or sliders etc) to the touch sensitive surfaces of electronic devices. Apple seems to propose that you take a ‘blank’ iPod and add a wheel for a standard iPod, add a keypad to make it a phone – add […]

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Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard and Microsoft’s Vista: A Risk Strategy

PC enthusiasts like to scoff at the market share of Macs in comparison to worldwide computer sales. They view the worldwide PC market like a simple board game of Risk, where market leaders Dell and HP have more armies scattered over more territories, and Apple only has armies places in a few. Read More… Contributed […]

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Digital fragility

Saw this posted on the gym wall this morning. Made me wonder how many years of work are sitting on flash memory. The millions of ‘priceless memories’ that exist as JPEGs on digital cameras and mobile phones. Entire music collections on MP3 players. Most of them won’t be backed-up. Terabytes of data, all of it […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: I don’t want an iPhone

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve been inundated with speculation and rumor about Apple’s iPhone. Am I the only one that doesn’t want one?

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Software

EFI Update Enables Some DOS Tools

While DOS does not work fully, some applications such as Maxtor’s PowerMax now do work.