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Tekserve closes fabled New York store, will auction off its Macintosh collection in September

An amazing collection of Apple and Mac history is going on the auction block next month. Tekserve, once the go-to third-party repair shop for Apple products in New York City, announced last month that it would be closing shop on August 15 after being in business since 1987. Now that Tekserve has officially closed shop, […]

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Just the thing if you’re feeling nostalgic about the PowerBook

This website was pretty much founded on writing about Apple’s PowerBook line, so I thought this would be a nifty tidbit to pass along. For those of you whose history with the Mac only dates back to around five years, the PowerBook line was the first series of Mac laptops. When Apple made the jump […]

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Delicious Library updated to 3.1.1

Late Friday, software company Delicious Monster released version 3.1.1 of the shareware favorite, Delicious Library. Delicious Monster allows Macs with webcams to scan the bar codes of any book, movie, music CD or video game, then creates an archive based on background information from the Internet. Additional features help keep the library organized and reseller’s […]

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Australian iPhone 4 glowing/fire incident found to be caused by failed screen replacement, not battery

Ok, remember the Australian glowing/fire/iPhone 4 plane thing from this past November? It wasn’t the battery. Per AppleInsider, an investigation into the cause of an iPhone 4 that began glowing and emitting “dense smoke” on a flight landing in Sydney, Australia last fall has traced the problem to a battery punctured by a screw misplaced […]

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iBooks app changes point towards quadrupled pixels for iPad 2 screen

Assorted rumors have suggested Apple will give the second generation iPad a much higher resolution screen, although short of the ppi density of the Retina Display of iPhone 4. New graphics discovered within Apple’s iBook app suggest this is true. Per AppleInsider, last summer, iPhone 4 doubled its screen resolution in both directions (from 320×480 […]