Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
According to AppleInsider, Apple sent out bulletins to resellers “strongly suggesting” that they place orders for 4 weeks worth of top selling iPods and 3 weeks worth of MacBook and MacBook Pro models (the MacBook Air wasn’t mentioned.) All of this is due to limited supplies starting as soon as in 7 days. Basically, Apple’s [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Daniel Ahdout
It is not officially official, but the earthquake this morning in the Los Angeles area at around 11:38 am took out AT&T’s wireless network. It could be that the system just shut off as a precaution, or something went terribly wrong due to the earthquake. More likely, the increased amount of calls killed the network, causing [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
The latest rumor floating around today is, of course, about the upcoming redesign to the MacBook line. Apparently, the next MacBook will be made out of just one sheet of aluminum–reducing the weight drastically–and be thinner, also its curves will be similar to the MacBook Air. Also included in the rumored redesign is a glass [...]
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Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Daniel Ahdout
Rumors have been spreading out around numerous websites that the iPhone 3G will get a (RED) makeover just in time for the holidays. Could it also be joined by a 32GB upgrade for the iPhone 3G and a 64GB upgrade for the iPod Touch?
Photo Courtesy of http://www.macblogz.com
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Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Developers that were accepted into the iPhone Developer Program before July 11 were seeded the iPhone firmware and SDK beta 2.1. This beta according to multiple sources contains new GPS features that measure speed and direction of travel, or in other words turn-by-turn navigation. But what will make all Apple fanboys around the world excited [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Daniel Ahdout
While configuring the HP Blackbird 002 on HP’s website, I noticed that the unreleased, unannounced NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT was an option in configuring the Blackbird 002. The card supposedly has 512MB GDDR3 of SDRAM, but no other information about the card is listed. Maybe it could just be a stupid mistake and the card is [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
MacBook touch: no this picture isn’t real, but it’s a great mockup of what a product could look like. (courtesy of Gizmodo)
Apple had its quarterly earnings call on Monday and it revealed that a “product transition” would lower gross margin next quarter because “Apple makes state of the art new products that the competition just [...]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Editor-in-Chief of Engadget, one of the largest tech blogs out there, Ryan Block confirmed today that he will be stepping down from his current position to start a new company with the founder of both Engadget and Gizmodo, Peter Rojas. According to Block, the new company will be online and gadget-related, but not a direct [...]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
When the App Store launched last week, the main mobile blogging (and I believe the only) application was TypePad. That is great for mobile bloggers who run TypePad blogs, but for those of us that run WordPress blogs (like us), we were out of luck. As of now, the WordPress for iPhone app has gone [...]
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Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Around three years ago, Art Lebedev studios started talking about making a fully customizable keyboard, complete with displays under each key. Not until the beginning of this year did they actually release that full keyboard, the Optimus Maximus, and for a hefty price of almost $2000 ($1877.43 to be exact). The keyboard has 113 keys [...]
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Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Facebook’s redesign has been in the works for around a year now and after a few months of sample screenshots of the new design, Facebook is now allowing users to test out the new Facebook. Simply type new.facebook.com as the link in your browser and you should be directed to an unfamiliar look of Facebook. [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Possibly being one of the most hyped movies ever to hit the big screen, this past Friday marked the release of The Dark Knight. After snatching up some tickets and seeing the movie, even though almost every showing was, and still is, sold out, it is easy to say that this is one of the best [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
The iPhone Dev Team has released the PwnageTool for iPhone firmware 2.0, which allows users to install a custom firmware that is jailbroken and can be unlocked. Unlike previous jailbreaks, this version uses Cydia, an alternative to the Installer.app that most users would be used to. The PwnageTool has a great graphical interface and is [...]
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Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
For a while there, we thought Apple wasn’t responding to Psystar’s complete break of Apple’s EULA by running Mac OS X on a non-Apple authorized computer. When Steve Jobs reclaimed control of Apple way back in 1997, he ended agreements letting hardware companies use the Mac OS. Apple, as of July 3rd, has filed a [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
The iPhone Dev Team announced last week that it had officially unlocked and jailbroken iPhone and iPod touch firmware 2.0, and now they have done the same with iPhone 3G. The team posted a video of the jailbreak in action, but it works and users wanting to unlock their new iPhone 3G can finally do [...]
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