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Fashionista and a Geek? Clothes will soon power your gadgets.

13. March 2010

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Fashionista and a Geek? Clothes will soon power your gadgets.

How often do you find yourself with a dead iPhone or iPod and nowhere to charge it? A dress that is being featured tonight at the annual Cornell Design League Fashion Show could ensure that this never happens to you again. The dress contains cotton fibres that are coated with electrically conductive nanoparticles. The coating [...]

Canada’s online Apple store is busted.

13. March 2010

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Here’s some fun news for your Saturday afternoon. Canada’s version of the online Apple store is broken (2:16PM EST). I’d like to take this moment to recognize web developers around the world. God knows someone’s getting their ass chewed out by a middle management type who thinks you can drag and drop a website like [...]

Apple’s $40 Billion What to do: Big and Bold thoughts

13. March 2010

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Apple has $40 billion in the bank. According to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, they are just sitting on it at the moment. They have no clear intentions on doing a whole lot with it for now. Jobs also emphasized that Apple must “Think big” with the cash. Well, I just happen to have some ideas [...]

Some iPad details starting to trickle in

12. March 2010

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It’s iPad pre-order day, so that means there’s some interesting tidbits coming out of Cupertino today. I thought I’d mash two together since they’re a bit short to have their own posts. Apple’s selling 20,000 iPads an hour? Take an ID number, and subtract a lower ID number and you’ll get a nice little surprise, or [...]

iPad pre-orders have begun!!!

12. March 2010

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Early adopters are early to rise. Today is D-Day for iPad pre-orders. The time we’ve all been waiting for is finally here. A few weeks back the rumors were rampant that the iPad was going on pre-order on February 25th. Well, the 25th came and went with no word on the pre-order. Then we heard [...]

Safari 4.0.5 is available. Open software update!

12. March 2010

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I’ve been having a really bizarre problem with Safari lately. Every single time I open up the top sites page when opening a new tab my video gets all messed up. The images within the top sites section gets all borked. It only happens within the Top Sites section, but it’s enough [...]

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse coming to the Mac on April 15th

11. March 2010

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Telltale Games has officially announced that the third season of Sam & Max will be released on Windows, the PS3, and Mac OS X on April 15th. Subtitled The Devil’s Playhouse, this is the first season of the franchise to utilize direct control instead of the point and click paradigm. If you want to pre-order your [...]

Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition & Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge coming to the Mac

11. March 2010

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Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition & Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge coming to the Mac

At this year’s Game Developers Conference, LucasArts officially announced that Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition and Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge will be coming to a Macintosh near you. Released on the Xbox 360, Windows, and iPhone last year, the first Monkey Island is headed to the PS3 as well. We [...]

Multitasking coming to the iPhone in 4.0 update

11. March 2010

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Multitasking coming to the iPhone in 4.0 update

I’m a pretty hardcore iPhone user, sometimes I use it as my primary computing tool when I take off on trips that take me away from my office for long periods of time. I’m not sure why everyone’s so up in arms about multitasking. The only time I get cranky is when I’m using [...]

Which costs more, a Mac or a PC?

11. March 2010

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In this on-going debate of whether a Windows computer is cheaper than a Mac computer, you need to take two things into account. First, the upfront cost of each of the computers. Second, the total cost of ownership, or TCO for short. For the sake of this article I’m going to compare a Dell and [...]

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