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Amazon set to take on Apple’s ebook app by releasing OS X software.

18. March 2010

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It’s a happy day today for competition. Today, the largest e-book vendor on the market has announced that they’re going to be releasing an application for Mac OS X. Amazon has put together a free eBook reading application in a hope to directly compete with the iPad, and Apple’s iBookstore. No longer [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Filemaker Pro Turns 11

9. March 2010

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It’s been a couple years since I’ve done any extensive work with Filemaker. My copy of Filemaker Server 8 Advanced is sitting on my shelf collecting dust right now. It’s been a little tough keeping up with advancements on the products because my career path has taken me out of the Filemaker game, but [...]

Thieves go all Mission Impossible on a Best Buy and steal $26,000 in Apple gear

4. March 2010

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Thieves go all Mission Impossible on a Best Buy and steal $26,000 in Apple gear

To what lengths would you go to get your hands on an Apple notebook? In South Brunswick, New Jersey, a group of thieves broke into a Best Buy and made off with about 20 Apple notebooks, worth approximately $26,000, according to nj.com. To accomplish this, the thieves employed a series of moves reminiscent of scenes from [...]

MacHeist offering up 7 Apps for $19.95

4. March 2010

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Everyone loves a good deal, and the MacHeist people have decided that it’s time for another nanoBundle. If you have a Mac, you’re probably well aware of what MacHeist does, so I’m not going to spend much time talking about that. Instead, I’m going to give you a brief run-down of the applications that I think [...]

Valve coming to the Mac and they’re giving us teasers

4. March 2010

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Normally this kind of news might go unnoticed by many, but the hype surrounding the possibility that Valve was planning on releasing Mac versions of their games says a lot about how starved some Mac users are for a better gaming experience. It’s been one of the largest complaints from switchers over the years, and frankly [...]

Virgin America cuts flash from website, but keeps it at their Kiosks

3. March 2010

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Virgin America cuts flash from website, but keeps it at their Kiosks

You want to know a CTO that gets it? Someone who realizes that technology shouldn’t be about drawing a line in the sand between one architecture and another? Just look at Virgin America’s CTO, Ravi Simhambhatla. Simhambhatla had this to say to the Register: I don’t want to cater to one hardware or [...]

Operation iBook – iFixed It!

2. March 2010

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Sometime last year, while downloading a file on the Mac that I used as a backup and to do all my dirty work, it just froze. There was no Kernel Panic — nothing. It just stopped dead in its tracks, and a few minutes later the hard drive started clunking. ‘Oh. I guess it’s [...]

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