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1passwd peeps, Agile Web Solutions, letting users giveaway a copy.

In the spirit of Thanksgiving the 1passwd peeps have decided that it’d be cool to let current owners giveaway a copy to someone. It’d have to agree, it’s a pretty cool idea. So if you have a license for 1passwd, you now have the ability to make someone’s day. It’s a limited time [...]

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Handbrake 0.9.3 Released to the Public

Handbrake, the popular multi-platform transcoding tool, has officially released version 0.9.3 to the public today. New in this version is the ability to transcode other sources of video besides DVDs. On the flip side, there is no longer any more built-in DVD decryption. While this may seem like bad news to users on the surface, it isn't really that bad. If you're a Mac user, and you install VLC in your applications folder, it will transparently use VLC's decrypting engine. Cool, huh?

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iPhone and Touch get firmware upgrade to 2.2

It was only a matter of time before the firmware patch dropped on us. It’s been in the rumor mill for over a week. The rumors were right. Street View is now available on the iPhone, but for some reason Touch users get left out in the cold. I guess it makes [...]

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iTunes gets updated with some voiceover goodness.

iTunes has hit 8.0.2 today, and it finally addresses some accessibility issues, and also improves VoiceOver. It comes on the heels of the iPhone/Touch firmware upgrade 2.2. Sadly, they haven’t implemented my idea of having your equalizer automatically adjust for certain genres of music, but I’m not surprised…after all… who the heck am [...]

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Apple V. Psystar update

Looks like Psystar will soon be going out of business. Today, Judge William Alsup dismissed Psystar’s lawsuit claiming that Apple was unfairly being a monopoly by only allowing OS X to be installed on Apple machines and not allowing clones. This decision will set a very interesting precedent with regards to having a company lock [...]

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