Now is a great time to get a deal on a refurbished Mac. For a limited time, the current generation of refurbished iMacs are starting at $999. Visit our Refurbished Macs page for the latest deals.
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Trism is a new game for the iPhone and iPod touch by Steve Demeter. It looks to be one of the better game implementations of of both touch and tilt. Check out the video demo below. There is also an interview with the developer over at GameSetWatch.
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According to Eurogamer, the Playstation 3 DVR device (PlayTV) will record television in standard MPEG-2 format with no annoying DRM. The recorded videos will be allowed to be moved to other devices without restrictions.
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A group of PhD students from the Computing Science Department of the University of Glasgow, Scotland have created a method for creating tactile feedback for button clicks on the iPhone’s touchscreen. By default the only feedback for button clicks on the iPhone’s screen is visual, and being visual, the click feedback is often obscured by [...]
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Apple is planning “an iPhone software roadmap” event at Apple’s Cupertino campus on Thursday, March 6th at 10:00 a.m. PST. Attendees should expect some new “enterprise” features for the iPhone. This is an invitation only event. (via ars)
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I just stumbled across this today while looking at some 512px x 512px icons. While the subject of the detail is nothing special, it is the attention to detail that amazes me. Around the inner ring of the CD is the text: iTUNES 7 120806 APPLE 2006 click the image for larger view
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The important bits are faster processors (up to 2.6GHz), a multi-touch trackpad on the MacBook Pros, LED-backlighting option for the 17-inch models, and a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with up to 512MB of video memory. The MacBooks received upgrades to the latest Core 2 Duo processors with speeds ranging from 2.1GHz to 2.4GHz, and [...]
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For a limited time, Amazon is offering a free 1GB iPod shuffle with the purchase of a 32GB iPod touch. Simply add one of the eligible shuffles to your cart along with the 32GB iPod touch, and you will not be charge for the shuffle. 32GB iPod touch Details Includes five software applications: e-mail, maps, weather, stocks, [...]
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Ben Millet spent a total of 72 hours creating this amazing papercraft of Howl’s Moving Castle. Great work and persistence. Ben recorded his progress as a time lapse video.
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macosxhints published a little known fact about SATA II drives. SATA II (or SATA 300) drives have a 300mbit/s throughput, while some older machines and drives are only capable of 150mbit/s throughput (SATA I). In order to make your SATA II drive work in your older machine, you must jumper the drive according to the [...]
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