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Mac treasures 'n' trash and all priced to sell. Legacy iBooks from $145, hard drive deals galore and much more... Apple this week began posting information for iPhone users intending to update their device to the new iPhone 3G. A new support document explains how to replace an original iPhone with an iPhone 3G using the same carrier: "If you follow these steps to backup your origin... German newspaper publisher Axel Springer is migrating to the Mac platform and says it will replace all of its PCs with both Mac notebooks and desktops over the next five years, becoming Apple's second largest corporate client. The company, which already uses Macs for al... As AppleInsider reports, if you're an iPhone user who's planning on braving the line on the 11th for an upgrad to iPhone 3G, your first-generation iPhone can still be used as, basically, an iPod... Adobe this week released Flash Player 10 beta 2, an early preview version of the nearly ubiquitous media plugin for browsers and for Flash/video playback. Version 10 of the player, code named "Astro," brings custom filters and effects, 3D effects, and a new text engine ... Though its about a week before the expected launch of the iPhone 3G, a line already has begun forming outside the Apple's flagship Fifth Avenue Store in New York City. As of mid-Friday afternoon, about 10 people are in line waiting to purchase the new iPhone 3G, which w... App4mac today announced the final release of Sequence 1.0 for Mac OS X Leopard. Safari 3.1.2 for Tiger from Apple "includes stability improvements and the latest security updates." In particular, that means that Apple fixed a vulnerability in the WebKit framework upon which Safari relies that could enable an exploit if you visited a Web site that u... Although it's not the first release and ample supply is expected, a queue has reportedly begun outside of Apple's Fifth Avenue retail store to buy iPhone 3G a full week before its release.
As of mid-afternoon on Friday, a ten-person line has been ... One of Germany's largest newspaper publishers will become one of Apple's largest-ever customers when it converts all of its 12,000 computers from Windows systems to Macs. Also, the latest beta of Flash Player 10 promises to boost sluggish performanc... Belgian iPhone customers will have to wait a bit longer than the earlier-announced July 11th launch date, since the device is subject to a law prohibiting a device to be sold in conjunction with a required subscription. French language site MacBidouille reports that the... Apple Expo '08 ñ Europe's major Apple conference, akin to Macworld in the US ñ is set to occur from September 17th to the 20th in Paris, France, and the organization has detailed several of the planned events. The Unofficial Apple Weblog details that the confe... App4mac on Friday unveiled Sequence 1.0 for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, its screenshot and video capture tool designed to use multithreaded code and a 64-bit enabled compression system. Sequence allows users to capture screenshots and movies of the entire screen or segments ... Adobe released Flash Player 10 beta 2 via its Adobe Labs website this week. According to one of its developers, the new mac version promises to bring up to 3 times the performance for certain operations.If you have followed GUIMark ... Berbie Software on Friday unveiled TrailRunner 1.7, an update to its outdoor route-planning and journaling software, adding support for Nike+ online community and enhanced support for several Garmin GPS devices. Users of the Nike+iPod system or the Nike+ SportBand can n... The new iPhones may be on the horizon, but that doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten about the “old” ones. We take a look at two cases, one from Incase, the other from Uniea. Virtual Programming on Friday unveiled Europa Universalis: Rome, a stand-alone game built on the Europa Universalis 3 engine, spanning the history of the Roman Empire from the first Punic War to the start of the empire. The game features a great deal of custom gameplay ... An iPhone modder recently unveiled a MacBook Air-style makeover for the iPhone's keyboard, offering users an attractive alternative to the jeweled buttons of the default keyboard. Just Another iPhone Blog reveals that although the keys have a smaller appearance, they ar... At its current stage of development, the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard beta is not outperforming 10.5 Leopard by any wide stretches, as developers dive into the new OS with GeekBench. The Netherlands' Mac Zone writes that benchmarking numbers indicate that 10.6 performs be... HTC has been a veteran of smartphones but has only just recently ventured into handheld computers, and the Shift represents its first full-fledged attempt at an ultra-mobile PC. The system promises to take all of HTC's experience with handsets and translate it into a f... HTC has been a veteran of smartphones but has only just recently ventured into handheld computers, and the Shift represents its first full-fledged attempt at an ultra-mobile PC. The system promises to take all of HTC's experience with handsets and translate it into a f... Dozens of portables in stock, 802.11n Airport Express, the lowest price on the fastest iMac ever... Macworld is closed today in observance of the Fourth of July holiday in the United States. The hints will return as usual on Monday morning. For those in the USA, enjoy the long weekend!
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It only launched a few weeks ago, but the performance level as well as the low price scale defined by AMD/ATI on the Radeon HD 4800 series have captured market share and forced NVidia to reduce the price its top-end GeForce GTX 280 graphics card.
We already reported th... This week's Ask iLounge topics: Recovering a corrupt iPod, Hard cases for iPhone, Reimporting CDs into iTunes, iPod shows only Other content, Managing multiple audio formats in iTunes, Optimum iPod video output cables July 4, 2008 6:00 AMBlizzard Entertainment is now inviting players to sign up for the chance to beta test Wrath of the Lich King, the upcoming expansion for the ever popular World of Warcraft MMO. Unlike the Burning Crusade beta test participants, who were chosen random... July 4, 2008 6:00 AMStarCraftWire.net has posted the second part of a discussion with Blizzard's Kevin Yu (Karune) about the upcoming StarCraft II. The discussion touches on a variety of topics including ongoing balance changes, the map editor, when the game might be re... July 4, 2008 6:00 AMMaverick Software, a developer of Mac casual games, has announced a lineup of original games and toys for the iPhone and iPod Touch. All native iPhone OS applications developed from the ground up for the new devices, they will be available on the iP... July 4, 2008 6:00 AMVirtual Programming has announced that Europa Universalis: Rome for the Macintosh platform is now available as a digital download. The boxed version of the product will be available soon. Paradox Interactive's EU:R is a stand alone game that utilizes... July 4, 2008 6:00 AMThe flood of Diablo III related articles continues to rush in from gaming sites all over the net. IGN, Gamespot, GameSpy, and many other game websites have released interviews, previews, screenshots, and even a discussion of negative reactions to the... July 4, 2008 6:00 AMActionSoft has announced the release of Midnight Mansion 1.1.4, a free update to its popular action/exploration game. The new version fixes a couple of bugs and adds a new option for game registration. In Midnight Mansion players take the role of Jac... Also more on running Leopard on non-Apple hardware, Ubuntu on a Mac mini, the first autofocus webcam with Zeiss optics for Macs, and more. Gefen on Thursday introduced its newest connectivity product, the HDMI IR Extender. Aimed at custom installations, the HDMI IR Extender will allow users to control their HD source units from another room without having to purchase and run lengthy HDMI cables through the... Happy Fourth of July, U.S. readers! As iLounge?s U.S.-based editors are celebrating today?s Independence Day holiday, iLounge is publishing today on a limited schedule. We will return after the holiday with plenty more iPod, iPhone, Apple TV and iTunes news, reviews, an... Stuart Morgan of Google has released a free Mac OS X preference pane called Precipitate that enables Spotlight and Google Desktop to search documents stored in your Google Docs account, along with your Google Bookmarks.
We've been using Google Docs an increasing... Chronos's SOHO Organizer 7.0.2 suite provides a feature-rich alternative to Apple's built-in that will appeal to business and power users With time, Apple stopped doing some mistake, such as posting specifications of future products on its website prior official announcement. However, some Mobile.me package have been shipped and delivered in advance to some customers
Once the mistake was spotted, A... According to an article from the Wall street journal, Yahoo is pursuing talks with potential partners despite the failure of the previous bid from Microsoft. Probably to decide about its future, rather than being swallowed by one of those big sharks, Yahoo has decided t... Yesterday, NVidia acknowledged to have dedicated 150 to 200 millions UDS to cover problems and issues that could appear with some batch of notebook GPUs. It seems to be a defect in a material which will prevent GPU to properly manage increases of temperature. When solic... Although today most music comes on CDs that can be easily converted into iTunes formats, audio enthusiasts and an older generation of iPod users may still have music on vinyl LP records. Getting these recordings onto an iPod can be a much more cumbersome process for the... Carphone Warehouse accidentally reveals plans for iPhone 3G launch date A reader of our sister title, PC Advisor has revealed the secret plans for the UK launch of the Apple 3G iPhone. These include VIP passes for people who pre-order the phone online. In honor of Independence Day -- a U.S. holiday -- The Mac Observer will not publish on July 4th. We will return on Monday, July 7th, with our regularly-scheduled coverage of Apple, Mac, iPod and iPhone news. For the price, and for most users, there is no better calendar application and calendaring system for the Mac OS. It's a bit weak in the task-management department, but even business users may now find that iCal can manage everybody's calendars easily, effecti... Asustek will offer an Eee PC later this year with built-in 3G connectivity. Later this year, Asustek will offer a version of its Eee PC mini-laptops with built-in 3G (third generation mobile telecommunications) to compete with rivals that are doing the same, a company r... eBay abandons controversial Australian plan eBay has pulled the pin on its controversial plan that would have forced all Australian users into using PayPal. Espy is an address book that uses an iPhoto-inspired interface for sifting through your contacts. PDAs and smartphones are too small for some tasks, full-fledged Tablet PCs are overkill, and ebook readers are too limited. Apple has the tech to own this niche. Price cut thanks to lower cost of Nand flash memory Apple has dropped the price of the solid-state drive version of the MacBook Air to £1,719 inc VAT. Google face-blurring technology needs a little more work Google has chosen to blur the faces of people caught on camera by the French edition of its StreetView service. |
