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Apple Kills iPod Garage

Not horribly techie, but it kind of pisses us off. Apple has siccing lawyers on all sorts of sites with iPod in the name and iPod Garage is the latest to go. While the site, now called iProng. Why iProng? The iPod will still represent one prong in our coverage, iTunes will represent another prong,…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Apple Patents Screen With Camera Inside Display

Have we become so gadget enamored in the past few years that we’re trolling US Patent Office and FCC websites to get the scoop on the newest gizmos? Yes. Yes we have. And today we bring you Apple’s new patent for embedding cameras inside of a LCD screen. By placing sensors between individual pixels of…

Tech News Jason Chen

MacBook Pros Across Akihabara Running Windows XP

Reader Warren emailed to say: I was wandering around Shinjuku and noticed that in every store selling Macs, well over half of them were running Windows through BootCamp! All the actual OSX machines could be found stuffed in corners with crappy old iBooks. Guess Apple found a way to finally market their computers; Microsoft. He…

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Wireless 802.11N Questions: Is It Time To Upgrade?

With the arrival of the first 802.11n routers from Buffalo Technology, Belkin, D-Link and Netgear, early adopters are wondering whether it’s time for them to upgrade their home networks. With speeds hovering around 12x and range around 4x compared to 802.11g, there seems to be a significant improvement over current technology. But is it time…

Tech News Jason Chen

MacBook Pro Pricing Is Seriously Messed Up

As Keeber pointed out in our comments yesterday for the MacBook Pro 17″ announcement, there’s something very weird going on at the Apple Store: if you have a 15″ model built for you to match the processor and hard drive of the base 17″ model, they both end up priced $2,799—despite the 17″ having, you…

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Ads on iTunes

It seems almost too good to be true, but iTunes will soon feature ads and other delightful material for our iPod-enabled perusal. While no specifics are mention, Ad Age is reporting that the iTunes interface will soon feature billboard ads as well as an increased number of ads embedded in podcasts and other media. Right…

Tech News Johnb

MacBook Pro 17″ Just Added To Apple Store

The new 17-inch model of the MacBook Pro just popped up on the Apple Store this morning. $2,799 will get you 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo processors, 1680×1050 screen resolution, 1GB (single SODIMM) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM, a 120GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive, a 8x double-layer SuperDrive, and an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB GDDR3…

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Apple Upgrades Recycling Program

Apple has announced a nice upgrade to their recycling program. Starting in June, new Apple computers purchased either online or at a Apple Store will receive free shipping and eco-friendly disposal of old PCs or laptops. Also announced is that the fifth generation iPods—including the video, nano and shuffle—are 100 percent compliant with the RoHS…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Munster Sez: Nano Getting Un-Nano this Summer

Piper Jaffray analyst, Gene Muste,r is reporting that Apple will be launching an 8GB and 10GB iPod nano this summer. Who is to blame for this new release? The touchscreen iPod, of course. Munster says that Apple needs to launch some lucrative in the meantime while the touchscreen iPod is delayed until likely next year.…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Macstravaganza at Microsoft

If you’ve ever fantasized about what 150 Mac Minis might look like, well, you really are a bigger dweeb than we’d thought and we’re so totally never going to go out on a date with you, so stop asking already! Jeez. Print this photo of your dream realized out and spend some quality time in…

Tech News Gizmodo.com

Apple’s Suit Against “John Does” Set To Be Heard

A San Jose, California Court of Appeal is set to hear Apple’s suit against an as-yet unnamed “John Doe” for product leaks in 2004. Apple argues that unlike whistleblowers, who are bringing possible illegal activities to light, internet journalists are just feeding into the public’s thirst for rumors. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), feels that…

Tech News Jason Chen

Apple Drops PortalPlayer for Flash Based iPods

We know how you feel, PortalPlayer. Being dropped like Apple is just like how we were dropped by our college girlfriend two weeks before graduation. She, like Apple, wanted to “meet new people” and “explore other options”. Is it your fault that iPod sales have been down this quarter due to seasonal factors? Sure, your…

Tech News Jason Chen

Rumor: Apple to Intro 17-Inch MacBook?

We’re hearing rumors that Apple will introduce a 17-inch MacBook Pro at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention next week, and on that notebook will be video editing application Final Cut Studio 5.1 running natively on the Intel Core duo processor inside. The rumor mill is also cranking out murky tips about how Apple…

Tech News Charlie White

Apple Working on Origami UMPC?

With all the UMPCs being rolled out lately, Apple appears to be preparing one of its own, filing patents for a number of telltale technologies. First, in a patent application dated today, we see a single-arc QWERTY keyboard similar to Microsoft Touchpack software, with this drawing describing “activation of virtual keys of a touchscreen keyboard.”…

Tech News Charlie White

Counterfeit iPod Shuffles and Nanos

File these under the heading “Ummm… Duh?” iPodGear has some shots of real and counterfeit iPod shuffles and Nanos. While they wouldn’t fool anyone who has actually seen a Nano or Shuffle in their lives, it seems that someone has put a load of effort into making sure they are ripping of the ignorant with…

Tech News Johnb

Original iPod Introduction on YouTube

With iPods of all types running rampant across the globe we need to look back at the original iPod and its introduction way back in the day. Who would have thought that this brick of an MP3 player would soon evolve into a worldwide phenomenon. Kerry Bailey was a little saint and uploaded this video…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Steve’s NYC Cube Saga Continues

As we gaze upon the budding Apple Store construction project known as Steve’s NYC Cube in midtown Manhattan, we’re wondering, what’s all the commotion? The five-story homage to Steve Jobs’s cube jones was obviously designed by the Apple CEO, who is apparently micromanaging the project. Word has it that titanium pieces that hold the Windows…

Tech News Charlie White

MacBook Pro Underclocked?

A report has surfaced indicating that Apple may well be underclocking the ATI Radeon Mobility X1600 in the MacBook Pro. As for the actual numbers, tests showed that the GPU’s core is running some 35 percent slower than what ATI suggests. The speed of the memory has been slowed, too, running 41 percent slower. More…

Tech News Gizloco

Company Wants iPod Sales Halted, iTunes Shut Down

Burst.com, the same company that sued Microsoft in 2002 and to which Redmond paid a $60 million license fee in 2005, claims Apple infringes upon several of its patents relating to music and video downloading. As such, it recently demanded that the U.S. District Court in San Francisco shut down a range of Apple services,…

Tech News Gizloco

Ultimate iPod Stand

Yeah, this thing may lack all of the extras like speakers, easy docking, remotes, etc. But this dock was built from the heart, with love for Apple. It was crafted out of steel, shaped like the traditional Apple logo and will conveniently hold the iPod video. There is enough room on the bottom to plug…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Apple Kills iPod Garage

Apple Patents Screen With Camera Inside Display

MacBook Pros Across Akihabara Running Windows XP

Wireless 802.11N Questions: Is It Time To Upgrade?

MacBook Pro Pricing Is Seriously Messed Up

Ads on iTunes

MacBook Pro 17″ Just Added To Apple Store

Apple Upgrades Recycling Program

Munster Sez: Nano Getting Un-Nano this Summer

Macstravaganza at Microsoft

Apple’s Suit Against “John Does” Set To Be Heard

Apple Drops PortalPlayer for Flash Based iPods

Rumor: Apple to Intro 17-Inch MacBook?

Apple Working on Origami UMPC?

Counterfeit iPod Shuffles and Nanos

Original iPod Introduction on YouTube

Steve’s NYC Cube Saga Continues

MacBook Pro Underclocked?

Company Wants iPod Sales Halted, iTunes Shut Down

Ultimate iPod Stand

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