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Penryn 3.2GHz Processors for Upcoming Mac Pros?

The chaps at The Inquirer have been busy chatting with the snoops in Tokyo, and word on the street is that Apple has purchased out all of the upcoming Penryn 3.2GHz processors. With the processors clocking in at that speed, we shall guess they are intended for the anticipated refresh to the Mac Pro’s insides.…

Apple’s New Aluminum Keyboard Features Built-In Anti-Caps Lock Bias

If you picked up a wired version of Apple’s new thin aluminum keyboard you may have noticed that the caps lock function is all but useless. Only a good long press of the key will activate the function, and if you so much as breathe on it, caps lock disengages. So, is Apple spearheading an…

iPhone 1.1.1 File System Accessed, Hacks Not Quite There

Good news! The iPhone 1.1.1 file system has been broken open as a result of two iPhone hackers inserting symbolic links into the file system of a 1.0.2 iPhone before updating. And with file system access, it means we’re one step closer to activating, then jailbreaking, and then enabling third-party applications. Erica at TUAW is…

Apple Applies for Patent for Pressure-Sensitive Touchscreens

Aiming to go beyond just sensing the location of your finger on its touchpads and touchscreens, Apple has applied for a patent for a “Force Imaging Input and Device System,” which amounts to a spring-like device underneath the touchscreen or touchpad. The pressure-sensitive “force detector” layer would create a separate set of data, or image,…

Nano Afire!

Danny Williams’s iPod nano gave him the hot pants, shooting flames out of his pocket and up to chest height. Lucky for him, there was a thick piece of paper in his pocket that shielded him enough to keep him from getting singed balls. Good thing it didn’t burst into flames at some inopportune moment,…

Apple Component Cable Works With iPhone…For Realz

Thanks to the 1.1.1 update, TV out on the iPhone is a reality—you can even preview what you are watching on the iPhone itself. Unfortunately, the cables won’t work with your dock (although this should be corrected with the new Universal Dock) and if you have a hacked iPhone you may be out of luck—but…

ATI Graphics May Be at the Root of iMac Freezing Issues

Apple’s new iMac has been plagued by random—but reproducible for some—freezing issues, and it appears that the ATI Radeon HD graphics card and its drivers could be to blame. According to users participating in official Apple support discussions (here and here), the iMac continues to run during the freeze, but users are unable to control…

iNo For Your iPod: Interactive Music Party Game

The iNo promises a “fun, fast, furious game of music trivia as players take turns transforming their personal iPods into an interactive music party.” Users take turns inserting their iPods into the iNo then, using one of the four wireless remotes, attempt to outdo each other in a song-guessing battle royal that will undoubtedly culminate…

Leopard to Ship on October 26th?

Rumor has it that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is going to be shipping in just a few weeks on Friday, October 26th. Although it’s not very surprising, given that Apple usually releases new OSX versions on the last friday of the release month. If we were betting people, our money would be on the…

iPhone Headed for Canada This Month?

Attention friends to the Great White North: the Apple iPhone is rumored to be coming your way by middle of this month. The leak is said to come from an insider at Canadian fashion specialty department store Holt Renfrew, and the 8GB GSM iPhone will reportedly sell for $799. If these rumors are true, and…

According to research done by some analysts, the best guess as to how many people voided their warranty by unlocking or hacking their iPhones is 150,000. That’s a lot of unhappy customers. [Fortune]

An Australian bank is using the price of 4GB iPod nanos in 55 countries as an economic indicator. In Brazil, it costs $369.61; in France it costs $225.82, and in the US it costs $149. Supposedly this shows a weak US dollar; all I see is that Brazilians are getting the shaft. [Reuters]

Fake Steve Jobs Planning Real Tour

So in today’s news of the strange, Fake Steve Jobs, also known as the real Forbes editor Daniel Lyons, is planning a San Francisco book tour…wait for it…as the mock turtleneck-wearing alter ego. To promote his new fictional book oPtion$: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs no one but the book’s real author—Fake Steve Jobs—would…

Zune or iPod?

In light of the Zune update that brings a few very interesting features, the choice between an iPod and a Zune is not so clear-cut. Do you go with the one that has iTunes Store support and more accessories, or do you go with the one that has Wi-Fi syncing and music rentals? What do…

iPhone Getting Offline Safari Storage but No 3rd-Party Native Development Planned

An Apple source has informed Ars that the iPhone’s Safari is getting offline storage capabilities, a la Google Gears, which could be used to cache apps and data. There’s also talk of possible icons on the home page that open up Safari-driven apps. But no third party development kit is planned for native programs. Ars…

Vers 2X Wooden iPod Sound System

Metal or plastic, it seems like if you want to be a part of today’s gadget world those are your options. Well, no one told Vers Audio that. Their new iPod sound dock, the 2X, is handmade with cherry veneer. I know, veneer? Yuck, but it’s better than plastic and is hand-crafted. It comes with…

Microsoft Aims Zune at #2 Spot

Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Devision President Robbie Bach suffers no delusions about unseating the iPod this year. He says that the new Zune Updates can put the company into the solid #2 spot for the overall portable music player market by the end of the next fiscal year (which ends June 2008) now that the…

Apple Corporate Video From 1984 Rips Off Irene Cara, is Ridiculous

This ludicrous Apple corporate video was used during the Macintosh rollout in January of 1984. It played before Steve Jobs took the stage. My, how keynotes have changed! I only wish Apple still produced comedic gems/ripoffs of current chart-toppers for keynotes like this. For the full story behind this video from the man who ripped…

Apple Eyes Intel Chips for iPhone?

We’re pulling out our new SuperRumor” for this news, but according to DigiTimes, Apple is considering the recently announced Intel Mooretown chips for the iPhone. Since these Intel chips won’t see the light of day until 2009, it would certainly represent (at the very least) a second iteration of iPhone hardware. But given the specs…

Beyond TV Adds iPod/iPhone Auto Sync

We haven’t paid much attention to Beyond TV in the past, but the new 4.7 update has caught our attention with a sweet new feature: iPod and iPhone auto syncing. While competitors like TivoToGo will allow you to convert recorded shows to iPod-ready H.264 compression, it’s a tedious process that tends to pull the convenience…