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Reports of Mac mini’s Demise Greatly Exaggerated

Click to viewSteve Jobs said the Mac mini is not dead yet, telling the assembled gathering at today’s event he’s extending the life of the tiniest ‘Tosh. When asked the question, “How is the Mac mini doing? And are you updating it?” he responded, “We are refreshing the Mac mini and making it even faster.…

Steve Jobs Announces iLife ’08

iLife gets its long-rumored refresh in iLife ’08, with iPhoto adding a new feature called “Events.” It takes photo albums and organizes them as “events” automatically. “Instead of looking through 5,000 photos, you’re just looking through 100 events,” said Steve Jobs at the Apple event today. Defining events is customizable by time frame, and a…

Live at Apple Town Hall Summer ’07 Event (10AM PDT Tuesday August 7th)

[UPDATE: We’re here….very, very, early.]Soon, we’ll be heading down to Apple HQ to provide you with a liveblog of their Town Hall event. The party actually starts at 10:00 a.m. PDT (1:00 p.m. EDT), but the pre-game show will start hours before that. We’ll have the Justin.TV cam rolling (which we’ll have to shut off…

It Has Begun: The Apple Store Is Closed

The Apple Store is down, and you know what that means. Blam and Jason are inside, so we’ll know soon enough what new hotness will be gleaming from its virtual store shelves when it reopens. [Apple Store]

If Apple Made a Touchscreen Computer…

This is an absolutely brilliant piece from The Joy of Tech. I love the line, “It will be sold as “the 30 in iPhone.” Hit the jump for the full, unshrunk masterpiece. [joyoftech via newlaunches]

iPhone NES Emulator Third Party App

A fresh app on Google Code claims to allow hacked iPhone users to play classic NES games. Based on the open-source portable NES emulator InfoNES, the emulator still has its training wheels on. Allegedly, games will run slightly slower than on an actual NES (or standard emulator) and you won’t get any sound output yet.…

iFuntastic 2.5 Has an iPhone File Browser

iFuntastic 2.5 is out, and along with ringtone, carrier logo, and icon swapping, you can now browser the file system. This means you can swap out any images and sound file on the phone. Intel-mac only, for now. [iFuntastic at iPhone Alley]

For the industrious type, there’s a new voice recording app called VRecord that you can hack right on your iPhone. [TUAW]

NES iPod Remote Makes Fred Savage Proud

If we were to grade a hack or a mod on nerdiness, this NES controller iPod remote would definitely be on the Dean’s list this semester. Some guy took a PIC microcontroller, shoved it into the NES controller, and somehow got it to hook up to the 3G and 4G microcontroller port in Apple’s iPod.…

.Mac Scheduled Downtime During Apple Event Tomorrow

The .Mac homepage reveals that it’ll be intermittently up and down tomorrow, the same time as the Apple event. Does this mean that fresh .Mac upgrades or uses are part of tomorrow’s news?

iPhone Patent Dibs Begin (Pitifully)

In the wake of consumer action lawsuits, there is another group of citizens looking for a piece of the iPhone: patent trolls. Just take US Patent 6,784,873 by SP Technologies—it’s a patent for entering information on a touch screen. If it sounds like an all-encompassing, overly-broad patent, that’s probably because it is…an obvious point when…

iPhone 2.0 Campers Already Camping?

Wow, who knew? Hordes of fans are already camping out at Apple stores around America for iPhone 2.0. From CAP News…who we always visit for hard-hitting scoops: I don’t even own an iPhone, but I know iPhone 2.0 is gonna be much more awesome,” said 26-year-old Maurice Darkin, who has already been camped outside Apple’s…

Inmate Sticks iPhone Up Butt (Ends Badly)

WARNING NOT FOR SQUEAMISH I love Gizmodo, but when Mark said, ‘Do the rectum,’ I thought it was asking a little too much. Thank the heavens above he was referring to this story. It is common knowledge that prison would be a bitchin’ hang out if: 1). There were no criminals about and 2). There…

A 99-cent store in Westchester, CA will sell 4GB iPhones for $0.99 to the first 9 people in line on August 9th. Cheapskates and hobos with access to eBay should line up now. [Mac Daily News]

How to Comment: Weekend

What’s everyone doing, gear-wise this weekend? Me, I’m fiddling around with the iPhone since I need to be writing my iPhone book all weekend. Maybe some Shadowrun on Xbox 360 thrown in, but mostly an entire weekend of work, work, work. How about you? Get any cool toys in the past week? Don’t know how…

Hard to believe, but Reuters claims that one day of blackouts at a couple of Samsung factories will cost them around $54 million and could cause shortages in memory. BTW, Samsung makes nano and iPhone memory. [Reuters]

Meizu M8 Phone Shipping 8GB First, Gets $70 Price Increase

Meizu’s CEO let everyone know (via a forum posting, no less) that their first Meizu M8 MiniOne version will be the 8GB mode, and it will ship for about $400. That’s a $70 increase from the previous price data, but is much better than the totally off figures we saw last month. Good news, other…

iPod Dock Bracket FINALE, Altec Lansing IMV712 vs. Griffin Amplifi

“One cannot live while the other survives.” – J.K. Rowling It’s been what feels like three years in the making, but the final fight in our iPod Dock Battlemodo begins now. The $150 Griffin Amplifi is our budget contender, going face to face against the posh $350 Altec Lansing IMV712. And with that long of…

A crazy man in New Zealand ran a woman down and then crashed into a church. When cops tried to pull him from his car, he “clutched his laptop computer and screamed the name of Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs.” [The Register]

Apple Town Hall ’07 Liveblog

This is the liveblog for Town Hall ’07