An Italian website, The Apple Lounge, discovered a very interesting piece of Apple related news today. Apple appears to have unintentionally leaked confirmation of a third size to their recently updated iMac line. As many of you know, as of now, iMacs come in both the 20 and 24 inch size. On Apple’s educational eNews [...]
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Rumor Alert: 17-Inch iMac Coming Soon?
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Google Releases New Chrome Beta
Just today Google re-entered the world of betas by releasing yet another beta version of Chrome, Google’s first attempt at a web browser. Although the beta tag was removed from Chrome in December of 2008, Google decided to supply users with three different versions. The first is the stable version, which has minimal bugs, if [...]
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WeFollow By Kevin Rose
Just about every person who uses the Internet regularly to find information has either heard of or used Digg.com. Digg is a website created by Kevin Rose (@KevinRose on Twitter) which allows users to supply the website content from across the web. This creation has been a huge success since its launch. Just a few [...]
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Exploding iPod Touch?
Recently, a 15-year-old boy’s 16 gigabyte Apple iPod Touch exploded in his pants pocket during school. The explosion left the young boy with a burned leg, and Apple with a new lawsuit. The plaintiff claims that he heard a loud “popping” sound during class, and immediately a burning sensation on his leg followed. He realized [...]
Posted in Apple, News, Quick Look Tagged Apple, Explode, iPod, ipod touch, Lawsuit, Touch 5 Comments
Facebook and Worms Have A Thing For Each Other
As many Facebook users know, an announcement was released a few days ago, stating that the user’s home screen is undergoing some alterations. It seems to be that internet attackers/hackers are jumping on this redesign period to steal the identities of people throughout the Facebook world. Just this week, five different security threats have been [...]
Posted in News, Quick Look, social networking Tagged Add new tag, facebook, Koobface, virus, worm 1 Comment
Andriod To Kill Microsoft?
Calvin Huang, an analyst at Daiwa Securities, has said that “Android is poised to kill Microsoft on several fronts” in a recent interview with ZDnet Asia. The first front that Huang speaks of is the netbook. Not too long ago, the Google backed, Linux-based Android operating system was ported onto an Asus Eee Netbook. After [...]
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DestroyTwitter? Why Would You Do Such a Thing?
No, no one is actually destroying Twitter. But DestroyTwitter may be destroying the Twitter client competition. Destroy Twitter is an Adobe Air application that can run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. In my opinion it is the little brother of TweetDeck, another Twitter client designed for easy organization and “power tweeting”. DestroyTwitter sports many of [...]
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Nvidia Heads For the MID
Before I begin, lets clarify exactly what a MID is. MID stands for Mobile Internet Device, which can be classified as a unit that fits nicely somewhere between netbooks and smartphones. Generally, they are very compact devices, but not compact enough to slide into your pocket. The primary purpose of a device like this is [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, Laptops, Microsoft, Mobile Computing, News, Opinion Tagged Chipset, HD, Microsoft CE, MID, NVidia, tegra, tegra 600 2 Comments
Kindle 2 Runs Into the Law
One of the bigger tech stories recently has been the Kindle 2, a super thin digital book reader. Although the Kindle 2 was just released on Monday, February 9th, 2009, it has already been taking fire from the Author’s Guild. This legal uproar is being caused by an experimental feature of the book reader, text-to-speech. [...]
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Ubiquity: Firefox Powerhouse
Before I begin, I know that many of you are not going to understand why I am doing a full-blown review on a Firefox add-on. This isn’t just any add-on, rather a mini operating system within an Internet browser. Ubiquity is the all-in-one, feature-packed, eye-catching, Web 2.0 POWERHOUSE. For all of you mac users out [...]
Posted in Opinion, Quick Look, Reviews, Uncategorized, social networking Tagged add-on, firefox, Firefox add-on, google, social networking, tinyurl, twitter, Ubiquity 2 Comments
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