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MacBook and MacBookPro suffer performance anxiety once the battery is removed

November 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Are you one of those thrifty-types who’s always looking for an angle, always trying to stretch every last penny? You know who we’re talking about: Montel Williams bases whole episodes around you, the kind of person who reuses tea bags and separates sheets of triple-ply paper towels. Unfortunately, it now looks like you now have [...]

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Apple approves third-party email client for the App Store, violates its own policies

November 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Recently we were sent a PR email about an iPhone app called BdEmailer. No big deal, press releases about new iPhone applications show up in our box in large bundles every day — but this one was different. According to the release, the program is the “the first wide email iPhone app [...]

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Report: G1 costs 10 percent less to make than iPhone

November 12th, 2008 · No Comments

(Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks)
When it comes to the next-gen phone wars, two handsets immediately come to mind: Apple’s iPhone and the G1 from HTC and T-Mobile, the first commercially available phone to run Google’s Android OS.

The G1 retails to new customers for 9, while the …
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New MacBook Air hits the streets, actually capable of this whole "computing" thing

November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Laptops

The new MacBook Air has landed, and folks all over are recording their impressions of the slightly-revamped ultraportable. Obviously there’s very little to note externally, with the same packaging and design to the computer — the only real difference is the new mini DisplayPort plug to replace that totally oddball microDVI plug. What’s [...]

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Will MacBook chip end Intel graphics franchise?

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Will Apple’s decision to use Nividia chips in its new MacBooks be a catalyst for change?
With all the hoopla surrounding Apple’s choice of Nvidia graphics in its new MacBooks fading, it remains to be seen if Nvidia’s GeForce 9400M has legs.

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Top Ten Costumes for The Wall of Shame

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

When Halloween rolls around it tends to draw out some bizarre and geeky costumes. As children we could go outside in a sheet with holes for eyes and people would ramble on about how cute we looked. Yet as adults we don’t quite get that luxury. If you wear a Rubiks Cube [...]

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Apple’s refreshed MacBook Air now shipping to giddy buyers

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Laptops

You know those spec-bumped MacBook Airs that were announced around a fortnight ago alongside those shiny (literally) new MacBooks / MacBook Pros? Yeah, well they’re shipping. Reports filled with intense levels of joviality are beginning to spring up on Mac message boards the intarwebz over, and within them are proclamations of tracking number [...]

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Desmontando a la Analítica Web

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

No hay comparación posible: Google Analytics, con su nueva versión, se sitúa muy por delante de sus competidores en el mercado de herramientas de análisis web. Y la clave no son tan sólo sus muy comentadas nuevas funcionalidades. A día de hoy, nadie puede competir en análisis web con Google Analytics, porque nadie sabe [...]

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Video: Apple’s latest MacBook Pro

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments

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Video: Apple’s new multitouch trackpad

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments

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