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When Howard Kiyuna dropped his MacBook G3 and broke the CD-ROM drive, it seemed the perfect opportunity to squeeze the guts of the notebook into an unusual casing. Best thing lying around was a Magnadoodle, and so the Macnadoodle was born.
Apple has quietly updated both iTunes and AppleTV overnight, introducing mainly bug-fixes for both products but also adding Genius intelligent playlist creation to their set-top box. The iTunes update, which takes the app to v8.0.1, cures a particularly annoying bug whereby high-definition episodes of TV shows were replaced with standard-definition copies.
The glowing logo, the sleek curves - could it be anything other than a new Apple notebook? Well yes, actually, it could: the steady-handsmanship of a German modder called Florian Gotz, it’s really a Medion Akoya Mini E1210 (a rebadged MSI Wind ) with an Apple logo cut out with a Dremel.
More images purporting to be of the upcoming MacBook Pro refresh have emerged, and while they’re different to the last images - which we still think are fake - they’re no more believable. The trackpad has lost the built-in OS X dock but gained black coloring, as has the screen bezel and the external casing. [...]
French newspaper Liberation is asking whether Apple has a chemically-related problem with their MacBook Pro range, as several owners have reported strong-smelling, potentially toxic fumes emitted from their laptops. They quote Greenpeace, who have had the MacBook Pros in for testing with Inéris, France’s national institute covering the industrial environment, and identified “seven volatile organic contaminants”, [...]
If you need extra things to spruce of your MacBook or MacBook Pro, Targus has just announced a new line of peripherals that will work right alongside your Apple device.
Because of Apple’s elusive nature, they tend to draw a lot of speculation about what their future product plans are. And however unlikely they are to be realized, they’re interesting, nonetheless. Like the “Brick” Leander Kahney, a Wired Editor is fixated on.
Could the new MacBook rumor, that everyone has been getting so worked up over, actually be about a completely different device? That’s one theory: that Apple are preparing to make yet another assault on the living room in the shape of a new Apple TV. According to GigaOM, a new - probably PVR-equipped and media [...]
Apple recently made an agreement with the attorney general’s office in Massachusetts and the National Federation for the Blind to make their iTunes Store more accessible to those who are visually impaired.
By December 31, 2008, iTunes U, the part of the store for educational content will be available for the blind. Then, by June [...]
Netbooks made their typical strong showing this week, with ASUS announcing their intention to put 3G HSUPA into the Eee PC 901. Meanwhile their N10 was reviewed and deemed the first netbook “suitable for serious gaming“, a promising title indeed. Lenovo’s S10 also hit reviewers’ benches, making a strong - if at times warm - [...]
