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Opinion: HD Media Player Battlemodo: Apple TV Killers

05 Nov 2009 12:25:00 PST

Written by Wilson Rothman
This isn't about photos and music. Apple TV is better at both of those than any of this stuff. It's also not about renting movies or buying movies, or even streaming movies from Netflix. Roku has a nice cheap box for that, and Apple TV is suitable if you just want to live inside Steve Jobs' media st...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Review Update: AT&T 3G MicroCell

02 Nov 2009 10:30:26 PST

Written by Charles Jade
As an iPhone user held hostage in AT&T’s network by the exclusivity agreement with Apple, the arrival of the AT&T 3G MicroCell felt like being rescued. Four weeks later, I now realize only Verizon can do that, but my updated assessment of the 3G MicroCell is still positive, mostly.

Original story at The Apple .

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Opinion: 12 Things You Need To Know About Apple TV 3.0

29 Oct 2009 15:21:01 PDT

Written by Wilson Rothman
6. No DivX "This file was not transferred because it is unable to be played on Apple TV." Steve Jobs once said that only 4% of music on iPods came from iTunes. A lot of movies that would be nice to play on Apple TV simply don't, while H.264 is an option on Handbrake and other personal-use DVD-encodin...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Opinion: 12 Things You Need To Know About Apple TV 3.0 [Apple]

29 Oct 2009 15:21:01 PDT

Written by Wilson Rothman
5. Photos Still Require a Sync I don't quite understand this quirk of Apple TV: While music and movies I don't sync to the local drive still appear as long as they're in iTunes on my Mac, the photos that live on that same Mac are off limits unless I physically sync them. The alternative is to share...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Opinion: The daily roundup: here's what you might've missed

26 Oct 2009 21:01:00 PDT

Written by Ross Miller
Throw this thing on Verizon, AT&T or T-Mobile, and you've got a whole new wave of Palm customers; as it stands, who's really buying this with the Pre just $50 away?Verizon chief says offering the iPhone is Apple's call HTC You ad campaign unveiled (update: video!)Apple Tablet rumor r...

Original story at Engadget .

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Apple iMac Review: 27 Inches and Less Chin

22 Oct 2009 21:27:18 PDT

Written by Brian Lam
The larger case allows the iMac to use four sticks of user-serviceable RAM, accessible from the bottom. (That's useful futureproofing now that OS X Snow Leopard is shipping, and programs and the OS in 64-bit can address more than 4GB at a time.)

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Apple Computer news and blogs - November 08, 2009

08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Apple Computer news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Review Update: AT&T 3G MicroCell -- by Charles Jade from TheAppleBlog
• Opinion: Week in Apple: New... everything! -- by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng) from Ars Technica
• Opinion: Patent Dispute Goes After iTunes -- by Liam Cassidy from TheAppleBlog
• Opinion: David Hockney paints with his iPhone, results not typical -- by Laura June from Engadget Mobile
• Opinion: Microsoft Considers Zune On the Mac and Apple Should Offer iTunes Subscriptions -- by Liam Cassidy from TheAppleBlog
• Opinion: Revealing Mac OS X's Hidden Single-Application Mode -- by lbutler@covisp.net (Lewis Butler) from TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us
• Opinion: Revealing Mac OS X's Hidden Single-Application Mode -- by editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Publishing) from TidBITS
• Opinion: So Hot Right Now: Top 10 Gadgetell posts for the week of September 27, 2009 -- by NEWS from Gadgetell
• Opinion: The Appeal (and Ethics) of Hackintoshing: Should Apple License the Mac OS? -- by Charles Moore from TheAppleBlog
• Opinion: iPod nano Delivers Static in Radio Interface and Features -- by glenn@tidbits.com (Glenn Fleishman) from TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us

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Opinion: Rumor Has It: Apple Developing Radio App for iPhone and iPod touch

14 Oct 2009 06:35:45 PDT

Written by Liam Cassidy
The ZuneHD has it. The latest iPod Nano has it. Even a chunky digital watch I owned when I was seven years old had it. I’m talking FM Radio, and the latest rumors tell us Apple is working on its very own native Radio.app for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Original story at The Apple . Related stories include: Opinion: iPod nano Delivers Static in Radio Interface and Features - tidbits_main (Feedburner) and ... tidbits_podcast (Feedburner) , TheAppleBlog

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Opinion: Rumor Has It: Apple Developing Radio App for iPhone and iPod touch

14 Oct 2009 06:35:45 PDT

Original story at TheAppleBlog . Related stories include: Opinion: iPod nano Delivers Static in Radio Interface and Features - tidbits_main (Feedburner) and ... The Apple , tidbits_podcast (Feedburner)

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Opinion: Week in Apple: Ars fondles iPod nano and iTunes 9, peeks at iPod touch innards

19 Sep 2009 16:00:00 PDT

Written by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
Our review of the new iPod nano and a hands-on with iTunes 9 topped the charts this week, as did speculation on how the Apple TV could be improved and revelations about the updated iPod touch hardware. If you're in for the top Apple news of the week, we have it for you in one tidy package:

Original story at Ars Technica .

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Opinion: Apple and AT&T Answer FCC About Google Voice Rejection: It's All Apple

21 Aug 2009 14:27:57 PDT

Written by John Herrman
AT&T and Apple agreed that Apple would not take affirmative steps to enable an iPhone to use AT&T's wireless service (including 2G, 3G and Wi-Fi) to make VoIP calls without first obtaining AT&T's consent. AT&T and Apple also agreed, however, that if a third party enable...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Klipsch Image S4i Review

16 Aug 2009 11:00:00 PDT

Written by John Herrman
The Verdict: At just $20 more than Apple's In-Ear headset, the Klipsch Image S4i is a no-brainer, assuming Voice Control and VoiceOver are priorities to you. If they don't matter, or if you've got an older iPhone or non-Apple handset, the choice is less clear.

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Opinion: When Will Steve Jobs Level With His Investors About His Health?

24 Jun 2009 17:33:59 PDT

Written by Fred Vogelstein
It enabled Apple to negotiate deals with record labels eight years ago when every other company had tried and failed. Why were those deals important? They were the engine behind Apple’s iPod and iTunes store, which changed the way the world buys and listens to music.

Original story at Wired .

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Opinion: Apple unveils Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server, cuts price in half

08 Jun 2009 17:00:00 PDT

Written by Steven Sande
If you have Mac servers in your business, you weren't left out of the Snow Leopard fun during the keynote earlier today. Apple also announced that Mac OS X Server 10.6, A.K.A. Snow Leopard Server, will be shipping in September. Like Snow Leopard, the server version of the OS provides 64-bit suppo...

Original story at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) .

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Opinion: Apple: You Can’t Use Images of the iPhone on the iPhone

22 Apr 2009 06:00:56 PDT

Written by Darrell Etherington
Apple didn’t point out exactly what had caused the rejection in the case of Pocket God, but it did refer to the use of copyrighted images. Bolt eventually decided that it must’ve been an image resembling an iPhone that they’d introduced in an options screen, but Apple didn’t just identify t...

Original story at The Apple .

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Opinion: Why Snow Leopard Should Be (Almost) Free

21 Apr 2009 00:48:28 PDT

At some point in the next two to six months, Apple will unleash their latest big cat: Mac OS X Snow Leopard. It's no secret - Apple has been talking about Snow Leopard for ages, with particular emphasis on how Snow Leopard will focus on performance, efficiency, and "core innovation" rather t...

Original story at TidBITS .

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Apple Time Capsule Review

16 Mar 2009 11:00:37 PDT

Written by Brian Lam
Time Capsule is $500 for a 1TB and $300 for 500GB of storage. That's not a ton of storage for high-end machines these days, and multiple machines will almost certainly require the 1TB setup if you want to keep a moderately detailed history of your computers' data changes. As you'd expect from...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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iMac 2009 Review [Review]

06 Mar 2009 06:00:00 PST

Written by Wilson Rothman
Xbench test results Geekbench test results In real world testing, I made further discoveries of the iMac's pre-eminence among its Mac peers. Ripping a 26-track CD in iTunes took just 3 minutes and 50 seconds on the iMac, while it took nearly 10 minutes (OK, 9:45) on the Mini with 2GB of RAM.

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Opinion: No, Economist. Apple is not a Network Innovation Company

05 Jan 2009 09:28:47 PST

Written by Pete Mortensen
Take, for example, The Economist, which has placed Apple on the cover of its most recent issue for a story titled "Apple and the art of innovation." It's a pretty good story, nothing careful watchers of Apple don't already know. It does, however, get one aspect quite wrong, based on a simple m...

Original story at Wired News .

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Lightning Review: New Apple In-Ear Headphones

04 Dec 2008 13:00:00 PST

Written by Adrian Covert
As far as remote capabilities go, I tested the Apple In-ear headphones with an iPhone 3G and a first gen iPod touch (neither of which are officially supported. As Apple claims, the audio works fine with both devices. Neither the remote or the mic work with the iPod touch 1G at all, merely reduc...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Opinion: The Truth About the Apple Tax

17 Oct 2008 11:45:00 PDT

Written by matt buchanan
The Apple Tax is a popular term for people who believe Macs are overpriced. It's usually screamed at the top of lungs (or the blog-commenter equivalent), but it's rarely been dissected. The truth about the Apple Tax is straightforward on one level—you will pay more for the same specs on a Mac...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Opinion: ★ Notes and Observations Regarding Yesterday’s ‘Let’s Rock’ Apple Special Event

19 Sep 2008 19:16:57 PDT

Written by John Gruber
NBC withdrew its TV programming from the iTunes Store last year. As of yesterday, it’s back. It’s hard to see that NBC gained much of anything in the form of concessions from Apple. NBC executives stated publicly that they wanted Apple “to take concrete steps to protect content from piracy, s...

Original story at Daring Fireball .

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iPod touch review

22 Sep 2007 02:31:00 PDT

Written by Ryan Block
Thankfully, as far as media playback goes, all the best stuff from the iPhone made the cut in the touch. It shares the same audio, video, and photo apps as the iPhone, which is a good thing since we still love the new Apple mobile media interface every bit as much as we did when we first reviewed t...

Original story at Engadget .

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Opinion: Battlemodo: Apple Hi-Fi Vs. Altec Lansing IMV712

07 Jul 2007 14:15:54 PDT

Written by Mark Wilson
Today, as our two most expensive units battle, marks the close of our first round of iPod Dock Battlemodo. First, we have the $349 Apple Hi-Fi. It's the Chosen System, blessed by the hands of Steve Jobs himself. And while it's late on the scene, that allowed Apple a chance to learn from the mista...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Opinion: Why your school doesn't want boot camp

07 Apr 2006 16:30:00 PDT

Written by Jay Savage
Individual admins, of course, are thrilled. Being able do dual boot, say, a MacBook Pro means only needing one machine to administer everything. But supporting it for users? That's a different story.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Original story at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) .

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Opinion: New 20" iMac G5 earns CNET's Editor's Choice Award

18 Nov 2005 01:02:06 PST

Written by David Chartier
The review probably isn't anything the typical Apple fan hasn't heard about already, but it's still awesome that a site like CNET has given Apple a good mark for a great product. via Digg] ReadPermalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Ads by Google

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