Archive | March, 2009

iPhone OS 3.0: Are You Ready?

March 16th, 2009

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Tomorrow, March 17th, Apple is set to debut the next version of their mini edition of OS X for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With the Palm Pre’s new features promising to rival or even better those of the iPhone, how will Apple compete? What new features will they implement in 3.o? Background notifications? Video […]

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Windows 7’s Login Background to be Customizable

March 16th, 2009

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The recently leaked build of Windows 7, build 7057, has a new (and rather ugly) login background. But don’t start your Windows bashing yet, because, as Windows hacker, Rafael Rivera explains, the background is customizable without third party hacks. Yes, Microsoft, vowing to actually listen to it’s users this time, has delivered on their promise […]

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Boxee Remote for iPhone/iPod Touch

March 16th, 2009

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The good people behind Boxee, the free, cross-platform media center, have developed an app for controlling their popular application. However, it had previously only been available to jailbroken devices because Apple was taking forever to approve it. Well, the wait is over. Apple released it to the masses yesterday. I downloaded the Mac version of […]

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The Credit Card Culture

March 16th, 2009

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I recently accepted a number of gold card applications, just to stop them from mailing me applications. Now I have a couple of gold cards. I figure I’ll cycle them, accepting new ones as long the postage is pre-paid, and cutting up the old ones with bad interest rates. I think the ‘credit card culture’ […]

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Mac OS X 10.5.7 Released This Month?

March 16th, 2009

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Apple has been seeding Mac OS X 10.5.7 9J27 to developers now for about a week and this raises the all important question: When is it being released? 10.5.7 includes some seriously major fixes as it seems to be Apple’s trademark to release 200 new features and 150 new bug fixes (Verses Microsoft releasing 200 […]

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