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Alex is a blogger. You can find his personal blog here. You can also find him on Twitter.

A New 17-inch iMac?

March 21st, 2009

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Apple may be about to introduce a new iMac. This image from Apple’s eNews publication talks about a new 17-inch iMac starting at $899: It may only be for schools, however. What do you think? Would you buy one? [via Gizmodo] Update: Turns out the “new” iMac is actually the old polycarbonate 17-incher from 2007 […]

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Apple Conned out of 9000 iPod Shuffles

March 20th, 2009

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In Michigan, an iPod repairman named Nicholas Woodhams manipulated Apple’s warranty system by guessing at iPod serial numbers and using defunct credit cards to score 9,075 free iPod Shuffles from Apple, who was predictably pissed and filed a lawsuit against him last July. The government has also filed federal charges against him and wants to […]

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An Accidental Stroke of Brilliance

March 19th, 2009

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Today, when I left my newly installed and configured HackBook (running XxX 10.5.6) downstairs for awhile, the display went to sleep. I thought nothing of it of course. I closed the lid and took it upstairs. When I opened the lid, it gave me the boot prompt. “Strange,” I thought, and when I pressed enter […]

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iPhone OS 3.0: New Apps

March 17th, 2009

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During Apple’s presentation of the new iPhone OS, they had several developers come up and demonstrate some apps they made using the new APIs and features (which you can read about here). Meebo: They’ve avoided making an iPhone app because they felt it needed push notification. Meebo will connect to various social networks and do […]

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iPhone OS 3.0: New Features

March 17th, 2009

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Today, Apple introduced the next version of OS X for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The iPhone is doing incredibly well, even in this economy. Its sales were up 17 million through December and there have been over 800,000 downloads of the iPhone SDK. 96% of apps reviewed are approved, and more than 80 million […]

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