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Rumor: Apple May be Building Netbook

Despite its public comments regarding the issue, Apple may in fact be working on a netbook which could be released sometime this year. According to the DigiTimes newspaper, Apple has ordered displays from a well-known touch-panel supplier for use with such a system sometime in 2009. According to the report, Taiwan-based Wintek will start shipping […]

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iPod

Japanese Developing Headphones Which Could Allow iPod to be Controlled by Facial Movements

iPod users may soon be able to adjust the volume of a song or flip between tracks via a motion of their head according to Macworld UK. Per the article, Japanese researchers have developed a pair of headphones that use infrared sensors to interpret facial movements as a way of controlling a digital audio player. […]

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Software

Apple Releases Second Mac OS X 10.5.7 Beta

Apple appears to be close to getting its Mac OS X 10.5.7 maintenance update out the door as the company issued a new build of the update this weekend. According to AppleInsider, Apple released build 9J22 to third-party developers recently. The build apparently contains nearly six dozen code corrections, a barebones weight of 440 megabytes, […]

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Software

Adobe Releases Lightroom 2.3 Update

On Thursday, Adobe released Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3, the newest version of its professional-grade image editing program and Adobe’s first application to support 64-bit processing. The new version, a 67 megabyte download (courtesy of VersionTracker), adds the following fixes and changes: Additional camera support for the Nikon D3X and Olympus E-30 Slideshows could return to […]

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Legal

Cydia Opens Unauthorized iPhone Application Store

Though the App Store provides some incredibly fun and useful stuff, there are still some iPhone and iPod touch applications that can’t be acquired through this end. Applications like Cycorder, which lets you use your iPhone as a camcorder or PdaNet, which allows users to use the iPhone’s cellular data connection on their computer via […]