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iLife and iWork Updated for Aperture 1.5

iPhoto 6.0.5 (57.7MB) contains new calendar, greeting card, and postcard themes for use with Apple print services, including a variety of holiday card designs. It also addresses compatibility for accessing Aperture 1.5 content in iPhoto. iMovie HD 6.0.3 (6.6MB) addresses compatibility for accessing Aperture 1.5 content in iMovie HD. It also improves overall stability and […]

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IBM/Lenovo Recalls 500,000 Notebook Batteries

Hooray, Lenovo has joined the battery recall party! For those of you keeping score at home, that brings the number of manufacturers to five, including Apple, Panasonic, Toshiba and Dell. The recall, anounced today, affects nearly 170,000 batteries in the US, and over 350,000 additionally worldwide, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. Engadget […]

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iTunes

iTunes 7.0.1’s Mobile Phone Mentions

Normally, an iTunes update wouldn’t be much news. But this one has lots of mentions of a “mobile phone” that can play video and display pictures. As far as we know, the ROKR and RAZR V3i can’t do that. Here’s a taste of the strings: “4301.022” = ” ^0 was not copied because the video […]

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MSN Messenger 6 adds Mac IM Interoperability

We need a universal IM protocol and we need the sotware vendors to support it. The fact that you can’t IM your friend because they’re on x service is almost is bad as the whole BluRay/HD DVD fiasco. Microsoft on Wednesday released Messenger 6.0 for Mac, allowing Appleusers of its instant messaging software to connect […]

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External Battery for Apple MacBook Pro

Remember when external PowerBook battery packs were all the rage? Well Battery Geek has a new external battery that works with the MacBook Pro. I imagine that it’s hard to sell any notebook battery pack right now though… The Portable Power Station by Battery Geek supplies an additional 6+ hours of mobile computing time for […]