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Accessory News

Belkin to release Thunderbolt Express Dock this September for $299

Give it time and the spiffy peripherals eventually show up on the market. Per AppleInsider, Belkin on Monday introduced its new Thunderbolt Express Dock, which will allow users to connect multiple devices to their Mac with one Thunderbolt cable when it arrives in September for US$299. Though it won’t be available until later this year, […]

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Fun Hack Hardware

Perhaps the Greatest Thing Ever

It’s unassailably cool, a perfect combination of cats, programmable Arduino circuitry, LEDs, Twitter and the shell from your old eMac. Per creator Samuel Cox, you too can develop an eSleeper, which turned a hollowed-out eMac into a bed for his feline. Inside the shell is an Arduino Ethernet connected to an IR sensor, some LEDs […]

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Hardware News

Leaked Intel documents present ideas for Thunderbolt-based docking components

This could turn into something nifty. Per VR-Zone, Intel is hoping to formalize a standard for docking on ultrabooks with Thunderbolt ports, leaked internal notes demonstrate. The implementation would combine the Thunderbolt port with a wider companion dock connector to handle other forms of data, such as Ethernet or USB, VR-Zone said. To keep the […]

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News Software

Parallels Desktop updated to 7.0.15050

On Thursday, Parallels released version 7.0.15050 of its Parallels Desktop virtualization software. The new update, a 304 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Download and install Windows 8 Developer Preview right from the Parallels Wizard. – Install Mac OS X 10.7 Lion using Install Mac OS X Lion.app. – Support for Ubuntu […]

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Hardware News

iFixit finishes teardown of Thunderbolt display, locates 2009 LG panel

When in doubt, count on someone geekier than you to dissect Apple’s newest hardware. The cool cats at iFixit have completed a full teardown of the screen has found. The new display, powered by Apple and Intel’s Thunderbolt technology, was disassembled this week by iFixit. They found that the LG display is model number “LM270WQ1,” […]