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Apple now shipping fourth-gen iPod touch units

Customers who preordered their 2010 model iPod touch after they were announced last Wednesday began to receive shipment notifications on Tuesday. Per MacRumors, assorted tech blogs have been lit up today with word that initial preorder units of the new, fourth-generation iPod touch model are now shipping, with delivery estimates between September 10th and 14th. […]

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id’s John Carmack demos 60 fps Rage game on iPhone 4

Ok, this qualifies as nifty. Per Kotaku, id Software’s John Carmack demonstrated Rage on the iPhone 4 handset at QuakeCon 2010. The title, which ran at 60 frames-per-second, allowed Carmack to “kill anything done on the Xbox or PlayStation 2.” The demo incorported id’s Tech 5 engine and could easily run on the 3GS with […]

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iMac News Software

Apple releases iMac (Mid 2010) Display Brightness Update 1.0

Late Thursday, Apple released the iMac (Mid 2010) Display Brightness Update 1.0 for its current 21.5″ iMac desktops. The update, a 378 kilobyte download, addresses an issue with 21.5-inch iMac (Mid 2010) display brightness. The update requires Mac OS X 10.6.4 or later to install and run and is also available via Mac OS X’s […]

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iPhone News

Apple ousts iPhone head Mark Papermaster, speculation flies as to who might be next

In November of 2008, Apple hired IBM’s Mark Papermaster to be Apple’s Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering, thereby replacing Tony Fadell as head of Apple’s iPod and iPhone divisions. A court deal later forced Papermaster to wait until April 2009 before starting at Apple. Sixteen months later, Papermaster is out. Per The Apple […]

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CrossOver updated to 9.1

CrossOver, the popular emulation program from CodeWeavers, has been updated to version 9.1. The new version, which is available as a demo, offers the following fixes and changes: Application Fixes: – Improved installation of Office 2007 service packs. – Fixed product registration of Office 2007 and Office 2003. – Fixed some unimportant errors during installation […]