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We are just a few hours away from some "fun new products" (or so we are told), and I thought I would point out that Engadget will be providing on the scene, as it happens, coverage for their readers. Just navigate over to the static page they have setup for all updates by clicking here, [...]

Just hours away from the arrival of "fun new products" direct from the mothership in sunny Cupertino California, I thought I would tally up some of the more popular predictions making their way along the "information superhighway" (can you imagine that people used to actually call it that with a straight face?).  [...]

Theater Closed Originally uploaded by Matt Thomas.
It looks like the theatre located on the 2nd level of the Apple store in the SoHo section of New York City will be getting an upgrade. The theatre currently seats 80 and is the location of daily Mac workshops [...]

From the sanjose.bizjournals.com website. "Apple Computer pays $45M-$50M for data center in Newark" (not New Jersey). Can this be part of the special announcement scheduled for tomorrow? Apple + data center =? Your guess is as good as mine. Now I have to go and see if they have an openings at this new facility. [...]

Given it’s immense popularity, iconic status, ease of use, quality of design, and tight integration with the world’s leading digital media store, it is sometimes hard to imagine that Apple could have gone wrong with the iPod. It’s the kind of device where it is easy to believe that Apple would have had [...]

Engadget today posted the results of their "What Would Jobs Do?" contest, in which they asked readers to use some Photoshop wizardry to mock up some of the uber cool devices they think his Steveness might introduce at tomorrows invitation only event on the Apple campus in Cupertino California.
First place went to the "Apple Tablet" [...]

Sunday is a day for laying on the couch, watching the game, and with any luck, a mid afternoon nap. In other words, there’s no room for disappointment on a Sunday.
Well much to my dismay I had to cut my nap short today to make some room for a healthy dose of disappointment. It would [...]

Another Flickr gem;

Ain’t that the truth.
How many hours till Tuesday’s announcement?
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As a Mac zealot cultist devotee enthusiast I would be remiss if I let the whole day go by without wishing the high priest god spiritual leader deity CEO of our favorite little cult movement sect religion computer company a happy 51st birthday. That’s right, Mr. Jobs, or his Steveness as his fans affectionately refer [...]

So MacShrine, the source of yesterday’s leaked photo of the supposed new iPod/iTablet, has apparently been bestowed, by a top secret and mysterious source, with a second, much clearer, image of the rumored device.

It matches up pretty closely with what we saw yesterday, and it certainly looks like the type of simple, yet elegant, [...]

We got Widgets!
You expected me to say Picasa, or perhaps Google Desktop? No such luck. Instead what we get is 3 Dashboard widgets that may or may not be useful to you depending on how much you rely on Google services. There is a GMail widget, that will allow you to get a look at [...]

Lost amid the hub bub of leaked "iTablet" pics and rampant speculation on what his Steveness has planned for the Apple faithful next Tuesday, came some pretty significant Apple news. The iTunes Music Store made it’s one billionth sale today, to Alex Ostrovsky of West Bloomfield Michigan, when he purchased the Speed of Sound by [...]

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The below image just minutes ago made it’s way onto Engadget. What does it show? Your guess is as good as mine. But it bears more than a passing resemblance to the leaked photo of the 5th Gen. video capable iPod that hit the net just minutes before the Job’s Keynote. At least in terms [...]

Besides wasting immeasurable amounts of time doing nothing this past holiday weekend, my girlfriend did inject just enough enthusiasm in me to start work on my office "remodel" that I have been wanting promising procrastinating doing for at least 6 months now.

We didn’t get very far, as reducing the mounds of clutter is more time [...]

Apple’s penchant for employing legal means to protect their intellectual property is legendary, and more times than not, entirely justifiable. But this is not one of those times. Splasm Software, makers of the highly affordable, and insanely easy to use iPod video conversion tool Podner, have now been hit with some Apple legalese demanding requesting [...]

What do you get when you cross one Mac deprived GeekBoy, with an expiring rebate on Mac computers from Amazon.com, and a special event scheduled for the day the rebate expires? 
You get the tech equivalent of a purchasing deadline…
Before word came down the pipe today that his Steveness had some new product(s) [...]

If you have been to a movie theater anytime in the last 3 or 4 years I am sure you have had the pleasure of at least once or twice experiencing "The Twenty". If you are a frequent moviegoer, like me, then you have been treated to literally dozens upon dozens of "The Twenty" viewings.
Some [...]

Today being President’s Day, and me having no work to show up to, means I spend even more time than usual accomplishing little while surfing the web, much to my girlfriend’s delight. But I did stumble across some Apple goodness while checking out the extensive collection of excellent computer desk setups on Flickr. I am [...]

Further proof that if you want to put a finger on the pulse of the Mac internet you only have to surf on over to Nitrozac & Snaggy’s Joy of Tech comic;
 
It’s all about the unpacking porn…
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I feel violated! Yesterday I was in the mall and stopped by the Staten Island Apple store to drool over the Intel Core Duo, again! Within 5 minutes the store was stormed by teenagers taking over the new iMac and Mac mini’s on display. Apparently this is the new “hot spot” in the mall and [...]

TUAW.com has posted what appears to be the first user posted pics of the recently shipped MacBook Pro’s. For longtime Apple notebook owners the MacBook Pro represents a much delayed, and highly desired, speed bump for the laptop line of Mac computers. So as expected there is a great deal of anticipation when it comes [...]

There is nothing Earth shattering for me to share with you in this particular post, then again in general I don’t make a habit of writing Earth shattering posts, but I figured that I would mention a recent accessory I purchased online that may hold some appeal for a few of you out there.
As [...]

In case you missed it, a few days back Mr. John C. Dvorak, of TWiT and PC Magazine fame, forgot to take his meds again and wrote some delusional ramblings on the possibility that Apple computers would soon come loaded with the Windows operating system instead of the highly touted, and infinitently more polished, OS [...]

Despite being this site’s namesake we haven’t spent much time focusing on the flagship Apple retail store located in the heart of New York City’s SoHo district. For those of you who don’t know, this store, which was built to serve as a prototype for larger Apple retail stores in other urban areas, was originally [...]

I am not going to throw my hat into the ring to battle out "the first OS X virus ever vs. weak and ineffectual Trojan" debate that is raging on the interwebs today. Instead I will just dedicate a little web space re-enforcing the wisdom of a practice that I would hope that all computer [...]

I love my iPod’s. I really do. I like to think I would go to any length to protect my little bar of ivory goodness (ebony goodness when it comes to my 5th Gen iPod). But rarely, if ever, has this conviction to protect my little portable hard drive based friend been put to [...]

When they start selling iPods in 7-11’s have we officially reached market saturation?
If you live in Japan, and you can pick up a 30 gig iPod in the same isle as Juji Fruits you might start to think so.
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A couple of months back I picked up a brand new iBook based in large part on a great deal I got from Amazon.com. I purchased the 12" 1.33 G4 iBook for $999 (sans tax, which saved me a Benjamin right there) with a $50 mail in rebate, which brought my total price down to [...]