Saturday, April 26, 2008

Turn Your iPod Touch into an iPhone

Lifehacker shows you how to make VoIP phone calls from your iPod touch or iPhone using a freeware application called SIP-VoIP

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Apple Releases 2 New "Get A Mac" Ads

Check out the new ads.

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Watch a drunken Jeff Goldblum pitch the iMac

Move over “Cheeseburger-eating Hasselhoff“, there’s a new drunk in town! What happens when you take the classic 1999 Jeff Goldblum iMac commercial and slow it down about 30 percent? You get a hilarious piece of footage capable of taking Goldblum’s kids away in any future custody battle!

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Steve Jobs puts customer straight over water damaged Mac

Guys spills water on MacBook Pro, is mad that Apple want to charge a fee to inspect it, e-mails complaint to Steve Jobs, gets Steved. Fin.

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Apple passes Wal-Mart, now #1 music retailer in US

Over the past few years, we have watched Apple climb the music sales chart courtesy of the iTunes. Last month we learned that Apple passed Best Buy to become the number two retailer in the the US. Now, Apple has ascended to the top of the charts, surpassing Wal-Mart for the first time ever, according to the NPD MusicWatch Survey.

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3G IPhone Due on June 9, Analysts Say

The 3G iPhone will be announced June 9, the likely date of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, analysts said in research notes on Thursday.

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Cluttered desktop folders become art [PICS]

Storing tons of files on your desktop is never a good idea, and Teknograd Mac Support from Norway has come up with an ad campaign that visualizes the feeling of helplessness that a cluttered desktop can cause. Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader John Hawkins for the pics!

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Friday, April 25, 2008

Apple posts profit of $1.05B, ships nearly 2.3 million Macs

Apple said Wednesday that second-quarter profits rose over 36 percent to $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted share, on sales of $7.51 billion for the three-month period ended March 29, 2008. The company shipped 2,289,000 Macs, 10,644,000 iPods, and 1,703,000 iPhones.

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Biggest RC Airplane Competition in the World (VIDEO+PICS)

Top Gun 2008, the 20th anniversary edition of the biggest RC model competition in the world, starts tomorrow. Five days of pure nerdgasm watching the most stunning, biggest and best remote control aircraft in the planet. The ultimate toys this side of a real fighter jet.

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Five Million Users And Nearly Five Billion Stumbles Later

Sometime today, StumbleUpon will register its five millionth user. (At the time of this writing, it is at 4,994,826 registered users). That number is kind of meaningless because it counts anyone who has ever registered for the Website-rating and discovery service, and who may no longer use it. StumbleUpon, which is part of eBay, does not disclose h

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Top 10 Amazon Power Shopper Tools

Did you know Amazon can email you suggestions from Mom's wishlist two weeks before her birthday? Automatically ship you a new case of toilet paper every 2 months? Refund the difference on the price of an item you purchased that went on sale? Several advanced Amazon features, third party apps and add-ons can help you get the best deals

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Ubuntu's Firefox Start Page redesigned before 8.04 release

This is the page that comes up when starting Firefox: http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04

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Kip Kedersha earned $102,000 from MetaCafe last year.

Instructional videos on stuff like turning a flashlight into a laser earned Kip Kedersha $102,000 from Metacafe last year. Kip should thank all the diggers for all the video views he got on Metacafe.

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Nokia Internet Tablets get Ubuntu and Qt

Nokia has announced plans to bring support for the Qt toolkit to the Maemo operating system used on Nokia Internet Tablet devices. Nokia is also sponsoring an Ubuntu ARM port.

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How to survive the switch to Digital TV

Did my TV screen just shrink? That's the question a lot of people will be asking after installing one of the converter boxes that will keep their older TV sets tuned in to over-the-air broadcasts after February 17, when most stations will switch from analog to digital transmission.

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Google Launches Mobile Banner Ads

Google joined a handful of other companies by announcing that it is delivering mobile banner ads. Companies that use Google's AdWords to advertise online now have the option of displaying a banner ad on cell phones instead of simple text. Google includes a text line under each banner identifying it as an advertisement.

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