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Mac US Market Share Up 50% Over Last Year

ComputerWorld reports that Apple’s US Sales accounting for 14% of the market in February - which is way up from 9% from February 2007.

I’m sure there’s a lot of factors to this. The MacBook Air alone accounted for over 20% of Apple’s sales, yet those numbers don’t cut into their normal sales, it was essentially […]

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Do You Hate U3 On Your Flash Drives?

A lot of USB Flash Drives these days are coming with a built in application launcher called U3. Many many people out there dislike it, and those who know how tend to immediately remove it as soon as they get the drive home.
But why do so many people hate it?
I would say generally because it […]

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Hacked 2.0 iPhone In Action

Gizmodo has a video of a Firmware 2.0 iPhone in action. It is unlocked and will run on any GSM carrier, but is not jailbroken using the current methods.

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Sony Offers to Remove Bloatware - For $50!

As reported by a great many places, as well as PCWorld, Sony is now offering a service to remove bloatware from their new VAIO laptops.

For those that don’t know, or haven’t bought a computer in years, or are too clueless to see all the trial crap installed on their computers: Bloatware refers, essentially, to all […]

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Crazy Web Contest?

I’m sure you folks have seen this cropping up all over the web. There’s always contests going up on blogs all over. Win this $5 gift certificate. Win that 500 credits to buy a whahoozit.
But how many of them have you seen get to over $12,000 in prizes?!

Check out  WinningTheWeb for all the details. You […]

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Apple News

There’s been quite a bit of news in the last week or so from Apple. Here’s some highlights to check out if your head has been buried in the sand:
Unlimited iTunes

According to various websites, iTunes is in talks with major record labels to offer an unlimited downloads plan of some sort. Now, this isn’t something […]

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ColorWare - Colorize Your Life!

(And your laptops, desktops, cell phones, MP3 players, TVs and Game Consoles)
I stumbled upon this site a while back and thought it was pretty cool , especially once I started playing around with it.

Essentially, ColorWare is a site where you can send them your stuff (or buy direct from them) and have it professionally disassembled […]

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