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DExposE2: Exposé for Windows

For those familiar with Mac, we all know how useful Exposé can be. With the click of a button, it elegantly displays all your open windows in one screen, making it really easy to find a particular window that you are looking for. Long have Windows users yearned for something like this. There have been several [...]

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Faster iMac Now Available

Now’s the perfect time to get a Mac desktop. Apple has updated its iMac line of desktop computers today, giving it more power than ever. The US$1,199 20-inch model now sports: 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn processor 128MB ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT graphics 1GB of memory 250GB 7200RPM hard drive The US$1,499 20-inch model sports: 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo [...]

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WWDC 2007 Highlights

Don’t want to look through the various live text coverages around the web? Here, we’ve made an easy-to-read list of what Steve Jobs announced. Basically, it was all about Leopard, Safari, and iPhone. Leopard New Menubar New 3D Dock Stacks – keeps your desktop clean Consistent window look Prominent active window New Finder with Quick Look, Sidebar, and Cover Flow View Leopard is [...]

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Top 10 Sites for WWDC 2007 Keynote Live Updates

The long-awaited WWDC 2007 Keynote is finally upon us! For the millions of unfortunate souls who can’t attend the event, here are the various sources to check out for live coverage. Be sure to bookmark this page in case the source that you go to gets overloaded by immense traffic! 1. iPhoneAlley (Audio) 2. MacRumors (Text) 3. MacScoop [...]

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Parallels 3.0 To Support 3D Gaming

There are two reasons why Mac users still uses Boot Camp to play their games instead of using Parallels Desktop for Mac. One, the performance is much better. Two, Parallels simply can’t do OpenGL and DirectX 3D gaming. But with the upcoming Parallels 3.0, the latter is no longer true! You can finally do 3D [...]

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New Get A Mac Ads: Security

[qt:http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/apple-getamac-security_320x256.mov 320 256] Apple continues to bash Vista with this new ad called Security…

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The Man With 74 Macs

Some fanboys are well, just fanboys. Some truly shows it by keeping 74 Macs at home. That man is Jeremy Mehrle from St. Louis. His basement is like the holy ground for Mac fans, with Macs from Mac Classics to iMacs. It is even furnished with the typical Apple-white and iPod posters. Check out the gallery [...]

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I’m A PC. I’m A Mac. Oh, You’re A VAIO?

Is Sony copying Apple? What appeared on a little corner of Sony Australia’s site, is a little flash animation that looks just like our favorite Apple advertisements. Apparently, Sony is trying to market their VAIO C Series notebook as a “non-pc pc”. And they are probably trying to say that their notebooks are so stylish that [...]

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New Get A Mac Ads. In Time For Holidays

[qt:http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/giftexchange_320x256.mov 320 256] [qt:http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/salespitch_320x256.mov 320 256] [qt:http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/meantforwork_320x256.mov 320 256] I don’t know about you, but I find the appeal of these Mac ads starting to wane. Not as funny as before. Looks as though they were trying too hard. Justin Long (the Mac) also has longer hair now, which I find ugly. But hey, who am I to judge, [...]

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Apple “Get A Mac” Ads in Japanese

Nickname The Apple’s “Get A Mac” advertisements are so well-received that Apple has decided to make Japanese versions of them. Here are the three that they are starting with, titled ‘Nickname’, ‘Virus’ and ‘iLife’. Two more videos below. Alternatively, visit Apple’s website for higher resolution videos (takes longer to download of course!). Virus iLife

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