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  • iPhone App Magnets To Appify Your Fridge 20100312-iphonemagnets.jpg If  like me  your fridge is black, then these shiny iPhone app fridge magnets from Jailbreak Collective will look very smart indeed displayed on the door. Just 13 bucks gets you a set of these icon almost-replicas. I say almost because if you look carefully, youll see theyre not identical to the Apple originals. [...]
  • Tech Site Recommends 7-Year-Old IE5 Download 20100312-softsailor.jpg Soft Sailor is a tech blog Ive not encountered before, but today I stumbled across a very odd post indeed. Published just yesterday, it recommends downloading something a little bit unusual: Internet Explorer 5.2.3. Which is only, lets see now& about seven years old. The author Dragos Pirvu writes: Although it?s not that popular on Mac computers, [...]
  • Which iPad To Buy? Get the 32GB iPad With Wi-Fi + 3G. Here’s Why. If youre in the market for an iPad  and you know you are, because its killer  youre probably wondering which model to buy. Naturally, youre lookingat the cheapest $499 iPad, which has Wi-Fi only, but youre thinking you might also want 3G. After all, you can pay-as-you-go for data, and who knows when you [...]
  • Five Fun Games: A Roadtrip Across America, Relics With Mystical Powers, Freedom with Words and More little shop road trip for Mac Happy Friday! Heres this weeks selection by Mac Games and More featuring fun casual games you can play into the weekend. The games include a gripping adventure game that takes players into wall paintings, a colorful road trip across America, wizardly word magic and more. Little Shop Road Trip  It?s time to hit the road [...]
  • Daily Deals: 3.06GHz 22″ iMac $1,399, $1,193 MacBook,$189 iPod Classic We close out another week we three hardware deals. First up is a 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo iMac with a 22-inch screen and lots of extra goodies from ExperCom, including 8GB of RAM and three years of AppleCare  all for $1,399. Next up is a deal on a MacBook powered by a Core [...]
  • iPhone Weekly Digest: Internet Radio, A Mowing Game, A Musical Toy, And More Its time for our weekly digest of tiny iPhone reviews, courtesy of iPhoneTiny.com, with some extra commentary exclusive to Cult of Mac. This time, we review Air Assault, Bad Apples, Fire Drop Free, Ghost Capture  Free, Heli Rescue, Internet Radio Box, Sunday Lawn, synthPond Lite, Tiki Totems, and Titanic Rescue. APP OF THE WEEK Internet Radio Box: [...]
  • Consumer Reports finds Apple’s tech support best in class This week, Consumer Reports published the results of their latest tech support survey, and no surprise here: Apple came out as the number one company in both laptops and desktops. As usual, Consumer Reports asked 7,000 subscribers about their satisfaction with tech related dealings with various companies. At the end of the day, Apple scored [...]
  • Barnes & Noble to try to compete with iBooks on Apple’s own platform U.S. bookseller Barnes & Noble claims to be unconcerned about the iPads threat against their own e-reader, the Nook. Indeed, they are so excited about the possibilities of the iPad that they are now promising iPad owners that they can expect to download their own free Barnes & Noble e-reading software just around the time [...]
  • Is Apple Selling 20K iPads an Hour? Did you buy an iPad when Apple began pre-sales this morning? If so, you werent alone. Indeed, Apple may have sold 20,000 iPads per hour, leading one commentator to suggest the Cupertino, Calif. company was earning $10 million per hour on its new tablet device. The estimate comes from Andrew Erlichson, CEO of Phanfare, a photo [...]
  • iPad Buying Guide: Haiku Edition Still confused about which iPad to pre-order? In collaboration with handsome Wilson Rothman, Gizmodos lovely own Rosa Golijan put together this handy, haiku-ified iPad buying guide which  while thoroughly tongue in cheek  more or less lines up with my own feelings on the matter: if youre buying the iPad WiFi, theres little reason [...]
  • Court: Apple Doesn’t Own the Letter ‘i’ For years, the letter i has been a goldmine for Apple; apply the letter to an ordinary object and you have lines outside your door waiting to buy the gadget. Apple may have to find another letter now that an Australian trade court sided with a handbag maker. IP Australia, the government board that watches over [...]
  • iPad Order Confirmation Promises “Exciting” In-Store Event Though a few early adopters have noted that the confirmation emails for pre-ordered iPads are slow, it looks like the in-store pick up option should be fun with some kind of launch fete in the works. Via AleVH of Tech info team
  • Report: Apple, Nokia Courtroom Battle to Wait until 2012 The outcome of Apple and Nokias dueling patent infringement lawsuits could wait until mid-2012 for a verdict from the international trade court. The two companies swapped lawsuits in 2009, alleging the other with infringing key technologies. The three-year timespan for the U.S. International Trade Commission sets the stage for what Reuters has characterized as the spectre [...]
  • Reader Poll: Will You Pre-Order an iPad? As we predicted, the iPad went on pre-order in the US this morning in the Apple store after a nail-biting world blackout. Are you going to reserve yours today or wait? Which one are you getting? Buying your customer limit (2) at once? Let us know the whys and wherefores of your purchasing decisions in the comments.
  • Apple Store Back — Pre-Order Your iPad Now The Apple store is back online, US customers can pre-order up to two iPads each for April 3 delivery. Updates on what else is new on the store to come.
  • Apple Store Down: Pre-iPad Sales Prep or Something Else? The Apple store went down at 11:01AM GMT. Well post an update when its back online. If our crystal ball readings from the past are reliable, when it goes back on line, you could be the first to pre-order an iPad. In the mean time, wild speculation abounds  since it looks like Apple stores worldwide [...]
  • Vers 1.5R Clock Radio Dock, Smooth-Sounding Vixen In A Black Dress [Review] There must be a special space reserved at the table in Valhalla for any designer able to make a fat brick look hot; if that?s true, then there?s a seat reserved right next to Jonny Ive?s for the Vers 1.5R?s designer (and yes, both design heaven and design hell are Scandinavian. Dont believe me? Take [...]
  • iPad Pre-Orders Start 5.30AM PST on Friday, Says Apple PR [Updated] Update 2: Apple is sending out emails confirming the 5.30 AM PST/8.30 AM EST time, according to TidBits and others. Emails were sent to customers who signed up for pre-order info (I signed up but didnt get the message for some reason). Update: Reader Bob Penn says the staff at his local Apple store insists that [...]
  • Watch “Welcome to MacIntosh” Documentary For Free Online 20100311-leander.jpg At long last, the Welcome to MacIntosh documentary (which weve mentioned here a few times) is now available to watch online, for free. . Welcome to MacIntosh includes guest appearances by pretty much every well-known Mac nerd you can think of (including our own cuddly Leander Kahney). Official blurb: Filmmakers Josh Rizzo and Rob Baca trace the [...]
  • Screaming Fast New MacBook Pros and Mac Pro Desktops Next Week? [UPDATE: Maybe No MacBooks] UPDATE: Seth at 9to5Mac is now backtracking. While he says hes received multiple tips that Mac Pros will be updated, he thinks the MacBook Pros tip might have been fake. Shame on us, he says. Our friend Seth Weintraub at 9to5Mac thinks MacBooks and Mac Pros will be updated within a week. Seth received a tip [...]
  • 100 Tips #2: Understanding The Menu Bar 20100311-menubar.jpg The Menu Bar sits at the top of your screen at all times. Lets take a moment to get to know it. Its worth doing, because the Menu Bar is going to be one of your best friends. When you used Windows, you were used to see menus inside each document window. File, Edit, all [...]
  • Daily Deals: Mac Pro Xeon, App Store Price Drops, Sharp AQUOS 65″ TV We near the end of the week with a number of Mac-related deals. First up is a Mac Pro Quad-Core Xeon running at 2.66GHz for $2,149. Next up is a passel of newly reduced App Store items, including our favorite: Wheres Waldo? The Fantastic Journey. Finally, we wrap up our top trio with a 64-inch [...]
  • Future Gas Powered Games, DICE titles will be available on OS X As a Mac gamer, I thought the recent announcement of the Steam digital games delivery service coming to Mac was very exciting. Even if Steam never becomes as popular on the Mac as it is on the PC, it will bring us, at the very least, some great Valve titles like Team Fortress 2, Left [...]
  • Birdfeed becomes Brizzly, goes free on the App Store Birdfeed has long been one of the best Twitter clients available on the App Store, but it was expensive for a Twitter app ($5), which limited the number of people using it. So while existing customers might be sad at first to note that Birdfeed has been pulled from the App Store, its actually good [...]
  • Rumor: Intel Core i7-980x Mac Pros to come next Tuesday? It was as recently as December that Apple quietly bumped the specs of their Mac Pro line to use 3.33Ghz quad-core Xeon CPUs, but if ZDNets Adrian Kingsley-Hughes and his sources are to be believed, we could see the next Mac Pro as soon as next Tuesday, March 16th. According to Kingsley-Hughes, the next Mac Pro [...]
  • Google announces iPad-friendly Google Reader Play As the first example of what will likely be a growing trend, Google  always a progressive front runner in getting their products on Apples devices as soon as humanly possible  have just revealed an iPad-friendly version of Google Reader called Google Reader Play. Google Reader Play makes RSS feeds more accessible to tablet users [...]
  • iPhone OS 3.2 Beta 4 SDK contains references to new triple tap gesture Apples done such a great job with multitouch that every time a new iPhone OS update adds a fresh polydigital shortcut to the mix, my only real surprise is that it wasnt there already. It looks like the iPhone OS 3.2 update will be no different. According to Beta 4 SDK spelunkers over at 9 [...]
  • Steve Jobs #136 on Forbes World Billionaire List Steve Jobs may be one of the most admired CEOs in the tech industry even if hes not the richest. Jobs ranked 136  down from up 43 spots since last year  in the annual Forbes list of billionaires, far behind Bill Gates (no. 2), Larry Ellison (6), Google founder Sergey Brin (24), Steve [...]
  • How To Be First In Line To Pre-Order The iPad With just a few weeks to go before the iPad hits stores, heres the best way to ensure youre at the head of the line to get one (or three). If history is any indication, the iPad will be in short supply when it goes on sale April 3. Plus there are rumors of production delays [...]
  • Director Eschews Film, Shoots Music Video Entirely With iPhones Its not like director Tom De Nolf doesnt have 35mm film cameras and a bunch of other video-making tech at his disposal; no, De Nolf was so surprised by the video capability of his recently purchased 3GS that he chose to shoot the above music video using just three iPhones. Wow, this takes a really great [...]

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