iPod touch

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Vela Design Group announces VelaClock 1.4.1 for iPhone 3G, the original iPhone, and iPod touch. VelaClock is a world clock with unique features and an easily configurable user interface. Users can quickly display the time of sunrise, sunset, dawn and dusk for three kinds of twilight, moon phase and tilt, and much more. VelaClock is invaluable to iPhone and iPod touch users who travel or communicate with friends and colleagues around the world.

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TorrentDam, iBank

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 20 February 2009 06:35:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Cover Stream 2.5 ($15) is an iTunes controller that extends iTunes Cover Flow to the desktop. With t...

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Is This the (Rear) Face of the New Mac Mini

post from TheAppleBlog on 20 February 2009 06:30:00 PM. © TheAppleBlog

macmini This photo has been making the rounds since yesterday, after having originally popped up in the MacRumors forums. The photo’s poster claims that it is the business end of the new, redesigned Mac mini, which he was apparently shown by a friend. No word on who that friend might have been, but “Monthy,” the original poster, does claim the new machines will be on store shelves in about a month or so, which is convenient given his name.

At first glance, the specs on this device seem preposterous, since it has five USB ports, which is unheard of outside of the Mac Pro line-up, and a FireWire 800 port, which seems bizarre considering the price range and its absence on Apple’s MacBook line of products. Plus, support for both Mini DisplayPort and Mini-DVI appears to be present, which, though I love Apple dearly, seems far too kind a gesture to be in character for the Cupertino-based computer company.

Monthy goes on to describe the internal specs of the new hardware, which include a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with a 3MB L2 Cache and 2GB of DDR3 RAM at 1066MHz, and a SATA HD (no word on base size). While not totally unthinkable, these do conflict with earlier reports that Apple would be moving to an Atom-based platform, with recent rumors even pointing to a device built around NVIDIA’s upcoming Ion platform.

While it may conflict with some rumors, it also agrees perfectly with some others, including predictions made much earlier by AppleInsider based on reports by “people familiar with the matter.” It is hard to deny that the picture, bearing exactly the hardware details outlined by AppleInsider in their January articles, doesn’t strike one as just a bit more genuine as a result. For what it’s worth, AppleInsider also claims the new photo depicts the exact same device as they had seen in a previous picture, which they were compelled not to share with the public.

I’m skeptical, because this seems to be a departure from the Apple-NVIDIA partnership that was meant to set the course of future hardware, but at the same time I’m hopeful, because this seems like an ideal machine for home theatre integration, especially if both of those video out ports can be used simultaneously. Add in a USB TV Tuner, replace the optical drive with a second HD, and you’ve got yourself one mean media server/DVR that can also hook up to a second monitor so that I can browse and watch without interruption or switching. Pardon my drooling.

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Next gen Mac mini video

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 20 February 2009 06:25:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

In response to skeptics of the recent Mac mini image leak, MacRumors member 'monthy' has provided a ...

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Best Buy iPhone sale

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 20 February 2009 05:50:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Best Buy may be planning to offer sizable discounts on iPhones as a promotion for Reward Zone Member...

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Bugs & Fixes: When file downloads from MobileMe
fail to open

post from Mac 911 on 20 February 2009 05:45:00 PM. © Mac 911

When testing a new way to share files via your MobileMe disk, Ted Landau discovers a bug that prevents some files downloaded from Apple's online service from opening properly.

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Thanks to TheAppleBlog Sponsors!

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We’d like to say thanks to this month’s sponsor of TheAppleBlog:

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Intel SSDs found slow

An independent test by PC Perspective on the long-term performance of Intel's mainstream solid state...

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iTunes blipvert pushes U2

A recent ad deployed through the United Kingdom's Absolute Radio -- formerly known as Virgin Radio -...

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Class on Demand Makes Available Episode 5.1
Self-Paced Training Video

Class on Demand instructor Nate Caplin spearheads the 4.5 hour self-paced training offering an in-depth tour of the industry leading Episode and Episode Pro compression solutions from Telestream. The modular design of the self-paced training video is ideal for both beginners needing to step into the software to the seasoned pro needing to quickly learn the very latest Episode 5.1 features.

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