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Orb Media Streaming Finally Available For Macs
1:33AM Rosa Golijan | Orb’s been out for quite a while, but now there’s OS X 10.5 and 10.6 compatibility. You can finally use the app to stream all sorts of media from iTunes to nearly any internet-connected device. Oh and it’s completely free. More »
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Steve Jobs’ “Blood-Curling” Name for the iMac: What’s Your Guess?
8:00AM Jesus Diaz | The guy who came up with the name iMac said that Steve Jobs had a terrible first name for it. So bad it would “curdle your blood.” However, he won’t say what it was. What could it be? I’ll start… More »
Computers
Steve Jobs’ Original Name For The iMac Was Horrifyingly Bad
2:59AM Matt Buchanan | The iMac revived Apple after a decade of sickly malaise. The name is so obviously iconic. So it’s shocking that Steve Jobs hated it and wanted to call it something so awful it would “curdle your blood”. More »
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Parallels 5 Runs Win7 Next To Snow Leopard With Multitouchiness
7:01PM Matt Buchanan | It’s a virtual war: VMWare Fusion 3 for Snow Kitty and Win7 popped out last week, and now here’s Parallels 5. It’s also fully 64-bit, with Windows apps that behave like native ones, including full multitouch gestures, and more zoomzoom. More »
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More Giz Readers Own Macs Than PCs
6:40AM Sean Fallon | Surprisingly, our poll yesterday revealed that Mac owners were running neck and neck with PC owners, each commanding 41 per cent of the vote. Although Mac owners have maintained an extremely slight edge over the last few hours in actual numbers. More »
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Do You Use A Mac Or A PC As Your Personal Home Computer?
8:00AM Sean Fallon | Now that Windows 7 and Snow Leopard are both out in the wild, it is time, once again, to take stock of the state of home computing. That is to say, are you using a Mac or a PC? More »
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Mac OS 10.6.2 Leaks New Core i5/i7 MacBook Pros?
11:54PM Mark Wilson | It’d be the most obvious leak in history, but the 10C531 build of OS 10.6.2 references the “MacBook Pro 6.1 and the MacBook Pro 6.1b”. All current Macbooks are strictly “5″ status. More »
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Apple Kills ZFS Plans For Snow Leopard
3:00AM Chris Jacob | Don’t hold your breath for the ZFS filesystem to appear in any future Snow Leopard updates. A message yesterday on the project’s homepage very clearly acknowledges that development has stopped completely. More »
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3:27AM Brian Lam | In the 10+ years since the iMac was born as Apple’s simple computer, it’s become visibly less of a computer and more of a display. And what a screen this new iMac has. More »
Apple iMac Review: 27-inch And Less Chin
3:27AM Brian Lam | In the 10+ years since the iMac was born as Apple’s simple computer, it’s become visibly less of a computer and more of a display. And what a screen this new iMac has. More »
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