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TMO Visits The Bay, a Premium Apple Reseller in New Zealand
Apple doesn't have any Apple-owned retail stores in New Zealand, but the company helped Grant Bremner open The Bay, an…
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Nancy Gravley Joins MacJury Gift Guide
The Mac Observer's Nancy Gravley joined host Chuck Joiner on part one of a special holiday gift guide edition of…
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iPhone: The Wii of Handheld Gaming Devices?
Apple has been aggressive about promoting games on the iPhone and iPod touch, so aggressive, in fact, that some developers…
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Sonnet Releases Simply Fast FireWire 800 to 400 Adapter
Sonnet Technologies on Wednesday released its new Simply Fast FireWire 800 to FireWire 400 adapter. The adapter, which attaches to…
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Happy Thanksgiving from TMO!
In observance of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, The Mac Observer will be taking Thursday and Friday off. We will resume…
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Disney Plans 1st Annual PotC Online Thanksgiving Event
Beginning Thursday, Nov. 27, players of Pirates of the Caribbean (PotC) Online should head to the virtual beaches of Tortuga…
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UK Shuts Down iPhone 3G Ad
An iPhone 3G commercial in the U.K. won't get any more air time now that the Advertising Standards Authority has…
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Jeff Gamet on MacJury Gift Guide
The Mac Observer's Jeff Gamet joined host Chuck Joiner on a special holiday gift guide edition ofMacJury to share some of his…
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TMO Announces Macworld Expo Pass Winners
The Mac Observer's Get Into Macworld Expo with Your Inner Bard contest is closed, and we have picked our two winning…
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PhotoCopy 1.1 Adds iPhoto Event Support
24x7digital announced the immediate availability of PhotoCopy 1.1 on Wednesday. The update for the Flickr iPhoto plug-in added support for iPhoto events…
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Acclivity Buys MYOB US
MYOB software distributor Acclivity announced on Tuesday that it has acquired MYOB US and its Mac and PC development team…
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Bento 2 Holiday Pack
FileMaker's Bento Holiday Pack offers pre-built ways to manage your holiday cards, gifts and donations in the database application. Nancy…
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Microsoft Offers Black Friday Office Discount
Microsoft's MacBU will be offering a special 70 percent discount on Office 2008 for Mac: Special Media Edition on Thursday,…
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iPhone: Google Street View
iPhone Software 2.2 added lots of cool new features, including the ability to use Google Street View in the Maps…
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FaceBook Wins $873 Million Judgement Against Spammer
FaceBook has won a US$873 million judgement against a Canadian spammer who used a phishing techniques and other methods to…
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Move Over iPig: Make Way for iPanda iPod Speakers
Speakal announced Tuesday the release of iPanda, another product in the company's line of animal-inspired iPod speaker solutions. Like the…
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TiVo Testing Remote Scheduling via Mobile Phone
TiVo is beta testing a service that will allow a mobile phone with Internet access to schedule a recording. The…
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Refurbished MacBook Deals at the Apple Store from $849
Our DealsOnTheWeb.com site noted that Apple has good stock of factory refurbished MacBook systems today. The systems include Free ground…
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VelaClock 1.3 for iPhone Adds Location Services
Vela Design Group has added location services and a home location option to its world clock for the iPhone and…
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TMO Visits The Bay, a Premium Apple Reseller in New Zealand
Apple doesn't have any Apple-owned retail stores in New Zealand, but the company helped Grant Bremner open The Bay, an…
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Sonnet Releases Simply Fast FireWire 800 to 400 Adapter
Sonnet Technologies on Wednesday released its new Simply Fast FireWire 800 to FireWire 400 adapter. The adapter, which attaches to…
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Disney Plans 1st Annual PotC Online Thanksgiving Event
Beginning Thursday, Nov. 27, players of Pirates of the Caribbean (PotC) Online should head to the virtual beaches of Tortuga…
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Bento 2 Holiday Pack
FileMaker's Bento Holiday Pack offers pre-built ways to manage your holiday cards, gifts and donations in the database application. Nancy…
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PhotoCopy 1.1 Adds iPhoto Event Support
24x7digital announced the immediate availability of PhotoCopy 1.1 on Wednesday. The update for the Flickr iPhoto plug-in added support for…
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Acclivity Buys MYOB US
MYOB software distributor Acclivity announced on Tuesday that it has acquired MYOB US and its Mac and PC development team…
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Microsoft Offers Black Friday Office Discount
Microsoft's MacBU will be offering a special 70 percent discount on Office 2008 for Mac: Special Media Edition on Thursday,…
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Nancy Gravley Joins MacJury Gift Guide
The Mac Observer's Nancy Gravley joined host Chuck Joiner on part one of a special holiday gift guide edition of…
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Jeff Gamet on MacJury Gift Guide
The Mac Observer's Jeff Gamet joined host Chuck Joiner on part two of a special holiday gift guide edition of…
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Apple’s Bad Habit of Competing With its Channel Partners
Apple loves it when its channel partners sell lots of Apple products. Everyone makes money. However, in tough economic…
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iPhone to Google: Thank you!
So...I've been spending quality time with my iPhone since the release of the iPhone 2.2 Software Update and the separate…
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Money 3.2 Improves German, French Localizations
Jumsoft announced the immediate availability of Money 3.2 on Tuesday. The update for the business accounting application improved the German…
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A MacBook Surprise: View-Protected Content
In case you haven't heard yet, let me be the one to break the bad news to you: Apple's new…
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OWC Announces Two New “Mercury” SuperDrive Kits for Pre-Unibody MacBook & MacBook Pro
Other World Computing announced on Monday the release of two new Mercury SuperDrive Internal Upgrade Kits for Apple's 13" MacBook…
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Apple Plans Black Friday Sale
Apple will be hosting a special "Black Friday" sale in its online and retail stores to kick off the holiday buying season.…
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Jeff Gamet’s Macworld Expo Session on MacVoices
The Mac Observer's Jeff Gamet joins Chuck Joiner on the latest MacVoices podcast to talk about his upcoming iTunes for…
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Beatles iTunes Talks Stall
EMI, Apple Corps and Apple Inc. have hit an impasse in negotiations to bring The Beatles library to the iTunes…
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Adobe Camera Raw 5.2 Adds New Camera Support
Adobe released Camera Raw 5.2 on Tuesday. The update for the Camera Raw support plug-in for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements…
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Safari 3.2.1 Adds Stability Improvements
Apple rolled out Safari 3.2.1 late on Monday, only days after releasing the Safari 3.2 update. According to the terse…
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Apple Launches Green Laptop Ad Campaign
Apple launched a new ad campaign Monday night that touts the environmentally-friendly features of its new aluminum MacBook, MacBook Pro…
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Clamshell mode follow-up
In a blog entry last month, I commented that neither I nor an Apple employee could get clamshell mode to…
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Clamshell Mode Follow-up
In a blog entry last month, I commented that neither I nor an Apple employee could get clamshell mode to…
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Mac Geek Gab #177: Disappearing icons, OpenDNS, Slow Network Refresh, Transfer Speeds, and More
John and Dave talk about restoring icons in Finder windows, the merits of OpenDNS, Defragging (and a geeky sidebar!), Leopard's…
