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iPod accessory manufacturer ezGear on Friday unveiled a new video cable for all current generation iPods and the iPhone, allowing users to display content on the device to a television or other video display. In addition to the standard yellow-white-red RCA connector configuration, the dock-connectable adapter cable also has a female USB connection...

MacWireless.com on Friday unveiled a Power Over Ethernet kit for the Airport Extreme Base Station (802.11n version) that allows users to position the router 328 feet from a power outlet. The kit provides power over an Ethernet cable between a pair of adaptors: one that sits on the power outlet in question and one that resides by the Airport. MacWir...

Apple’s deal to add HBO programs to its iTunes offerings also added variable pricing to the online digital media store. Peter Cohen looks into whether different prices for different programs will become a common practice at the iTunes Store.

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As Gizmodo reports, only 24 hours after the latest iPhone firmware release (1.2.0, also known as "2.0"), it's been hacked.The iPhone Dev Team has demonstrated that Apple will probably have a very...

Ever since the iPhone SDK rollout people have been wondering just how powerful a gaming platform the iPhone will turn out to be. We saw some impressive demos at the rollout event and, as we recently...

Apple's recent release of the iPhone SDK and announcement of the upcoming "iPhone 2.0" upgrade and iTunes App Store has the company poised to revolutionize the mobile gaming experience. And thanks...

Sonzea LLC has released Syncopation 2.0.1 for Mac OS X. Syncopation provides a hands-free solution to keep your iTunes music collection synchronized across multiple computers running Mac OS X....

MacRumors reports that certain third party iPhone accessory makers have received information regarding the physical dimensions of the upcoming 3G capable iPhone. Their reports gives us a glimpse of...

Sometimes I wonder how companies screen their marketing folks. Sprint is about to launch a $100 million ad campaign for its upcoming Instinct phone -- an "iPod killer." The first ad video is...

Apple's iPhone recently won two prestigious black pencil design awards at the D&AD Awards in the UK, bringing the company's total to six since first winning the award in 1999. According to The Guardian, this makes Apple the most successful participant in the awards ceremony's 45 year history, this time taking home recognition for the design of the ...

Apple's UK division has dropped an extra fee it charged to people who bought from its online store, local magazine Computeractive writes. The fee was charged when shoppers decided to return an item, and was described by Apple as covering "collection and processing" relative to the initial cost of their purchase. According to Computeractive howeve...

TapDex offers a simple and easy-to-use way to access your contact data without having to open Address Book.

Fastmac's U-Charge is a universal battery charger for Apple laptops.

Kekus Digital says it is shipping a new version of its LensFix plug-in, now tailored for Aperture 2.1. The software is intended to correct lens distortion for a variety of cameras and lenses; over 500 combinations are supported, and users have access to "thousands" of presets. The software further supports 16-bit quality, and rendering on Core Im...

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Macgamestore today announced the release of Agatha Christie: Peril at End House for the Macintosh on its web site. Developed by Oberon Media, Peril at End House is the first of the popular Agatha Christie games to make it to the Mac.

Calling all seek and find fiends - The biggest selling novelist in history is back with another spine tingling challenge for Hercule Poirot and his faithful companion Hastings. Set on the beautiful Cornish coast, there has always been an air of evil at End House and with three attempts on our heroine Nick Buckley's life in as many days, it is up to the famous Poirot to unravel the mystery before it's too late.

Features:
• Beautiful seek and find backgrounds
• Lots of mini-puzzles to solve

Agatha Christie: Peril at End House for the Mac is available for $19.95 USD through Macgamestore. A free 60 minute trial Universal Binary demo version of the game is available for download. The game requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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AT&T is allegedly reversing its position on limiting iPhone sales to one per customer, and returning to the company's former three-per-customer rule after finding sufficient stock of the device to do so. InformationWeek writes that the announcement only comes after one day of restricted sales, but AT&T is supposedly restricting sales of the iPhone ...

In this edition of Macworld Video, Executive Editor Dan Miller looks at installing virtualization programs on your Mac and offers some tips for optimizing your performance.

New research from comScore concludes that for the first time, Google has overtaken Yahoo as the most-visited Web site in the U.S.

Accessory and peripheral maker FastMac has announced a new external battery charger for Mac notebooks, the U-Charge. The unit is a 45W adapter that bridges from an AC outlet directly to a battery's terminals, eliminating the need to have the notebook itself present. As a result the U-Charge also consumes less energy than some adapters, having no ...

A new discovery could dramatically improve the capacity of magnetic hard drives, according to a new discovery made by a Rennselaer Polytechnic doctoral graduate. Paul Morrow has developed a new, nanotechnology-based magnetic storage technique that alternates magnetic and non-magnetic layers and uses a non-magnetic microscope to read the data at th...

Associated Press:

France Telecom’s Orange said in a one-sentence statement that it will sell the handset in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and African markets later this year.

France Telecom spokesman Bertrand Deronchaine said Orange will be the exclusive iPhone provider in Belgium and Romania, with co-exclusive or non-exclusive deals in other countries. He declined to offer more details about the arrangement.

I get the feeling these one-sentence press releases are part of the deal these carriers are making with Apple. Mum’s the word until WWDC.

Ecamm has announced the release of PhoneView 2.0, a new edition of a program formerly known as MegaPhone. The software lets iPhone and iPod touch owners manage the contents of their devices, beyond just music, videos and photos to include notes, contacts and SMS messages, as well as call histories. Notes can be automatically created from PDF and ...

Today:

Saudi Arabia Friday rebuffed President Bush’s request to immediately pump more oil to lower record prices, saying it does not see enough demand to increase production.

Eight years ago:

Gov. George W. Bush of Texas said today that if he was president, he would bring down gasoline prices through sheer force of personality, by creating enough political good will with oil-producing nations that they would increase their supply of crude.

“I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply,” Mr. Bush, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, told reporters here today. “Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot.”

Analyst firm Piper Jaffray on Friday offered analysis of the recent additions of many new carriers and countries to the iPhone fold, pointing out that Apple could quadruple its total addressable market share from 153 million potential subscribers to 575 million in 42 countries. In a note to investors, senior analyst Gene Munster says the recent agr...

When simple methods such as restarting fail to patch up your Mac, it may be time to call on Disk Utility’s First Aid tools. Ted Landau walks you through the process.

While the Mac is generally a picture of health, many things can go wrong with such a complicated system. When trouble strikes, figuring out what exactly the problem is and where it’s coming from is half the challenge In this excerpt from our Total Leopard e-book, Ted Landau takes a look at some of the most common Mac problems and walks you through the steps you should take to solve them.

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International design award so prestigious that it isn’t even awarded some years; Apple’s won six since 1999.