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Best Buy to expand iPad availability, sales cannibalizing laptops by up to 50%

by Mike Schramm (Sep 17th, 2010)

Here's another report of the iPad stealing attention and money away from more traditional computing. Best Buy's CEO Brian Dunn tells the Wall Street Journal that the iPad has "cannibalized" sales of laptops by up to 50%, meaning that customers in the big box retail store have gone for Apple's ...

iPodMeister gives you an iPad for your old CDs

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 21st, 2010)

Want to get a new iPad but a little short on cash? Trade in a bunch of your old CDs or DVDs to a company called iPodMeister and your problems are solved. Sound too good to be true? It's not, reports the New York Times. iPodMeister was founded by a group of musicians and students who realized that ...

iTunes 8.2 to include Blu-ray support?

by Mike Schramm (May 19th, 2009)

Update: Our bad... the date on the MacRumors comment was in late April, and this recycled up into our queue due to an editing mixup. Apologies –Ed. There's a new iTunes beta version out in developers' hands straight from Apple, and a forum poster over at Mac Rumors found a little something ...

Snaptell Explorer retrives product listings from the iPhone's camera

by Mike Schramm (Nov 20th, 2008)

Oh man -- finally, we're getting an app that fulfills the promise of the iPhone. Ever since we knew the iPhone would have a camera and an internet connection, we've been waiting for SnapTell Explorer, and now it's here and free. Download and install it on the iPhone, and then snap a picture of any ...

Mac 101: Hide Hard Drives, CDs, etc on your Desktop

by Erica Sadun (Apr 27th, 2007)

I like a relatively neat Desktop. I keep out just those items I need to access right away for my day-to-day work. It's so easy to clutter Finder, especially when you use multiple hard drives and partitions, an iPod, a memory card reader and the odd CD or DVD. An often-overlooked Finder preference ...

Delicious Library Gambler's Sale enters fourth and final week

by David Chartier (Jul 17th, 2006)

You'd better get out those credit cards boys and girls, as the Delicious Monster Gambler's Sale has entered its fourth and final week. For those not familiar with this type of sale: Delicious Monster set aside a secret number of Delicious Library licenses and put the app on a four week sale. Each ...

BackityMac update brings CD/DVD backup

by David Chartier (Apr 17th, 2006)

We mentioned BackityMac 1.0 a couple of weeks ago, and since then it's had a minor .1 update with a big new feature: backing up to CDs/DVDs. As icing on the cake, BackityMac can also span disk images that are too big for the media you're using, putting that 'size matters' issues to rest. BackityMac ...

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