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Freeverse invites Freehand MX exiles to test out Lineform at a special price

Posted by Lab Rat Fresh on the news that Adobe has decided to officially kill off Macromedia’s Freehand MX drawing tool and focus its development efforts on their Illustrator product line, comes news that Freeverse is inviting all FreeHand MX Mac users to evaluate Lineform, their excellent Apple Design Award-winning vector drawing program. From now until June 1st, Freeverse is also offering a special cross-upgrade price for all FreeHand users. Simply enter the coupon code... Read More

Engadget says iPhone delayed until October, Leopard due January 2008 [UPDATED]

Posted by Dr. Macenstein Looks like Apple may have to pull their latest “I’m A Mac” Party is Over ad which poked fun at Window’s traditional huge delays between OS releases. Engadget claims to have it “on authoirty” that the iPhone’s much hyped release will be pushed back to OCTOBER of this year, and Leopard, which was itself recently pushed back to October from June, will get yet another bump (and quite a large one at that). In fact... Read More

Review: DLO TransDock iPod Car Kit

Posted by Dr. Macenstein iPod FM transmitters for your car are a dime a dozen, yet DLO has managed to somehow make us stand up and take notice with their TransDock ($99). The TransDock boasts a wealth of features you may find scattered across its competition, but DLO’s unit is the first to combine all the best features into one unit. The TransDock consists of a charging cradle/FM transmitter located at the end of an articulated arm. The arm can be adjusted for length as... Read More

OK, well that was anti-climactic…

Posted by Helper Monkey Apple took down the entire on-line Apple Store this morning for about 3 hours in order to basically put a larger hard drive in the MacBooks. Well, to be fair, in addition to larger hard drives, the “new” consumer laptops (while keeping the same price point and styling as their predecessors) now also feature a whopping 0.16GHz speed increase. Apple has finally dropped the embarrassing configuration that shipped with only 512 MB of RAM, and... Read More

Apple store down…updates soon

Posted by Dr. Macenstein At around 7:00 AM this morning the Apple store went down. Most folks are betting on new laptops, we’ll see (we’re still hoping for new minis and iMacs…) [8:45 AM] Geez, how long does it take to update the store?!  Read More

Change the color of your iPod’s font… just because you can

Posted by Dr. Macenstein Everyone loves the iPod, but the one thing everyone agrees is stopping it from achieving TOTAL market domination is the font color Apple uses on the menus. Yes, a blue title bar and black text have likely turned off millions of potential buyers. If only there were some way to solve this problem and save Apple from itself… Oh wait! Now there is! omfgkm over at iPodWizard.net claims to have found a relatively painless way to hack a video iPod that... Read More

How will the Zune be remembered in the 31st Century?

Posted by iGor By now it is safe to say that history will consider the iPod as one of the more influential inventions in consumer electronics history. It has changed the way the entertainment industry works, and how millions of people live their lives on a daily basis. And like all successful inventions, it has spurred a huge industry of rip-offs and wannabes, would-be usurpers to its throne. Perhaps the most famous of the infamous is Microsoft’s Zune. How will history... Read More

Free on iTunes: Zooey Deschannel in Julia Stiles’ short film “Raving”

Posted by Dr. Macenstein Actress Julia Stiles and Elle magazine have made the short film Raving available on iTunes as a free download. The film (which marks both Stile’s writing and directorial debuts) stars Zooey Deschannel (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Bridge to Terabithia) and Tony winner Bill Irwin in a story about the transformative and inspirational power of fashion. The 23 minute film premiered last month at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Download... Read More

Would JaJah on a Wi-Fi iPod spell disaster for the iPhone?

Posted by Dr. Macenstein CNET recently published a report on a deal between Intel and internet phone company JaJah that paves the way for JaJah’s free voice-calling-over-the-internet technology to be embedded in upcoming chips from Intel. JaJah’s eventual plan is to have its technology available for ALL CPU-types, allowing for free or low cost calls from any device with internet access. This got us to thinking (which is always a mistake)… Back in January, immediately... Read More

Review: The iSphere from Sharper Image

Posted by Dr. Macenstein There is certainly no shortage of great sounding iPod speakers out there that fall into the $200- $300 price range, but music lovers on a budget can still enjoy their music sans headphones thanks to the $99 iSphere from The Sharper Image. The iSphere (available in both black and white) employs SRS WOW technology to produce some fairly impressive sound given its small size. Its developers claim SRS WOW can improve the audio dynamics of compressed recordings,... Read More