As the rumors for the Iphone 3G grow more and more

Just a funny description of the way we can perceive mobile phones these days. It's all about the competition.

Stolen laptop recovered with Back To My Mac

Here's a little story for you: An Apple Store employee had a party in her apartment. A couple weeks later her place was cleared out to the tune of about $5,000 worth of electronics, including her new Mac. Days later, a friend sees that she's online and alerts the Mac's rightful owner. Since she was running Leopard with Back to My Mac, owner-girl logged in remotely and activated Photo Booth via the screen-share function. And what do you know, it turned out that the thieves were some "friends" who were at the party a few weeks back. She took the photos to the cops and -- voila -- busted! The thieves, Edmon Shahikian, 23, and Ian Frias, 20, both of the Bronx, have been charged with second-degree burglary and fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property. Go go crafty nerdy girl!

[Via TUAW]

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Apple TV is Not a Hit

The analysts are finally confirming what we've known all along. Apple TV isn't a big deal. Market research firm Forrester reports that they estimate Apple will be lucky to sell 800,000 units by the end of this year, or 200,000 short of Forrester's 1 million unit estimation. So do they blame the marketing? No, plenty of internet-using adults know about the product (around 50%), but only 5% of those people know what it does.

What's the problem? Forrester actually blames iTunes video for failing the hardware. A software platform that hasn't taken over at the level of music, Forrester thinks that you have to get the consumers watching iTunes movies before Apple can sell the hardware intended to streamline their playback.

I think that the device is just too niche in a consumer's entertainment workflow to swallow. "So wait, I have to buy this just to watch my movie on my TV? Why don't I just watch a DVD then? Or you know, the non-Apple variety of television." If everyone has heard of your product but no one knows what it does, you have to wonder how important its function is to consumers.

But as Jobs himself said, Apple TV is just a "hobby." [pcworld]

Sharing your Ipod with miShare

A brand new device for music sharing. It wouldn't be any surprise if we weren't talking about Ipod's. Apple is all about set to using only one library, only compatible with Itunes and all that, could this device change all of that? No info on the device is specified yet, just a mere price is listed on the home site $99.95. So if it's a rumor or not, and if it's useful or not, no idea, we'll just have to wait and see.

How To House-fully Charge your Ipod

Weird as it could seem but it looks like it's really possible to charge your Ipod with an onion stuffed up with Gatorade, I'm guessing some serious juice is in that drink, literally.

Source: HouseHoldHacker

Gas Stations And Google Maps

Google is slowly but surely taking over almost everything, Who would have guessed they would even be present in gas stations, free maps for the road, and other helpful solutions. I wonder where does the Google supremacy end? If I'm not mistaken in the states there's a law which says that no one can hold supremacy in one's field. That is the reason why Microsoft has been in and out of courts with the US Government for so many years, yet I haven't heard on any action being taken on Google.
Some of you might think that Yahoo is the alternative to Google, but let's be honest, when was the last time someone made a search on yahoo or stuff like that. Yahoo is just there because of the Messenger, and everybody is used to that and that alone.

P.s. (Rumor) When Microsoft continuously won the suits intended by the US government, the US started founding Apple to be able to be a competitor for them, because they said:

Ok, we're number one, so give us a competitor.

I wonder...

One Vote Or An Ipod Touch?

By a recent study by the CultOfMac they concluded that 1 out of 5 New York University students would trade in their vote for a new Ipod Touch.

So what? Who else from Romania wouldn't trade in their vote for even the lousiest device, not for something that costs about three times a normal wage...

Instructions posted for downgrading iPhone from 1.1.2 to 1.1.1

It looks like those having regrets about upgrading their iPhone to the 1.1.2 firmware now have a means of bringing their prized device back to the comforts of 1.1.1, although the process is apparently not without its faults. According to the instructions recently posted on the Hackintosh forums, you'll first need to snag a copy of the 1.1.1 ipsw firmware file, then you simply follow three relatively easy steps to dial things back to 1.1.1, after which you'll have to follow a couple of additional steps to re-activate the phone itself. On the downside, it appears that IPSF won't work on an iPhone downgraded using these measures, although an update to fix that particular problem certainly doesn't seem to be out of the question. Hit up the read link below for the complete step-by-step details.

Sorce: Engadget
Read more: Hackint0sh

iPhone 1.1.2 va fii lansat maine pe piata mondiala...

Noua versiune 1.1.2 va fii lansata maine pe piata mondiala. Dar cred ca sunt putini cei care asteapta cu nerabdare aceasta versiune, tinand cont aceasta versiune e incompatibila cu celebrul jailbreak, care facea posibila rularea de diverse aplicatii pe telefon. Totusi vor fii ceva imbunatatiri minore care vor consta in voice memmos, si ceva functie de posibilitate de manangement al hdd-ului...

Oare cine ar renunta la posibilitatea de a avea mult mai multe programe pe telefon, jocuri, si alte chestii doar pentru asa ceva? Dar cum binenteles cei de la Apple nu sunt prea curiosi de ceea ce vrea lumea...

p.s. Oare ar putea sa stie cineva care e scopul mai nou al celor de la apple? Unii ar putea sa strige instant ceva de genu: "Cat mai multi bani!" afirmatie care ca prima vedere ar fii corecta si total adevarata pe piata capitalista, dar de ceva timp apple nu mai accepta plati cash pentru iphone-uri, alegand varianta cartilor de credit, pentru a limita vanzarea maxima a 2 bucati/ persoana... Totusi tinand cont ca din 1 mil de bucati vandute doar 250.000 sunt active pe AT&T furnizorul oficial, a fost cam o mica mare lovitura.

sursa: Pocket-lint

Apple iPad Touch Tablet Mock-Up Is Shiny, iPhone-y

Aesthetically, Factory Joe's "iPad Touch" tablet mockup doesn't wholly differ from the pretty slick one our own Jesus Diaz conjured with his magic Photoshop fingers, but it does ratchet up the iPhone design elements. Oh, and MacBook Touch is a much better, if less reflective, name in our book. Another shot after the jump or scope the rest over there. [Factory Joe via Gadget Lab]

source: Gizmodo

MacBook si MacBook Pro au primit un "silent" upgrade

Upgrade-ul consta in urmatoarele:
MacBook-ul a trecut la arhitectura Santa Rosa cu o placa video GMA X3100 de la GMA 950. Cu preturi incepand de la 1,099 pentru modelul de 13-inch, 80GB, 2GHz, modelul alb, pana la $1,499 pentru cel de 160GB, 2.2GHz pentru cel negru.

MacBook Pro-ul poate sa fie configurat optional cu un procesor 2.6Ghz Core 2 Duo, pentru 250$ in plus fata de configuratia 2.4Ghz maxima existenta anterior.

sursa: Engadget
si: MacRumors