The Toshiba Portégé R500, 1.7 Pound 12-inch Notebook

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The Toshiba Portégé R500. This thing is one heck of an ultraportable. The R500 sports a 12-inch display and a full size keyboard and yet still is able to weigh in at only 1.7 pounds.
The last Toshiba Portégé R500 weighed 2.4 pounds, to lose those ever important 0.7 pounds Toshiba removed the optical drive.
The Toshiba [...]

iPhone Software Version 2.0 Has Hidden 3G On/Off Option

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This is a screenshot from iPhone software 2.0 Beta 5 that will show up if you are using an iPhone with 3G (obviously not yet released), it will not show up on an EDGE iPhone. The preference is hidden inside of /Applications/Preferences.app/Network.plist.
The image above seems to reveal that the 3G chipset still may not give [...]

Microsoft Zune Surpasses 2 Million Sales

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The Microsoft Zune is the number two digital music player in the United States, we already know that the Apple iPod is number one but just how far behind is the Zune?
Turns out that the Zune is REALLY far behind, since its launch in November 2006, the Zune has sold 2 million units, by comparison [...]

iPhones “Currently Unavailable” In UK and US Online Apple Stores

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So here is something weird, iPhones are mysteriously “Currently Unavailable” in the US and UK online Apple Store. One would expect to see a new iPhone soon, mostly because generally when supply begins to dry up on specific Apple product that usually is the first sign of a new generation of that product.
But, what is [...]

Sun Microsystems Releases Open Source Free Virtualization for OS X

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Sun Microsystems has recently updated their xVM VirtualBox software, with one HUGE new feature.
Mac OS X is now supported by xVM VirtualBox. That means that Sun Microsystems is the first to offer open source virtualization to Mac OS X. The software comes in two versions, free for all,  a licensed version that has some advanced [...]

Some AMD Based Computers Having Problems With XP SP3

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The much anticipated Windows XP Service Pack 3 was recently pushed into Windows Update and is now causing a lot of headaches of AMD CPU users.
One user reported “I just installed Windows XP SP3 and after completing the processes and when the system reboots, the system cannot proceed to lad the Windows. It just displays [...]

Microsoft’s $59.95 Microsoft Office Ultimate Offer Ending Soon

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I talked about the “Ultimate Steal” last September, the Ultimate Steal is an offer to college students with a valid .edu email address and a course load of at least 0.5 credits (although I’m not sure if they would actually be able to check how many classes you are taking, the .edu email address may [...]

iPhone 2.0 Beta Gets YouTube Support in Safari

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The Boy Genius Report spent a little bit of time messing around with the latest iPhone SDK and if you remember a little while ago they were saying that there was YouTube support in Safari? Well it is finally here, what it actually does is when you visit a web page with a YouTube video [...]


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