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Copy Any DVD To Your Mac [How To]

With the announcement of Apple TV it’s never been more apparent that physical format is dying and your collection of DVDs is becoming more obsolete by the day. However, that doesn’t mean you have to purchase all your favorite movies again just so you can enjoy streaming them to your iOS devices.

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Valve Software’s Portal Re-Imagined As Classic Apple Text Adventure [Video]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bBv1WkMUFs Valve Software’s transcendent physics and teleportation puzzler Portal already runs sublimely through Steam for Mac… as long as you have a modern MacBook Pro or iMac. But what if Portal wasn’t a modern game, but a classic Macintosh text adventure

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Phillips’ Fidelio Is Big Enough To Dock An iPad, But Bluetooth Means You Don’t Need To

There are a lot of iPod docks on the market, but not a lot of them have docking trays big enough to accommodate the iPad without snapping it in half over your knee first… a tact which has some obvious repercussions on the resulting music’s audio quality. Phillips’ latest dock changes that with a docking

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Integrate Facebook Chat Into iChat [How To]

Tired of having to keep that browser tab open to Facebook just so you can keep chatting with your friends? It only takes five Quick Steps to integrate iChat with Facebook’s web-chat client and because Facebook uses the Jabber protocol it’s incredibly easy to set up and use. First you’re going to need to get

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The Fastest Mac In The World Is Now A Hackintosh

Apple’s fastest Mac is the 12-Core Mac Pro, featuring two 2.93 GHz Xeon processors. Configure it with 25GB of DDR3 ECC SDRAM, and Apple’s fastest Mac will cost you $8,749.00. Yowza.

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iTunes 10 Kills Off Old Automator Workflows

Apple’s Automator is a fantastic way to manage your iTunes tracks… but with Apple’s iTunes 10 update, many iTunes-specific Automator workflows have simply stopped working. According to upset users in Apple’s discussion forums, the vast majority of iTunes Automator actions go missing when you install iTunes 10.

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Geek Trend: The iPhone Coffee Table, Evolution of a Species

It’s official: the iPhone has joined the ranks of iFurniture.  Yesterday brought news of another iPhone coffee table, which joins a proud history of Apple-inspired furniture throughout the years.

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Previous Gen AppleTVs Won’t Get New Model’s Software Features

When Steve Jobs announced the new palm-sized AppleTV on Wednesday, replete with AirPlay-streaming functionality from your computer’s iTunes library, 720p high-def video and Netflix capability, many of us wondered if Cupertino would (or even be able) to extend the new functionality back down the line to the older, drive-based model. Nope, says Ars Technica. An

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With T-Mobile Losing German iPhone 4 Exclusivity, Will AT&T Be The Next To Topple?

All across Europe, iPhone exclusivity deals have already toppled, but here in Germany, T-Mobile still remains standing as the sole carrier of the iPhone 4. The foundations are wobbly, though, as numerous other carriers in the country have begun selling the iPhone 3GS, marking the first time more than one company has offered the iPhone…

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Boxcar Goes Free As Twitter for iOS Readies Push Notifications

Twitter for iPhone — née Tweetie — is a wonderful first-party client with almost any functionality you could care to name, but one area in which it loses to some of its competitors is in its lack of support for push notifications. No worries, though, because along with yesterday’s triumphant debut of Twitter for iPad,

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Facebook Friend Search Functionality On Ping Removed After Facebook Blocks API Access

Ping, Apple’s new social network for music, has already seen a lot of rave reviews. The service is part of the latest version of iTunes and lets users connect with friends and artists to share and follow music tastes. The social networking service already has a lot of music artists..

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Facebook Friend Search Functionality On Ping Removed After Facebook Blocks API Access

Apple Teases Us With iOS 4.2 for iPad “Coming Soon” Page

Apple started teasing us today when the company posted its iOS 4.2 for iPad “Coming Soon” software update webpage. That webpage serves as a little reminder to us about the exciting new features coming in the next version of iOS for the iPad. If you haven’t been paying attention to the news lately you’ll be

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