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TotalFinder adds tabs, other tricks to Snow Leopard’s Finder

Here's a welcome reprieve from Tablet and iPhone hysterics: TotalFinder allows you to hack your Snow Leopard Finder to do some interesting things that Apple probably never intended.  Tricks include:

  • Make Finder available system-wide...

Kodak slams Apple iPhone with three infringement lawsuits, but seeks settlement

Apple faces yet more iPhone-related patent infringement actions, this time facing the wrath of the Eastman Kodak Company, which claims invention of the first ever digital camera back in 1975.

Eastman Kodak Company has filed lawsuits against Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Research In Motion Limited (RIM) alleging...

Apple’s Q4 09 sales up 31 percent, magic bean counters (analysts) say

Just in case you missed it amid the excitement at Apple’s ever-growing MacBook sales yesterday, we learn the company's Q4 sales remain strong - even in a price conscious market.

IDC tells us Apple’s US Q4 sales climbed 31 percent year-on-year to 1.5 million units - or 7...

Intel denies Corei5 MacBook prize claims

Intel has rejected yesterday’s reports claiming imminent release of new Core i5 MacBook Pros.

As reported by Spanish site Faq-Mac.com, an Intel promotion suggested Apple to be on the cusp of releasing new Core i5 MacBooks.  The advert said that two winners would recieve...

Apple selling 23 MacBooks a minute, claim

Apple’s selling around 23 MacBooks each minute worldwide, fresh data from its Taiwan-based supply chain suggests.

Citing industry sources, Digitimes explains: “Quanta Computer is expected to ship 3.5-3.7 million notebooks in January 2009 mainly benefiting from shipments of one million MacBooks to Apple.”

That’s colossal growth. The...

Tablet K48AP is ‘iPhone on steroids’ and gestures are ‘out of control’

BGR got a bit of supposed spy info on the tablet:

  • The tablet’s multi-touch gestures are “out of control.”
  • It’s powered by an incredibly fast ARM CPU
  • It runs on the iPhone kernel.
  • The internal model number is K48AP.
  • There hasn’t been an updated iPhone OS build because there’s too...

Max OS X developer Avie Tevanian talks Apple and more

Avie Tevanian caught headlines yesterday on news he’s taking a seat at Palm investor, Elevation Partners, now he’s revealed a few Apple-related tidbits in a pair of interviews in circulation today.

“Apple's former software chief was pretty happy in retirement,” reveals Cnet, before offering a chat...

DisplayPort 1.2 spec blessing for creative pros

Speaking of innovation and the uncanny Apple-related coverage storming out of France this week, news now that the new version of DisplayPort, (v.1.2) has been officially unveiled, with the final spec expected this year.

As we all know, all current Macs support output through a Mini DisplayPort: iMac,...

Apple pre-orders cause 10.1-inch OLED, LED display shortage, report

With tablets of all kinds shimmering onto the debutante’s ball room that was CES last week, it seems a lot of manufacturers have been asking where have all the 10-inch LCD and OLED screens have gone - and TG Daily tells us Apple grabbed them all.

Yes, it...

Apple preps MultiTouch iWork for Fingerworks-controlled Tablet/slate

Apple isn’t simply plotting a course toward introduction of the “good bit of new sexy” that is the much-vaunted tablet device - the company also intends releasing a touch-controlled version of iWork for the system, along with a small forest of content and media services it...

Tablet will have ‘aluminium’ casings, Q2 launch says Reuters

According to Reuters, the pieces are literally coming together for Apple's new Tablet.  Kelvin Soh says two 'sources familiar with the situation' expect a Q2 launch -- which has been reported before.  He does, however, say that the casings will be made of aluminum...

Core i5 and Core Duo compared by Intel at CES

The likely successor to the Intel Core 2 Duo in MacBook Pros is the Core i5s which Intel introduced this week at CES.  Engadget caught a video of Intel comparing their old tech to new tech.  The first test was a iTunes rip which was about twice as quick.  The second encode shows...