If you’re interested in the iPhone and need a little something to tide you over until June 29th, or if you want to check it out without the throngs of shoppers or pushy salespeople, Apple has posted a 20-minute tour of the iPhone. Nothing major new here, but if you haven’t seen the iPhone […]

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If you’re still on the fence on the new MacBook Pros, Gizmodo has a handy summary of seven Santa Rosa MacBook Pro reviews.

ITPro has some interesting speculation on hints from Google’s CEO about more Google tools on the iPhone. Is the iPhone turning out to be the Google Phone…?

Ever wanted to see what a […]

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Apple has some exciting news with a couple photos of the iPhone dock. Now, the dock isn’t anything too flashy visually, following Apple’s traditional clean designs, and there are no ports visible in the photos, but hey, it exists!

In related news, Think Secret has a rumor that the dock will not only charge the […]

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If you’re interested in developing Web 2.0 applications for the iPhone–or just want to check your favorite websites to see how they’ll look on an iPhone–Mac OS X developer Marketcircle’s iPhoney has you covered.

iPhoney does more than just simulate a small screen: it will send an iPhone user agent, view websites in both landscape and […]

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After several months of hearing little on the story of over-applied thermal paste in Apple portables, it looks like the problem is rearing its head again. Some owners of the new Santa Rosa-based MacBook Pros are complaining that their new machines are hotter even than earlier MacBook Pros, and some of the more intrepid […]

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Site sponsor TechRestore sent us this information on their latest upgrade for the MacBook and MacBook Pro:

Concord, CA - June, 21 2007 - TechRestore, Inc. has begun offering a new overnight hard drive replacement service featuring 200 Gigabyte and 250 Gigabyte drives for MacBook and MacBook Pro models.

The high-speed overnight service is completed within 24-hours […]

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After making a lot of customers very anxious as to whether the iPhone would have any sort of battery life, Apple has assuaged some fears with new battery life numbers. Here’s the breakdown:

Talk time: 8 hours
Standby time: 250 hours
Internet use: 6 hours
Video playback: 7 hours
Audio playback: 24 hours

Now, AppleInsider is reporting on some talk […]

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While just a passing mention of the iPhone, Australian IT has an interesting note from Japanese mobile carrier DoCoMo’s CEO, Masao Nakamura:

“I’m very interested” in partnering with Apple to offer the iPhone in Japan, Mr Nakamura said.

As with other countries, the primary question of what to do about 3G networks and a non-3G iPhone still […]

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Those prolific wireless accessory producers at QuickerTek have a new offering that will be of interest to those of you who will give up your PowerBook when it’s pried from your cold, dead hands: the nQuicky for PCMCIA PowerBooks. The nQuicky pops into your PowerBook’s PCMCIA slot and enables 802.11n wireless access for speeds […]

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New York Magazine has a very nice piece on Steve Jobs and the iPhone. If you aren’t familiar with the history of Jobs and Apple, this is a great biography, and even if you are familiar, it’s among the best-written histories we’ve encountered. This iPhone-relevant passage is particularly interesting:

Apple’s competitors, by contrast, find […]

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Our friends over at Tom Bihn sent us word of their latest release, the Zephyr laptop briefcase:

SEATTLE, WA — June 13th, 2007 — TOM BIHN, a designer, manufacturer,
and retailer of laptop bags, backpacks, messenger bags and briefcases,
has introduced the Zephyr, a new medium-size briefcase with “smart”
pockets, pouches, and dividers for quick access and organization, as
well […]

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