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10 nifty Mac OS X Dock replacements

Replace with multiple Docks
If you’ve too many applications stuffed into your Dock, consider using a ‘multiple Docks’ utility for grouping apps in user-defined categories.
1. Docks ($14.99)
It might be fifteen bucks and, yes, there are free apps that offer broadly similar functionality, but Docks is the best multiple-Dock app we’ve seen. Its likeable interface (including showing [...]

As Apple Confab Nears, iGossip Heats Up

We’re a little over two weeks away from this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, and the rumor mill is starting to go into overdrive. Forget Snow Leopard or iPhone OS 3.0; the chattering classes are all in a tizzy over the possibility of new iPhones and that netbook-tablety-touch thingy, and some have even dredged up the [...]

iPhone Software 3.0 may offer voice control, dialing – reportiPhone Software 3.0 may offer voice control, dialing – report

A new report is backing rumors of Voice Dialing support inside betas of Apple’s iPhone 3.0 Software but adds that capability may be just one of several features included in a new Voice Services framework that may also facilitate voice control of the new OS.
Adding to discoveries of “Voice Control” preferences within the International preferences [...]

iPhone OS 3.0 Preview Presentation

Apple – QuickTime – iPhone OS 3.0 Preview Presentation.
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iPhone OS 3.0 coming March 17th!

You think maybe we’ll see some cool new Pre busting stuff? How about some push notifications? Copy/paste?  MMS multimedia?  Tethering?  Are you excited?
Join us at an invitation-only event to learn about the new SDK and get a sneak peek at the iPhone OS 3.0 software. The event takes place at Apple, Building 4, Town Hall [...]

Dow Jones corroborates Apple Netbook, adds juicy details

Adding fuel to the Apple Touch Netbook fire, Dow Jones reporter, Wei Yi Lim is reporting that Apple indeed is building a touch netbook.  The screen size is about 10 inches.  OK, mockup artists…what else do you need?!  From Dow Jones:
Apple Inc. (AAPL) is planning to launch a netbook computer with a touch screen monitor [...]

Intel’s upcoming mobile chips to squeeze 3GHz out of Penryn, bring high-performance ULV to the masses

Yeah, we’ve had just about all the Atom we can handle, and it looks like Intel’s just about ready to help us back away from the difficult choice of sexy form factors for low prices and sexy form for exorbitant prices. Intel is working on Montevina Plus, which will push Penryn laptop chip technology past [...]

ASRock debuts Atom 330-powered NetTop S330: eyes-on Not a Mac Mini!

We caught up with ASRock’s new entrant into the netbook world yesterday, but today it was all about the nettop. On display at the company’s CeBIT booth was this gem, the NetTop S330. Showcased in white and some strange, unusual other hue, the box was powered by an Intel Atom 330 processor and supports up [...]

Two possible dates for Apple’s WWDC 2009 emerge

Event bookings for the San Francisco Moscone Center indicate that Apple may be planning its annual Worldwide Developer Conference in either mid-May or early June.
Companies book the Moscone Center venue many months in advance, with Sun’s Java One, Cisco Live!, Linux World, Oracle OpenWorld, and other events already planned for just about every free week [...]

MacBook Pro 17-inch unibody review

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/MacBook_Pro_17_Inch_Unibody_Review’; There’s not much that can be said about the 17-inch version of the MacBook Pro that hasn’t already been said about the 15-incher (and to some extent, the MacBook). Still, the big, big brother of the family has a few key differences that make it stand out from the rest of the [...]