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Engadget

No sooner does HP announce the Mini 2140 than we get reviews from two lucky outlets who seemed to have fallen in love with the netbook. While it retains the sturdy case, ExpressCard / 54 slot, and not-quite-full-sized keyboard that reviewers loved with its predecessor, it also has the awkward, narrow touchpad and side-mounted vertical buttons. Performance is said to be on par with other Intel...

Daring Fireball

As of two minutes ago, it appears you can now buy music from iTunes from your iPhone over EDGE and 3G, not just Wi-Fi.

Even better: all the music in the store appears to be DRM-free now. I’m guessing Phil Schiller will announce it later on in the keynote. Maybe this is the “one more thing”?

Update: It’s official.

Update 2: During the keynote, Schiller specifically said music was now downloadable o...

New DivaBlog

Just had to take a minute to post this pic of two folks I met in line who are so excited to be here in the Reality Distortion Field for a little while. Adam and his Mom got Platinum passes to MacWorld from the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Seldom have I met a fan so excited...and suddenly I remember what it was like to bleed 6 colors.

Inside iPhone

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This is a good point. I love Twitterrific on Mac, but there are things that Tweetie on iPhone does much better, and I sometimes find myself wishing for a Mac version of Tweetie.

I am really impressed with Tweetie, the multi-account Twitter client iPhone application. I find it bizarre that Loren Brichter (the developer) has created a true, multi-account Twitter client ...

MAKE Magazine

David Leadbeater created a service that distributes Wikipedia entries over DNS using TXT records. Simply looking up a TXT record for any subdomain of his service will pull a summary of the Wikipedia entry for the title of the same name.

I had written some code to take wikipedia articles and summarise them. I wanted to offer this for use in various places, now the obvious way to offer it is just ...

Google Mac Blog

Boing Boing

Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs

Dear Apple Community,

For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote.

Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories...

Boing Boing Gadgets

"Imagine there's no bloggers: it isn't hard to do."

Pogue goes Rogue [CrunchGear]

Cult of Mac

“Easter eggs” is a term that’s come to describe little screens, menus and functionalities software coders hide in their work. Sometimes these things are uncovered by intrepid users, who take as a point of pride the mission to peek behind as many curtains as they can find in an application; sometimes there’s either enough lack of interest in finding the Easter eggs or they are so well-hidden d...

Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger

You iknow the spammer? Twply? Well, it’s worse than it seems. They now have your user name and password and are looking to sell your data to the highest bidder.

Twitter needs a real third-party authentication system and it needs it now. Thanks to Mark Trapp and other friendfeeders for bringing this to my attention.

   Tagged: data, privacy, Twitter   

Boing Boing

If you desire high-resolution images of the Earth, the good folks at Unearthed Outdoors have made available the 250m True Marble image set for a free download with a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. It's a map of the Earth made up of 32 tiles, where each tile is a 21,000 pixel square, available in png and tif formats. There's also a series of smaller files that may be more useful -...