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Despite some mixed signals at their retail meeting last night, Apple has now updated their retail website at http://www.apple.com/retail, indicating that the iPhone 3G will be launched at 8 a.m. at Apple retail stores on July 11th.
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Despite some mixed signals at their retail meeting last night, Apple has now updated their retail website at http://www.apple.com/retail, indicating that the iPhone 3G will be launched at 8 am at Apple retail stores on July 11th. …

We’re not sure if Steve Wozniak had a hand in the negotiations, but Apple has lured Doug Field, Segway’s chief technical officer, to join Jonathan Ivie’s design team as Vice President of Product Design, according to a post Friday on the …

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Preparations are underway for the iPhone 3G launch this Friday at AT&T and Apple stores nationwide. Gizmodo posts photos of oversized iPhone 3G store displays (pictured above) that demonstrate the functionality of t…

Preparations are underway for the iPhone 3G launch this Friday at AT&T and Apple stores nationwide. Gizmodo posts photos of oversized iPhone 3G store displays (pictured above) that demonstrate the functionality of t… …

With the alumin(i)um Mac keyboards, Apple finally provided built-in system-wide iTunes controls, thereby placing dozens of iTunes controllers on to the ‘soon to be redundant’ list. However, when you’ve hundreds of CDs that have been …

For anyone who, like me, has yet to upgrade from Photoshop CS to something newer, and is getting an error dialog on launching Photoshop CS on their case-sentivie volumes, here’s a possible solution. The dialog complains that the CS app “Could not complete your request because certain required files were not found in the Adobe Photoshop CS Required folder. Please reinstall Photoshop to restore these files..,” and here’s the solution.

Navigate to Adobe Photoshop CS.app » (Control-Click and choose Show Package Contents » Contents » Resources » asn. In that folder, there should be a single file called PS.SIF. Rename the file to PS.sif, and Photoshop should now launch. The same thing needs to be done to ImageReady to get it to work. Note that I’ve only tested this with Photoshop CS and ImageReady CS, which are the only two CS apps I have. I can’t speak for whether it works on any of the others.

It seems like a bit of a shame that Adobe couldn’t take …

If you use Safari and a laptop, you may be surprised to find that sites that incorporate Flash may be draining your battery. Unless you’re one of those people who browse with Activity Monitor open, you’re probably not aware that many sites are sucking your battery dry. Many sites incorporate Flash, in particular to display advertisements. These little Flash tidbits may be poorly written, and can make your CPU work really hard. This, in turn, will drain your battery at a fast rate.

You can prevent Flash from automatically loading in Safari using Safari Stand. Install it, launch Safari, go to the Stand menu, choose SafariStand Setting, then click on Advanced. Check the Load Plug-in Manually box in the Flash section and restart Safari.

Now when your browser encounters Flash, you can click the box where the Flash would have been to load that bit of Flash. You can also add exceptions to the site alteration area — for exam…

If you’re having trouble with your built-in iSight in Photo Booth, iMovie HD ‘06 (or both), here’s one possible fix. If there is a picture of a camera in Photo Booth where the video/pictures come up (or the black screen) with a cross over it, just quit Photo Booth and open it back up again.

This also goes for iMovie ‘06, but in that app, there’s a blue screen and it says that there is no outside camera attached, or the outside camera is not working properly. The only problem with this message is that there really isn’t an outside camera attached to the Mac you are working with! However, quitting and restarting iMovie should fix the problem.

Yes, I am a Mac snob. You should be, too. …and on with the news. Mac users once hid in the shadows around the Tiger campus. They occassional found a little relief in the form of help from those within the School of Education, …