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Dell’s high-end gaming division, Alienware, has announced that it will be adopting AMD’s new Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card effective immediately. The card combines two GPUs into one board, and features 2GB of DDR5 RAM as well as …

The firm says it isn’t worried about the competition from Apple, Lenovo, or other rivals as the Latitude “brackets” these systems; the E4200 is smaller and lighter than the Air through its use of an ultra-low voltage Core 2 Duo …

Digital Daily notes that Apple’s market capitalization at $159.37 billion is now worth more than Google’s which is at $157.56 billion. Apple’s market cap first exceeded $100 billion in May of 2007. Apple was included into the S&P 100 index at that …

Digital Daily notes that Apple’s market capitalization at $159.37 billion is now worth more than Google’s which is at $157.56 billion. Apple’s market cap first exceeded $100 billion in May of 2007. Apple was included into the S&P 100 …

ExperCom offers the Apple Mac Pro 4-Core 2.8GHz Xeon Workstation upgraded to 4GB RAM and a 500GB hard drive for for $2599. With 1 cent for shipping, that’s $249 less than what Apple charges for the same configuration. …

ZDNet Australia reports that banking “giant” HSBC is considering ditching the BlackBerry and switching over to the iPhone for its staff. HSBC has about 300,000 staff worldwide and this transition could result in 200,000 iPhone orders.<p class=”quote…

Greetings, Hints readers…

Beginning tomorrow (August 14th), I’m once again leaving the site in the capable hands of kirkmc, aka Kirk McElhearn, my fellow Macworld contributor and author of many Mac-related books. He’ll be in charge of hints and related activities until Friday, August 22nd, when I return from “an extended period of recreation, especially one spent away from home or in traveling” (according to Dictionary, that’s the definition of “vacation”).

Unlike past working vacations on Geek Cruises, this will be a true vacation — I won’t have a reliable (or possibly any) internet connection, and my iPhone’s data connection will be shut off so that I don’t incur those ghastly AT&T charges for…

To play several videos one after another on an iPhone or iPod touch, you can create a playlist of all the videos that you want to watch. However, that playlist won’t show on your device’s list of playlists. To make it appear, simply add a music file to that playlist, and click OK when iTunes asks you “Are you sure you want to mix music and videos in the same playlist?”

By using a combined playlist like this, you will be able to view videos continuously — and not only in landscape mode (like YouTube videos), but in portrait mode, like if you were holding a video-capable iPod.

I may have found a culprit in the OS X10.5 Active Directory integration problem (see the comments on this post at AFP548.com for more info on the problem). I noticed that after a 10.5 machine is bound, it mostly freezes up when it’s trying to authenticate. I started looking around and noticed interesting things in the /Library/Preferences/edu.mit.Kerberos file.
Before being bound, the file looked like this:

[libdefaults]    dns_fallback = "no"

I then bound the machine. It was unusably sluggish, as expected. After binding, the file looked like this:

# WARNING This file is automatically created by Active Directory# do not make changes to this file;# autogenerated from : /Active Directory/DOMAIN.DOMAIN.LOCAL# generation_id : 0[libdefaults]    dns_fallback = no</code ...