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T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer an Android-based mobile phone, according to a report by the New York Times. The phone will be manufactured by HTC and will likely draw comparisons to Apple’s iPhone.

The high-end phone is e…

AOC seized on the back-to-school timeframe to release a trio of small screens that it says are a good fit for city dwellers with only a small amount of space. The smallest, the 19-inch L19W861, is also the sharpest with a 1440×900 …

Sony’s rumored third-generation PSP may be real, new filings suggest. A new version of Sony’s gaming handheld has appeared at the FCC, where it has undergone testing for its wireless components. All new wireless products in the US must …

August is back-to-school month and in the era of increasing glasnost between Apple and its prime competitor up in Redmond, WA, students can save 30% on Microsoft’s Office 2008 for Mac until September 8th with the purchase of any Mac at …

Apple .Mac customers targeted for fraud CNET News, CA - 17 hours ago When Apple rolled out its Mobile Me service last month, it provided phishers with a golden opportunity to scam users of .Mac, according to a credit card … …

MSNBC recently spoke (via MacDailyNews) with several GPS manufacturers about their plans to develop a turn-by-turn GPS solution for the iPhone. While the manufacturers were unable to provide many details about their plans, TomTom reasserted that the…

Every time I’ve used iDVD ‘08 and reached the point of checking the Project Info pane’s Encoding options, they never make complete sense, even after searching the web for answers. I’m in the process of transferring my Laserdiscs to DVDs and have now built up enough experience that I think I’ve figured this all out. Here’s what seems to be going on.

The gist of the confusion about encoding is that the word “quality” is used in two different ways. There is the quality of the rendered video to be burned on the DVD, which is really what is important. But, unfortunately, the word quality also appears in the naming of the compression algorithms used, Best Quality and Professional Quality. This latter use is ill-advised, because the amount of compression applied to your video may or may not affect the quality of the video you end up with.

We all understand the meaning of picture quality, and iDVD ‘08 usefully indicates final DVD video quality via a color grading scale, from g…

For international travelers who cross many times zones each day, such as those in aviation and those in the military, it is common to live by Coordinated Universal Time (also known as UTC, Z or Zulu, and GMT or Greenwich Mean Time). An earlier hint noted that the iPhone can display UTC in the World Clock, but you can also set your iPhone to stay on UTC.

To change to UTC you must first select Settings > General > Date & Time. Turn off Set Automatically. You should also turn on 24-Hour Time, which is optional but is most likely used by anyone who needs to live by UTC. When you turn off Set Automatically, you are shown the Time Zone option. Select Time Zone and type in UTC in the search box. Select UTC from results list. The iPhone will now stay on UTC regardless of your location in the world.

[kirkmc adds: No iPhone here, but on the iPod touch you can set the time zone to UTC if…

I decided one day to try out Aperture 2 and found that it won’t run on machines with less than 1 GB of RAM. Tinkering around, I stumbled onto some files that can fix this.

First you need Aperture 2 or the trial version from Apple. Once you have it, you need to drag the Aperture package and packages folder to the Desktop. Right-click the package and choose Show Package Contents. Open Contents and right-click Aperture (trial).dist; choose Open With and then Other. In the window that displays, choose TextEdit (or your favorite text editor) and scroll all the way to the bottom of the window. Now slowly scroll back up untill you see:

function checkRAMRequirement(RAM)     var requiredRAM = (RAM * 1012 * 1012);  var actualRAM = system.sysctl('hw.memsize');

Change the required RAM to:

function checkRAMRequirement(RAM)        var requiredRAM = (RAM * 256 * 256);    var actualRAM = system.sysctl('hw.mem...