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AlleyInsider reports that RBC analyst Mike Abramsky is projecting that Apple will ship 3.04 million Macs in the current quarter than ranges from July to September.

If accurate, this would represent 41% year-over-year growth for Mac sa…

AlleyInsider reports that RBC analyst Mike Abramsky is projecting that Apple will ship 3.04 million Macs in the current quarter than ranges from July to September. If accurate, this would represent 41% year-over-year growth for Mac sa. …

Members of a SoHo neighborhood group lodged a lengthy formal complaint against the Apple Store at Prince & Green in Manhattan yesterday, calling the retail outlet “the worst neighbor in SoHo.”

The petition claims “[Apple] expressly warranted that the Defective iPhone 3G would be ‘twice as fast’ and would otherwise perform adequately on the 3G standard or protocol.” The plaintiff and a class of “thousands, perhaps tens of …

Seinfeld, a known Apple/Mac fan, will reportedly take $10 million to look the other way and come up with one-liners to transform Microsoft’s stodgy and serious image in the public mind. The campaign, created by Chiat/Day, …

The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is hiring comedian Jerry Seinfeld for a series of new ads in which he will appear alongside Microsoft’s Bill Gates.

The new ad effort is expected to use some variation of the slogan “Win…

There’s no way easy to remove old events in iCal. In older versions, I could simply open the search results and shift-select the events. In the 10.5 version of iCal, search results are simply empty when no search term is used. I played around with some search terms, and found that you can display all events in iCal by entering “_ (that’s quote-space). You can then delete old events by selecting them, right-clicking and choosing “Cut”.

[kirkmc adds: You can have iCal automatically delete events older than a certain number of days in the program’s Advanced preferences, but this hint shows how to view all the events on all your calendars. While noodling with iCal, I found that there’s an easier way to do it: just enter a single apostrophe (’) or period (.) in the Search box. Both of these seem to display all my events.]

Due to the lack of an equivalent to Palm’s sync conduits, many iPhone applications are syncing to your computer over a local wireless network. When I tote my laptop around with me, I often don’t have a network available to sync with, or I don’t trust the networks that are available. Here’s an AppleScript I use to set up my laptop to talk with my phone when I’m not at home. It creates an ad-hoc network with 128-bit WEP encryption.

Optionally you can make a network location (System Preferences > Network) with the same name as the network you’re creating. In addition to allowing me to configure my other network connections, this lets me easily revert to my normal networks by selecting my default location when I’m done. The iPhone will remember the password after the first time you join the network, although you may have to select it if there are multiple networks available.

If you get an error message that the network already exists, check to make sure your phon…

In the past, video podcasts were also available in the Music section of your iPhone or iPod touch, and you could listen to their content content as audio only.

Since version 2.0, you can access video podcasts from the Music menu, but you can view their video now. You can also view them in both portrait and landscape mode.

[kirkmc adds: In this earlier hint, we mentioned that you would only get the audio of video podcasts when playing them from the Podcast menu. It’s up to you to determine if this new behavior is good or bad.]