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Multimedia player and navigation device maker Viliv unveiled a couple of interesting portable consumer devices at the Intel Development Forum this week, including the S7 UMPC and S5 Mobile Internet Device (MID). …

Among the unsupported platforms are both Apple’s Mac OS X and Safari web browser. Windows XP (SP2 or SP3) or Windows Vista are required, running Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, or Firefox 3. “Unfortunately, we’re not cool enough to run …

ArsTechnica reports that hidden amongst all the announcements at the Intel Developer Forum was a brief mention that Intel had introduced “the company’s second-generation dual-core mobile processors for increasingly popular ultra thin and light noteb…

A company called ZPower announced (PDF) last week that they were demoing Silver-Zinc battery technology at the 2008 Intel Developer Forum.

Silver-Zinc is new technology for the consumer market which promises a higher energy density th…

Acer’s Aspire One netbook laptop comes without an optical drive. It does comes with a DVD, though, that lets you either install Linpus Linux OS to the netbook by connecting an external USB optical drive to it, or create a recovery USB drive using the DVD in other computer (a Mac, in this case).

In order to use the DVD, you are supposed to boot from it, but Macs will not recognize it as bootable media.

I used VMWare Fusion to create an “Other Linux 2.6.x kernel” virtual machine, inserted the DVD, and the VM automatically booted from the DVD without having to leave my Mac OS X environment.

The wizard that comes up does not recognize the SATA drive in my Macbook (understandably, since the Acer Aspire One comes with no HDD). It will consider, conversely, the first USB flash drive it finds to be the local HDD, and any subsequent USB flash drives to be just that: external USB flash drives.

So, if you want to be able to create a recovery drive using an exter…

As noted with this previous hint, you can use data detectors in Mail to add events to iCal. It turns out you can go directly to this entry in iCal. Instead of choosing “Add to iCal”, if you hold the Option key it becomes “Edit in iCal…”. Clicking on that opens iCal and shows you the new entry (although you must hit the edit button to actually edit it).

[kirkmc adds: Also, if you click a data detector triangle, you get a Create New iCal Event… menu item; choose it and you get an iCal-like dialog in Mail to create the event. But if you hold down the Option key, the menu item becomes Create New Event in iCal; note the lack of ellipsis. Choosing this menu item creates the event directly in iCal (and opens iCal if it’s not running).]

If you end up with unused virtual machines in your Parallels startup list, you can get rid of them by removing aliases from your ~/Documents/.parallels-vm-directory folder.

Choose the Finder’s Go to Folder command under the Go menu, paste in the above path and go. In the folder, delete the VM aliases you don’t want.

You may want to also delete the actual VM data, or maybe just find out where it lives. To do so, right-click on a VM alias and choose Show Original or Get Info from the contextual menu. You’ll be taken to, or shown the path to that VM’s files.

The handy thing about only having one VM in the list is it’s selected automatically when you start Parallels.

BusinessWeek claims that Apple’s manufacturing plans for the iPhone are rather ambitious. According to their sources, Apple is planning to build 40 million to 45 million iPhone 3Gs in the next 12 months.

While final sales can’t be k…

While Apple seems to finally have a handle on their MobileMe difficulties, it appears iPhone 3G issues persist despite the most recent firmware updates. The two most notable issues include 3G reception problems and iPhone application crashing.
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