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Another sign that Apple’s (AAPL) not taking a hit from the crappy US economy: Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster has analyzed preliminary NPD Group July sales data and, after extrapolating them for the entire September quarter, estimates that …

EA’s Spore Origins has arrived for the Classic iPod and iPod Nano [iTunes link (not compatible with iPhone or iPod touch)] well ahead of its multiplatform launch scheduled for September 7th.

The $4.99 game offers an early look…

Apple is on track to sell just shy of 3 million Macs and close to 11 million iPods in the September quarter, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. If Apple manages to hit the high end of Munster’s estimate of betweeen 2.7 …

Don Reisinger thinks Apple should release a touchscreen Mac as soon as possible. But is it the right move for the company?

Mac4ever (french) received word from ATI that while the Radeon HD 4870 X2 will not be coming for the Mac, ATI has confirmed that both the Radeon HD 4870 and Radeon HD 4850 will be coming for the Mac “soon”.

For those interested in ben…

Ambric Now Shipping the Am2045 GT Video Reference Platform With Significant Acceleration for Apple Mac Pro and MacBook Pro (Beaverton, Oregon–August 25, 2008) Ambric® has released software for production that utilizes its Am2045™ …

In July, Apple spokesman Greg Jowsiak basically said cut and paste was a low priority as far as the company was concerned. No surprise then, that third party workarounds for the missing tool began to emerge, with one fashioned by …

I needed ImageMagick — especially as a Ruby GEM — so I had to somehow get gem install rmagick working, as it didn’t work out of the box: Leopard doesn’t ship with ImageMagick.

If you’ve ever tried to install ImageMagick without Fink or MacPorts, you’ll have a quite good chance to go completely nuts. Especially the interdependencies of libjpeg and ghostscript are insane. I also wanted to keep the install as small as possible, and therefore I decided against installing the whole ghostscript package (but you may do so if you like).

I created a set of commands that you can copy-and-paste into a shell script, which should install ImageMagick flawlessly on your Mac. Please notice that Mac OS X 10.5.4 (or higher), XCode 3.1 (or higher), and X11 is required. You’ll find the shell command…

With no unified Inbox (for good or bad), people have come up with lots (and lots) of ways of combining their email accounts into one. And with MobileMe offering push, I’m guessing some people have tried this configuration: having all their emails forward to their mac/me.com address.

However, then the problem is with replying … when you do so, you’ll expose your mac/me.com address. So, there’s always the option of setting up extra SMTP servers (which has already been documented). But that doesn’t allow you to truly reply from a different account (let’s say your email address is for a business, and the name is different).

At least for Google (and other IMAP accounts?), there’s a way to create a “send-only” account — which has already been documented as using the “manual” checking of that account only. But that could leave you with more emails unread than you expect (as your phone may check the non-MobileMe account).

So is there a way to:

• Set up a Gmail a…
  
  

This should be manifestly obvious (and that’s probably why I couldn’t find any documentation for it). But then again, you’d think they would put it in, for instance, Gmail’s IMAP setup help page, but it’s not…

I am sure we all have heard about Push in Apple’s Mail by now. For those folks who use email to the point of obsession (I’m afraid I do), this is a great way to keep your mailboxes up-to-the-second current without having Mail.app hog the bandwidth, checking every minute or five minutes. If your server supports IDLE (Gmail, .Mac/MobileMe, and most university servers do), then the only things you need to do are:

1. Go into Mail » Preferences » Accounts (Advanced) and make sure that Use IDLE command if the server supports it is enabled (it’s enabled by default).
2. (This is the fun part) Again go into Mail » Preferences » General an…