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Steve Jobs’ comments during the MacBook event earlier this month during which he called Blu-Ray technology A bag of hurt–referring to claimed.

Apple’s latest patent application reveals that they’re continuing to look into personal virtual reality headsets. The February 2008 application is titled “Automatically adjusting media display in a personal display system” and details a “personal d…

A good friend just brought this issue to my attention, with could have lead to an awkward situation had I not known about it. Read on for the tale of woe, and the happy ending.

iCal 3.x (finally!) accepts attachments via drag and drop, so that they are at hand for that important meeting, etc. So far so very good. However, iCal doesn’t actually link to the original file, but instead makes a copy, which it then buries in the ~/Library » Calendars » Attachments » random_string folder. This is fine, providing you don’t edit your original file before that meeting, with the latest on the virus epidemic, impending Wall Street crash, etc. If you do, come meeting time, your old file version will pop up, sans new additions. Not the end of the world, providing you have time to scour your drive for the original file, without getting all red faced and sweaty. But that’s what the attachmen…

Because the iPhone/iPod touch support multi-touch, here’s a simple way to temporarily type in all caps: Hold one finger on Shift, and use another finger to type your word — just as you would with a “real” keyboard.

[robg adds: While this may seem blatantly obvious to those who have adjusted to the world of multi-tap, I took a small survey — OK, so it was me and the one other iPhone user I could find online at the time — and discovered that 100% of the respondents hadn’t used this method of temporarily typing in caps on their iPhones…so perhaps this will be useful to more than just the two of us.]

The Apple devices account for a further 3% of iPlayer usage and demonstrate a new trend in the way people are watching TV, Huggers said. “The situations we’re seeing are interesting. Mum and Dad are watching linear TV in the living room …

Techgage News found this 3 days ago on www.phoronix.com. Phoronix Test Suite 1.4 allows for turnkey performance testing across Linux, Sun OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, and Apple Mac OS X platforms by end-users, ISVs, IHVs, OEMs, and ODMs. …

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