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According to AppleInsider, Apple is planning another special event on April 1st. This could be an April Fools joke, or maybe not because Apple’s anniversary date is April 1st. Believe it or not, Apple was founded on 1st April 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
True to industry-wide speculation, the event is expected to fall [...]

I have received more (22) invites to send out for Windows Live Messenger. If you want them then post a valid msn/hotmail email in the comments and I will send one out to the first 22 commenters. Please please check your email so I don’t waste the invites. If you have already posted your email [...]

Sony CEO Howad Stringer “has officially admitted to the press that the PS3, will indeed, be delayed for launch this year. He made his remarks to Hollywood industry newspaper, Variety, and stated that the PS3 will most likely be launched towards the end of this year, instead of the planned launch for May in Japan. [...]

This morning at the CeBIT conference in Germany, we revealed the new visuals for the Office 2007 user interface.
You can see a few screenshots of the new look on the Office 2007 UI Preview Site. If you’ve got a craving to see even more, I’ve created a mini-gallery of full-size screenshots from a recent [...]

MacShrine had some pictures of what they claimed to be the new iPod, but with some threats from Apple and the DMCA they had to take it down (I didn’t manage to get a post up about it in time, but it was the usual big screen with the 5G’s design). Now they said “Screw [...]

Some people have gotten their hands on the new DS Lite and have been testing it out and comparing it to the DS. There is even a video review of it here. So far the reactions seem to be very positive. Its size and design is very good and looks really sleek. With an Apple-esque [...]

Apple has changed the Intel ad for the UK and replaced it with words that make it a lot less effective. They have changed the voice over to remove the ‘dull little boxes dutifully doing dull little tasks’ line and replaced it with, ‘dutifully doing all the things PC’s were built to do.’ You can [...]

Some new images arised on ZDNet showing the comparison between the MacBook Pro’s backlight keyboard (on the right above) and the PowerBook G4 (left, above). Amazing, seriously, so Apple didn’t just make the screen brighter but the keyboard as well. I think it would make me blind at night. “In fact, the MBP’s keyboard backlight [...]

Today was the day that just about everyone that ordered a mini on the 28th received it via FedEx. Tons of pictures of the Intel Mac Mini’s internals flooded the internet this morning. Shots of the double-layered DDR2 200pin SO-DIMMs slots, the IR port next to the optical drive responsible for the Front Row [...]

Here’s a tip for all you folks out there that have a Front Row enabled Mac (and I mean one that Apple recognizes as having Front Row on it, sorry hackers).
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Wrong. You can put your Mac to sleep using the included Apple Remote Control. Simply hold down the Play button for a few seconds [...]