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Apple has updated the MacBook Pros, for the first time since its launch in January of this year. So what do the updates feature? Well the Firewire 800 port is now also built-in into the 15″ model, whereas before it was only in the 17″. The other main update, was that they finally receieved a [...]

I got back from Hungary at around midnight of Sunday. I would have posted news on Monday and yesterday, as it was awfully busy in the tech world, but my copy of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter arrived in the posted. So I ended playing it pretty much all day. It is a fantastic game, but [...]

The Chicago Tribune has posted a photo of Oprah and Bono checking out the new (RED) iPod nano’s at the Michigan Avenue Apple Store in Chicago. Not only that, but someone spotted the Apple Cube Store in NYC changing their Apple logo to a red one (photo here).
Also, on Apple’s website, they are now advertising [...]

Artists rendition of the iPod nano
Oprah and Bono are getting ready to unveil a new red-coloured iPod nano to support the PRODUCT(RED) scheme on TV tomorrow. The red nano is expected to debut tomorrow, in a 4GB model, for the same price as the other 4GB iPods ($199) and Apple has agreed to donate $10 [...]

It sure didn’t take these guys long. I don’t think I mentioned that when iTunes 7 was released, it made the DRM-remover myFairTunes6 useless. However with some hard work and elbow grease, they managed to bump out a new version, which supports the latest version of iTunes, 7.0.1.8 (Honestly, why all the need for the [...]

Awww, for the first time since I got my mini (around August of last year) it has received its first kernel panic. I was doing some work, and had my flash drive plugged in and boom; The grey kernel panic screen just showed up. Sorry for the rubbish picture, but as I have sent my [...]

David Chartier from TUAW has found that on his iMac, he has had no success of installing Release Candidate 2 of Windows Vista. Even with the new Boot Camp 1.1.1 update, which was supposed to offer compatibility with the new iMacs, the installation fails. Windows Vista reports that it doesn’t like the drive Boot Camp [...]

The shorts for Tuesday 3rd October 2006 are:

PSM3 Magazine get their hands on the PS3 - Fast, quiet, heavy and a dust magnet (above) [link] [video]
Zune Wireless basically worthless - You can’t connect to the internet via it’s WiFi or sync to your computer via its WiFi [link]
Microsoft Unbox Zune for CBS’ camera with blatant [...]

The latest version of OS X has been deployed by Apple. Mac OS X 10.4.8 is available for download via software update as well as disk img (.dmg). It fixes the following things:

Connecting to wireless networks using the EAP-FAST protocol
Apple USB modem reliability
using OpenType fonts in Microsoft Word
compatibility with 3rd party USB hubs
scanner performance
RAW camera [...]