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Report: Apple Has 26 Percent of Music Sales

Apple's iTunes has widened its lead over traditional music sellers, capturing 26.6 percent of digital music sales in 2009, up from 21.4 percent in 2008 – the year Apple became the No. 1 destination for music sales.
Walmart, which had held the title of top digital music store, fell further behind iTunes with 12.5 percent of [...:]

LaCie Network Space MAX NAS Backs Up All Your Mac's Data Twice

Borrowing their aesthetic from the super-dimensional beings who crafted 2001's monolith, LaCie's new line of NAS drives, the Network Space MAX, are easily configured to automatically mirror your disks so that all your data is backed up twice, courtesy of the RAID 1 Department of Redundancy Department.
This featureless slab of black plastic contains two hard [...:]

L5 Remote App + Dongle Turns Your iDevice Into A Universal Remote

First revealed back in January at CES, the L5 Remote is a useful little dongle that supplements the iPhone or iPod Touch's already incredible remote abilities by turning your iDevice into a fully functional infrared universal remotes.
All you do is slap the infrared sensor into your iPhone and load the free L5 remote app. The [...:]

iPhone OS 4.0 Beta Finally Adds Custom User Dictionary

Thanks to its inexplicable lack of a custom dictionary, the iPhone's always been a frustrating filter on the gutter-mouthed obscenity enthusiast and the serial sexter alike.
It's frustrating. More than once, the iPhone has automatically cleaned up some of my most romantic text messages to refer, time and time again, to an earnest plea for [...:]

Please Take Our Cult of Mac Reader Survey

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We're running a survey to get a better idea of who you are and what you like to do online. Yes, we know, surveys can be a pain, but the data is essential for our sales team to represent us properly.
If you like what we do, it'd be a huge [...:]

International iPad App Stores Now Live

Although the iPad won't be released internationally until tomorrow, Apple has already gotten ready for the flood of new devices by flicking the ON switch for the International iPad App Store. For right now, this will only be useful to you if you have imported an iPad from the States but want to use a [...:]

AT&T Laughs At Verizon iPhone Threat, Says Contracts Will Keep Customers Loyal

Given AT&T's almost universal bad press when it comes to the reliability of their 3G network, you'd think the prospect of a Verizon iPhone would have Ma Bell trembling at the prospect of a mass diaspora of unsatisfied users.
With typical arrogance, though, AT&T head Ralph de la Vega laughed at the idea that AT&T had [...:]

iFixIt Tears Down New Unibody MacBooks, Discovers 10-Hour Battery Is Backwards Compatible

With their usual alacrity, the dissection fiends over at iFixIt have again donned their Kruger-like gloves tipped with T6 Torx screwdrivers and gutted a freshly speed bumped plastic unibody MacBook.
Not surprisingly, there's not a lot of new information: since only the CPU, GPU and battery have changed since the last MacBook refresh, there's not [...:]

Waterfield's Smart Case Keeps Your iPad Snug As A Bug [Review]

The iPad Smart Case is the latest iPad case from Waterfield, a San Francisco-based Company. The Smart Case provides maximum protection of the iPad in the thinnest of cases. Available in six colors, the $59.00 sleeve is sleek and stylish.


What I love most about the Smart Case, besides the cool green color, is how [...:]

Latest 4th Gen iPhone Leak Indicates White Front Panel Option

The latest iPhone HD leak comes not from Vietnam, as we've come to expect, but good old Taiwan. Ready for a bombshell? Better pop a Lipitor: it looks like the iPhone HD may very well come in white.
We admit, snark aside, that's not very exciting. iPhones have come in white before. What is interesting [...:]