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Cerulean RX Receiver Lets Your iPad Stream Music To Stereo Docks

In theory, the iPad can use the same 30-pin dock donnector to interface with any existing iPhone or iPod accessory, the practicality is that there's simply no way you're going to smash it into an existing speaker dock's iPod port.
The Cerulean RX Stereo Bluetooth Receiver can help with that: it's a simple wireless adapter [...:]

Chart: The iPhone Is The Biggest Slice of Apple's Business

Over at 9to5Mac, Jordan Golson put together this simple but illuminating pie chart illustrating Apple's revenue breakdown by category for Q2 2010.
It really just makes everything immediately clear about Apple's business, does't it? The Mac and OS X are also-rans now: Apple's present and future is the iPhone OS, which accounts for almost as much [...:]

Chart: Apple Doesn't Spend Much On Lobbying Compared To Other Big Tech Companies

When it comes to throwing their muscle around Congress, where does Apple stack up compared to the other big names in tech?
Business Insider has taken a look at the numbers.and the answer is surprising: not that much. In fact, they spend the least of most of the big tech companies when it comes to [...:]

Every PopCap Mac Game For Just $50

Fantastic news. Mac gamers! PopCap Games' entire library of 13 incredible Mac games is now available for the lump sum of just $50.

The games include:
• Amazing Adventures 3: The Caribbean Secret
• Bejeweled 2
• Bookworm
• Chuzzle
• Escape Rosecliff Island
• Feeding Frenzy
• Iggle Pop
• Peggle
• Peggle Nights
• Plants Vs. Zombies
• Mystery P.I.: Lost in L.A.
• Zuma
• Zuma's [...:]

Apple Updates Entry-Level MacBook With New Processor and GPU, Bigger Battery

Well, score one for the Vietnamese. As rumored yesterday, Apple has stealthily upgrade the entry level plastic unibody MacBook to bring it more up to line with the specs of the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro.
Here's what the new MacBook looks like: on the outside, it's the same, but its electronic innards now contain a 2.4GHz [...:]

50 Mac Essentials #7: 1Password

Passwords. Loathe them or detest them from the depths of your innermost soul, they are a fact of life on today's internet. And so many people use the same one everywhere.
1Password is aptly named. Once you give it control of your passwords, you don't ever have to worry about remembering passwords again. You'll only have [...:]

Daily Deals: App Store Freebies, iPad Price Drops and $99 iPod nano

We start out another week with a new crop of App Store deals. First up is the latest App Store freebies, including "Turn the World," a puzzle game. A memorization puzzle game, "Mindshapes" leads off the iPad app price cuts. Finally, we round out our featured deals with an Apple Store offer: 8GB iPod nano [...:]

Cult Favorite: We're Smarter Than You, And We'll Prove It With Highly Addictive, Socially Wired 'Qrank' Quiz App

Sure, the app store is swimming in trivia quiz games, but Qrank is different — and ever since the game raised its shiny little head up off the App Store floor earlier this month it's had us hooked like sugar junkies to a candy factory.
the free app cranks (you knew it had to be in [...:]

MONDAY GIVEAWAYS: SWF and FLV Player Pro by Eltima Software

We all know that Flash movies can be a PAIN sometimes, and the SWF and FLV Player Pro takes away all of those frustrations. SWF & FLV Player PRO version delivers even more functionality to you: ability to save currently played Flash movie no matter whether it is loaded from web or locally; switch [...:]

Sony's Music-Streaming Bluetooth Phone Headset Not For Chatterboxes [Review]

Y'know how you'll be watching a basketball game and your team'll be winning fairly comfortably, and then, bam — they've suddenly lost the game and you're not quite sure how it happened?

So it goes with Sony's somewhat aging DR-BT160AS Bluetooth headset: It hits the mark on many elements, misses slightly on a few — and [...:]