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Daily Deals: MacBook Bonanza – MacBook Pro i7, MacBook Pro CD2 $1,049 and 15″ MacBook Pro

We wrap up another week with three MacBook offers as our top daily deals. First up is a MacBook Pro sporting the new Core i& processor, running at 2.66GHz and with a 15-inch screen. Three years of AppleCare is bundled with the hardware for $2,499. Next is a Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro running at [...:]

Daily Deals: MacBook Pro i7, MacBook Pro CD2 $1,049 and 15″ MacBook Pro

We wrap up another week with three MacBook offers as our top daily deals. First up is a MacBook Pro sporting the new Core i& processor, running at 2.66GHz and with a 15-inch screen. Three years of AppleCare is bundled with the hardware for $2,499. Next is a Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro running at [...:]

Five Fun Games: Majestic Gem Matching, Magnificent Hidden Objects, Powerful Mind Games and More

Happy Friday! Here's this week's selection by Mac Games and More featuring fun casual games you can play into the weekend. The games include finding a place for oozing, gooey liquid, being marvelously en vogue, discovering majestic match three games and more.




Cradle of Persia – Cradle of Persia, a jewel matching Mac game, will [...:]

Apple Jumps to 56 on Fortune 500 List

Apple's fortunes just keep improving — literally. The Cupertino, Calif. maker of iconic consumer electronics reached 56 in Fortune magazine's Fortune 500 list, rising 15 spots in the annual ranking of corporate success. Apple's $36.5 billion in revenue for 2009 put it just behind 10th-place HP ($114.5 billion) and 38th-place Dell ($52.9 billion.)
The 26th-most-profitable [...:]

iPhone Apps Weekly Digest: Abstract Gaming, Great Art Tools and a Fantastic Google Reader Client

It's time for our weekly digest of tiny iPhone reviews, courtesy of iPhoneTiny.com, with some extra commentary exclusive to Cult of Mac.
This time, we review Fox Vs Duck, GW Monkey, National Trust, Photogene, Reeder, and TinyPixels.

APP OF THE WEEK
Reeder: Superb Google Reader client. Elegant, usable UI + image caching, state saving & services integration. 5/5 [...:]

Ridiculous TV Hat Lets You Watch Movies On Your iPhone, Hands And Glare Free

If you want to watch movies on your iPhone outside, you've got a couple of options. You can hold it in your hand like a sucker, or you can lay out $30 for this TV Hat, an absurdly long billed baseball cap with a built-in hood like an even bigger sucker. Just harness your iPhone [...:]

Verizon May Not Have The iPhone, But They Do Have The HTC Droid Incredible

Poor Verizon. They've got the nation's best 3G coverage, but there's no concrete plans for them to get an iPhone in sight. They don't even have the so-called Googlephone, the HTC Nexus One, probably the second best smartphone on the market after the iPhone.
Looks like Verizon just caught a break, though. They've just announced that [...:]

Pulitzer Prize Winning Web Cartoonist Banned From App Store For Ridiculing Public Figures

Political caricaturist Mark Flore was awarded the first Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning to ever be awarded to a web-only cartoonist, so obviously he's got some artistic and editorial merit… but not in Apple's eyes.
Word from the Nieman Journalism Lab reports that Flore submitted his iPhone app, NewsToons, back in December, but was rejected [...:]

Jobs: Better Graphics and Battery Life Beat 10-20% CPU Increase in New 13-Inch MacBook Pros

It's Friday and we're all a little tired. Luckily, a surprisingly vociferous Steve Jobs has been taking to his iPad email client a lot lately to entertain us.
His latest missive? Explaining the rationale behind leaving the 13-inch MacBook Pros behind the Core i3i5 15 and 17-inchers with comparatively wimpy Core 2 Duo processors.

9to5Mac Reader [...:]

Saskatchewanians Will Get 4th Gen iPhone With SaskTel

If you're one of the 1+ million inhabitants of Canada's Texas-sized prairie province, Saskatchewan, it looks like you'll have some options on which wireless carrier to pick when Apple announced the next iPhone in June.
SaskTel has just announced that they are building out their new HSDPA network in the province, and they'll be offering Apple's [...:]