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Daily Deals: $970 2.4GHz MacBook Pro, $20 Decloner Software, GPS Mount

We start off another week with a deal on MacBook Pro laptops. The laptops run at 2.4GHz using a Core 2 Duo processor. The machines have a 15-inch screen. Also on the top deal list for today is the Decloner, software that finds and eliminates duplicate files on your Mac. Finally, we offer a universal [...:]

How To Play Bullet Hell SHMUP "ESPGALUDA II" On Your iPod Touch 3rd Gen Right Now

Last week, I wrote about an upcoming bullet hell SHMUP from Cave called ESPGALUDA II due to hit the App Store last Saturday. As promised, it did, and at a special low introductory price of $4.99 to boot.
Unfortunately, though, ESPGALUDA II came with some big problems.
For one, it would only run on the [...:]

Monday Giveaways: Mystery iPhone Apps on Twitter

We've got some miscellaneous iPhone apps to give away, but this time we're going to keep it a surpirse! We did it last week on Facebook, and if you were following us that day on the Facebook page, then you know that I hooked you up! Today will be no different, except we're doing [...:]

Apple Deletes Google Brand from iPhone Search

Apple's upcoming iPhone OS 4 removes any mention of Google from the iPhone's search feature, the latest step by the Cupertino, Calif. company to erase any connection with the Mountain View, Calif. Internet giant.
Already part of iPhone OS 3.2 used by the iPad, the elimination of the word "Google" from the iPhone's Safari Web [...:]

Report: iPhone, iPad Getting More Corporate Fans

We already know Apple has a lock on consumers, particularly teens. However, the world of the corporate cubicle has been dominated by Microsoft and the Blackberry. That picture may be changing, according to a new survey finding corporate interest in the iPhone increasing.
Apple share of the corporate smartphone market reached 27 percent in February, up [...:]

Video: 17-inch iMac G4 Hacked Into Multitouch Windows 7 PC

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOm4hS_bvEA
Jon Berg injected some fresh life into his broken 17-inch iMac G4 by cramming a touchscreen PC's guts inside and re-skinning the desktop to resemble OS X. I wonder, though, why he didn't decide to make it a dual-boot hackintosh: Windows 7's multitouch is a hack job and hardly worth sacrificing OS X as your [...:]

iPhone OS 4.0 Multitasking Can Be Enabled on Pre-3Gs Devices With Simple Config Change

It's certainly exciting that the iPhone is getting multitasking… but with only the very last generation of iDevice's supported, a lot of people are going to be left behind. Even Apple seemed a little bit embarrassed not to be rolling multitasking out across all devices.
Presumably, the issue is one of horsepower, but not complete [...:]

More iPhone Video Conferencing Evidence Found. Will Touches and iPads Follow This Fall?

The evidence continues to mount that the next iPhone, iPad or both will support video conferencing. Just a few days after the iChatAgent process was found running under iPhone OS in the 4.0 Beta… and now 9to5Mac has unearthed the motherload of all video chat references.
According to Mark Gurman, "We've found references to moderators, chat rooms, [...:]

iPhone 4.0 ditches Rate on Delete

Introduced way back in iPhone OS 2.2, the "Rate on Delete" feature was a great example of how even Apple sometimes get it wrong.
The intention, of course, was to prompt users to actually rate the apps on their iPhone in a non-intrusive way, but if you never deleted an app, you were never prompted [...:]

Survey Says: 31% of Teens Want an iPhone

When it comes to teen and electronics, there's seemingly only one company on the playing field: Apple. "Apple's dominance in the (consumer electronics) and online music markets is going seemingly unchecked," Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told investors Monday.
At the head of that urge to own anything with the Apple logo is the iPhone. Nearly [...:]