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Get an unlocked iPhone… er, in Hong Kong
Well, it’s a start. Apparently shops in Hong Kong are selling unlocked iPhones that work on local operators (the shot above shows one seemingly connected to local operator CSL). Right now, thousands of European Appleheads craving their iPhone fix are adding up the costs of a round-trip to pick one up…
iTunes gets John Lennon solo catalogue: one step closer to Beatles downloads
That Yellow Submarine iPod is still stubborn in its refusal to decloak, but Apple has signed another Beatley deal, having launched sixteen of John Lennon’s solo albums, including the first digital releases of his ‘Lennon Legend’ and ‘Acoustic’ compilations.
Opinion: Welcome to widget world, Apple. What took you so long?
Stuart Dredge writes…
Hurrah for Apple! No, this isn’t another paen to the iPhone posted from Steve Jobs’ lower colon. I’m just excited about the fact that Apple has thrown its hat into the Web 2.0 bandwagon (gotta love them mixed metaphors) with the launch of My iTunes.
As we explained earlier, My iTunes is a collection of three flash-based widgets that can be embedded into your website, blog or social networking profile. They show your recent iTunes Store purchases, an artist tag cloud (again based on purchases), and music you’ve reviewed on iTunes.
Apple fanboy surgically alters his pudgy thumbs to use iPhone correctly
It’s not news that Apple fans tend to be fairly obsessive about their products, with the iPhone-wielders epitomising fanboyism to a tee.
But the fact that a 28-year old American man, Thomas Martel, got his thumbs surgically altered in a radical new surgery practise known as ‘whittling’ comes as no surprise, no matter how shocking it is. Apparently the big man’s thumbs were too meaty for the delicate touch-screen buttons on his iPhone, so he did what any ‘sane’ Apple fan would do, and coughed up the cash…
Apple launches iLife 08: updated digital lifestyle tools
Apple has updated its iLife software with what it claims is the most significant upgrade ever to their digital lifestyle applications.
New features include a revamped iPhoto which automatically groups photos in events, each containing a day’s worth of photos represented by a single picture, as well as offering new presentation and printing options.
iMovie has been completely ‘reinvented’ and now lets users import video from the latest AVCHD, HDV and DV cameras and digital cameras, as well as displaying a user’s entire movie collection, which can be viewed simply by skimming the mouse over the clip.
Apple launches iWork 08: updated productivity tools
They’ve been a long time coming, and talked/rumoured about, and at last Apple has updated its iWork and iLife applications, bringing up to ’08.
iWork 08 not only enhances the Pages and Keynote applications, but includes the new “Numbers” spreadsheet application that many believed Apple would, and needed to, introduce if they stood any chance of competing against Microsoft.
Interestingly, Apple has gone for a new approach to spreadsheets with the Numbers application. Instead of copying Excel, as so many others have, their approach allows people to organise and interlink information on different sheets on a flexible graphical canvas. This should make it easier to build relationships between the intelligent tables, each of which is a spreadsheet in its own right, as well as printing them.
Apple unveils new faster, sleeker iMacs
Apple has launched its new range of iMacs, dropping the 17 inch model and focusing on the 20 and 24 inch screen sizes.
The white surround of the last Core 2 Duo iMac has been replaced with ‘professional’ aluminium and glass enclosures. It now boasts up to a 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo chip, 500GB hard drive, 8x speed double-layer SuperDrive, ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory, and iSight camera.
Greenpeace wants to survey green gadgets as well as companies
If you’re a regular reader of Tech Digest, you might remember our posts on Greenpeace’s consumer electronics reports, in which it rates the world’s top tech companies on their production and recycling processes to see how eco-friendly they are.
Imagine if Microsoft's Steve Ballmer starred in an iPod advert…
Well, you don't have to imagine any more! Someone's turned the infamous Dancing Ballmer video into a silhouette, slapped a coloured background on, and hey presto – a fake Zune ad that takes Apple's iconic iPod ads as its inspiration. Marvellous. Watch it below.
Two weeks of international iPhone roaming cost… $3,000?!
Ouch. And double ouch. We’re more than used to outrageous international roaming rates here in Europe, but it seems US operator AT&T Wireless isn’t averse to making a few dollars from its travelling customers either.
