New Get a Mac ads, system preferences goes green, Cooliris on iPhone, Mac Mini future, 8GB RAM in new MacBook Pros, and Google Maps Street view.

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• More new Get A Mac ads
• Apple’s System Preference icon goes green
• Cooliris Comes To iPhone
• Is the Mac Mini Dead?
• MacBook Pro’s NVIDIA Chipsets Can Support Dual GPU and 8GB RAM
• iPhone 2.2 Beta 2 Maps New Features Screenshots

Microsoft gets real time f-bomb bleeping patent, net neutrality in Election ‘08, Lala’s 10 cent song, apps for your Drobo, faster plans from Comcast, Android open-source, legal P2P, and creating WordPress themes from scratch.

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• Microsoft gets patent for real-time f-bomb bleeping
• Where the major U.S. presidential candidates stand on tech issues
• Lala’s Spectacular New Music Service
• DroboApps
• Comcast launches faster Internet plans, but usage cap remains
• Android Open Source Project
• Legal P2P uses growing 10x faster than illegal ones
• How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch

MacBook gets aluminum casing, MacBook Pro gets two graphics cards, Steve says no FireWire for you, new LED Cinema Display, hardware h.264 decoding, and Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt.

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• Apple
• Next-Generation MacBook Ditches Plastic, Becomes MacBook Pro Mini
• Apple’s all-new MacBook Pro packs new NVIDIA GPUs, glass trackpad
• Leo Laporte posted on Twitter that the trackpad is sweet
• Apple Keynotes — iTunes | Feed
• Steve Says: You don’t need FireWire
• Apple Deleting Discussions About FireWire-Less MacBooks in Forums
• Apple finally refreshes Cinema Display: 24-inch, LED backlit, $899
• 
  Apple Enabled GPU Hardware Decoding of h.264 on New MacBooks, Pros and Airs?
• Apple’s Steve Jobs calls Blu-ray “a bag of hurt”
• Apple’s Snow Leopard to sport Cocoa Finder and ImageBoot
• briangardner.com and wpelements.com

New Apple products with aluminum casing, MacBook loses FireWire, Steve Jobs calls Blu-ray a bag of hurt, password syncing with Foxmarks, OpenOffice 3 debuts, 280 Slides is Keynote for the web, canvas view in iGoogle, and YouTube rejects DMCA request from McCain.

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• Next-Generation MacBook Ditches Plastic, Becomes MacBook Pro Mini
• Steve Says: You don’t need FireWire
• Apple finally refreshes Cinema Display: 24-inch, LED backlit, $899
• Apple Refurbished Macs
• Apple’s Steve Jobs calls Blu-ray “a bag of hurt”
• Foxmarks v2.5 Has Arrived: Sync Your Passwords and More!
• OpenOffice.org becomes an even better alternative
• 280 Slides: PowerPoint made fast and easy, online
• What’s new with iGoogle?
• YouTube rejects McCain request for DMCA takedown fix

Zune coming to Windows Mobile, Nokia bringing a touch-screen phone to the table, new features in Gmail Labs, geo-location in Firefox, Laconica vs. Twitter, RSS for Google search, Google ads for iPhone, Walmart leaving DRM servers online, Mobile Firefox, Zoho Mail, and the world of WordPress themes.

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• Steve Ballmer confirms Zune software coming to Windows Mobile
• The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
• New Gmail Labs features —Mail Goggles and Advanced IMAP Controls
• Mozilla Labs » Introducing Geode
• Taking on Twitter with open-source software with Laconica — TWiT Army
• Twitter Status - IM: Not coming soon
• Google Confirms RSS For Web Search Results
• Google Readies iPhone Ad Options
• Wal-Mart joins MSN and Yahoo, leaves DRM servers online
• Mobile Firefox alpha coming to Nokia 810 tablet
• Zoho Mail Gets Offline Support via Google Gears
• Revolution Going Open Source

iPhone 3G sales through the roof, another security hole, BlackBerry Media Sync for Mac, new event on October 14, another rumor, and VSBT forced to change the Apple-like logo.

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• iPhone grabs top smart phone spot
• 30 percent of iPhone 3G buyers dump existing carriers
• iPhone 3G now the second best-selling US mobile handset
• Another iPhone security bug is related to Emergency Call
• BlackBerry Media Sync for Mac
• Apple “notebook” event is on, October 14th!
• Apple to release networked HDTVs
• Victoria school forced to change apple logo

So here I am, back to WordPress. The site looks pretty ugly right now; I’m working on customizing the Revolution Blog theme; I’ll switch to it once I get it working.

Update: The site is fully functional. Thanks for your patience!

Google and T-Mobile team up with the G1, Adobe using GPU in Photoshop, New Slingbox HD, WalMart shutting down DRM server, and what social networking was meant for.

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• Adobe uses graphics chip for faster Photoshop CS4
• Sling Media - Slingbox PRO-HD
• Wal*Mart shutting down DRM server
• Twitter Blog: Of The People, By The People, For The People
• Google on Android
• T-Mobile G1 impressions - Engadget
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Podcaster app shut down by Apple, MailWrangler denied, Trism pulls in $250k, Apple changes iTunes review policy, new process to buy an iPhone, and NDA extended to rejection letters.

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• Renegade iPhone ‘Podcaster’ Developer Neutered By Apple
• MailWrangler and the Apple App Store
• App Store quietly changes review policy
• I [Trism developer] Just Made $250K From App Store In Two Months
• Apple - iPhone - Buy iPhone 3G
• Rumor: Is Apple’s ‘Brick’ A Mac Mini Redesign?
• Apple Extends Non-Disclosure to App Store Rejection Letters
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