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Get your Macbook Pro in pink

You can get a number of your electronic devices customized by Colorware and the Macbook Pro is one of the latest.  The result is pretty and it will cost you a pretty penny too.  For the 15.4 inch Macbook Pro with 2.0 GHz, 512MB, 80GB hard drive, you will pay a total of $2,649.00 for the laptop along with the new color (the regular price of the MBP is $1999).  $650 seems a little steep, but if you must be different, you have to pay extra.  You also have the choice of sending in your Macbook Pro and having them customize it.

The color in the pic is Cotton Candy.

Technorati Tags: laptops, Macbook Pro

EDGE enabled iPod on the way?

Earlier this month it was revealed that Apple filed for a U.S. Trademark for "Mobile Me" and now recent rumors are swirling around the Internet about the possibility of an EDGE enabled iPod.  Apparently, Apple is hiring quite a few RF engineers with EDGE experience.

Check out the full article from MobileMag.

Technorati Tags: EDGE, iPod, Mobile Me, rumors

External hard drive for the Mac Mini

Need an external hard drive for your Mac Mini?  Princeton Technology has created the PHD-MM series and the drives come in 160GB and 250GB with USB 2.0 or Firewire.  It looks very similar to the Mac Mini and is compatible with Windows computers as well.  Oh yeah....it's a Japanese product.  Check out the Princeton Technology site.

 

via| AkibaLive

Tags: Apple, Mac Mini, computers, hard drives

iPod sales drive Apple's profits to $320 million

Apple announced today that third quarter profits more than quintupled to $320 million, largely attributed to the sales of its extremely popular iPod.  The company sold over 6 million iPods in the third quarter, six times as many as it sold a year ago.

The company has long said that it expects the iPod's popularity to rub off on its desktops and laptops, which together still account for less than 5 percent of all personal computers sold. The hope is that customers who have been introduced to Apple through the music player will reconsider the company's computers. To encourage that, in January Apple released a stripped-down personal computer, the Mac mini, that sells for as little as $499. source: NYTimes

Tags: iPod, Apple, Mac mini, mp3 players, gadgets

Firefox browser already ported to Mactel Platform

Just in case you've been living under a rock, Apple announced last month that they would switch to Intel chips for use in their Macs sometime next year.  It was announced yesterday that with the help of the Mozilla Foundation, the Firefox browser has been ported over to the new "Mactel" platform.

Read more.

Tags: Mac, Intel, Apple, Firefox, browser, Mactel, Mozilla, technology, Internet, online

Steve Jobs calls family of teenager killed for iPod

Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple, called the family of Christopher Rose, a teenager that was killed this weekend in Brooklyn, NY over an iPod.  The teenager was walking with friends to a bus terminal in order to head to Pennsylvania, where Christopher had been sent to school by his parents so he could thrive in a safer environment.  As many as 12 teenagers attacked the young man and his friends and stabbed Christoper two times in his chest.  The fight originally started after the boys demanded an iPod from the teenager.

Errol Rose, Christopher Rose's father, received a call from Steve Jobs who spoke with the father for several minutes.

"Calling him by his first name, Mr. Jobs asked how Mr. Rose was doing, he said, and conveyed his sympathies. "He told me that he understood my pain," Mr. Rose said. "He told me if there is anything - anything - anything he could do, to not be afraid to call him. It really lightened me a bit."" Source: NYTimes.com

Technorati Tags: iPod, Apple, Steve Jobs, technology, gadgets, Brooklyn, New York, news

Motorola e790 running iTunes?

Engadget has managed to score some pics of a phone running the iTunes software.  Take a look:
Not sure if this Motorola e790 will be the actual iTunes phone or whether it's just a test model running the software.  It supposedly sounds just as good as full-sized iPod!

via| Engadget

Tags: iTunes, iTunes 4.9, Apple, cell phones, iPod, mobile phones, software, entertainment, music, technology, Motorola e790, Motorola

HP adds iPod shuffle to its lineup

Last month, HP added the iPod mini to its HP iPod lineup. This month, they've added both the 512mb ($99.99) and 1gb iPod Shuffle ($129.99). Both iPods are compatible with the Auto-fill feature in Apple's iTunes software.

Tags: HP, iPod, iPod Shuffle, Apple, music, mp3, entertainment, technology

Make your iPod better

Roxio has released The Boom Box:  “five software applets that work seamlessly with iTunes on the Mac to add features and functions we think most iPod owners will appreciate. The bundle includes MusicMagic Mixer, which helps you build better playlists by assessing the mood of a "seed" song and picking songs from your collection that match it. CD SpinDoctor converts your analog music sources into AAC, Apple Lossless, or MP3 digital files. iSpeak It converts text files into spoken audio files.” via| Ziff Davis

Tags: Roxio, iPod, iTunes, Apple, music, software, applets, mp3, aac, technology

iTunes podcast subscriptions reach one million in 2 days

In two days since the release of iTunes 4.9, over one million podcasts have been subscribed to.

“With the release of iTunes 4.9, listeners are voting with their ears,” said Adam Curry, co-founder of the PodShow Podcast Network in the press release. “Subscriptions have dramatically increased across our entire PodShow Podcast Network, and I predict over the coming months that iTunes will introduce tens of millions of new listeners to the world of Podcasting.”

iTunes 4.9 allows users to subscribe and download their favorite podcasts.  Each time a new episode appears for that particular subscription it is downloaded to the computer and synced with their iPod.

Tags: Apple, iTunes, iPod, podcasting, software, iTunes 4.9, technology, entertainment