High Tech Duck

How embarrassing would this be to explain? Steven Levy, tech writer for Newsweek, had his MacBook Air accidently thrown away with some newspapers. Newsweek is going to pony up the $1800 to replace it, but still… wonder what the conversation to explain that must have been like?

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The Apple Store was down for a while.
The reason: They’ve announced Leopard is available for pre-order, and will be released on Oct 26th.

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What you’re seeing in the video are PC applications running in the VMWare virtual machine in their own native windows along side the Mac windows. Very impressive. Via tuaw.com

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Apple announced that Safari for Windows Public Beta already has one million downloads in the first 48 hours.
This comes on the heals of the news that there were some security problems with the first release.   A new release is out now, and if you don’t have it, you should upgrade as soon as possible.
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According to Wired.com, we’re in for a new generation of UI enhancements thanks to Core Animation in the upcoming release of Leopard for the Mac.
The article describes how we’ll have things like animated smoke coming off the top of the window, smoke that you’ll be able to move around by blowing into a microphone.
Now, I’m [...]

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Web Worker Daily has a hands on review of Parallels 3.0.

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Hardocp has some articles you’ll be interested in if you’re trying to decide whether to jump to Mac OS X, Windows Vista or Ubuntu Linux.
30 Days with Mac OS X
30 Days with Windows Vista
30 Days with Linux
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The Apple Store was down briefly, but now it’s back up.
They have new faster MacBook Pros, and the 15-inch models have a new mecury-free, power-efficient LED backlit display. Both models now come with a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics controller.

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