How can I deauthorize my dead PowerBook from iTunes?

If you have a dead computer authorized on iTunes, you’ll want to free it up for a different computer.[...] Thanks to bizzydiggin for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 24Diggs).

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nape: dugg for the bonus tip.

First Look: Keynote ‘08

Path animation, instant transparency highlight Apple’s updated presentation app[...] Thanks to bizzydiggin for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 18Diggs).

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iPhone “thumb surgery” story was a hoax

Strangely, while many readers have grasped that “Surgically alters thumbs” represents satirical social commentary, many on the internet, alas, have not.[...] Thanks to Andy.D for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 534Diggs).

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dezent: this is the internet.. or teh tubez if you like..

iPhone thumb surgery IS NOT the strangest thing here that could be true.
Stupid hoax, we’ve seen worse.

mrurc: It does suck to think that people would do that but people suck. That people are stupid is pretty believable.

It wasn’t funny; it did not seem satirical and the explanations of why we should have known are outright lies. The explanation includes that the article says that plastic surgery is only for vanity, but article never states that plastic surgery is only for vanity, just that it is for vanity, which is true. I could write a ten page paper on why the explanation is bogus easier than I could write a 1 page paper on why the original article is.

I know people who have jokingly threatened to have this done for the exact reasons stated and I know people who honestly would do this, so that it would happen is completely believable. My friends, however have some sense so they bought Sidekicks instead.

phatduckk: thank god. it would suck to think someone would actually do something that crazy over a phone. sure, maybe, its a rad phone – but still, its a phone

WeeklyGeek: who in the world actually believed that?

missingperson: The site of a man stroking his phone is just gross.

wilhoitm: Size doesn’t matter!

uaioe: A story is written in a real journalistic style, at a real news source, about something that, while it might seem ridiculous, isn’t any more ridiculous than, say… “Bush voted in for second term”

I agree this was a terrible attempt at satire. The fact that the retraction is printed in this snarky, sarcastic style doesn’t help either. Communication is the responsibility of both the sender and receiver of a message: If your message is widely misinterpreted by a large number of people… you need to take some responsibility for not communicating your message clearly enough.

shadowspawn: Hey, I fell for that Metallica hoax with chords E and F. Fell hard, because it *does* seem like something they would do.

toetagger: ya think?

mattjumbo: I believed it completely. My friends and I sat around at dinner Friday night trying to imagine why someone would do that to themselves. In an era where people have fat injected into their lips and botulism injected into their faces, *intentionally*, you are going to have to work harder that that to do unrealistic comedy. Satire isn’t satire if, within a societal context, the idea being discussed isn’t all that insane.

fiorenza: I know some Mac fans who would consider plastic surgery to interact better with Apple products.

chrismag1979: Made-up by nothing else but an Apple Fanboy…..

landohlakes: Thumb surgeons everywhere are disappointed that the truth it now out.

1337freek: well i was suckered in to believing it, i mean cmon, who wouldnt whittle down their thumbs if they werent able to use the god-phone properly!

amnesiac096: I’m really liking the North Denver News website…they used Joomla, then just changed the banner, really makes for a credible looking site, sure they may be credible, but they don’t look the part whatsoever.

Adium 1.1 released!

The last release of Adium was about a month ago, so you might think that Adium 1.1 has been in development just that long. You might also think that ice cream is better without caramel. You’d be wrong on both counts. Adium 1.1 development started over a year ago, and the ducky fruits of that labor are now yours to enjoy. Adium 1.1 is now available.[...] Thanks to frase for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 1626Diggs).

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zenlips: good deal and all
But wake me up when webcam is supported.

pctomac: no good as long as it doesnt support Audio / Video !!!

seenxu: adium for old machine just consumes too much ram, about 50mb in average, after switching to bitlbee it is as few as 2mb RAM, great!

phatduckk: the reason i found out about the upgrade was cuz adium kept dying on me this morning and i decided to reinstall it. so if any of you have an issue w/ adium today just go to their page and dl the latest… that fixed my crash issues from this morning

uppedbyhiggins: The new version is acting a little wacky on my Mac Pro 10.4…but I still love it.

koriealn2: For voice and video, http://www.mebeam.com can be used with adium.

Gabaduce: Wow, it crashes for me upon startup… Older version did not. wtf

*update* 30 seconds later, deleted the old preferences file and it works fine.

maduzah: Why do we always have to have a cute&fluffy animal mascot with our MSN+IRC+Jabber+ETC. clients?

lsalih: Give http://wwwl.meebo.com/ a try, all web based chat client.

(MSN, YAHOO, GOOGLE TALK, AIM) all included.

maczag: Buzz on Yahoo! and nudge on MSN are now fully supported.
NOooOOOOooOOOoooOOOOooOOOOO !

nanboya: I only wish that they’d implement better privacy settings to blackhole unsolicited messages from people you don’t know…

smartssa: Quit yo jibba jabba! – best changelog entry ever.

Playgear: Nudges already work in Adium

Type: /nudge

roberto_deneero: OMFG, they’ve been working for a YEAR on freakin TABS??? Where’s freaking VIDEO CHAT dumbasses??? Great, now the Microsoft mentality has worked its way into Adium. Oy vey.

MrDarcy: why can’t they appeal to the Supreme Court of U.S??

20” iMac – Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz Only $1,494!!!!

Man I just paid over $2,000 a two months ago.[...] Thanks to bizzydiggin for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 17Diggs).

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bizzydiggin: No, I have nothing to do with that. I purchased my iMac from Best Buy for $2,100. I think its so cheap because of the new iMac that is out.

hackerbiatch: $2000? Two Months ago. You my friend are an easy screw. Th

What Google can learn from Apple

Imagine you spotted a market that was just ripe for your company’s service. It looks like a goldmine – your chief executive has just declared it the single biggest new opportunity out there. There is just one drawback. The only way you can think of to break into this new market is to try to change the rules of the game for everyone else who already[...] Thanks to Avala for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 18Diggs).

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Apple’s 2.4GHz 24-inch aluminum iMac gets benchmarked

Although we certainly noticed that Apple’s latest iMac felt snappy enough, the folks over at Primate Labs have cranked out a few numbers for the data freaks in the crowd to chew on. Granted, these benchmarks do not include the Core 2 Extreme iMac nor are they the most complete set of tests we’ve ever seen.[...] Thanks to virtuexru for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 25Diggs).

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Peer Review: Fake Steve Jobs Really is Fake

But over the past 14 months, the site had attracted a cult following, with 30,000 readers a day, many of them Silicon Valley insiders. Valleywag, the Silicon Valley blog, had been trying to discover Fake Steve Jobs’ (often referred to as FSJ) real identity for months, and had guessed wrong several times already before Brad Stone………………..[...] Thanks to gmark13 for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 20Diggs).

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streak: Like a lot of people I expect, now that FSJ has been “outted”, I don’t bother reading his blog anymore. It’s since become a Forbes product and a way for that organization and Brad Stone to profit by demeaning Apple’s founder and savior.

Corporations Eye iMacs – It Looks Like I.T. Depts. Might Be Coming Around

Analysts say Apple’s newest desktops are drawing interest from enterprises as well as consumers. While Apple hopes its revamped iMac desktop line will continue to grow the company’s consumer computer business, it may be indirectly making inroads into the enterprise space.[...] Thanks to zaibatsu for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 876Diggs).

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caponumen: In a word, BULLSHIT!

Verugan: I run an IT dept that supports approx. 500 computers in a mixed Mac/PC environment. Mac’s are about 20% of our environment and as long as they aren’t broken they’re fine. They seem to have the strangest problems that take much longer to fix. I can’t count the number of hours I’ve spent on font activation problems, when compared to fonts on Windows, it’s a joke. Also, warranty repair is a huge pain. Our Dell’s get next day on site support where the Macs take 4-6 weeks to ship in for repair (even going through Mac store).

protogenxl: Okay guys you have convinced me. I will start converting my company to macs just as soon as I can get a legal copy OS X server installed on my blade center. Oh wait that will never happen, My blade center is made by IBM and not Apple.

udahlen: IT departments today are much too often run by stupid people. I was an IT Manager back in the 90’s and I saw the “I can click on an icon in Windows so I must be very smart” crowd take over IT. I had no problem integrating Windows with multiple Unix variants, but the stupid people insisted on “Windows only” solutions, for no other reason than that they didn’t understand anything else.

philipwen: The #1 reason why Apple won’t be successful in the enterprise space yet:
Quote from the article:
“It’s not something Apple has said it is pursuing,” Shim said.
Steve hasn’t made an effort in crafting a strategy in this arena yet. The current strategy is pretty half-azzed IMO, it’ll only work for the die hard fans and the serious MS haters who aren’t comfortable with Linux for whatever reason.

Yes, minds may be opening on the possibility of an alternative enterprise desktop other than Windows, but glorifying iMacs as a strong candidate is plain sensational journalism.

Philip – http://philipwen.wordpress.com

Focher: The main reason why using iMacs for hardware makes sense is standardization. Fact is, it is often impossible to get any of the major PC vendors to sell you a global model of a machine with exactly the same configuration. And when they do offer such a model, the manufacturing life cycle tends to be short.

It seems that iMacs with Windows installed instead of OS X (based on the reality of most enterprises, definitely not because it’s a better OS) is a great option for multinational companies with a desire for standardization.

Plus, there are a lot of companies that do care about image. I work for a very large brand focused company and the organization would like everything to be “cool”. The physical design of an iMac sure offers that feature better than any other computer model.

varun21: I’m into IT of a software corp. C++ programming, regression tests, running simulations and emulating are the core jobs. a varied hardware environment is typical of us as we build software for many platforms. But not many corps are using Macs and thus software demand for Macs is little or none.

But this is forseeing and migrating into the future. Moving away from workstations, everything will be online, data, collaboration, surfing. May be even processing. so we are actually looking into a future that (maybe) will have synray-thinclients like consoles and a few central servers to integrate the environment in the not too distant future. OS and hardware will be minimal. You’d need a barebones machines able to boot into a powerful standard compliant browser to run it all.
But Mac is a treat though.

Schelske: Lots of great opinions. Can’t say what works for everyone, only what works for us. Our company switched to all macs three years ago. Our repair costs went down. Our down-time went down. Our replacement cost per year went down because we were replacing less stuff. In the end, we cut our IT department in half. I think we saved enough money from that annually to more than cover the more expensive hardware costs.

jabberwolf: These articles are annoying at best.
The people writing the articles had no net admin experience and at best only know how to share directory and printers.
They know nothing about management of computers, rollouts, or distributing MSI packages across an enterprise.
There is no comprehension of the apps that DO NOT run on MACS, the backend that will probably still be running MS active directory and not Apple’s open directory.

There is no ROI that makes sense about buying more expensive machines, buying OSX, buying parallels, and then runing XP anyway on top of it.

WTF are the mactards snorting?!?!

bugalou: I get the feeling half the comments are coming from people that have zero experience in a true enterprise environment. I am not talking ma and pa operations, but a huge company with thousands of computers. Just about every major 3rd party enterprise level software binds with AD in one way or another. The fact that Apple refuses to robustly code in AD integration will keep them from going anywhere in enterprise environments. Also the fact that they are rather a pain to work on vs a PC and the lack of true enterprise support is a deal breaker for me. The techs on my staff can call Dell, have a new mobo and hard drive overnighted and slap it in the next day without any tools (Dell business line PCs are all modularized). You simply cannot do that with a Mac. Labor is your cost killer in any business environment, and you are at least tripling your IT labor in that task alone.

And from personal experience, we have a handful of Macs in our marketing offices and while the users love them, they are really really cumbersome to work on from an IT admin/operations perspective. Remote administration is clunky to non-existent. Integrating them into a Windows based infrastructure is a royal pain in the ass. Not to mention there is zero mac support and options for large business targeted software packages, with the exception of Adobe.

Evildudetx: Apple had their chance years ago and messed it up bigtime. Microsoft and IBM were basically handed the corporate market. Apple would have to get all their ducks in a row with true enterprise management tools, lower costs, and convince thousands of software vendors to start porting applications before any corporation would seriously look at this as an option.

RoyHobbs: Last time I checked “analysts” don’t know shit!

bonedog73: I didnt know Apple made computers for enterprise organizations or software for that matter.. I think they are just for regular consumers.

futuretheory: Whatever. I love Apple, I love my macs, but I gotta say that without an honest to goodness mid-range mac with modest expansion options (read half sized pro machine), enterprise customers will never engage Apple in larger numbers. The iMac is really cool, but as far as expenditures go, you can keep an LCD monitor on active duty twice as long as a CPU. Not to mention it’s awfully nice to drop in an expansion card for various reasons without having to buy an expensive (and huge) pro tower. My tower is AWESOME, but I can’t afford, nor do I need, to put that in front of all my employees and the iMac doesn’t cut it. Then there’s the fact that my business would be stuck with one hardware option too. Waiting for the day that I can buy OS X Intel and install it anywhere.

netsql: The iMac monitor is the worst.

(Full Photo Gallery) Sweeet… ColorWare iPhone In Hand!!

The paint job is pristine! You can see I opted for the tag team of Envy (green) and Graphite (dark gray) in the “automotive” metallic paint, with flecks of awesomeness in it…[...] Thanks to CLIFFosakaJAPAN for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 1482Diggs).

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GinoFrady: Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

techmaster7b: Never seen a pile of shit painted before.

ch0pst1cks: I don’t know what’s worse. The color scheme or the fact that there are Apple fanboys jacking off to some car paint on an iPhone.

wiii: The jesus phone just became the kermit phone.

jabberwolf: OMFG its pea green barf color !
And Apple fans were complaining about Zune’s brown?!?!

orlyfactor: wow, it’s so pretty – i wonder if it functions better as a phone, or just makes you look like more of a tool with a “cool” phone…

bdemen: I, I’m sorry…your apple must have ran into a REAL apple.

Vaughanabe13: Does this “X2″ coating process actually keep the iphone/ipod/etc. from getting scratches or is that BS?

charlie55: i am suprised this did not make the covor of the new york times. some kid had his fucking phone painted.

jim1977: You can learn to paint and color polish and buy the materials for about a third of this cost at the most – and you’ll be able to paint a lot more stuff with the amount you have.

Seriously, $150 for a $20+shipping job is outrageous

21.0: I’d love to see the process behind this… Are they masters of masking or masters of disassembly?

infernalbritish: iPhone + Expensive Green = Front Page of Digg

Sometimes I weep for what we have become, and the dignity we as a species have left behind.

Typhoon2009: I’m almost more impressed by the animated favicon (not to say the iPhone doesn’t look nice, I have just never seen an animated favicon).

HypocriteDigg: Hey, what do you know, 90% of the comments are from haters. What a bunch of morons wasting their time posting about stuff they hate.

BTW the paint job looks great.

Corbet: I dugg this because I knew it was going to make the top stories page.