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iOS 4.2 Released to Developers

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Apple started notifying iOS developers that version 4.2 is in GM status and available for download.

In addition to fixing the iOS 4.1 DST bug, iOS 4.2 will bring the following features to the iPad:
– Multitasking
– Folders
– AirPlay wireless music, movie, and photo streaming
– Printing support over wireless networks
– Game Center for multiplayer and social gaming
– Unified and improved Mail inbox
– Search text within Safari
– Enhanced enterprise support
– Accessibility enhancements
– Keyboard and dictionary enhancements

USB Skull Hub for Halloween

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Skull USB Hub Happy Halloween Geeks!

The Geeks ran across this cool resin USB 2.0 skull hub just in time for Halloween! There are 4 USB 2.0 ports ready for your various USB toys or more practically your external hard drives, mice, keyboards or USB Yoda Protector.

What’s uber-cool about this skull is that the top is hallowed out for brain storage!

Buy now!
Price: $24.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Apple iLife and OS X Updated

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The 8th major version of Mac OS X was officially announced on 10/20/2010 at the Apple Media Special Event. Codenamed “Lion”, Jobs calls this release “OS X meets iPad” with features including multi-touch gestures, Mac App store, auto install apps, one-click download for apps, auto update, licensed for all personal Macs, app home screen called the Launchpad, full screen apps, auto save, auto resume and Mission Control which provides a dashboard of all spaces, apps and widgets running.

Check out the iLife 11 updates below.
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Apple outgrows PC industry 4.5 years straight

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At the Apple Special Media Event this past week, the Apple slogan was “Back to the Mac”.

We found out that the Mac makes up 33% of Apple’s revenue stream which is equal to $22B. If Apple spun the Mac division off, the Mac division would instantly rank as a Fortune 110 company. Last year, Apple sold 13.7M units which is three times as many as in FY 2005 with an install base now just shy of 50M users.

Additionally, year over year growth has standard PC growth around 11% while Apple is growing at 2.5x the market rate at 27% growth and the Mac has outperformed the PC for the past 18 quarters straight (4.5 years). Apple is on a roll as their stock price demonstrates.

Finally, developers have are coming to Apple as there are 600k registered developers releasing titles including Afterlife, AutoCad and Office 11 with Outlook. Game developers have finally started to come back to the Mac platform after nearly disappearing in the 90s.

There are 318 Apple stores in 11 countries (and the Beijing and other China stores are the busiest) with 75M visitors. 2.8M Macs are sold in the stores and about 50% of the Macs sold are to consumers NEW to the Mac.

Thinnest MacBook Air hits market

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New MacBook Air At Apple’s Special Media Event on 10/20/2010, Jobs announced the newest version of the MacBook Air in his typical “one more thing…” fashion during the keynote. While referring to the theme “Back to the Mac”, he showed how features Apple learned and used in iPods and iPads will now be used in Macs… or as Jobs put it: “What if the MacBook and iPad hooked up?”

The features Jobs specifically talked about included instant on, great battery life, amazing standby time, solid state storage (no optical or hard drives), and more mobile (thinner and lighter).
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Giveaway: Win an Otterbox iPad Commuter Case

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We recently reviewed both of the Otterbox iPad protective cases – the Defender and the Commuter. We’re giving away one Commuter case to a random Twitter user. All you need to do is follow us, and retweet. Easier than protecting your iPad!

Visit the contest page here. We’ll draw a winner (US residents only) on Mon 1 Nov 2010 at 6PM Pacific.

PS> You’ll want to stay tuned to our Twitter, Facebook and/or RSS feeds because we’ll be giving away more stuff in the future. Just take a look at some of the stuff that has beenup for grabs in the past!

Here are our general contest & giveaway rules.

PPS> If you can’t wait, you can snag it from Amazon for about $65.

Update: Congrats to our winner – @jillyrh!

Helicopter Simulator for the serious Hobbyist

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Harcore Helicopter Simulator Hardcore Helicopter Simulator hobbyist rejoice for now you have ability to purchase a serious Helicopter simulator from HotSeat Chassis, the makers of several simulator packages from driving to flying. We’ve tested some of their simulators at CES’ past and the chassis are really well made and really bring an additional element of immersion into simulators.

With the correct Cyclic, Collective and Anti-Torque Pedals all in the right place, you can train search and rescue helicopter fliers in the comfort of your gaming room while saving money for fuel.

Look Left-Ahead-Right and see all visual markers. Fly -VFR-IFR GPS direct with the 22″ Wide Screen Cockpit Display. Fly Glass and analog configurations that are correct for each Helicopter and many are included in Flight Sim X Gold fully installed, updated and tested, by HotSeat chassis. Slide-Away-Screen System puts everything in the right place and allows easy entry and exit.

The price you ask? You too can have a hardcore Helicopter Simulator for a mere $18,056… so what can we do to put you into one today?

Verizon Wireless to sell iPad Oct 28th 2010

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Yes, the title is correct, but hold on. This is not an iPad built for the Verizon CDMA network. It’s still the same iPad, but not the 3G model, just the WiFi versions.

Instead Verizon will bundle the iPad with their MiFi mobile hotspot device. So this way, you can get your iPad (and up to 4 other devices) connected to the Verizon data network.

Prices will look like this:

  • $629.99 for iPad Wi-Fi 16GB + MiFi
  • $729.99 for iPad Wi-Fi 32GB + MiFi
  • $829.99 for iPad Wi-Fi 64GB + MiFi.

You can get a monthly access plan of up to 1GB of data for $20 a month.

Seagate’s new FreeAgent GoFlex external hard drives

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Seagate FreeAgent GoFlexLooking for a portable, non-Web way (like Dropbox or BackBlaze) to backup your data? Take a look at the new Seagate line of FreeAgent GoFlex external hard drives.

These guys come in various sizes and speeds: 5400rpm drives: 320GB, 500GB, 750GB, and 1TB. 7200rpm drives: 500GB and 750GB. And the 1TB is only $230.

They connect via the usual suspects: USB 2.0, USB 3.0, Firewire 400/800 and eSATA. You can even use this on a Mac with the drive NTFS-formatted.

Buy now!
Price: starting at $99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

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