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I Can’t Believe It Is Almost Christmas: Apple Gift Guide

November 15, 2007 By: Leslie Poston Category: Announcements, Apple TV, Entertainment, Hardware, Mac Mini, MacBook, iMac, iPhone, iPod, iTunes 1 Comment →

Apple released the Apple Gift Guide this week. I can’t believe it is almost Christmas! The link below will get you free shipping on items ordered from the Gift Guide. Enjoy!

Apple Store Gift Guide - Free Shipping on all Gift Guide items.


Apple Online Store

Free Games You Can Download

June 18, 2007 By: Leslie Poston Category: Entertainment, Games 2 Comments →

I’m not sure how many of these are Made For Mac, and how many are PC exclusive. Either way, who can pass up a hundred titles of legal, free, downloadable computer games? If you can’t play them on your Mac without having Windoze installed, send the link to a friend. (I know, I should know how many are for Mac. It’s been a busy Monday. I haven’t had time to go through the entire list yet.)

100 Free Computer Games You Can Download here.

the website claims that each version is the full copy of the game, and that each are in the public domain and free of copyright issues. Happy downloading!

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Slingbox Now For Mac

May 23, 2007 By: Leslie Poston Category: Apple TV, Entertainment, Hardware Comments Off

If you don’t know what Slingbox is, you’ve been missing out. Think television that works with your computer, DVR, internet connection and more and travels with you wherever you go that has a computer connection. It’s a pretty slick set up, especially for the determined office slacker with high speed internet.

Get your Slingbox connection here.

This means that, after buying and installing the Slingbox, Mac users can ’sling’ their home cable and satellite signals to themselves at the airport, or in a café hotspot, or over their office computers.

Slingbox

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Ticketmaster and iTunes Summer of Free Music

May 08, 2007 By: Leslie Poston Category: DRM, Entertainment, News, iPod, iTunes 1 Comment →

iTunes and Ticketmaster Summer of Free Music Downloads

Yes, you read that correctly. Ticketmaster and iTunes are teaming up to give away free music all summer long. Here’s how it works:

Go to Ticketmaster and purchase concert tickets for any summer concert between Memorial Day and Labor Day. You get a free song from iTunes for every ticket you purchase. Also, every person who buys a concert ticket this summer, no matter when they purchase it, will get a 10 song downloadable music sampler showcasing songs form ten artists, for free! That’s a double whammy of free song goodness.

Free music - concert tickets you were going to buy anyway - how can you go wrong? Go! Check it out!

Author: Leslie Poston, © 2007, All Rights Reserved

Apple Gadgets To Go With Your iPod

April 10, 2007 By: Leslie Poston Category: DRM, Entertainment, iPod Comments Off

One of the fun things about Apple are the peripherals companies release to go with their products, especially the iPod line. There are several cool gadgets coming out for the iPod, and a few that have been out that you may not know about yet.

Releasing this week is a keyboard from Razer that has a built in dock for your iPod. It is slated to sell for around $130. The keyboard is to be called the Pro | Type and will be sleek white to match the majority of the Apple line, and will have ten media fast keys for easy navigation and control of your media experience.

Pro Type Keyboard with iPod Dock

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If you haven’t put games on your iPod yet, you should. They are a ton of fun downloadable for under $5 on iTunes, and give you a portable gaming experience for those times when music isn’t enough to keep you occupied. One such game is the nostalgic Ms Pac Man for the iPod, a true representation of the arcade classic.

Ms Pac Man for Your iPod

iHome has developed a line of affordable iPod-ready radios and other devices. I actually have the iHome under counter kitchen clock radio installed, and I love it. It has great sound for its price range and it was super-easy to install. It fits all iPods, Nanos and Shuffles on the market. Sure, there are plenty of high end iPod intergrated radios and speakers by companies like Bose, but those are out of many people’s price range. iHome gives the average user a chance to increase the usability of their iPod.

iHome Under The Counter Radio

Author: Leslie Poston, © 2007, All Rights Reserved

Apple Nostalgia: Even Our Old Laptops Had Graphic Interface

March 13, 2007 By: Leslie Poston Category: Entertainment Comments Off

Check this out - even this massively huge classic laptop from Apple Macintosh had a graphic interface that the PC Laptop (while equally massive in size) did not have. And did I mention laptops used to be massively huge?

Author: Leslie Poston, © 2007, All Rights Reserved