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The article is long. The verdict is not clean. A few notes:

The (sub) notebook issue. My X40 is considered a sub-notebook by pretty much everyone. I always thought it was at the upper end, almost not in the category, as it still had a full-sized keyboard and real processor unlike those other things that tend [...]

Anyone who has talked to me knows that I am not a fan of the MacBook Air. But these reviews from the WSJ, Newsweek, and USA Today are rather terrible. Not that any major news outlet has been able to cover technology (or science, or math, or politics, or..), but if this roundup of reviews [...]

First, it is discovered that Apple is crippling its software to prevent discovery of how its programs work, the precise purpose of the tool in the first place. This is likely to prevent discovery of ways to circumvent DRM, whether it be audio or video related.
Then, even Microsoft has relented on the use of Vista [...]

Cerulean Studios has announced that it has already begun developing a newly-designed Mac version of its popular instant messaging software on the windows, Trillian.
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Filed under: ipod hacks, misc hacks

Apparently the iPhone jack isn’t quite standard - it’s a bit recessed to the point that third parties are offering adapters for it. [John] offers this simple method for modding Etymotic’s fine ER6i headphones. (If only I could find mine. I haven’t seen them for 8 months.) I suggest using [...]

Will Fisher writes “New iPods will no longer be able to work with Linux. iTunes now writes some kind of hash (SHA1, md5?) to the iPod database which new iPods check against. If this check fails then the iPod reports that it contains 0 songs. This appears to be protection against 3rd party applications writing [...]