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Some online sports betting services are now taking bets on release date for rumoured future Apple products:

Business and Financial Betting, Macworld Odds at Bodog Sportsbook

The newest Digital TV tuner for mac form Elgato looks very nice.

I like the twin tuner, twin antenna flexibility that allows you to record 1 channel while watching another or to watch one channel using both tuner to increase the digital quality. That suits me perfectly as in my area the DTT signal is quite unstable (sometimes good, sometimes bad, depends on the channel, the weather,…). It is also very small, so you can travel with it packed with your laptop.

Elgato Systems
EyeTV Diversity is powered by award-winning EyeTV 2 digital TV recording software:

* Watch digital terrestrial television (DTT, or DVB-T) on a Mac deep indoors, in areas with weak reception, and at speeds up to 160 km/h.
* Watch and record live TV simultaneously or watch two channels
* Picture-in-Picture.
* Rewind, fast-forward, and pause live TV.
* Browse EyeTV menus in Full Screen mode.
* Record hours of favorite TV shows directly on a Mac’s hard drive and edit out unwanted content.
* Find TV shows using the built-in Program Guide. Includes a free one-year subscription to tvtv valued at 20 euros and a free 30 day subscription to IceTV in Australia.
* Store your collection on an external drive, or burn it to disc.
* Export TV clips and entire episodes to an iPod.

and Joy Of Tech has it in comic strips:

You may be aware that Apple (along with other companies like Gap, Motorola) is launching a red colored product (in that case an Ipod nano) to support AIDS charities:

iPod Nano (PRODUCT) Red - Review: ”

Friday October 13th 2006 - Apple Computer announced a special edition iPod Nano, the iPod Nano (PRODUCT) Red. Their slogan? Put a different kind of change in your pocket. Their aim? To donate $10 of every Nano (PRODUCT) Red purchase to the (RED) campaign founded by U2 lead singer…

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Now here are products that may not be a good idea to include in the campaign:

http://www.geekculture.org/joyoftech/joyarchives/878.html

When I read last week that Virgin Atlantic was banning the use of all Apple and Dell laptops due the battery recall I was angry at them as itis be unfair to the customers with non-dangerous batteries (including those who like me have proceeded to the exchange).

I’m glad they modified their policies but they should have thought of that before communicating. To their defense, I would say the timing of these battery recall badly coincided with the terror alert period in UK airports. They must have been on “paranoid” mode.

That reminds the unfortunate accident where an IBM laptop exploded in an airport because of the battery. An airport is the last place bar one where you want your laptop to explode

Maybe Hollywood will make a sequel to “Snakes on a plane” called “Batteries on a plane”

Virgin eases in-flight Apple, Dell laptop battery limits: ”

Only machines unaffected by vendors’ recalls

Exclusive Virgin Atlantic has updated its restrictions for the use of Apple- and Dell-branded notebook computers on its flights. The good news: the ban on battery use is no longer total - the company is now restricting only those batteries whose serial numbers are covered by the vendors’ product recalls.…

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(Via The Register.)

This is a traditional feature in Pro photo applications like Adobe LightRoom and possibly Apple Aperture.

It’s very useful for photographs, I don’t know if it’s equally useful for other types of data.

For programming for example I much prefer adapting the background of the window with the code source to an eye-friendly color that I vary during the day. But you cannot do that with all applications.

For everyday use of text-based applications, especially on Mac OS X, where there’s lots of white window with small black text (e.g right now I’m writing on MarsEdit, with NetNewsWire in the background), dimming the background application could appease the eye from all of this flashy and distracting white things in the background.

I think I may give a go and try this software.

Enhance Your Mac’s Visibility With This Cool Application -It’s FREE-: “It’s AWESOME. YOu must see screenshoot before you decide. It permits one to dim the background of the foremost application thereby enhancing its visibility. You can switch it on or off very quickly from the menu bar, and set the level of dimness.’”

It’s amazing what one can find in a bog amidst the midges

Windows for new Mac users, switching from Windows…: “Windows users switching to Mac get confused with the shortcuts and little details of the new operation system. There are 10 tips in the form of shortcuts and tweaks that are presented in this bog. Better than searching the Internet for each solution separately, as they are gathered it together.”

Wow! that’s a pretty cool screen-saver for Mac OS X.

Direct link to the developer’s web site:
http://www.objective-cocoa.org/fenetresvolantes/en/index_en.html

Faites voler les fenêtres: “Nous donnons la parole à Vincent Zorzi.

A l’origine du projet d’économiseur d’écran Fenêtres Volantes, et en tant que co-réalisateur du projet, je me permets d’attirer votre attention sur le fait que nous venons de rendre disponible au téléchargement une première version beta publique. Je vous laisse le soin de découvrir Fenêtres Volantes à l’adresse http://www.objective-cocoa.org/fenetresvolantes/ . Je tiens au passage à remercier objective-cocoa.org qui est à la fois support et souteneur du projet, mais également hébergeur du site de Fenêtre Volante.

Gira la pantalla de tu MacBook: “

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(Via www.faq-mac.com.)