Tom’s Hardware Guide and its parent company TG Publishing have been sold to an undisclosed buyer for an undisclosed price. The deal will close later this month, said Omid Rahmat, CEO of Tom’s Publishing, in a letter to the Inquirer. The rumored price, however, is $15-$20 million.
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Apple have released a blazingly fast 8-core Mac Pro. This new machine is going to fly, and when the new Adobe CS3 ships things will be blindingly fast. Adding two Quad Core processors to the configuration in the Apple Store, takes the price up to £2,659 so by no means cheap, but think of all that power. Maxing out everything to 16GB of RAM, an NVidia Quadro FX4500, 4 x 750GB SATA hard drives, two Superdrives, Bluetooth and Airport, brings the price up to £7,864… now where am I going to get that from Mr Bank Manager?
Calvin Klein's new fragrance for men and women, takes on a different angle for the online world. Not only does it give you the opportunity to smell good, the new ckIN2U gives you the chance to join their social network and share what you are into. You can also view the top ten films submitted by students all over the world. So smell good, and connect with people by checking out the ckIN2U website and fragrances… for the online community.
iScroll2 is a modified trackpad driver that adds two-finger scrolling capabilities to supported pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks on OS X 10.3 and up. Supported models include most aluminum PowerBooks introduced from 2003 to 2004 as well as most G4 iBooks.
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Some people simply can't understand why anyone would want to use an old computer. One person asked me: "Why use a Lisa (or any machine more than three years old) for writing or anything else? I can't believe how naive some people are. I mean, really, just because something is old doesn't mean it's useless.
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Beagle desktop search, while useful, tends to consume way to much system resources, which leaves out Linux users that care about high performance or have older machines. Tracker is a high performance search engine written in C, uses only 3-9 megs of ram and is very Laptop-friendly. Features nautilus and deskbar support for seamless integration.
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Apple have done all us UK buyers a favour today, by reducing the prices of the 5th Generation iPods. The 30GB model is now £10 cheaper at £179 and the 80GB is £20 cheaper at £239. This is a welcome reduction, thanks Steve.
iSkin has launched SOHO, their new laptop protective sleeves for 15-inch MacBook Pros, and the MacBook. They are made of synthetic leather, have a slim two two design, with contrasting stitching, and have a reinforced outer shell. There are also inner elastic straps to help keep your laptop in place, and allows use of the laptop whilst still inside the SOHO.
The MacBook model costs $59.99 and $64.99 will buy you the MacBook Pro version.
Apple today announced that EMI Music's entire digital catalogue of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes Store worldwide in May. DRM-free tracks from EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding, resulting in audio quality indistinguishable from the original recording, for just 99 pence per song. In addition, iTunes customers will be able to easily upgrade their entire library of all previously purchased EMI content to the higher quality DRM-free versions for just 20 pence a song. iTunes will continue to offer its entire catalogue, currently over five million songs, in the same versions as today —128 kbps AAC encoding with DRM — at the same price of 79 pence per song, alongside DRM-free higher quality versions when available.
"We are going to give iTunes customers a choice – the current versions of our songs for the same 79 pence price, or new DRM-free versions of the same songs with even higher audio quality and the security of interoperability for just 20 pence more," said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. "We think our customers are going to love this, and we expect to offer more than half of the songs on iTunes in DRM-free versions by the end of this year."
"EMI and iTunes are once again teaming up to move the digital music industry forward by giving music fans higher quality audio that is virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings, with no usage restrictions on the music they love from their favourite artists," said Eric Nicoli, CEO of EMI Group.
With DRM-free music from the EMI catalogue, iTunes customers will have the ability to download tracks from their favourite EMI artists without any usage restrictions that limit the types of devices or number of computers that purchased songs can be played on. DRM-free songs purchased from the iTunes Store will be encoded in AAC at 256 kbps, twice the current bit rate of 128 kbps, and will play on all iPods, Mac or Windows computers, Apple TVs and soon iPhones, as well as many other digital music players.
iTunes will also offer customers a simple, one-click option to easily upgrade their entire library of all previously purchased EMI content to the higher quality DRM-free format for 20 pence a song. All EMI music videos will also be available in DRM-free format with no change in price.
"You either love Javascript or you hate it. Either way it can provide great functionality that users love. And it doesn't have to affect usability. Here are my top 15 Javascript snippits for making great sites that bit extra special."
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Do you run Ubuntu? and want to get some cool “Powered by Ubuntu” stickers?
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Plextor unveiled a new mini digital HDTV receiver on Wednesday that the company says will transform a user's laptop into a wireless personal video recorder.
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