Pure introduce GREEN Siesta

Pure have introduced the new Siesta, an affordable and stylish DAB and FM clock radio that looks good, sounds great and has significantly reduced environmental impact too.

Despite costing just £49.99 (SRP) Siesta is stylish and fully-featured. It boasts a large auto-dimming display and an easy-to-find snooze button. There are three independent alarm settings; owners can wake to tone, DAB or FM, and set different alarm times for weekdays and weekends. Users can browse extra broadcast text from participating stations thanks to Intellitext and pause and control scrolling text with TextSCAN.

Siesta is available in black, charcoal or silver, and has been designed to minimise environmental impact, with a standby power consumption of less than 1W, packaging made from a minimum of 70% recycled material, finished with water based varnish, and documentation printed with soya-based ink on 100% recycled paper.

For more information, please go to www.pure.com or call +44 (0)1923 277488

Upcoming Review of Waterfield's Racer-X Bag

If you need to protect your Apple laptop, then check back on the Geekanoids website real soon. We will be bringing you a full review of the Racer-X from Waterfield bags. The Racer-X comes in a variety of sizes, suitable for the 12-inch Powerbook, right through to the 17-inch MacBook Pro. Our review will include editorial, plus our new hands-on video footage.

Geekanoids MacBook Pro Project - part 2

An important update for you all… well, actually more for myself really. As you may be aware, we are running a project where some companies from the UK and abroad have sponsored some space to have their logos laser etched onto our MacBook Pro.

Well, late yesterday our MBPro landed in the UK and made its way out of the box early this morning. The fit and finish on the laptop are perfect, the screen (matte) is great and the LED back-lighting is pretty special. I thought that my previous Apple laptops were bright, but this thing is crazy. I have found that just four or five notches on the brightness control are more than enough.

The CPU temperature seems to remain around the 50-55 degree mark, and the fans around 2000rpm. So things are pretty darn quiet. Overall, I am very impressed.

The project is nearing completion, we are just tying up a few minor details. Check back soon and we will have full details, a gallery and some video footage of the new beast in all its "Etched" glory.

Apple purchases CUPS

Big news, the common unix printing system, known in short as CUPS has been purchased by Apple. You can check out the post on the CUPS website here.

New iMacs and Keyboards on the horizon

AppleInsider reports that new iMacs could be on the horizon, with new enclosures and even more exciting is the possible inclusion of a new low profile keyboard. If I read the article correctly the new keyboard will be based on the MacBook offering. It also hints that they may also feature an integrated trackpad. This may sound a weird thing to accompany a desktop computer, but if you think about how quick it is to scroll around on your laptop, this may be a wise move. Imagine being able to quickly scroll without having to move your hands over to your mouse!?!

ImageWell updated - awesome app !

ImageWell is a fantastic application from Xtralean Software. If you have ever wanted to scale an image, add a watermark, a border, or perhaps a speech bubble or thought cloud, this app makes things extra easy. Loading up Photoshop just to scale an image down for web use is something you will never have to do again. ImageWell has a brilliant user interface and offers tools for quick everyday tasks, plus a whole lot more. Once you have made the settings for your image you can save the image as a file or send to your iDisk, FTP, SFTP or WebDAV server.

The update today adds support for Flickr, SmugMug, ImageShack, a new built-in font control panel that makes text editing faster and easier, and the ability to create ImageWell font collections so you can easily customize your font list.

ImageWell is free, or you can add even more features for $14.95 by buying the Xtras version.

Ecamm Call Recorder Updated

Ecamm Network have just released v2.1 of their Call Recorder, their handy little app that allows you to record both sides of a Skype conversation to your Mac.

This new version offers the following (taken from their site); Adds an option to automatically discard short recordings. Adds an option to keep the Call Recorder window in the foreground during Skype calls. Call Recorder will now properly respect Skype's mute button. Fixes a recording problem which could cause distorted sound when using certain input and output devices on a Power PC Mac. Fixes a warning message that could be displayed while recording voicemail messages with Skype v2.6 or later. Fixes a problem which caused the Call Recorder windows position to be forgotten after quitting Skype. Fixes an issue with default encoding settings on newer Macs. Fixes an issue which could cause Skype to hang after a conference call.

A demo is available, with the full product costing $14.95

New Motorola Zante is Sleek and Shiny, Lives on the EDGE (PICS)

An iPhone-killer already or just another Sidekick? Here's the Zante, up close and lustrously yours. Plenty of fresh technical information about this Motorola-flavored Sidekick plus two new pretty pics, one showing its funky purple sliding keyboard. After seeing it, I want to lick it almost as much as Apple's JesusPhone.via Gizmodo

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Firefox 3 Alpha 6 now available

Mozilla has released the sixth alpha of Gran Paradiso, Firefox 3 development name. This release comes with a very short delay to the original schedule which is an important achievement considering Alpha 5 was delayed for about a week.

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