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Today was a relatively busy day at blargKABOOM, but you might not have noticed it. The overall changes were internal and as of now, all of our changes have been made. The changes won’t affect you directly, but overtime more new features will be added due to today’s switch. Periodically through the day, some users [...]

SSD MacBook Air now $500 cheaper

Apple chopped $500 off the price of the MacBook Air with SSD (solid-state drive). The price drop was not even mentioned on Apple’s home page. The $500 drop, bringing the better Air to a new $2,598, is due to a $100 decrease in the price of the 1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo chip and a $400 [...]

Gizmodo gets a look at iPhone 2.0 firmware and iTunes 7.7

Gizmodo posted a short video of the iPhone 2.0 firmware today, showing off some of the new features. Besides the short video, they gave some screenshots of iTunes 7.7 (the version required for iPhone 3G) which show MobileMe support and more evidence of iPhone and iPod touch remotes with an option to look for remotes.

Western Digital’s Caviar Black drive is finally here

So, for all of you PC enthusiasts out there who wanted a drive that performs like the velociraptor, but has more space and is cheaper, you shall wait no more.  Although Western Digital announced this drive about a month ago, this drive was nowhere to be bought.  As soon as benchmarks are made, they will [...]

AT&T announces iPhone 3G plans; buy it at 8:00 am

With iPhone 3G launch date getting closer, AT&T decided to give us even more information to chew on. Not only have they given us the plan information (detailed after the break, but we now know that AT&T’s doors will swing open at 8:00 am on July 11th for iPhone 3G customers. Besides that nice tidbit [...]

AIM application to be free via App Store

After watching the iPhone 3G What’s New video, you can see AIM listed as an application available via the App Store. The app was demoed back in March at Apple’s iPhone SDK event and is now confirmed to be available for FREE in the App Store. The video gives a caption: “Some applications are not [...]

Apple posts iPhone 3G Guided Tour and What’s New videos

Apple posted an iPhone 3G Guided Tour this morning, coinciding with AT&T’s iPhone plan announcements. The familiar face of Bob brings you the same type of Guided Tour as the ones before. Alongside the Guided Tour, they released a “What’s New” video showing off some of the new features in iPhone 2.0 and new hardware [...]

iPhone 3G packaging to be environmentally efficient

iPhone 3G packaging will be considerably more green than the previous iPhone’s packaging due to the inclusion of a paper tray made out of potato or tapioca starch. The new tray produces a carbon footprint a tenth of the size of a plastic tray, like the one in the original iPhone’s box. Apple hired Dutch [...]