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Everybody has a MacBook nowadays, and with most people taking the notebooks on the go, many seek sleeves and protectors to encase them in. Woodworker Rainer Spehl has come up with a, well, more alternative case.

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Although Apple has been selling refurbished products in many countries for years, China is just beginning to see the wonders of Apple refurbs. The refurbished products, discounted and repaired, are one of the many ways to lower the cost of buying and owning a Mac, and are perfect for those in need of a Mac but who are on a budget.

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One feature that the iPhone has been missing since its original release in 2007 is MMS, otherwise known as picture messaging. Supported on many modern mobile phones, Apple seemed to have left MMS out on the iPhone. However, rumor has it that AT&T is working on alternative ways to send photos from iPhone to iPhone, and beyond.

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Once specially formatted for the iPhone, iGoogle has changed to the same format found on Android and a few other phones. The previous version, which had the ability to display web gadgets as well as show and hide various objects on the page, has now disappeared. A more universal version has taken it’s place, with no reason being given.

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Tomorrow is a big day, and there are many ways to watch the Presidential Inauguration. You can watch it on TV, on Hulu, Joost, the Presidential Inaugural Committee’s web site, Ustream, and a variety of other places. However, what if you’re not near a television/computer? Easy; you’ll be able to hear the inauguration tomorrow using Talk Radio, an application designed for the iPhone that runs for $2.

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T-Mobile Austria has decided to drop iPhone prices, hoping the new deal will bring in more customers. While the 8GB iPhone 3G retailed for €99 with a €45 monthly plan, it now costs a measly €1 with the same exact plan. That’s a €98 discount, starting today. And if this price cut isn’t enough, T-Mobile is waiving fees for the first month and offering a €45 discount for those who place their orders online.

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Apple announced today that its keynote and exhibition at Macworld 2009 will be its last. Macworld, a Mac centered conference that has been running since 1985, will no longer have Apple included in it’s broad range of exhibitors. The final keynote will be held on January 6th, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. PST, and it will be presented by Phil Schiller. No Steve…let the rampant speculation begin.

The conference will run from January 5th - 9th. Apple explains it’s decision with a simple fact: trade shows reach a small percentage of customers. With newer methods such as Apple Retail stores and the Apple Store online, conferences and expos are becoming a thing of the past, and Apple realizes its just not worth the resources. Apple’s Retail stores are visited by 3.5 million people each and every week, with the online store being accessed by even more consumers.

Apple has shown a steady progression of retracting from trade shows, and it seems to have left the most prominent of them all.

Via [Apple.com]

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Although many bugs have been fixed and many features have been added to the iPhone’s OS, two key features remain missing, copy and paste. Until Apple adds in their own copy and paste method, the problem has been solved thanks to the wonders of javascript. The “app” responsible for these features isn’t really an app at all, it’s a bookmarklet, which allows it to avoid the App Store. Two bookmarks, or bookmarklets in Safari control the actual copying and pasting, with the text selected able to be sent to both Mail and the clipboard. Once text is highlighted and copied, either a mail document or another web page to paste the text in is found. Once found, the “paste” bookmarklet takes care of the rest, highlighting areas in which the copied text can be pasted. Select the area, and the text is automatically pasted from the clipboard.

Of course, this doesn’t seem like a permanent solution. Hopefully, Apple will be implementing copy and paste sometime soon. In the meantime, this service, provided by pastebud, will have to do the job.

Product [Pastebud] Via [Gizmodo]

• Apple wins summary judgments against Psystar
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• Apple’s Black Friday to be surprisingly bright?

Screenshots seem to be all the rage nowadays; Realmac Software realized this and started building an app designed specifically for screenshots, LittleSnapper. Although the app was in beta for a good amount of time, LittleSnapper seems to have had (most) of its bugs fixed and has been released to the public in a 1.0 non-beta version. LittleSnapper isn’t used just for screenshots of your desktop, it’s used for screenshots of web pages and other windows with important information in them. Plug-ins aren’t required for taking screenshots of web pages; simply hit a keyboard shortcut or the menubar icon, and done, the web page has been fully captured in a screenshot. You can also capture the code of webpages for archive use, use a DOM selector, apply quick edits to images, and organize screenshots in the application itself. Once captured, images can be upload to any FTP server, Flickr, or QuickSnapper, a new service specifically designed to work with LittleSnapper.

Sadly, this utility isn’t going to run you cheap. Single user licenses are up for grabs at $39.99, which include free upgrades until version 2.0.

Product [LittleSnapper] Via [TUAW]

• Apple wins summary judgments against Psystar
• It’s no surprise Apple considered purchasing AdMob
• Apple’s Black Friday to be surprisingly bright?

Remember SRS Labs? They haven’t exactly been front and center lately, but they have released their famous iWOW sound for the iPod. You may be wondering how such a thing works, and the answer is, it’s a hardware adapter. Yes, the iWOW plug-in for iTunes has been brought to hardware.

The device plugs into your iPod’s dock connector and is compatible with iPod classic, iPod nano 3G, and iPod 5G. Along with this hardware adapter, SRS released iWOW Premium, which allows an assortment of different presets, preferences, and EQs to be applied to tracks in iTunes. The iWOW iPod adapter will run you a hefty $80, while the software will run a lighter $50. Of course, if you’re a true SRS fan, and you can’t live without your iWOW, you’ll need to be purchasing both of these. Luckily for you, SRS is offering the two as a bundle for $100. Here’s to better sounding music…hopefully.

Product [iWOW Adapter] Via [iPodNN]

• Apple wins summary judgments against Psystar
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• Apple’s Black Friday to be surprisingly bright?