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I just recieved an email from Open Tech’s Vice President of online sales and PR that states the following sentence as the sole line in the email:

“Open Tech is For sale. This includes all trade secrets and brand equity. Thank you for tour time.”

For those who have not followed the Open Tech story, they are/were a company that created a line of computers able to install and run Mac OS X.

Apple filed lawsuit after lawsuit trying to drive the small company under. It seems the house that Steve built finally dealt the crushing blow.

Apple’s much anticipated iPhone 2 was released in the US today. As previously reported, the phone is on a 3G network and is half the price of the original iPhone. The iPhone 2 firmware is also available to download from Apple to install on the original iPhone for via the Apps Store. The firmware will.

In related news, Apple’s new MobileMe service went live on July 10th. MobileMe, which replaces .Mac offers email, calendar, and other services.

Well, it’s happened. Apple officially has Intel chipsets working on comsumer level computers.

The first two Apple computers to use Intel Core Duo, a dual core chip, are the MacBook Pro and the iMac. The iMac starts at $1299 and the MacBook starts at $1999. Apple claims these new dual core processors are 2-4 times faster than the PowerPC chips that formerly powered Apple products.

Apple has also unveiled a program called “Rosetta.” Like the fabled Rosetta Stone for which it’s named, it translates PowerPC developed programs so that they will run on the new Intel based machines. Though, there are some programs that do not translate for one reason or another. Apple says that their PowerPC based Pro line of multimedia accessories will not work under Rosetta. Current owners of that set of programs will have to rebuy the components from Apple for a “minimal cost.”

Should you upgrade? If your iMac or MacBook isn’t very old, you should not worry about it unless you must have the newest technology.

This is an awesome tip. I should have known about this some months ago when I sold my iBook. Theconsultant.net explains how to reset your Mac so it starts with the Out-Of-The-Box experience again, that is Intro-Movie, Account setup, Network-Setup, etc. I think that’s a great thing to do when you sell a Mac.

hardmac.com has a video which shows a Quad G5 versus a dual 2.5 G5 in applying a blue filter on a video in Final Cut. The Quad G5 beats the Dual G5 hands down.

The entry can be found here, direct link to the video is here.

Etchamac offers custom laser etching for your Powerbook or iPod, so if the following pictures makes you all lusty:

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A nostalgic look back on the birth of the PowerBook. Pretty interesting.

Birth of the PowerBook: How Apple Took Over the Portable Market in 1991

Lowendmac reports that the soon-to-be-released (rumored) new Intel iBooks are going to sport a 2.16Ghz Intel Yonah processor (which is the successor to the current Pentium M line).

If you’ve played with Mac OS X 86 so far, then this should give you a warm and fuzzy feeling. I tried Mac OS X on my Pentium 4 2.0Ghz here at work, and it ran quite fast (way faster than my 1.33Ghz PB 12″ which stands next to it), although my video adaptor ran without any hardware-acceleration (vesa).
So I imagine a fully accelerated and even more optimized Mac OS X on a 2.16Ghz Pentium to outperform my simple setup by far. Can’t wait.

Wired news reports about a new camera developed by a student at Stanford University which makes it possible to adjust the camera focus afterwards on the computer

A prototype camera made by a Stanford University graduate student could herald the end of fuzzy, poorly lit photos.

A computer science Ph.D. student at Stanford University has outfitted a 16-megapixel camera with a bevy of micro lenses that allows users to take photos and later refocus them on a computer using software he wrote.

Here is a cool PDF which allows you to build your own papercrafted Mac. Papercrafted models make for a great decoration of your desktop or flat or even car; they’re cheap, funny to look at, and can quickly be trashed without actually having a guilty conscience ;)