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The Ultimate iPod Accessory Like everybody else, I’ve been hearing all of the talk for the last few days about the “iCheap”—a rumored sub-$500 Mac (ThinkSecret) that will supposedly be announced at MacWorld Expo next month. "With iPod-savvy Windows users clearly in its sights, Apple is expected to announce a bare bones, G4-based iMac without a display at Macworld Expo on January 11 that will retail for $499." This obviously seems like a good idea (and long overdue), but I didn’t really think about the positioning of this until last night. I was having a conversation with my oldest, who was getting ready to go, notebook in hand, to help one of his friends who had a new Xmas-gift 20gb iPod. It turns...


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Whatever happened to Windows, anyway? Wow. I just looked at Amazon's top selling notebooks, and you have to get to number 6 before you find a Windows machine among them -- and it's the only one in the top 10. Asus EEE 4G (Linux) Macbook 2.4GHz White (OS X) Asus EEE 4G Surf (Linux) Macbook 2.0GHz White (OS X) Macbook Pro 2.2GHz 15" (OS X) HP Pavilion (Windows Vista) Macbook Pro 2.4GHz 15" (OS X) Macbook 2.4GHz Black (OS X) Nokia 810 (Linux) Asus EEE 8G (Linux) You have to get to number 14 before you even find a second Windows machine. Wow. I'm just sayin' ...


In Egypt, Cellphone Jailbreaks YOUOf course, it wasn't so much the cellphone that did the trick as it was Twitter: When Egyptian police scooped up UC Berkeley graduate journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a noisy demonstration, and dumped him in a jail cell last week, they didn't count on Twitter. Buck, 29, a former Oakland Tribune multimedia intern, used the ubiquitous short messaging service to tap out a single word on his cellular phone: ARRESTED. The message went out to the cell phones and computers of a wide circle of friends in the United States and to the mostly leftist, anti-government bloggers in Egypt who are the subject of his graduate journalism project. The next day, he walked out a free...