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  1. links for 2008-09-04

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    15 Ubiquity Commands to Enhance Your Web Experience Once you install the extension, you call up the console window by hitting Ctrl-Space. What’s especially nice about Ubquity’s interface is that it overlays the currently displayed web page as a translucent modal window, so queries can be performed …

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    45 Beautiful and Creative (WordPress) Designs - Six Revisions (tags: design web blogs CSS themes webdesign) …

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    The Roadhouse 185 As summertime in the US winds down and the presidential election season gears up, we build a little shelter from the world in the 185th Roadhouse. Jay McShann, Elvin Bishop, Lil Ed, JJ Grey, and Carlos Del Junco are the mortar between those bricks in that shelter, helping to hold …

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    iPhone doesn’t get Good Housekeeping’s seal of approval

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    Politicians push for new sales taxes on Apple’s iTunes Store

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    Politicians push for new sales taxes on Apple’s iTunes Store April 16th, 2008 - 9:03 am by Tony Steidler-Dennison Tags: itunes, state governments, taxes (Via MacDailyNews.) “A growing number of state politicians are proposing new laws to levy taxes on digital downloads, including music, video, and books, as a way to remedy budget pains,” Anne Broache reports for CNET.

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    Macs are “close, not equal,” but work well in IT

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    Macs are “close, not equal,” but work well in IT April 22nd, 2008 - 8:01 am by Tony Steidler-Dennison Tags: mac (Via MacNN.) Apple’s growing marketshare among end-users is helping push the Mac’s acceptance in corporate America. InfoWorld notes the Macs are spilling out of its traditional areas of marketing departments and media companies and into wider

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    PayPal Denies It Will Block Safari

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    Defiant Psystar plays monopoly card as it resumes selling unauthorized ‘Mac clones’

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    Defiant Psystar plays monopoly card as it resumes selling unauthorized ‘Mac clones’ April 16th, 2008 - 9:07 am by Tony Steidler-Dennison Tags: hardware, mac clones, psystar (Via MacDailyNews.) “Psystar is back online selling ‘white-box’ Macs with a few subtle changes, and one employee has already played the monopoly card,” Tom Krazit writes for CNET. “Since they brought it up, let

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    Apple revises MacBook Pro firmware with v1.5.1

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    Defiant Psystar plays monopoly card as it resumes selling unauthorized ‘Mac clones’

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    Defiant Psystar plays monopoly card as it resumes selling unauthorized ‘Mac clones’ April 16th, 2008 - 9:07 am by Tony Steidler-Dennison Tags: hardware, mac clones, psystar (Via MacDailyNews.) “Psystar is back online selling ‘white-box’ Macs with a few subtle changes, and one employee has already played the monopoly card,” Tom Krazit writes for CNET.

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    Apple brand surges in new ranking

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    Apple revises MacBook Pro firmware with v1.5.1

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    Apple revises MacBook Pro firmware with v1.5.1 April 22nd, 2008 - 8:03 am by Tony Steidler-Dennison Tags: firmware, hardware, laptop, mac, macbook pro (Via MacNN.) Apple today released its MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.5.1, which it says provides fixes several issues to improve the stability of MacBook Pro computers. The update revises a recently-issued MBP firmware update that came alongside

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    PayPal Denies It Will Block Safari

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    PayPal Denies It Will Block Safari April 22nd, 2008 - 8:02 am by Tony Steidler-Dennison Tags: browsers, paypal, safari, software (Via Slashdot.) Despite reports that PayPal may drop support for Apple’s Safari browser because it lacks anti-phishing features, PayPal now says it ain’t so. Though PayPal telegraphed displeasure with Safari last January, they