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Apple iPod Touch Ad Breaks Yahoo! Games

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Check out this very cre­ative Apple iPod Touch ad which appears to be “break­ing” the Yahoo! Games homepage.

Note: The music is by The Aster­oid Galaxy Tour, titled “Around The Bend”.

PS. This is the sec­ond Flash ad that I can recall doing this “break” con­cept. The first one I saw to suc­cess­fully fool me to doing a WTF-moment occured this past Sep­tem­ber. It was a Nin­tendo Wii game cam­paign for Wario Land: Shake It! on Youtube.

A Longer Walk on Google Maps

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It was cool to find out that Apple released an update to iPhone 2.2 today. After going through the process, I couldn’t wait to try out the new features—specially the ones involv­ing Google Maps. They were: Street View, and pub­lic tran­sit & walk­ing directions.

Things were fine when all of a sud­den… a “things that make you go, hmmm” moment. Check out the walk­ing direc­tion that I was given 2-blocks away from the Trans­bay Ter­mi­nal.

Right?! I know. This deserves to be in Seth & Amy’s Really!?! skit dur­ing SNL’s Week­end Update.

Q-Tip’s Gettin’ Up Music Video

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Q-Tip’s Get­tin’ Up music video is this week’s Apple’s Music Video of the Week. Mean­ing it’s free for down­load in the iTunes Store.

If you haven’t pur­chased Q-Tip’s lat­est album, The Renais­sance, you may do so by pur­chas­ing it here on iTunes, or via Ama­zon.

Apple Releases New MacBooks

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If you don’t know already, Apple has just announced its new line of Mac­Books1 ear­lier at 10 this morn­ing in Cuper­tino. Today’s line is a com­pletely new build from the ground-up, start­ing with its “uni­body” approach.

Other than the uni­body being totally new to the line as well as the indus­try, I am lik­ing the fol­low­ing on the MacBooks:

  • 13.3-inch LED-backlit dis­play. The 12-inch ones is just to small. Hav­ing that extra 1.1-inch is truly a big step.
  • Upgraded video adapter, NVDIA GeForce 9400M2. Nice upgrade for those want­ing to do more gam­ing on these. But I think this is also nice for those doing photo edit­ing like me.
  • All-new, smooth glass Multi-Touch track­pad. No buttons—it itself is the button!

Though these are nice upgrades, the price went up to $1299 for the Mac­Books. If I was in need of a new laptop/notebook com­puter, this would be the best pick. It’s just too bad it doesn’t have an ExpressCard/34 slot like how the Mac­Book Pros have them. It would be great to have for those peo­ple who take their Mac­Books on vaca­tion or on trips and want­ing to edit/backup/upload their pho­tos from their SD-based media cards (like the one I have for my Canon Pow­er­Shot) along with a card read for the slot.3

You may get more infor­ma­tion and/or watch the video via apple.com/macbook/. If you don’t know which Mac­Book is for you, click here to com­pare them at a quick glance.

Update
If you are lean­ing towards buy­ing a Mac­Book Pro and need the quick run­down of the new bells and whis­tles, click here to read up The Apple Blog’s review about it.

  1. Mac­Book, Mac­Book Pro, and Mac­Book Air [↩]
  2. The Mac­Book Pro has both the 9400M and the 9600M GT. You may switch to either depend­ing on your need for per­for­mance as well as bat­tery life. [↩]
  3. They do have a ExpressCard/34 slot. I don’t know where I read that dif­fer­ent. [↩]

Apple Recalls iPhone 3G Ultracompact USB Power Adapter

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Apple recently posted a notice that it is recall­ing the ultra­com­pact USB power adapters that came with the iPhone 3G.

Users with ultra­com­pact power adapters should imme­di­ately stop using them until they exchange them for a new, redesigned ultra­com­pact adapter.

I didn’t know about this till Biggy men­tioned it last night. Sup­pos­edly, AT&T sent a text mes­sage out as early as Sep­tem­ber 19th. I didn’t receive any­thing from them regard­ing the recall and wasn’t alone as some peo­ple I know also didn’t get it. I freakin’ have been using it quite often when I need to charge overnight next to my bed. Geez… that’s damn dangerous.

Any­ways, if you recently pur­chased an iPhone 3G, you should be okay if you have a green dot on the bot­tom of the adapter (near the prongs), like below:

For those of us who have pur­chased a while back, we’ll need to stu­pen­dously wait for about 3-weeks to get them swapped for the fixed/updated ones. There will be 2-ways to get the exchange:

  1. Order a replace­ment adapter via the web. These replace­ment adapters will ship within three weeks of your order, start­ing on Fri­day, Octo­ber 10.
  2. Exchange your adapter at an Apple Retail Store start­ing on Octo­ber 10.

Though it sucks for those who use the adapter mainly to charge their iPhones, peo­ple just have to take care and know the risk. If you are still doing so because you either don’t have a USB port to use, or a car charger, you may use the USB power adapters that came with iPods, or get some from DealExtreme.com or like the ones from Ama­zon below:

Good luck and be careful.

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