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T-minus however many single-digit hours to the Apple’s “fun” product event, and where is ThinkSecret with the scoop?

Maybe the lawsuits are working.

Well, no matter - because I know what Apple is about to announce.

Do you want me to tell you?

What, you want me to tell you? OK.

It’s not an iTablet (tablet PCs = a solution looking for a problem), or the iPod Video (yawn; my iPod already has video… the IPOD OF MY MIND, that is!).

It’s not a media center Mac (I can hook a 20″ iMac up to a TV (or wait, maybe I can’t) and then spend four hours scrolling through my music collection in Front Row just fine today, thank you…)

Are you sure you want me to tell you what it is?

It’s a 70% price drop in .Mac. Since what could be more fun than Apple bringing the annual price of their Web integration service somewhere in line with market reality…

No, I’m just kidding.

It’s really iDatacenter. 100,000 square feet, every song ever recorded, in your pocket.

It’s a cure for IBS, and it’s called… iIBS. It comes in four flavors - grape, strawberry, lime and IBS-flavored.

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HandBrake homepage

Handbrake is a GPL DVD-to-MP5 ripper/converter with one-pass conversion that operates in near-realtime.

I’ve been waiting for this for 5 years.

In the two tests I’ve performed thus far, off VIDEO_TS folders that had already been DeCSSed and were sitting on the hard drive, operation was flawless.

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CNN.com - Worm targets Macs via Bluetooth - Feb 21, 2006

Nobody actually believed the hype regarding Apple’s supposed invulnerability to viri, right?

Boot Windows XP on an Intel Duo Core Mac and Make Money

This dude is challenging other dudes to figure out a way to make the Intel-based MacBooks dual-boot OS X and XP. Skin in game. Looking for that one kid who will blow all the other kids away…

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These are fun, and you should try them.

Thanks to KNerhood and co for this one.

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