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If people referred to last year’s iPhones as “Jesus Phones,” would they call this year’s model “the Second Coming?”

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I wouldn’t say this video is particularly funny, but I do think it’s cute. Getting a MacBook Paper of your own is very easy and very inexpensive — print it out, cut it up, and be the envy of your friends. (via TUAW)

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Netflix announced they’re finally bringing Watch Instantly to the Mac this year. With iTunes’ new movie rentals, it rings a little of “to little to late” given the flexibility iTunes has (transfer to iPod, Apple TV, etc.) over Netflix in this arena.

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Being the sucker Apple aficionado I am, I watched the the entire 90-minute Stevenote on Apple’s web site last night. (Yes, I followed the livebloggers too, but I wanted visuals. And I stopped watching when Randy Newman started performing; I find him exceedingly meh.) I could have saved myself 89 minutes (minus Randy Newman) if [...]

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From SFist, perhaps the best opening line from a blog entry about the new MacBook Air:
OMG! It’s the Nicole Ritchie of laptops! (Ritchie before she got fat and pregnant, that is.)
Yes, the rumoured sub-notebook is real. Considering the specs and my needs, I don’t think it’s for me but I must say it’s rather sexy.

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I spend about an hour every morning catching up on my blog feeds through Google Reader. Here are some items that I thought were interesting or at least worth mentioning.

NY Times, Music Industry, Souring on Apple, Embraces Amazon Service: In a forthcoming Super Bowl commercial, Pepsi will promote Amazon.com’s digital music service after a couple [...]

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Note the two pieces of the ad: the banner at the top of the video, and the main graphic featuring John Hodgman (”PC”) and Justin Long (”Mac”).

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Via Daring Fireball, instructions on setting up Gmail IMAP on the iPhone and Apple Mail the right way:
There is nothing wrong with leaving your email clients as-is exactly as the Gmail Help documents instruct. Unfortunately, you will start to see a little inconsistency between your email clients and your Gmail web interface.

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The new version of Mac OS X (Leopard) is supposed to take about an hour to install. So far it’s taken me two days.
I should add, though, that this is mostly self-imposed. The decision to do a clean install, the first I’ve ever done since moving to the Mac platform back in 2004, proved to [...]

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The Marble of Doom: Mac users, how much time have you lost to the spinning rainbow pizza/beach ball/marble?

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