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If you weren’t swayed by Rob Griffiths’s reasoning that the iMac was now, for many people, a more sensible option than the Mac Pro, you’ll be glad to know that Apple has added another optional processor configuration in the quad-core line. Full Story »

If you thought you just heard a disturbance in the Force—as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced—then take a deep breath and relax: it’s just a pair of Java software updates for Mac OS X. Full Story »

With Apple's decision to release the tools necessary to develop iPhone apps, developers have taken our favorite mobile device to places you wouldn't expect. Ocarina encouraged iPhone users to think of their phone as a unique musical instrument. Now, academia wants to push that idea even further. Full Story »

OWC has announced a new line of portable hard drives. The new Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini line features aluminum cases, bus powered drives, and quad interfaces. Full Story »

In the spirit of the holiday season, Blacksmith Games has put together an event called Appvent Calendar 09, which promises to be a veritable treat for iPhone gamers. The event, which kicked off at the start of the month on Tuesday, runs through Christmas Eve, with a free iPhone game available on each day through December 22. (The last two days of the promotion will not feature any free games, though the company promises “other great surprises.”) Full Story »

Readdle’s Scanner Pro lets you turn the iPhone’s built-in camera into a portable scanner for uploading documents onto your phone. Full Story »

Google already controls my Internet searches, my e-mail, my calendar, my documents, my phone number, and my weird, lots-of-people-talking-at-once-thing. So it makes sense that the company now wants to control one of the most fundamental systems in all of Internetdom. Full Story »

Looking for another way to listen to your favorite news program or gabfest on the go? Full Story »

Can’t figure out whether to get the photo enthusiast on your shopping list a digital picture frame or a snapshot printer? With Epson’s new PictureMate Show PM 300, you can get both. Thanks to the device’s gigantic LCD, Epson’s newest snapshot printer is being touted as a “versatile hybrid,” serving as both a printer and a picture frame. Full Story »

If Order Mapper has its way, we’ll all be ordering pizzas on our iPhones without ever having to talk to another soul. Full Story »