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It’s as inevitable as the turkey hangover the day after Thanksgiving: There’s a hot new camera, game system or MP3 player everyone wants for the holidays, and that demand causes the price to stay high. What’s a budget-minded technophile to do? There are a few things you can do to keep your tech budget in check—and nearly all of them involve the Internet. Full Story »

Thursday is Thanksgiving, the holiday season is upon us, and Black Friday is coming, well, Friday. And you know what that means—discounts. Before you go out and brave the throngs of shoppers crowding the malls, have a look at some Mac and iPhone software discounts that you can take advantage of right from the comfort of your home. Full Story »

onOne Software today announced the immediate availability of Plug-in Suite 5 for Adobe Photoshop. Full Story »

If you happen to own one of the new 27-inch iMacs, you may have heard that you can also use it as an external display for your other computers and devices (DVD players, for example). Although the process is as straightforward as connecting another computer to your iMac via its Mini DisplayPort port, the fact that Mac OS X keeps running in the background while it is in Target Display mode makes it just a trifle more complicated a setup than your average monitor. Full Story »

Strange things may be afoot with mobile game development house Gameloft. Just a few days ago the company’s finance director Alexandre de Rochefort announced that the company would cut back its development of Android apps thanks to the lack of organization in the Android Market. Full Story »

Apple today released an update to its Final Cut Server software. Full Story »

On Tuesday, Apple released a minor update to its iPhoto ’09 () digital photography software. The iPhoto 8.1.1. update deals with face-recognition performance and accuracy (to fix a problem introduced with the 8.1 update), book ordering, and iPod touch support. Full Story »

Ableton and Cycling '74 have announced the release of Max for Live. The product integrates the Max/MSP audio visual programming language with Ableton's Live 8 digital-audio workstation. Co-developed by Ableton and Cycling '74, Max for Live opens up the Live platform, allowing users to create and edit their own devices. Full Story »

Amazon has an early Thanksgiving gift for all you Kindle 2 owners out there. The company has just announced an upcoming firmware update for its six-inch e-book reader that adds a big new feature: native PDF support. Full Story »

Data Robotics, makers of the popular Drobo () “storage robot,” is expanding its product line with two devices, the Drobo S and the Drobo Elite. Full Story »