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Apple today released anticipated upgrades to their PowerBook range of laptops. These are relatively minor increments which have disappointed some. But with the imminent move to Intel and no G5 processor capable of running cool enough in laptops, it was unlikely that we’[d see anything more than this small increment.

CUPERTINO, California?October 19, 2005?Apple® today made its PowerBook® G4 line of notebook computers even more desirable for business and creative professionals with higher-resolution displays and up to one hour more battery life on the 15- and 17-inch models.* In addition, every new PowerBook now includes a DVD burning SuperDrive? with prices starting at just $1,499.

?The Apple PowerBook continues to deliver the ultimate in portability, performance and innovative features,? said Philip Schiller, Apple?s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. ?Our mobile customers are going to love working on the new high-resolution PowerBook displays and appreciate the added productivity that one more hour of battery life delivers.?

The new higher-resolution PowerBooks provide significantly more screen real estate and include the 17-inch PowerBook with a 1680-by-1050 pixel resolution?36 percent more than the previous generation?and the 15-inch PowerBook with a 1440-by-960 pixel resolution?26 percent more than the previous generation. Ideal for business and creative professionals, the new 15- and 17-inch PowerBooks make reading text and viewing images even easier with brighter displays?up to 46 percent brighter on the 17-inch model. The 15- and 17-inch PowerBooks also provide up to an additional hour of battery life to get even more work done while on the road.

Source: Apple Enhances PowerBooks with Higher-Resolution Displays, Longer Battery Life

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Macworld: News provides a useful review of the new iMac G5, specifically, its new features
To keep you on top of the latest iMac changes, we tackle some of your frequently asked questions about the new model below. (You?ll find answers about the video-enabled iPod and iTunes 6 update that were introduced along with the iMac […]

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With a bit of fanfare, Apple, last week, released a new iMac G5 with some media center capabilites
Enjoy music, movies, photos and DVDs with Front Row and the Apple Remote
Snap pictures with Photo Booth and the built-in iSight camera
Click, roll, squeeze and scroll with the included Mighty Mouse
Hold a video chat with the built-in iSight […]

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Google AdSense have a case study on Weblogs Inc, host of blogs such as Engadget. It provides some great advice on getting the best out Adsense
After implementing AdSense, Weblogs blogs were earning only a couple hundred dollars a day from the program. “At first we didn?t really understand how to use it,” Calacanis says, noting […]

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Ecto is an application for adding posts to your blog. I have never paid for a piece of software so quickly. And at US$17.95 it is a steal.
There’s probably other similar products out there, but Ecto is so good I didn’t even bother looking.
I’m not going to bother reviewing it, I’m just going to tell […]

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ProBlogger.net is a must read for any blogger. Darren is a very experienced blogger - operating around 20 blogs on everything from digital cameras to the olympics to the pope. He knows his stuff.
Put ProBlogger on your daily read.

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Happy with your host? Looking for a new host?
Checkout the Hosting Diary blog, “Daily Web Hosting News and Reviews”.
I could have saved myself so much time and effort if I’d known about this one when I was getting started.

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The ProBlogger provides another excellent tip for bloggers, discussing the pros and cons of outbound links in your posts. These operate paradoxically in that they can bring traffic, but also take it away.
“I personally don’t mind other competing outbound links. Most of my blog have many of them and seem to do well - in […]

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A lot has been made of the common men’s neck tie, still de rigueur in the corporate workplace and yet lambasted by many for what it resembles, both physically and symbolically - a noose.
But the neck tie also has unwittingly tripped up the feminist movement as well. Rather than burning their bras, feminists should have […]

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MacWorld have reviewed and recommended Peter Maurer’s Textpander. Peter is also the developer of the well known and well loved, Butler utility.
Textpander is simply a shorthand converter. You enter a shorthand notation, and it expands it to the full text you’ve defined. For example, I have configured !ahr expand to <a href= target=_new></a>. Textpander allows […]

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