If I only had a nickel for every time I’ve face-palmed myself in this situation.

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After a stagnant rest in the hardware pool, Apple Computers has finally upgraded their almost antiquated iMac line with a plethora of fancy additions and just plain smart changes. Most notably is the amazing 27-inch model you see below:

27 inches of beautiful Mac goodness.

As with any Apple update, the hardware has been improved significantly. The extra case space brought by the new, bigger screen, will allow for hardware to be spread out in a more heat-efficient manner. This means less hardware failure for iMac users.iMac users who upgrade will also take advantage of the newest in video, processor and motherboard hardware that Apple has to offer.

Also shipping with the new iMac is the new and improved MagicMouse (formerly, the Might Mouse). Taking a page out of the new Apple Slim-Keyboard design, they have squashed the aspect ratio on the mouse and turned it into somewhat of an external trackpad. All of the cool finger gestures that you can do with your MacBook, you can now do with your desktop mouse. Swipes, scrolling, pinch, zoom, and more are now at your fingertips, literally.

The New Apple iMac Magic Mouse and Slim Keyboard

Among the smaller updates to the iMac are a new set of speakers that are tuned to have much better bass response with less acoustic distortion. On my 24″ iMac, I always needed to use headphones to escape the ‘tiny, thin sound’ of the iMac speakers. You may also notice that just about every screw, tab and piece of hardware holding this baby together is completely self-contained. This means no getting inside your machine (without a fight!). Hopefully this will encourage Mac users to stay the hell out of their machines and leave the fixing to the professionals. This will surely prolong the desk-life of these computers. (I know, it’s tempting to want to upgrade your hard drive/ram/video card, but these machines were not designed for upgrading, they were designed for simplicity)

This concludes my review of the new iMac hardware. If I have missed anything terribly important, feel free to comment below using your Facebook, Twitter, OpenID or Disquis login.

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Donatello was always the weakest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

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So, some disgruntled idiot decide he was going to heist a shipment of Heinz ketchup that he was delivering in time for the Red Sox home opener. First of all, let’s make this clear. There is NO assumption that he was a Yankees fan (yes, I am one). I’m just curious, how do you offload $43,000 worth of ketchup easily? Is there really an underground market for pureed tomatoes and vinegar?

One interesting find in the article. The shipment was supposedly 996 bottles of Heinz Ketchup. The shipment was valued at $43,000. Hmmm… $43.17 per bottle? Damn. Is stealing ketchup the new diamond heist?

A $43,000 shipment of ketchup scheduled to arrive at Fenway Park Monday morning went missing after a disgruntled truck driver stashed the cargo at a Tennessee truck stop, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said.

The driver, Christopher G. Kindle, 39, of Jackson Center, Ohio, was scheduled to transport a load of 996 Heinz Ketchup bottles to a facility in Norton, Mass., by Friday. But the cargo of condiments hadn’t turned up on Monday morning and officials at Fenway began to get worried. [jump]

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A sea change may be coming to cyberspace with Web addresses ending in anything from .a to .z. That has businesses increasingly worried they will have to spend millions to guard their brand names. The familiar .com, .net, .org and 18 other suffixes — officially “generic top-level domains” — could be joined by a seemingly endless stream of new ones next year under a landmark change approved last summer by the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers, the entity that oversees the Web’s address system. Tourists might find information about the Liberty Bell, for example, at a site ending in .philly. A rapper might apply for a Web address ending in .hiphop. “Whatever is open to the imagination can be applied for,” says Paul Levins, ICANN’s vice president of corporate affairs. “It could translate into one of the largest marketing and branding opportunities in history.” [jump]

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It seems as if the powers at be have realized they are fighting an uphill battle. After a laborious trial in Sweden, Time Warner has decided that they can’t beat The Pirate Bay, so they’ll join them.

After years of hostility, lawsuits, police raids and heated invective between the two groups, the Pirate Bay has today announced they have settled their differences with US media conglomerate Warner Bros. The largest BitTorrent tracker has sold out to Hollywood and the two have agreed a deal. - TorrentFreak

Honestly, I feel that this was the right move from the start. The Pirate Bay is no more responsible for pirating software than Google. Technology and the Internet have always been about innovation and moving forward. The Pirate Bay took the existing technology of BitTorrent and simply capitalized on it before anyone else thought to. Now that the major industries are taking a page from TPB, you can expect to see a number of changes in the way we view and purchase media online.

What does it all mean?

Well, personally I feel that this will have a major impact on the distribution of online media. If the major powers of distribution and production cannot adopt this new market of media sharing they will fall victim to the next TPB. Warner Bros. should not revamp or close down TPB, instead they should embrace its tech-savvy, intelligent user base and find a way to grow the community as well as make their fair share.

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Is he on drugs? Mushrooms? Acid? What?

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