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Apple NYC Meatpacking store due to open next week?
Filed under: Retail

Oooh, the anticipation: New York's third Apple retail store now appears set to open on December 7, just in time for the shopping season (well, midway through Hannukah, but I forgive!). Backing up recent reports at ifoapplestore.com, reader David sent us a picture of the store construction wrap that leaves little doubt.

Will you be at the 14th Street store opening? We'll try to send our agents and snap some pictures.

Thanks David!
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iPhone/touch-Kindle Smackdown

eMedia. Everyone wants it. And Amazon's Kindle is the latest media darling. For all that, we think that the iPhone and iPod touch may be getting overlooked. These devices offer a full-color screen with 480-pixel wide displays in landscape mode, PDF compatibility without fees, and full access to the Internet. Sure, you have to jailbreak your system or stick with Safari, but feature-to-feature we think Apple's hardware stands up pretty well. What do you think?

Feature	Kindle	iPhone	iPod touch
Cost	$399	$399 + $50/month	$299
Connectivity	EV-DO (free)	WiFi & ATT/EDGE (monthly charge)	WiFi (free)
Onboard Memory	256 MB	8 GB	8 GB
Memory Expandability	SD slot	No	No
Screen Size	600x800	320x480	320x480
Measurement	6" diagonal	3.5" diagonal	3.5" diagonal
Screen Depth	2-bit Grayscale	Full color	Full color
Book Software	Included	PDF reader and Books (requires jailbreak)	PDF reader and Books (requires jailbreak)
PDF compatibility	Yes. (You pay to email directly to the Kindle.)	With free software	With free software
Flash Support	no	no	no
3rd Party Apps	None at this time	Unofficial only until February	Unofficial only until February
Weight	10.3 ounces	4.8 ounces	4.2 ounces
Video Playback	No	Yes	Yes
Newspapers and Magazines	By special subscription, full content or via websites (with the Kindle's experimental browser)	Via websites	Via websites
Physical Keyboard	Yes	No	No
Touch Screen	No	Yes	Yes
Font resizing	Yes (6 levels)	Yes (arbitrary)	Yes (arbitrary)

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Freeverse drops critical update for Heroes of Might and Magic V
Filed under: Gaming, Software, Odds and ends

Macworld's got the tip that Freeverse has released what they're calling a "critical" update for the Mac version of Heroes of Might and Magic V. They say the update to the pretty well reviewed fantasy turn-based strategy game includes "stability and display issues," and a fix for "registration issues." Interesting. Doesn't sound like it'll change the gameplay much, but stability is always a plus.

The update is available for download over on the Heroes page and will bring the game up to 1.5.1.
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Take a CandyBar 3 video tour
Filed under: Cool tools, Tips and tricks, Odds and ends, Leopard

If you've ever used CandyBar before, you probably already grabbed version 3 when it was released the other day. But just in case you haven't seen it in action, Ged put together this great screencast of just how easy it makes controlling the look of your icons and Dock. I especially love the icons inside the iContainers in Quick Look-- such a neat, useful touch that's only possible in Leopard.

CandyBar, I think, is one of those apps that sounds like you'll never use it when you just read the text (because how often do you change your system icons, really), but once you see just how amazing it is, you can tell it's one of those reasons we're so proud to be Mac owners. I know, I sound like an infomercial, but look at that app! CandyBar 3 is available as a free 15-day/250-icon limit trial, or for the purchase price of $29.
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Vancouver Apple Store closer than ever
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Retail, Rumors, Apple

Ah, the much-rumored Vancouver Apple Store. We've heard many stories of its existence, but so far, we've got nothing but hopeful speculation to back them up. And that hasn't actually changed, but here's some more speculation: reader Seamus sent us this Craigslist posting from Vancouver's page, supposedly looking for Apple Geniuses in Vancouver. Yes, Vancouver, you too are even closer to having a place to hack iPhones of your own.

Sure, it could be a fake (and it doesn't help that the posting links to the US job site-- how does that work?), but the post specifically mentions the Pacific Centre Shopping Mall, which would be a great location for a Mac retail store. If you're in Vancouver and hankerin' to buy some Apple stuff at a store built just for you, your chance could be coming soon.
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Xserve Lights-Out Management Firmware Update 1.1 available
Filed under: Hardware, Software Update, XServe
Apple released Xserve Lights-Out Management Firmware Update 1.1 on Thursday. It's for Intel-based Xserves only, and will update your firmware to version 1.2.8. The Xserve I manage at work is a G5, so no update for me. Here's what I'm missing, according to Apple:

"This update includes changes to the Lights-Out Management environment of the Intel-based Xserve. It addresses the intermittent issue that causes the LOM port to be unresponsive. This update is strongly recommended for all Intel-based Xserve systems."

You can read the Knowledge Base article here.
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Run IE on your Intel Mac, if you absolutely have to
If you're a Mac-based web developer, a sysadmin at SomeBigCo, or an Outlook Web Access user, you might find yourself needing to use MS Internet Explorer from time to time. No, not IE for Mac OS X, frozen in amber within Applications folders around the globe; I mean IE for Windows, the hairy scary Active-X enabled browser that for better or worse represents a huge chunk of the web-surfing world.

Getting 'real' IE on the Mac, up until now, has meant OS emulation (Virtual PC), virtualization (Parallels/VMware), API translation (Wine/CrossOver) or remote access (RDC). Now there's another option for Intel Mac owners: ies4osx, a Mac port of the ies4linux package. Built on top of the Darwine version of the Wine Win32 API translation layer, ies4osx downloads and installs an official version of IE (you pick from v5, 5.5, 6 or 7) and then runs it inside the X11 environment on your Mac.

The resulting browser looks a little weird -- almost like a Bizarro version of IE, with the slightly altered type and menu look of the X11 windowing system -- but this bear can dance. OWA runs nicely, with full rich-text editing and message search, and the administration pages for MS Virtual Server also work pretty well. I wouldn't depend on ies4osx in a production role, at least not with the current build, but for one-off testing of websites in IE it's worth the (free) download. The ies4linux developer plans to roll the Mac-specific fixes back into the main package, so the next version of ies4 will probably support both Mac and Linux users from the same codebase.

[via MacApper]
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