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Utah Teen Courts Apple with Multi-Touch Display

“Multi-touch is the future. The mouse and the keyboard has had too long of a reign, it’s time to de-thrown them,” says Bridger Maxwell, a 17-year old from Orem, Utah, who took 4th place in a national science fair for creating a multi-touch display. Apple has already “expressed interest in” him being an intern next year. The company that created the software for “Minorty Report” has also contacted him.

Instead of the unbelievably expensive Surface by Microsoft, this multi-touch computer only cost Maxwell $400! You can see documentation of his build and more information at his blog.

The application he created is called Corkboard; it allows you to look at, rotate, and zoom comics. The source code has just been released here on Google Code.

This is a pretty amazing computer that looks great for only costing $400. Go here to watch the news story in Real Audio format, and see it in action.

Perhaps he will help design the Mac Tablet that Steve Jobs said would never happen.

[Via KSL]

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Now Microsoft Warning Apple of Security Leaks?

In the last week, two major flaws have been reported, one in downloading .ICS (iCal) files, and one in Safari’s carpet-bombing problems. Now, Microsoft is reportedly getting in on the warnings to Apple.

Basically, Tim Rains, Microsoft’s security guy, says that “Safari…cannot be configured to obtain the user’s permission before it downloads a resource.” That means that some hacker could create a website that would automatically download and “litter the user’s desktop” with boatloads of files. Microsoft is taking the role of bigger brother and saying, “Do not follow our lead!”

This is all, of course, in response to Apple’s pushing of Safari on Windows iTunes’ users. Naturally, Microsoft does not like other companies that try to take or steal market share away from Internet Explorer, the world’s safest browser.

[Via InformationWeek]

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Back-to-School Specials and AppleCare

Image via AppleInsider

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple’s yearly back-to-school buy a Mac and get an iPod special may be starting early this year, and may be extra special. Speculation puts the price point at about a $199 mail-in rebate. It would be nice if the rebate were enough for an iPod Touch or even an AppleTV. Of course, you do have to buy an iPod and that adds to the total cost with the hope of “free money” later.

The idea of adding cost to an already expensive product begs the question about adding AppleCare to your computer/iPod purchases. After hearing some horror stories about AppleCare, I am seriously debating getting it when I purchase my iMac later this year. Though, I know there is some good anecdotal evidence as well. What are your experiences? Feel free to link to blogs with testimonials.

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Check Mac Warranty (AppleCare) with Serial Number

My work is a Mac shop. Everyone has a Mac, some people even have two (desktop and laptop). Anyway, I recently decided to do an inventory to see what we had and what was/was not under warranty.

I started by making a Google docs spreadsheet and named it “Office Macs.” (Creative…I know). I then went around to each workstation and recorded the the type of mac, admin username & password, the OS version, GHZ, RAM, and serial number:
1. Click the apple in the finder bar
2. Click “About this Mac” (that will pop up a smaller window that tells you: OS Version, processor, Memory)
3. Click “More Info” (that will pop up another window, which you can get the serial number from)
4. Record all of this information in your Google doc
After you have all your info, you can go to this link, where all you do is input your serial number and country, and then click continue. After a few seconds you will be shown the type of Mac and the type of warranty on it. Have fun!

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