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I had some thoughts regarding the recent rumours surrounding Apple’s trademark of “iGuide”. Some have suggested that it could be a replacement for iTunes, which I guess sort of makes sense. But I was thinking, what if it’s even more than that. What if it’s the name of the Tablet’s OS. Ok, before you tell me I’m mad, let me explain my train of thought. From what we suspect (as we know very little – and by little I mean nothing) the tablet will more than likely be heavily focus on media, be it movies, music, books, magazines etc.

Check out MacUpdate Promo Holiday Bundle. I had bought one of their bundle’s before and so keep getting emails whenever they release a new one. I normally don’t pay that much attention to them but there’s some good applications in here for a very low price. Certainly worth getting hold of are PathFinder, Socialite, Drag Thing and Speed Download. Oh, and iPod rip is pretty handy to have too. I was just about to buy socialite as my trial was ending so now I get a bunch of other stuff too! See, sometimes it pays to read your junk mail.

Following up my earlier review of the magic mouse, and thanks to Don in the comments for pointing it out, BetterTouchTool is a small application for OS X that gives you a third mouse click with the Magic Mouse. It does more than that though. It allows you to do all sorts of custom gestures. For example, now If I put my whole hand on the mouse for a second it brings up the application switcher, and swiping down with two fingers is the equivalent of hitting the end key. It’s pretty cool and worth checking out if you have a magic mouse.

Mac Beta of Chrome is now available

From the Mac Observer:

Apple added an option to include a 3.33GHz quad core Intel Xeon processor in the Mac Pro on Friday. Along with the option for the faster processor, Apple also added the ability to include 2TB hard drives in its Mac Pro build-to-order options.

Personally, I’d still wait for the six core xeon processors due out next year or get an iMac instead.
[Read Mac Pro Gets 3.33GHz Quad Core BTO Option | Product News | The Mac Observer]

Macworld’s Jonathan Seff takes the new (and much improved) handbrake 0.9.4 for a spin

From CNN Money:

Three years ago, when it became clear that Apple (AAPL) was about to unveil some kind of mobile phone, critics began to weigh in on its chances of success. AAPLinvestors’ Terry Gregory, building on a list of skeptical quotes begun by MacDailyNews, has put together what may be the definitive collection.

[Read The great iPhone death watch - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Brainstorm Tech ]

I had refrained from commenting on the whole situation regarding rogue amoeba’s decision to stop developing for the iPhone because the whole thing had me seeing red with anger. No, not anger at Apple for it’s “unreasonable” app store policies, but anger that the story had gotten so much attention and that people weren’t calling rogue amoeba out for this bullshit. First of all, they claimed that tat the first rejection was ambiguous. Unless you’re suffering from a concussion, when Apple tells you your app is being rejected because it uses their copyrighted images, and you know you’re using Apple images, regardless of where they came from, to claim that you weren’t sure what they were referring to is disingenuous at best.