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Apple confirmed today that iPhones are no longer available from the online Apple store. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find any iPhones for sale at AT&T’s website or any other mobile carriers’ websites worldwide that have partnered with Apple to carry the iPhone like O2 in the UK, T-Mobile in Germany, and Orange in France as the supply from Apple’s warehouses has dried up. Why hasn’t Apple been making more iPhones? The answer is they probably haven’t, it’s just that they’re probably busily manufacturing the newer faster 3G iPhone that’s rumored to be released in June during the Worldwide Apple Developer’s Conference. If you’re still in need of an iPhone, Apple recommends you try the brick and mortar Apple and AT&T stores as some may have units still available. If you’ve always wanted one you’d better hurry though because once they’re gone from inventory, you can bet they are not going to be replenished… until June anyways.

Orb Networks is claiming that they have developed “the world’s first way to stream live TV to the iPhone and iPod Touch.”

OrbLive, as the application is called, will work with “jailbroken” iPhones and iPod Touches. Despite being the “first” to make an application of the sort, it is really not all that special. Users install the Orb streaming application on their TV-tuner enabled PCs and OrbLive on their handheld devices. You then set the PC to live TV and stream it directly using the Wi-Fi.

Adds Orb’s CEO, Joe Costello, “Although the iPhone provides users with a great way to experience the Web, it offers a ridiculously sub-par streaming video experience. When all the carriers’ free phones can stream lots of things that my iPhone can’t, something’s seriously wrong. OrbLive finally brings the iPhone’s streaming video experience up to par with other mobile phones.”

Previously we covered the new Eee PC 900 specs and disclosed that the release date would be today May 12th. As of 12am Monday morning, retailers such as Amazon have yet to display a ship date but pre-orders are currently open. Take your pick with either the 20G for $549.99 which includes a 20 GB Solid State Drive and Linux preloaded or the 12G with 12GB SSD with Windows XP Home preloaded for $549.99 (my advice, get the larger capacity 20G and install XP on it yourself if you want it). Both come with a larger 8.9″ screen, 900 Mhz processors, and 1GB RAM. And pearl white is currently the only color available right now, sorry.

Update: They are shipping now!

Three years in the making, Nathan Tolbert’s homebrew GBA game Anguna: Warriors of Virtue featuring art by Chris Hildenbrand is finally available for your playing pleasure via ROM and emulator or physical GBA cartridge. If you’ve ever enjoyed the Legend of Zelda, you will surely enjoy this game.
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Downloadyoutubevideos presents youtube videos downloading. Streaming is a nice way of previewing videos without downloading them but whenever anyone finds a video that they like, obviously they want to download it. YouTube is a wonderful site that has spearheaded the live streaming video movement online. One complaint that people often have about YouTube is that while you can stream to your hearts content, there is no easy way of downloading your favorites for viewing at another time. Now there is a better option for those looking at downloading YouTube videos to desktop. Simply type in the URL of the video link that you’d like to download and Downloadyoutubevideos takes care of the rest. Along with providing you with the ability to download, they also provide the option of browsing through your most recent downloads and those of other users, or of checking out the most viewed videos in any given week. The traffic will be busier because downloadyoutubevideos.com and YouTube will have their popularity increasing.

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Ping tests from Macintosh OS X

It’s easy to ping from a Macintosh running OS X:

1) Click on Finder in the dock.
2) Click on Macintosh HD in the window.
3) Click on Applications.
4) Click on Utilities.

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Citing “minor input” from the MPAA and RIAA, the Los Angeles County government has now added piracy to its definition of “public nuisance”, meaning all properties used in the dissemination of counterfeit goods can now be seized.

Physically pirated goods, such as bootleg DVDs or CDs, are now considered to be the same as counterfeit watches or handbags.

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Recenlty i was trying to get a development environment setup on my new Windows 2008 computer, and was installing the typical Microsoft items. Little did i know that SharePoint 2007 wont install on Windows 2008:

Here is the error I ran into:
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After Take-Two announced that the blockbuster hit GTA IV had hit $500 million USD in sales for its first week, Microsoft was quick to release data alleging that over 60 percent of those sales were for the Xbox 360 console and not the rival PlayStation 3.

The software maker claimed that 3.75 million copies of the 6 million sold worldwide in the first week were for the Xbox 360 console and even added that the games helped push 360 sales 54 percent week-on-week, a gigantic surge.

Microsoft also noted that in the UK retailers were reporting “a strong attach rate between the game and console sales”, claiming that at least 40 percent of new console sales were selling with a copy of the hit game.

“Grand Theft Auto IV has done phenomenally well this week with Xbox 360 version outselling PS3 in our stores,” said Gerry Berkley, trading manager at Woolworths.

“Xbox 360 console sales have seen a big uplift off the back of Grand Theft Auto IV launching. It’s clear our customers see Xbox 360 as a great console for this incredible game.”

According to data by Chart-Track in the UK, GTA IV led the software sales charts selling about 927,000 copies. The next closest game, Wii’s hit Wii Fit sold 103,000 copies for the week.

According to Taiwanese industry news source CENS, improved 65nm Xbox 360s should be arriving later this year, even as soon as August.

The report adds that Microsoft has “already begun contracting out the production of 65nm chips,” which in turn should form part of the consoles long anticipated “Jasper” revision.

There was also word that there was a depletion of the current chipset, dubbed “Falcon” and that Jasper could be pushed up if the other chips are depleted. The Falcon’s main processor uses 65nm technology just like the Jasper chip but all the other components including the GPU use 90nm manufacturing.

The Jasper revision has been long anticipated as Microsoft claims it will help to eliminate the “red ring of death” failures that plague over 15 percent of all current consoles. The new revision should be cooler, quieter and less power-consuming.

Let us hope this new report proves to be true, as it must be getting expensive for Microsoft to replace all RROD Xbox 360s at its own cost.