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Author: Andru Edwards

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Parallels Desktop for Mac update adds complete Vista SP1, XP SP3 support

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Categories: PC / Laptop, Software

For those of you who religiously use Parallels for the WIndows virtualization needs in OS X, you should be aware that there was a new update released today that has the appearance of being fairly important. After all, it now completely supports Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1, including full Boot Camp support in both. In addition, MacBook Air compatibility has been greatly improved, too. …

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Don’t forget - we are giving away an HP HDX Dragon computer!

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Poll: Have you joined the Zune Social?

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Categories: Internet, Microsoft, Music, Portable Audio / Video, Wireless / WiFi

Amidst all the Zune news of the past day, we were curious to get the pulse out there. How excited are you about the whole Zune Social thing? We’ve gotta admit, when we saw some of the ideas that the peeps over at Microsoft came up with as it pertains to music discovery within Zune, powered by your social network, we were kinda digging it. So, what say you? Have you gone and customized a Zune …

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Have you joined the Zune Social?

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That Zune 2.5 update sure installs fast

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Categories: Microsoft, Movies, Music, Software

Random, I know...but it just had to be said. One of the absolute banes of my history with the Zune software is how freaking long it took to install it. Even when updates were released, those typically took a little while from start to finish as well. So imagine my delight earlier this morning when I fired up the Zune client to download …

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Zune 2.5 client launches TV downloads, Zune Card social sharing

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Categories: Microsoft, Movies, Music, Portable Audio / Video, Software

As of this moment, Microsoft’s Zune team is deploying the new Zune 2.5 software out to the Internets, with the hopes that it will result in many more people getting down with the Social. We got a sneak peak at some of the new features that the crew is rolling out, and we must say, it’s very apparent that they’ve put a lot of thought and a lot of work into tightening up some of the …

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Bleeding Edge TV 209: MacBook Pro RAM upgrade tutorial

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Categories: Gizmatic, Short Bytes, Apple, Features, Hot Deals, Mods / Hacks, PC / Laptop, Podcasts, Videocasts

In this episode, we show you how to install and upgrade the RAM in your Apple MacBook Pro, in less than five minutes. In case you weren’t aware, the last couple generations of the notebook actually support up to 4GB of RAM. We are still trying to wrap our head around that number, because for a portable, that is insane. Even better, though, is the fact that this is such a cheap upgrade when you look …

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Poll: How do you like your movies? Optical disc, or downloadable?

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Categories: Features, Home Entertainment, Movies

With the HD DVD/Blu-ray format war being over, the new “war” if you will is the one between digital delivery of movies, versus good ol’ optical media. We want to know how you feel about this. Do you prefer buying movies using Apple TV, thus avoiding a trip to the local Target? Or are the type of person who prefers all the bells and whistles that something like a Blu-ray disc has to offer (7.1 lossless …

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Do you want movies on optical disc or downloadable?

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Movies now purchasable through Apple TV

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Categories: Apple, Broadband, HDTV, Home Entertainment, Movies

Apple has quietly made a subtle change to the Apple TV movie experience. Previously, you were able to rent standard definition and high definition movies through Apple TV, and obviously, those rentals would expire if left unwatched for 30 days, or within 24 hours of you starting the movie. However, people have been asking for movie downloads since Apple TV Take 2 launched. …

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