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1. The iPhone
iPhone is more than just a phone. It combines three devices in one: a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device. All that and more makes it the best phone you’ll ever use. With the Multi-Touch interface on iPhone, you can make a call simply by tapping a name or number in your contacts or favorites list, your call log, or just about anywhere. Visual Voicemail lets you select and listen to messages in whatever order you want — just like email. iPhone comes with some amazing applications. And you can choose from thousands more on the App Store and download them with a tap. Your iPhone gets even better with every new app. Play games. Be more productive. Keep yourself entertained. No matter what you want to do on iPhone, there’s an app for that.

2. The Mac OS X
Interface enhancements like Expose in the Dock and better file and folder viewing in Stacks make finding apps and files much easier. A completely overhauled QuickTime X now sports a cleaner interface and recording tools. The much-anticipated Exchange support across Mail, the Address Book, and iCal is huge for those who take their Macs to work. Intel Mac users will like Snow Leopard’s smartly designed interface enhancements, and its Exchange support is a must-have (especially with Outlook for Mac on the way). With a ton of technological improvements, Snow Leopard is worth the $29 upgrade fee. Apple hardware has always been elegant, but without great software, they’re just pretty pieces of art. The Mac OS, otherwise known as the Windows blueprint, has served Apple exceptionally well, with everyone else playing catch-up.

3. Mac Pro
Apple was the first out of the gate with an Intel Nehalem-based workstation, in the form of the Mac Pro announced in early 2009. Apple recently provided a 2.93GHz Mac Pro for testing, and in a range of benchmark tests against an older-style 2.8GHz eight-core Intel Xeon-based system, the new Mac Pro showed performance boosts as high as 112 percent, though most tests exhibited improvements in the 30-percent-to-70-percent range. Combine this with comparatively aggressive pricing (if you buy RAM elsewhere), and you’ve got the fastest Mac ever in an affordable and easy-to-service case.

4. MacBook Air
It fits in a manila folder, you can slide it under a door, and if you threw it hard enough you could probably chop someone in half with the thing. It’s the thinnest, and if we may say so, sexiest laptop around today: the MacBook Air. But looks aren’t everything to everyone, and despite all the rhetoric about being a no-compromises ultraportable, Apple did leave plenty on the cutting-room floor in its quest to make an absurdly thin ultraportable that doesn’t skimp on a full size keyboard or roomier 13-inch display.

5. iPod Touch
The iPod Touch has been on the same product cycle as the Classic and Nano since its 2007 debut, but the first generation model also received a memory upgrade five months after its initial release. With the touch, Apple’s focus remains firmly on music, and, more so than ever, portable gaming. Along with a nice speed bump come some app organization improvements and new Genius features, all of which are welcome additions. Even if there’s no exciting surprise with this touch iteration, after three long years, there’s still not a better portable media player out there.

6. Apple TV
Provides access to a variety of free and premium media content–including movie rentals, TV shows, music, photos, podcasts, and YouTube videos–on your living room TV; streams media from networked Mac or Windows PCs; purchases and rentals can be done directly through iTunes Store on your TV; movie rentals from all major studios include some in HD and surround sound; sleek external design and elegant user interface; simple, streamlined setup; includes state-of-the-art 802.11n wireless networking; smooth, hiccup-free streaming.

7. Power Mac G4 Cube
The Cube was not one of Apple’s greatest successes but it was certainly an eye-catcher when it launched in the year 2000. The Cube measured just eight inches cubed and was suspended in a ten-inch tall acrylic enclosure. This wasn’t a machine you bought if you were going for the highest specification G4 available, as you could get more powerful (but visually less interesting) Macs for less money. However, in a world of beige PC boxes (and let’s not forget that Apple itself made some pretty lousy-looking boxes in the ’90s) it was a breath of fresh air. Not the only one, of course, as in the 2000s we also saw the…

8. The iMac
Macintosh recaptured its magic with the iMac and MacBooks. Price competitive, gorgeous, and highly capable, this line and these innovations did more for Apple than might truly be appreciated.  And while Dell, HP and others might sell more Windows-based machines, none carries the drool-factor that these new Macs enjoy.

9. The iPod
Apple didn’t invent the MP3 player, it reinvented it, and with iTunes, created the ultimate entertainment ecosystem. Hundreds of millions have sold, and the Touch might be my favorite Apple product of all time.  And between the Shuffle and Nano and all the others, the various colors, shapes and sizes are a feast for the digital senses.

10. Cinema 24” Display
Apple has created some fairly impressive displays over the years, but the 24-inch LED-backlit model, designed to complement modern Mac laptops, is one of the best. Yes, you can get the incredible 30-inch cinema display, but this display not only features the latest LED display technology but also a range of complementary features such as iSight camera, MagSafe connector, USB hub, speaker system and built-in microphone. A great display when you’re ready to work at a desk, or hook it up to a Mac Mini and use it as a TV.

Runner up: Power Mac G5

Though Apple has come under fire for its claims surrounding the speed and performance of the various chipsets it has used, it’s hard to deny the power of the Power Mac G5 line of computers. Definitely aimed at the power-hungry professional, and including a dual core version, they were 64-bit computers with a rugged, anodized aluminum chassis. The Power Mac G5 was the last in the line of professional Macs based on PowerPC architecture, superseded by the Intel-based Mac Pro.
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The newly-launched iPhone Converter 2010 from Reganam Interactive is helping iPhone owners convert video files to compatible formats with one of the webs easiest and most effective software solutions, paving the way for easier sharing and playback of video files amongst iPhone owners.

The iPhone converter is designed around an easy way to convert standard videos to a format that is recognized by the apple iPhone. The iPhone video converter has a basic, simple interface, which is pretty straight forward, with out compromising quality. This new converting software will help iPhone users to share video clips in a compatible and safe format.

Finding compatible software has been a problem for iPhone users, who are looking to share video clips. The options for iPhone users are limited when it comes to exchanging video clips. The format gap between online videos and those that are supported by the iPhone, have paved the way for Reganam Interactive, to develop the iPhone video converter, which has removed the barriers to video playback and make sharing video clips through the iPhone much easier.

“The iPhone Converter 2010 is designed to facilitate the sharing and playback of video clips on the iPhone through quickly and effectively converting to a compatible file format.

Reganam Interactive offer a range of conversion applications, designed to help consumers convert video clips to the 3GP and MP4 formats for various different platforms, including 3G smartphones.” Officialwire

We’re just a week away from the annual gadget-lover’s dream event, otherwise known as CES. One company that everyone will have their eyes on this year is Mophie.

Mophie, a popular retailer of Apple iPhone and iPod accessories, is set debut to  their iPhone credit card reader — said to be named “Credit Card reader” — and complimentary processing application. This will allow merchants to accept credit card payments by swiping the card through a special iPhone case. While details around the device add-on are slim, interest is already high.

The buzz building around Mophie, the palpable excitement and interest stimulated by Square, and an increasingly competitive mobile payment system market means that 2010 will be the year that consumers will buy and sell from their mobile phones.

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While the technology world waits for Apple’s entrance into the tablet market, rival consumer electronics companies are jumping in, betting that the thin, keyboard-less electronic slate will be the next must have device.

Apple has remained silent about its plans pertaining the features, and release date of the tablet. Some reports have leaked about the possible size, and operating system of the tablet. So far every thing about the apple tablet is speculation, however most mac fans seem to have come to an agreement the tablet will be based off an oversized version of the ipod touch.
The apple tablet would take its rightful place next to its competitor’s gadgets that are trying to reshape the way consumers interact with the web and social networks. The idea of the tablet isn’t anything new. There have been different forms of the tablet in the past ten years. Apple introduced the Newton in March of 1994, which ended up being a flop. The Notion Ink Smartpad, a 10-inch tablet running an NVIDIA Tegra T20 chipset with 1080p video playback and Pixel QI display for outside viewing. With the popularity of apple iPod and iPhone which are similar to a mini tablet, Manufacturers see there could be profits made in this new categories. With such advances in touch technology manufacturers are able to produce lightweight operating systems and rugged processors, manufacturers are able to create a very versatile devices built to surf the web, watching videos and live TV.

An emerging trend of reading e-books has also paved the way tablet like e-readers. People are looking more and more into reading books and magazines in digital form. Combined with consumer habits that have also shifted toward social networking, Web 2.0 and mobility, and you have a device whose time has come.
Some like Innovative Converged Devices’ Vega and Ultra tablets as well as tablets from Archos will run on Google’s Android mobile operating system. Others like JooJoo will use a proprietary platform that is built around a browser. Notion Ink’s Adam will feature a display that incorporates color as well as E Ink, the low-power screen technology used on e-readers like Amazon.com’s Kindle.
Other big names such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard are rumored to be preparing tablets. Microsoft is reportedly developing its own device called Courier that features two 7-inch screens on a device that folds like a book. Next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will serve as a launchpad for a handful of new tablets, which will go on sale in the coming months.
Tablets will have to carve out their own identity in a crowded field of gadgets. Tablets won’t have keyboards like a netbook, though you can attach one via Bluetooth. But they will have a color screens with Web browsing capabilities, something current e-readers can’t do.
The publishing industry will be changing drastically when the tablets hit the market. It will be no surprise that apple will lead the way in the tablet category. Apple always thinks about the consumer experience, and is focused on bring us the best possible products.
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