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Jose Castillo

The iStick is the size of lipstick tube. But it has four touchscreens for four times the Coverflow. I don’t really get the white cube eating up a quarter of the stick though�why not just make the whole thing a solid tube of touchscreen, with the bottom and top holding the single button and earphone jack? It also has Wi-Fi, for browsing the iTunes Store on a screen the size of your finger.

Every time the Apple Store has some downtime, magic seems to happen, especially if it happens to be a Tuesday. Not surprisingly, we get a flood of emails from excited readers a few minutes after the yellow sticky note goes up, letting us know that we better be on our toes when the store comes back up. Follow that with some obsessive site-checking and collectively, that’s a lot of manual labor. It’s about time we started automating the process.

Pingdom, purveyors of website monitoring services, have produced a badge that puts the status of the Apple Store on your web page, blog, and maybe your dashboard with a web clipping. Pingdom does the work of pinging the Apple Store once per minute to determine its current state, and provides you with an image indicating up or down which is embedded in an iFrame. Simple, but effective.

So, save the wear and tear on your mouse and grab the badge rather than hitting refresh all morning this Tuesday. Pingdom also has a downtime history going, and an analysis of Apple’s “marketing by downtime.” After all, it is quite a well-planned marketing scheme, if not a growing national pastime for Apple fans.

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Update-addicts listen up: it’s that time again, as iTunes 7.6.1 has hit Software Update. For a change, the release notes take up a good few paragraphs (at least on first inspection). Skipping the Apple TV marketing spiel, however, the release notes for this update amount to “several bug fixes and improve(d) compatibility with Apple TV software version 2.0.” — music to your ears if you’ve been experiencing issues.

The 44MB update for Apple’s ubiquitous jukebox is available now through Software Update, and presumably Apple’s Download pages momentarily.

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I love that OS X automatically fires up iPhoto when I plug in my digital camera. It�s one of the Mac�s many little touches that make it such a pleasure to use.

But ever since I got an iPhone, I�ve been frustrated that plugging it in opens up iPhoto, too. The combination of iPhoto and iTunes opening and syncing slows my computer to a crawl. And it�s particularly painful when most of the time I just want to sync my address book or music.

Fortunately it�s pretty easy to work around this annoyance. Keep reading to see how you can teach your Mac to open iPhoto when you plug in your camera but not your phone.

I recently stumbled across an option in Image Capture�s preferences that lets you select any application to open when a camera is connected. That gave me an idea: what if I could tell it to open a special application that would check to see which camera I�d plugged in? Then that application could in turn open iPhoto only if I�d plugged in my Digital Rebel.

It turns out you can do all of this using the command line and a little bit of AppleScript. Here�s how:

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If you were looking for even more proof that the 80GB PS3 is on its way out, the fact that it is no longer available on the SonyStyle website makes it about as official as you can get outside of a press release. Perhaps that means we are one step closer to that rumored 120GB version we have been hearing so much about.

[Via SonyStyle]