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Star Trek TOS ready for an away mission on your iPod

344020164 97ee63180d m Star Trek TOS ready for an away mission on your iPodApple hasn’t released any press releases announcing it, but I noticed that TUAW was reporting this morning that the US iTunes Music Store is now offering episodes from Star Trek: The Original Series Season One for download.

Single episodes cost USD$1.99 while the full season will set you back USD$56.99.

According the the TUAW write up, there appears to be some inequality in the video.

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Unsanity releases WindowShade X 4.1.1

Unsanity LLC announces the availability of WindowShade X 4.1.1. This free update fixes issues with double tap functionality and WindowShade X not enabling itself properly. WindowShade X brings additional window management capabilities to Mac OS X including the ever popular windowshade functionality to Minimize-in-Place and custom shadow control.

Version 4.1.1 fixes an issue where “Press Control Key Twice” and “Press Command Key Twice” actions stop working under some circumstances and another issue with WindowShade X sometimes not enabling itself properly.

WindowShade X is priced at USD$10.

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iTurbo– emergency juice for many popular iPod models

292834151 197377ae85 m iTurbo   emergency juice for many popular iPod modelsFrom the press release issued today: Voxred International LLC, the company that launched the popular Turbo Charge cell phone charger, today introduced the iTurbo, a portable power source for the iPod mini, iPod nano, iPod with scroll wheel, iPod color (???) and iPod video. A Made for iPod Licensed product, the stylish (???) iTurbo is affordable and easy-to-use.

When an iPod battery indicates that it’s low, simply plug one end of the iTurbo adapter into the iPod and the other end into the iTurbo. The blue light on top of the iTurbo will become brighter, indicating that the iPod is receiving a safe flow of energy. If an iPod battery is completely dead, plug it into the iTurbo, wait a few moments, and continue using the iPod.

Beginning on November 15, 2006, the iTurbo will sell for between USD$29.99 and USD$34.99 (includes one iTurbo, one adapter and one AA battery). $29+ for an AA battery adapter!? What happened to affordable?

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