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According to recent rumors circulating the internet, there has been reports of a product refresh for Apple’s laptop lineup, as well as it’s desktops. From Google’s adsense, (Google.nl) we’ve noticed that a few products have been advertised as “new” and feature product revisions that have not been the feature of previous iterations. Translations provided courtesy of Appleinsider show these juicy details.

MacBook: Thinner, lighter and faster! Free delivery. Order today.
iMac: Ultra Thin 20 & 24 inch models. From only €1099. Apple Store
Mac mini: Faster and more affordable than ever. From only €499. Order immediately.

Although, it’s important to note that these updates have been announced since September, with the iMac reported as being more organic, thinner, and with smoother edges.

For those who want to resize or remove those big fat arrows that on the desktop shortcut icons in Windows Vista, here’s how. Download a utility called ‘Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover’. This program will give you the choice to either make the arrows on the icons smaller or fully remover them. To download this free software, click HERE.

Google has released a new version of it’s browser toolbar for Firefox. This new release allows you to translate any webpage simply by clicking a button without leaving the page. Two other changes are web-site suggestions and sponsored links to the toolbar when you type in any query.

When you are using Firefox’s private browsing mode, the toolbar is designed to not record your searchbox history while in this mode. In addition to that, it will also turn off PageRank, Web History and Sidewiki (Sidewiki allows users to leave a comment on an entire page or a selected piece of text, and share the URL via email, Twitter or Facebook).

Download and try out these new features HERE.

MusicBridge is a program that helps to keep your music libraries in sync. It syncs your music meta-data such as song ratings and the number of times a song has been played from one media player to another. It can also move those ratings and info from one computer to another and can regularly update those ratings for you.

MusicBridge works well with iTunes and Windows Media Player. It is compatible with both Windows XP and Vista. Read MusicBridge FAQs HERE and you can download it HERE.

You’ve invested a lot of thinking just to conceptualize your own website—sleepless nights even. A significant of time was also set aside to design the template. You’ve made sure that the content is relevant to what you want to share to other people, or perhaps a certain target market that you want to reach. If you don’t have any background for website design, you’ve probably hired designers to do the task of you. Finally, after checking and rechecking everything, you’re finally ready to launch your website. But wait, have you ever stopped and thought about how you can have a sustainable number of web traffic which will encourage you to update the website everyday? Perhaps you should start considering applying article marketing to increase web traffic.

Let’s face it, it would be very frustrating for website developers and owners if their creations are not fully utilized by anyone whom they think deserve to take a glimpse at it. Ask yourself this question: will you still continue to develop your website and do whatever it takes to update it when every time you check the number of page visits, you only see zero or if you’re lucky enough five people?

Attracting more people to check your website, and encouraging them to come back is a tough task. But that shouldn’t discourage you to do whatever it takes to increase web traffic. Article marketing is a very efficient yet cost-less (or if you’re willing to set aside some money), cheaper way to increase your site’s visitors to at least twice the number you usually receive.

All you need to do is to write a significant, yet catchy article that describes what your website has to offer. For example, if your website offers e-books of rare authors, then it is therefore necessary for you to say it in the write-up, and explain why your website should be a top pick among other websites that offers the same kind of product.

Using a certain word or keyword and position it in such a way that it appears at least three times within an article can also help you achieve an increase in web traffic. That by the way is called Search Engine Optimization writing (SEO). So taking the example cited above, it would be wise if the write-up has the keyword “e-book” or “rare authors e-book”. Doing so increases the chance of that article to appear in the indexing list whenever a person types the said keyword in a search engine site’s query box.

Other ways of doing article marketing can be applied to really give you that increase in web traffic you’ve often dreamt about. It is important to remember that a good website will remain substandard if people don’t know about it.

Do you get a lot of phone calls from telemarketers? Yea, they drive everyone nuts. Here’s something funny and creative that you can do for your next phone called from a telemarketer:

Rick Rolled!

Google has released a new website translator gadget which automatically translates a website into different languages. Site owners and publishers will be able to implement this feature by paste a short snippet of code into their websites and instantly increase their reach to up to 51 languages.

The translator gadget has the ability to automatically detect a user’s preferred language. One of the commonly asked questions about these automatic translator tools is how well can it translate? This new website translator gadget is based on Google Translate so it will only  work as well as Google Translate. Not perfect but it’s definitely something that all website owners and publishers should look into.

Here’s how it works:

After clicking the Translate button, the automatic translations are shown directly on your page.

It’s easy to install — all you have to do is cut and paste a short snippet into your webpage to increase the global reach of your blog or website.

Click HERE for the website translator gadget page.

For sure, there are more important things for you when you travel. Perhaps, for most people that could be their privacy.

And apparently, during your usual travel, you don’t feel much privacy during commercial flights. If you are very conscious about your privacy, perhaps you can try riding private jets during your travels instead. Aside from saving your time and providing comfort, your privacy is ensured when inside a private jet.

There are almost no other people inside the jet plane during your travel. If you are a group, you practically know almost everyone inside the jet plane and there is no much reason to worry about your privacy and security.

If you need to talk about something with your co-workers, for instance while you are on trip, private jet planes could help you a lot. While inside the jet plane, you can start discussing matters that you need to discuss. So aside from saving time while on travel, you’ll also have the chance to talk on the things you need to discuss since you are given the privacy that you need.

Aside from these, you can work according to your preferred pace since the minimal factors that affect you are very minimal. There is no need to adjust according to delayed flights anymore since private jet rides could give you the convenience that you want.

An addition to the perks that you are entitled to is that you can request the area of your destination. For instance, you want to reach a place that is not reached by most commercial planes, you can ask the private jet company to bring you there. You just have to tell them, and if possible to land there, they would surely grant your request. There is no restriction to land on some airports only. Sometimes, they can even land on areas where there are no official airports. You need to understand, however, that the price you need to pay for may not be the same as the price for ordinary commercial flights. But you’ll surely enjoy the benefits that are perhaps more than you can imagine.

Well, the new Laptops being made by HP, the ENVY 15 and 13, are based on the “Voodoo ENVY legacy” Fair enough, you could say. Fortunately for my title, the laptop does look quite a bit like a Macbook Pro. The 13″ Laptop is a powerhouse, supporting Radeon 4330 graphics, and a beautiful screen with impressive colors (82% color gamut) and brightness (410 nit).

The extended battery for the small laptop is also a big drawcard, with expected battery life reported to doubled by the small devices addition. Considering the laptop already has a 7 hour battery life, this is a pretty cool feat. Weighing in at only 3.74 pounds, the laptop also features a magnesium frame, coated with matte textured aluminium. The only bad thing about HP’s small notebook, is that the touchpad is glass, with no buttons to distinguish between left and right click. With zoom, rotate and scroll features also controlled by the touchpad, perhaps the inclusion of buttons would have been a better idea.

As for the 15″, the larger ENVY costs a hundred dollars more in retail, but sports a Core i7, dual SSDs, as well as a  Radeon 4830 card. The larger screen is a little less bright than the 13″, but it’s not too big a concern. The battery life for the 15″ is understandably quite a bit less, but HP has decided to include the extended battery life device with the laptop as well. Preloaded with Windows 7, and slated for an October release, prices start at around $1699 for the 13″ and 1799 for the 15″

All of our information for this article was sourced from here

Today, Apple has announced that the Apps store for the iPod Touch/iPhone has over  85,000 apps avaliable, which in total, have been downloaded by users over 2 billion times. The amount of downloads has continued to grow steadily, with half a billion downloads taking place last quarter.

As usual, Appleinsider.com does a pretty good job in number crunching. According to their figures, the apps store recorded 1 billion downloads on April the 23rd this year, obviously meaning that Apple’s Apps store is snowballing. It’s likely that the level of growth will continue over until the first quarter of next year, thanks to the cheaper, 3rd Generation iPod touch, as well as continuing Telecom awareness about the addictiveness of the iPhone.