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Journalists Cover Microsoft, Using Macs

It’s not an easy time for Microsoft — with Steve Ballmer having to field questions about being “buffoons” and an “evil empire”  at the shareholder’s meeting (.doc) — so when they get together “the world’s most influential technology pundits and online writers” (nb: we weren’t invited) for Mobius to discuss super-secret mobile tech you’d think [...]

Guide To Black Friday Apple Bargains: Cheap MacBooks, iPods and Accessories Galore

Here’s a guide for finding the best bargains on Apple-related gear during the infamous Black Friday sales on November 27. We’ve compiled a comprehensive list of gear from leaked photos of sales flyers and descriptions of sales.
The bargains include a 2.26 GHz MacBook + $150 gift card at Best Buy for $999.99 ; a 32GB [...]

Review: Voices Is Today’s Best Thing Ever, Grab It Now While It’s Cheap

New on the App Store is Voices from the clever folk at Tap Tap Tap. You can guess what it does.

Open it up, pick a silly voice. Helium is pretty silly. A microphone appears and the app even clears your throat for you (try it, you’ll see what I mean). Now speak your brains, and [...]

Review: Sony Walkman S540 Series Video MP3 Player

Press releases, you will hardly be surprised to hear, are rarely very interesting. But one arrived in my inbox a couple of weeks ago that made me double-take.
“Sony’s S Series Walkman,” it chattered, “is a serious challenger to the iPod Nano.” Gosh, really? Perhaps the Cult had better have a look at one, then, despite [...]

Gallery: Gelaskins’ Coolest New Designs

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Gelaskins put fine art protection on your iPhone.

Among the many dozens (hundreds?) of companies in the cottage industry that makes cases and other protective doo dads for your iPhone, Totonto-based Gelaskins probably produces the most arresting and beautiful of them all.

Actually, just saying they produce protective devices for the iPhone is selling the company way short since they adapt fine art from a deep roster of global artists working in a broad range of styles, putting photo quality prints on thin, but tough, scratch-resistant polymer with a patented 3M adhesive, allowing you to personalize and protect everything from iPhone to the full range of Apple iPods and laptops.

The iPhone covers go for about $15, while iPod protection runs a little less and laptop protective art will set you back about $30. Not that Apple’s industrial design isn’t beautiful itself, but all the Gelaskins art is distinctive – and any of it is guaranteed to make your device stand out from the crowd.

Hit the jump for a gallery of 10 of the newest designs that we think are among the coolest.

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Nicoletta Ceccoli is a childrens book illustrator in Luglio, Italy. Her works have been shown across the US and Europe and contain recurring themes of loss of innocence featuring fragile protagonists living in paradoxical situations and theatrical solitude in places somewhere between classic fairy tales and 16th century Flemish paintings.

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Lonnie Lazar

Lonnie Lazar is a writer, musician, web designer attorney. He writes about Apple for Cult of Mac and Mac|Life, and about VoIP and telecommunications for Voxilla. Follow Lonnie on Twitter @LonnieLazar, join the Cult of Mac on Facebook, and find Lonnie's photos on Flickr.

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3 comments

    The problem is that the bezel has 0 protection

    Unless an article is REALLY detailed I won’t go past one page let alone go through 10 pages of what should be one page. The fact that these articles are split like this is causing me to seriously think about dropping this site from ones I look at.

    Seriously as in, three more articles that would have been interesting but are split apart solely to try to get page hits on the site.

    Don’t believe three will be enough? Check back in a few days and see if I’m still coming to the site. I’ve got over half a dozen Mac/iPod/iPhone related sites I look at. ALL are replaceable. Enough of this BS already.

    Seriously, I’m as annoyed by splitting this article into 10 pages as much as anyone else (it could easily have been 5 with 2 on each page, or 3 with 3 on each and an extra on the last) but really Olson? Pulling out the old “I’ll never come back here again” line?

    Come on guys, it’s one thing to take reasonable issue and explain why. It’s another thing to be that walmart shopper who storms out claiming they’ll never shop there again only to return the next time there’s a sale. No one cares, make a real argument. And I say this because I agree and I hate seeing the fact that it really is an annoying way of crafting an article (really editors? 10 pages for this?) but it’s all but reaffirmed by whiny trollish comments.

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