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Psystar, those guys who took Hackintosh, packaged it with commodity hardware and decided to sell Mac clones have declared bankruptcy. How the mighty fall.

Our friends at Bjango have a new app, called Beats. If you're a DJ or making electronic music, this app will be very handy for you, with such features like a tap tempo, advanced metronome and key mixing aid. I don't really know what most of that means, so I'm just going to marvel at it's beautiful UI. That blue to purple gradient on the LCD is giving me Daft Punk flashbacks.

Infoworld has compared the Blackberry Bold to the iPhone and well, it's no surprise as to which one comes out on top. ...

Together with our sponsors, we’ve organised a special treat for our loyal MacTalkers. We will be giving away a crapload of prizes every day this week! This is to thank you for sticking by us during our “renovations”, because you guys mean a lot to us, as without you, we are nothing. So keep your eyes peeled on the blog daily, to make sure you don’t miss out on scoring some sweet, sweet giveaways.

Today's prizes are courtesy of iWorld Australia and iLuv. They've given us 5 prize packs, full of accessories for your iPhone and iPod. Five lucky winners will recieved one of the following packs. Mmmhmm, delicious.

Prize Pack 1
iLuv i552BLK Portable audio system for iPod
iLuv i316 Micro size Bluetooth Headset - Green
iLuv i707BLK FM transmitter with integrated car adapter
iLuv iAD110 Dual USB International Power Pack
iLuv i203 Ear-Clip earphones with volume control - white
iLuv i111 Splitter adapter with volume control
iLuv iCC71 Silicone case for iPhone 3G - Black

Prize Pack 2
iLuv i189BLK Stereo speaker with iPod dock
iLuv i353 Aluminum In-ear Earphones w/Volume control - green
iLuv i146BLK Premium Leather Case for iPhone 3G
iLuv i159 Travel Power Kit for your iPod or iPhone

Prize Pack 3
iLuv iEP311 ...

One of the most lamented things about the iPhone's release in Australia is that all our telcos didn't bother to implement visual voicemail. That cool feature that let us sort through our voicemail messages in a logical and easy fashion was simply ignored by the four telcos that offer the iPhone here. Until now. In 24 hours, Vodafone is lauching visual voicemail for their iPhone customers in Australia.

If you are a Vodafone iPhone customer, expect an SMS soon explaining what's going on. Vodafone have a full list of info on their webpage.

An internal memo was sent around Vodafone with the following info for staff (thanks to Pookster on the forums): ...

iTunes on the iPhone may be getting direct TV show and movie downloads. This is an obvious natural progression of purchasing music directly on the device and will no doubt make millions of dollars from men waiting for their significant others in (insert shopping centre of choice here) while they try on clothes and shoes and junk.



Boing Boing Gadgets reviews the Apple Wireless Keyboard. Yeah, the mini one with no numpad. It's a good keyboard apparently. Works well on Windows too, if you're that way inclined.

Wintek, a company Apple uses to produce some of it's equipment in Taiwan, has had claims of poor treatment such as mass sackings of workers with no prior notice, slashing the wages of those existign employees and sacking anyone who complains. Taiwan's National Federation of Independent Trade Unions protested in front of Apple's Taiwan HQ, in order to try and use Apple's influence to put the pressure on Wintek to stop being bastards.

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The very first MacTalk video review is live! This week we take a look at the Targus 'For Mac' range of products.

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Together with our sponsors, we've organised a special treat for our loyal MacTalkers. We will be giving away a crapload of prizes every day this week! This is to thank you for sticking by us during our "renovations", because you guys mean a lot to us, as without you, we are nothing. So keep your eyes peeled on the blog daily, to make sure you don't miss out on scoring some sweet, sweet giveaways.



Today's prize is from MYOB - they're giving away 5x copies of AccountEdge (RRP $639). MYOB ...