Inspired by the transcript of the Get a Mac – Legal Copy fine print done by MacJournals I decided to do a Text to speech version of it using the Alex voice on my Mac OS X 10.5.6 MacBook (Done via Automator).

Get a Mac – Legal Copy AD

Text To Speech Transcript of Legal Copy

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First digest post done on mac

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Sunday, March 15th 2009

Motion’s J3400 rugged tablet PC boasts dual batteries, outdoor display
Boxee remote app for iPhone and iPod Touch available on App Store
Clock ticks for plasmas, LCDs
Old Habits Die Hard
Surprise! Google Earth used for robbery
Patent bares rumor: Apple TV gearing up for games?
Comcast, Sony to open joint retail store
Sprint Treo Pro now finally available, for real this time
SXSWi: Web Awards Honor 2009’s Big Names, Underdogs
Four Things The New iPhone Must Have!
iPhone 3.0 to have copy and paste, Pre-like features — but no background apps
Windows 7 to officially support logon UI background customization
Cell Phone “Jammers” = “Pandor’s Box”
New Life for Older PCs
Stopper Postcard Measures Delivery Speed While Stressing Out Postal Workers [Pointless]
UK ISPs Could Be Forced To Block Or Restrict P2P
Holy Cats! There is a DRM chip inside the iPod Shuffle earbuds! [Update]
Delivery Status touch for iPhone
Would you buy an Intel smartphone?

Saturday, March 14th 2009

Over 80 bug fixes due in Mac OS X 10.5.7 “Juno”
SXSW: AT&T’s Spotty Service Frustrates iPhone Users
TUAW @SXSW: The iPhone Gaming Panel
Live Images From Google Mars Now Available [Mars]
At SXSW, attendees confront Twitter saturation
SXSW: ‘Dead Space,’ a ‘Deep Media’ Case Study
Are You Interested In “Wearable Technology”?
Google Releases Jaiku Code!
Video: Apple Nehalem-based Mac Pro unboxing and hands-on
Apple Facing Lawsuit Over Exploding Ipod
Public Bug Tracking and Open-Source Policy
Will Apple sell iPhone themes on iTunes?
Bell Canada doesn’t want to share next-gen fiber network
Rumor: A Premium App Store for Even Pricier iPhone Apps? [Apple]

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Ever since Apple released the iPhone and then later the iPod Touch users wanted more control. Back in the firmware 1.x days all apple allowed you to to officially do was web apps via safari and thats where the jailbreaks came in.Some smart people found out ways to make apps that ran on the mobile OS X and found ways to solve the needing of more space on the Springboard. Of course this was a two way battle since apple kept trying to kill it via firmware updates and that sill goes on today.

Recently the 2nd Gen iPod Touch got full jailbreak capability and I decided to try it on my own ipod and over all it works good. Now to go over the details… aka: The ethics of jailbreaking.

Note: the term Legal here is used in a loose way since jailbreak breaks the apple SLA

Legal Uses

• Use any carrier via unlock (only possible after jailbreak)
• Freedom to do what you want with your device
• Install any app you want even ones not approved by Apple
• Unlimited supply of apps that usually denied by Apple
• Themes
• Tweak the OS to run as you like it
• Run multiple apps at once
• Copy and paste
• Play media files without syncing
• Download any file to the device
• Hide apps you don’t want to see in your Springboard
• Root file system access
• Use of restricted apis
• Direct access to hardware and ports
• Much, Much, Much more

Non Legal Uses

• Installing Cracked apps
• Cracking of apps
• Mobile hacking

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Another late set of posts.. Sorry for being SO late I blame the jailbreak research.

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Thursday, March 12th 2009

Amazon Web Services Rolls Out New Pricing Model For EC2
Apple invites media to sneak peek of iPhone 3.0 on March 17
Apple ready for third generation of iPhone
Apple releases iTunes 8.1
Apple to shift to voice interface for iPods, iPhones?
Asus merging EEE PC and netbook divisions: Who’s next?
Can Intel Thrive in a Post x86 World?
Completing the Windows Experience with Windows Live
Dell unveils the Studio One 19 all-in-one desktop
Google Checkout gets more expensive
GrandCentral Sputters Back To Life as Google Voice, Adds Voicemail Transcription, SMS Support [Google Voice]
IE8 Gets You Where You Want To Go, Quickly
Intel rated leading chip manufacturer again, AMD slips out of top ten
MSI makes the CS120 ‘Nettop’ official
New beta paves way for Firefox 3.5
Paragon announces NTFS for Mac OS X 7.0, lets you access NTFS partitions from a Mac
Reader Reaction: New iPod shuffle
Scosche releases iPod Shuffle headphones, Apple’s earbud hegemony broken
Shuffle 2k9 dissected
Sirius XM developing iPhone / iPod touch streaming radio app
Stephen Fry: The internet and Me
The Worst Proprietary Gadget Offenses [Shame]
Unicorn Wishes: If Only iPhone OS 3.0 Had These Very Cool Things! [Apple]
Upcoming Adium release to bring Twitter integration
Windows 7: Moving beyond Vista
You’ve never seen so much cabling, so neatly arranged

Wednesday, March 11th 2009

Adobe Fixes Recent PDF Flaw, But Not Before Auto Exploit
Apple shrinks its iPod Shuffle
Apple to take delivery of 10-inch touchscreens
Backstage: One More Thing: Apple’s New Approach to iPod “Generations”
Brush up on your History of OS Interface Design
Cupcake Android update coming to G1 in April
EU open-source document reflects Microsoft influence
Fusion-io ioDrive Duo is the Worlds Fastest SSD [Storage]
Google Also Likes To Use FriendFeed For R&D, Reader Gets Conversations
Google Now Lets You Target Ads At Yourself
Inside the Mac mini
Is the Apple Netbook Really an Ebook? [Rumor]
iTunes 8.1 coming soon with speed improvements, says Apple
Microsoft Adds New Line Of Notebook Accessories
Microsoft gets extension in EU antitrust case
Microsoft unveils Windows Marketplace fees, splits, hopes, and dreams
New Apple tablet rumors point to Kindle clones?
Redesigned iPod Shuffle, With VoiceOver
SmartQ 5 gets peeped, for reals

Tuesday, March 10th 2009

Acer Aspire One mod adds eSATA port, an element of danger
Apple to let naughty words flow on Tweetie 1.3
Gigabyte’s M1028 netbook / tablet hits the FCC
How to prevent piracy: sell only one copy of your song, ever
How Vista Mistakes Changed Windows 7 Development
iMac (early 2009) in-depth impressions
iPhone Nano Rumor #5,838,321: Screen stays the same, Home button moved to the side
iPhone: Renegade app store opens but Apple wants to kill it
Is IE8 Trident’s Last Stand?
Man punts ‘prototype’ iPhones on eBay
Microsoft hoping gimped Windows 7 Starter on netbooks will drive upgrades, revenue
More sources “confirm” Apple’s netbook plans
News: Apple kills eBay iPhone prototype, beta OS YouTube video
News: Update to popular Twitter client Tweetie rejected by Apple
Norton Users Worried By PIFTS.exe, Stonewalling By Symantec
Palm Issues Official Retraction of Roger McNamee’s Pre Crazy Talk
Reasons To Use Internet Explorer
Take-Two posts wider 1Q loss, higher sales
UK gov gets twitchy on Google feature creep
Woz dances: “like watching a Teletubby going mad”

Monday March 9th 2009

24 Solid State Drives Open ALL of Microsoft Office In .5 Seconds [Clips]
5 things Apple could be doing with their new touch screens
A gamer’s take on the new Mac mini
Analyst sees Windows 7 done by summer
App Store hits 6000 games available
Apple debuts another iPod touch web ad
ASUS showcases HD-minded Eee Top ET2203 and ET2003
Cebit 09 too dead to trash says Greenpeace
Google Docs suffers serious security lapse
Google issues first Android Dev Phone 1 update, clarifies paid app situation
How to Delete Any Online Account
Integrated Graphics Living on Borrowed Time
iPhone app phones home to foil pirates
iPhone developers unable to renew contracts
iPhone now has more applications than Windows Mobile
iPhone prototype surfaces on eBay, aims to fetch a pretty penny
Is a touchscreen Apple netbook imminent?
Microsoft’s Turner: Yahoo! search deal, but no acquisition
Mozilla bumps up Firefox 3.1 to 3.5
QuickTime X is more player, less chrome in latest 10.6 build
Running the Windows 7 beta on a MacBook
Seagate and AMD showing off SATA 3.0 and 6Gbps hard drives
Snow Leopard to Add 4-Finger Multi-Touch Gestures to Original MacBook Air
Super-rugged Dell Latitude E6400 XFR is tougher than you
Vista to XP ‘downgrade’ lawsuit revised
VMWare Fusion vs. Parallels Desktop for Mac: Which Is Faster? [Windows On Mac]
Why we’ve reached the end of the camera megapixel race
Windows 7 – More Stuff To Turn Off
Windows 7: Moving beyond Vista
YouTube blocks music videos in UK

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Here are the links for: Monday, February 2st 2009…

Apple Might Have Some ‘Splainin’ to Do
T-Mobile G1 firmware RC33 (also known as “not Cupcake”) trickles into reality
Analyst now says iMacs likely in both dual- and quad-core
Apple offers up iWork update, fixes issues
Internet Explorer loses even more browser market share
Windows 7 restricted at Georgetown University
Google Earth 5 beta released
Flash for iPhone still a problem, says Adobe
Scary Video: RFID Passports Secretly Copied on a Lovely Sunday Drive [Passport Hack]
Google’s Task List Turns Up On The Android And iPhone
Google Ocean will let users explore shipwrecks and reefs
Yahoo! Stops Serving Ads In RSS Feeds
Rambus introduces 4.3Gbps mobile memory
Layers snaps your entire Mac desktop as a Photoshop file
Apple market share continues to climb, Windows drops
16GB Samsung Omnia shows itself, other Samsung rumors surface
Microsoft To Kill Vista, XP Upgrade Blockers
video-conferencing iPhone in the works?
Cake maker messes up cake, hilarity ensues
Humpback Eee PC Gets 15 Hours of Battery Life [DIY]
Making the “Free” Business Model Work In a Tough Economy
Control Any Game With Your Webcam Using CamSpace
A Forensic Account of What Really Killed the Sega Dreamcast [Consoles]
Halo’s Warthog built and driven
iPhone app Feeds handily synchronizes with Google Reader
USB Ultra-Slim palm sized keyboard
Looking to sell your 1.25GHz Power Mac G4?
Netbooks: A bit popular
Microsoft says it again – no second beta for Windows 7

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