Year: 2006

FastMac announces TruePower laptop batteries

Posted by | Apr 21, 2006 | |

FastMac today announced a full line of TruePower Apple laptop batteries. The new high capacity batteries are available for: PowerBook G4 (Titanium and Aluminum), iBook (all models), and PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet, Lombard and Pismo). The TruePower batteries start at an introductory price of US$99.95 and offer up to 56% more capacity than the original, the company says. Select models will begin shipping in the next two weeks and are now available for pre-order on the FastMac site.

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Black Cat Systems releases Diet Sleuth 4.5

Posted by | Apr 21, 2006 | |

Black Cat Systems today announced the release of Diet Sleuth 4.5. This version adds features to calculate a user’s daily caloric needs and estimated weight loss. Diet Sleuth is a nutritional database and personal health logbook, and allows users to keep track of what foods they eat each day, and their nutritional value. For each day, users select the foods they have eaten, and the number of servings of each.

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Apple offers free Computer Take-Back Program

Posted by | Apr 21, 2006 | |

Apple today announced an expansion of its successful recycling program, offering free computer take-back and recycling with the purchase of a new Macintosh system beginning in June. US customers who buy a new Mac through the online Apple Store or Apple’s retail stores will receive free shipping and environmentally friendly disposal of their old computer as part of the Apple Recycling program.

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