Bites from the Apple: A Quick One

Some quick bites of Apple-y goodness to start your week out right and before we get into the Apple-less Macworld Expo starting on Tuesday (which, unfortunately, I won't be attending this year).

• Now that Apple has selected the iPad as the monicker for its new game-changer, the iTablet name is fair game. And X2 announced that it will be releasing a tablet device with just that name in April, with specs including Windows 7, a 1.6 GHz processor, and 250 GB hard drive.

• If you want to see tech-heads Walt Mossberg, David Carr and Michael Arrington pundit-izing on the iPad's release from last week's Charlie Rose Show, head on over to All Things Digital. And yes, Mossberg did call the iPad "wicked fast."

• Based on some benchmarks caught in the wild, we could be seeing a new MacBook Pro in the near future sporting a screaming Core i7 processor.

• If you've wanted to learn more about the power of Mac screen sharing (a great resource for controlling multiple Macs in your home, or if you've got a family member who's a Mac newbie and you're their dedicated, though remote IT resource), Take Control e-books has released a new title dedicated to the subject written by my colleague Glenn Fleishman.

• Watch out VLC, there's another jack-of-all-codecs video player that's starting to pick up some steam. Movist is the new kid on the block (via John Gruber), and it be worth checking out if you've been having trouble playing MKV files though VLC.

• I'm rather enjoying the kerfuffle brewing between Apple and Adobe over the latter's ubiquitous Flash software. Yes, Flash has brought the wonders of streaming video to our webby world, but it can also be a lazy way to bring "spice" to a site as well as THE biggest resource hog that bogs down my MacBook Pro. Hence, my use of the Flash-blocking plug-ins Flashblock for Firefox and ClickToFlash for Safari.

• Steve Jobs has been making the rounds this last week to show off the iPad to big-time publishers such as the NYTimes and Wall Street Journal as well as Time Magazine.

• And finally... if you can't wait for an iPad, you can make your own DIY version out of paper thanks to these plans from John Chow:

  
  

--Agen G.N. Schmitz

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