For this year, I’m going to be doing an advent calendar for the blog, starting today. I know Advent actually started yesterday, but 1-24 is just a lot easier, so please forgive me.

This year, in a nod to October’s “Stars of Political Cartooning,” I will have a different Christmas cartoon by a notable political cartoonist for each day of the calendar, beginning with perhaps the most famous Santa Claus cartoon of all time!

The calendar will go up in about ten minutes (it’ll run in the mornings the rest of the time).

Enjoy!

Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Bill Clinton mentioned for wife's Senate seat  —  CNN Deputy Political Director  —  (CNN) — After eight years as senator from New York, Hillary Clinton is trading places, moving from Congress to the incoming administration.  —  On Monday, President-elect Barack Obama announced that he asked …

centerimg title="Wilting Flower Lets You Know Your Power Consumption" style="MARGIN: 0px" alt="Wilting Flower Lets You Know Your Power Consumption" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/12/wilting-flower.jpg" border="0" //centerbr / pIs your conscience so dead that you can't be bothered what happens to the environment, as long as your entire house is air-conditioned around the clock? Well, with the Wilting Flower, perhaps that once-dead conscience can be revived. This device offers a visual reminder of just how much juice your household is sipping at that point in time - whenever very little power is used, the flower will perk up and open its petals, but guzzle up more than normal and it will turn red, wilting and clam up. Don't worry, it won't spontaneously combust in a fiery rage just because you pampered yourself with that large 80" HDTV for Christmas. Hopefully the Wilting Flower will make it past the prototype stage and enter mass production soon./P pPermalink: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/12/wilting_flower_lets_you_know_your_power_consumption.html"Wilting Flower Lets You Know Your Power Consumption/a from Ubergizmo (a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"US/a, a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/fr"FR/a) | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a | Hot: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/blackberry_storm_review.html"Storm Review/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081201195311" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081201195311?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081201195311" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081201195311amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F12%2Fwilting_flower_lets_you_know_your_power_consumption.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Q-CYIk_yAecZIqaG2p64NQzlACY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Q-CYIk_yAecZIqaG2p64NQzlACY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=I3Q2YMpf"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=RtbPURCb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=RtbPURCb" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=ReHEEujK"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=gDw4vTIX"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=gDw4vTIX" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=6WIVJNbW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=6WIVJNbW" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ubergizmo/~4/hSTRgROS94c" height="1" width="1"/

div style="FLOAT: right"img title="Sensasell Modular Sensor Surface" alt="Sensasell Modular Sensor Surface" hspace="5" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/12/sensacell.jpg" vspace="5" border="0" //div pStores of the future will have to find new ways to snag customers considering the highly competitive environment, and the Sensasell Modular Sensor Surface might go a long way in helping one store have an edge over another. Sensasell will design and produce various interactive objects that respond by using integrated sensors, and some of them have even been modified to look like a blown-up MP3 player that works, although it displays the various products in the store. You are able to scroll through the catalog by hovering your hand over the forward and backward buttons, definitely a winner when it comes to keeping kids starstruck and open-jawed while mom continues with her grocery shopping. /p pPermalink: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/12/sensasell_modular_sensor_surface.html"Sensasell Modular Sensor Surface/a from Ubergizmo (a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"US/a, a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/fr"FR/a) | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a | Hot: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/blackberry_storm_review.html"Storm Review/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081201195000" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081201195000?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081201195000" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081201195000amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F12%2Fsensasell_modular_sensor_surface.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/4Sgza8iUqdOV56X_PwIOkJkB-tI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/4Sgza8iUqdOV56X_PwIOkJkB-tI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=CaUTWna9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=QSxsuriD"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=QSxsuriD" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=snQqua6B"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=yU1TXUTI"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=yU1TXUTI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=L37FZssE"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=L37FZssE" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ubergizmo/~4/I32OxQVAFRs" height="1" width="1"/

p—bNintendo releases e-Book collection for DS/b : Move over Kindle, there's a new e-Reader in town—the Nintendo DS. Well ... not quite, but the game giant did announce the availability of "i100 Classic Book Collection/i" today. The game features classic tomes from Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Shakespeare, among others. DS owners flip the portable console on its side to read, use the stylus to flip through pages, and can even search through and bookmark segments. Currently, the title is only slated for a European release, with 10 additional titles available via download via the DS Lite Wi-fi feature. Still, U.K.-based a href="http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2008/12/01/nintendo%E2%80%99s-ds-e-reader-priced-and-dated/" title="tech site Electric Pig"tech site Electric Pig/a begs the obvious question: does anybody really want to read an entire book on the DS' tiny screen?nbsp; /p p —bAcclaim unleashes iRockfree/i, free music game/b : MMORPG publisher Acclaim is developing iRockfree/i, an online game that will let players create avatars, open up their own rock "club" and battle against other players online. Slated to go live in Q109, a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21292" title="Gamasutra says"Gamasutra says/a Rockfree will feature tracks from Warner Music, Sony (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=SNE" class="ticker" title="SNE"NYSE: SNE/a) and EMI artists, in addition to more than 40 songs created just for the game. The title also has free written all over it: gamers don't have to pay to play it, nor will they have to pay for extra downloadable tracks. /p p —bAOL preaches game safety on new site/b : AOL (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=TWX" class="ticker" title="TWX"NYSE: TWX/a) has launched a href="http://www.playsavvy.com/" title="PlaySavvy.com"PlaySavvy.com/a, a new site aimed at helping parents understand gaming consoles, interpret the game rating system and better determine which titles are appropriate for their kids. The site features reviews and how-to guides, and of course, "relevant advertising." Wonder if there will be any conflict of interest issues (like the ones a href="http://www.gamespot.com/" title="GameSpot "GameSpot /afaced last year, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2007/12/05/gamespot-addresses-gerstmann-gate-concerns-in-depth/" title="per Joystiq"per Joystiq/a) or concern about ads being run for games that aren't exactly family-friendly ... a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_viewnewsId=20081201005158newsLang=en" title="Release"Release/a. /p p —bDouble Fusion beefs up in-game ad lineup for PS3/b : Game advertising company Double Fusion has inked exclusive deals with THQ (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=THQI" class="ticker" title="THQI"NSDQ: THQI/a), Sega, Eidos and Midway to handle the in-game ads for their PS3 titles. This is in addition to the deal they first brokered in July with Sony to put ads in PS3 games, though Sony announced a similar partnership with Double Fusion rival IGA Worldwide in June, and launched its own in-game ad division in October 2007. a href="http://doublefusion.com/press/html/PS3_12_01_08.html" title="Release"Release/a.nbsp; /p p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=LURJGK"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=LURJGK" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=7YRrO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=7YRrO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=EzwFO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=EzwFO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Pke8o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Pke8o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=NCcjO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=NCcjO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=YLkHO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=YLkHO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/472017563" height="1" width="1"/

Here’s an opportunity for anyone to gain some experience by creating a free iPhone application. If you are incredibly lazy, you won’t have to do much coding.

WinAdmin is a popular iPhone application. It allows you to make RDP connections to Windows desktops. I was pretty amazed that someone was able to port a Windows program to the iPhone when there is no SDK available for RDP. Then I started digging around. It turns out that Microsoft’s RDP protocol specification is available on http://msdn.microsoft.com. Some guys got together and created rdesktop (http://www.rdesktop.org) from the protocol specifications. Rdesktop is released under GPL.

GPL allows anyone to ask for a copy of the source code. They can compile it and sell it for any price or give it away for free. All derivations from the original project must fall under GPL as well. If any new code is added to the original project than the new code shall also fall under GPL. All source code including any newly added code must be provided for free. One principle of the GPL is such that market forces should drive the price down to free. Why pay for a product if someone else is giving it away for free?

Rdesktop was written for UNIX based platforms. Another set of guys got together and ported this code over to CoRD (http://cord.sourceforge.net) for Mac OS X. CoRD is an RDP client for Mac OS X and inherits the GPL from Rdesktop. Both Rdesktop and CoRD are free to use.

Carter Harrison took the CoRD source code and ported it to the iPhone and called it WinAdmin. He is charging $11.99 for each copy (well within his right under GPL).

So anyone can email support@iPhoneWinAdmin.com and ask for his source code. You can take this project, build and new RDP client and put it on the app store. Hopefully, you will add new features like removing the menu bar and using the full touch panel, auto connect on startup, disable sleep, etc. Hopefully you will provide this new app for free or close to it.

centerimg title="Treadmill Bike Takes Off" style="MARGIN: 0px" alt="Treadmill Bike Takes Off" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/12/treadmill-bike.jpg" border="0" //centerbr / pUnlike the a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/speed_fit_treadmill_system_moves.html"Speedfit/a that we a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/speed_fit_treadmill_system_moves.html"saw last month/a, the Treadmill Bike looks more inviting to break a sweat upon. Perhaps this is due to the form factor that is much more pleasing to the eyes, although it works on a rather similar concept. This is nothing but a treadmill on wheels, where you run and run like a hamster on a never-ending track, although with the added advantage of arriving at a destination a couple of miles down the road. Perfect for riding over to the nearest Salvation Army to dispose of it once you're sick and tired of the experience, having decided to settle for a bicycle instead. Would you fork out 2,500 Canadian dollars for this?/p pPermalink: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/12/treadmill_bike_takes_off.html"Treadmill Bike Takes Off/a from Ubergizmo (a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"US/a, a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/fr"FR/a) | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a | Hot: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/blackberry_storm_review.html"Storm Review/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081201194412" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081201194412?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081201194412" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081201194412amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F12%2Ftreadmill_bike_takes_off.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/LPHbW8De-5jliK3Uf9TPdCAYGy0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/LPHbW8De-5jliK3Uf9TPdCAYGy0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=6OzOtGgz"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=spGToLFJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=spGToLFJ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=QIp7Jzwj"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=Ye4rDLo7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=Ye4rDLo7" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=HttuXsxv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=HttuXsxv" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ubergizmo/~4/sl9t3dCT8po" height="1" width="1"/

quot;a href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-12/ff_kaminsky?currentPage=all"There is no saving the internet./a There is only postponing the inevitable.quot; Wired Magazine looks at the a href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/06/dayintech_0623"history of DNS/a and the a href="http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/ff_kaminsky_how_DNS_works_1612"Kaminsky attack/a. br / a href="http://www.metafilter.com/73180/And-DJBs-500-is-safe-for-another-day"Kaminsky, previously/abr / a href="http://www.metafilter.com/53116/OpenDNS"Open DNS, previously/a

I have configured iPhoto to open the image in Photoshop when I click the edit button, but for some reason iPhoto converts the image to a jpeg before handing it off to Photoshop. How can I have it just send the .NEF to Photoshop? Do I have to do the really slow method of doing an export, then opening in Photoshop (in which case I'll probably move to Aperture or Lightroom) or is there a way to change this behavior?

Later after you take screen shot on your ipod touch can you get them on the computer. if so how?

I've been using both Mobile Me and my company's exchange and I did some tests and have found that when I have exchange on push and mobile me on fetch I get a lot more battery life than both of them on push.

Is this just a case of the more push the worse battery, or something up with mobile me?

Thanks!

Help. I have a comcast account and I'm not receiving my e-mail on my ipod touch. Everything used to work fine when I first got it to 10/10/2008. Since October I haven't been receiving. I'm not sure if I'm typing the correct server port under incoming and outgoing mail. I did all the obvious such as typing the correct username/password. Ofcourse both incoming/outgoing servers are ON. Does anyone have any suggestions, thoughts??

Here are my fields:

Incoming mail server
Host name: mail.comcast.net
USE SSL: ON
Authentication: password
Server Port: 904

Outgoing mail server
outgoing mail server: smtp.comcast.net
Use SSL: ON
Authentication: password
Server Port: 587

I finally made the change to the dark side :apple: by purchasing my first Mac, can't wait for it to get here!!

I ended up going with a New Unibody MacBook Pro for various reasons and because the money was available to do so.


Being that it is my first Mac, anyone have any good websites for beginners with Macs? Or any recommended software/accessories I should look into?


Thanks in advance for any tips or advice :D

An accident at a holiday parade in an east Texas town injured at least nine people Monday night, some of them children, a hospital official said.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=bqJro"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=bqJro" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=xjBOO"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=xjBOO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=fSGOo"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=fSGOo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=qkz5o"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=qkz5o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=BayiO"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=BayiO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=kThJO"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=kThJO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsMain/~4/472037258" height="1" width="1"/

div style="FLOAT: right"img title="QStarz BT-Q1000X GPS Data Logger" alt="QStarz BT-Q1000X GPS Data Logger" hspace="5" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/12/bt-q1000x.jpg" vspace="5" border="0" //div pQStarz's latest GPS data logger/Bluetooth GPS receiver is self-proclaimed to be the most powerful in the world. Going by the moniker BT-Q1000X, this device will share a similar form factor as its predecessors, although underneath the hood is where all the difference lies. Features of the BT-Q1000X include :- /p p ul liMTK II chipset with high sensitivity -165dBm and 66-Channel tracking/li liUltra lower power consumption (up to 42hrs operation)/li liLess than 15-sec. AGPS fix support/li liUpdate Rate 1~5Hz/li liG-Mouse + Bluetooth in one: wired and wireless GPS receiver/li liQZSS, DGPS(WAAS+EGNOS+MSAS) support/li/ul p/pThe BT-Q1000X is able to store up to 200,000 points, featuring the ability to save a location with the push of a button (for geotagging) with an auto on-off feature to further maximize battery life. There is no word on when this will arrive on US shores. pPermalink: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/12/qstarz_btq1000x_gps_data_logger.html"QStarz BT-Q1000X GPS Data Logger/a from Ubergizmo (a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"US/a, a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/fr"FR/a) | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a | Hot: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/blackberry_storm_review.html"Storm Review/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081201193852" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081201193852?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081201193852" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081201193852amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F12%2Fqstarz_btq1000x_gps_data_logger.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/C39zk7-Tcdm9YZFQfV19NzPR8yg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/C39zk7-Tcdm9YZFQfV19NzPR8yg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=vVeKD98Z"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=BjNSxJtq"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=BjNSxJtq" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=fYd5JSnx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=e51XvR9v"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=e51XvR9v" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=G1PRzhCM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=G1PRzhCM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ubergizmo/~4/i674SVQJdsE" height="1" width="1"/

So as suspected, that blue Datel battery, it’s a total sham… Well, sort of… When put into service mode on the PSP-3000 it’ll result in nothing but a flashing light and black screen; at least for those sporting a TA-088v3 motherboard. Someone still needs to bypass or hack the pre-IPL hash process. [...]

Social site Facebook has rolled out a system that lets members use other sites via the social networking portal.

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Are you getting the most out of your Adobe AIR installation?  Are you one of those people that installed it for one specific application and never explored what else was out there?  Well, it’s time to get more out of AIR, and here are 10 apps that will make you anxious to get AIR up and running.

What are the Adobe AIR apps that you couldn’t live without?  Tell us in the comments!

DeskTube - DeskTube lets you get complete control over YouTube on your desktop. Search, watch, comment, get embed codes, upload your own videos and even download the videos you are currently watching as MOV files.

Dorame - Dorame doesn’t add much to the Pandora listening experience, but it does give you the freedom of being outside of your browser and changing up the appearance of the service.

EarthBrowser - EarthBrowser gives you live updates of clouds, earthquakes, the weather, satellite overlays, volcanoes, fires and a whole lot more.

Feedalizr - Many people have downloaded service specific apps like TweetDeck, Twhirl and so on, but Feedalizr rolls several social tools into one app.  You can work with Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Twitter and VideoVideo all from this one handy interface.

Google Analytics - While most people love looking at statistics about their websites, Google Analytics can be a bit slow at times for those webmasters that use their tools.  This Adobe AIR app gives you the ability to open reports in multiple tabs for easier switching and allows you to change date ranges faster.

MiniTask - A desktop tool for creating detailed to-do lists that you can separate out by categories, copy the items out to other programs, set reminders, print out task sheets and more.

Posty - Get all of your FriendFeed. Identi.ca, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr and Twitter updates in one handy application with built-in URL shortening, spell checking, message search and more.

TweetDeck - While it seems that apps that only work with one social site are becoming passe, TweetDeck gives you so much control over how you see your Tweets, it is well worth it.  Your incoming messages are already split into columns for timeline, replies and direct messages, and then you can build custom columns for things such as work, friends and more.

Twhirl - The odds are fairly high that this is the application you installed Adobe Air for in the first place, but that doesn’t exclude it from the list in case it wasn’t.  Probably the most popular of the Twitter clients, Twhirl also supports interactions with multiple accounts for FriendFeed, laconi.ca, seesmic and Twitter.

Yammer - Yammer, the private corporate microblogging service, gets a desktop client that runs on the Adobe AIR platform, allowing you to use all the features of the service freed from your browser.

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I just demo'd my older black plastic Macbook right next to my new aluminum Macbook (2.4). My black one was getting full reception while the new Macbook was getting no reception at all.

I have read that the aluminum housing in other models could interfere with reception, but this is kind of silly. In other parts of my house I go from f