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Camptune is a utility proposed by Paragon Software that allows resizing the fly and non-destructive partition Bootcamp containing Windows or other Operating Systems.

If, after installing Windows on Mac, is aware of having spent too much or too little space, the only solution provided officially by Apple is the downsizing of destructive partition.This means that if we wish to enlarge it by cautious 5 GB decided at the beginning and bring it to 50 Gb necessary, we must first resign themselves to losing the entire contents.With this utility, however, is no longer necessary to make tabula rasa.

The programme is, in truth, a CD containing an image bootable Linux prepared to support Bootcamp and operations on it. Currently, the software is in a state of pre-release and it’s free. To receive the download link is just complete the form on this page, while burning the ISO is advisable to use Disk Utility.

Finally, given the extreme delicacy of the transactions involved, before doing anything is important to perform a backup, perhaps using Winclone.

Day of iPhone, today and for those who had not had the time or the desire to get in queue at midnight, here’s the solution. On the Vodafone Shop online you can buy an iPhone 3G and vederselo deliver at home.

Currently, the devices available in quantities are rather small. There is talk of 158 basic model phones while they are terminated than 16 GB. After all stocks are rapidly waning and then, if you are really concerned, the advice is to run at this address and take advantage because of this passage, probably within half an hour will be terminated.

The offer includes a Vodafone SIM with 5 euro united ‘telephone traffic.

Update: The iPhone 3G are completed.

Update 2: still 100 iPhone 3G from 8 Gb. It seems that Vodafone you’re enjoying a somministrarli with contagocce…

In addition to introductory guide sull’iPhone 3G (also available in English), Apple has made available a guide optimized for iPhone from always carry, saving between bookmark favorites. The guide offers useful support, as well as the approach of smartphones, also for Mail, Safari, iPod, Applications, Setting, Music Store and generic recommendations for problems that might occur during the use of the device.

The only question that remains regards the section on Starbucks on pages that will appear in countries (like ours) where the service is not available. Maybe, you simply removed the option of choice outside of the United States.

Apple has released a couple of updates for professional applications, Final Cut Server Update 1.1 and Pro Applications Update 2008-02. Apportati improvements in the stability in general and correction of different annoying bugs.

Final Cut Server Update 1.1 is the first patch - 50.1 MB - which receives the young application. Corrects multivalent problems in access to and exit from the projects of Final Cut Pro, solves problems in the character set with double-byte and improves the reliability of software. The download is possible from this page.

Pro Applications Update 2008-02, however, improves performance, compatibility and reliability of professional applications, the update is of course recommended for all users of Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Server and Logic Studio. After the update, Final Cut Pro will move to version 6.0.4 to 3.0.3 and Compressor. The download is possible by the dedicated page.

If you were to take an unbearable yearning to possess the iPhone 3G before any other Italian, you trust a secret: you can do. Vodafone NZ has recently announced the availability of new model iPhone, affordable in the cities of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch exactly noon and a minute onwards. In this way, New Zealanders get melafonino well the first 19 hours of the same employees Apple Cupertino.

The solution then is simple. It just take an airplane and travel to New Zealand: total cost of 3,000 Euros and 26 hours of flight (with a stopover in Hong Kong). A little hexose, but assures the satisfaction of being the first Italian to get their hands on the phone with the apple above. In fact, when Italy will still 14.01 Thursday July 10, in the land of someone Kiwis are already browsing with integrated GPS or stand by downloading some free application by App Store.

Who would not, however, simply waits.

Update arriving for Camino, the slight browser for Mac OS X based on the Gecko rendering engine, which comes as version 1.6.1. This release does not make many changes, but contains several updates to security and stability.

Among the innovations include:

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Tired of GUI iPhone?
You want ardently landing on the market of the ZunePhone?
Apple has fighetti?

If you answered “yes” to all three of the above questions, then the theme Vista Perfection 2.0 for you.

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According to what vocifera dall’oriente, new MacBook await us probably between July and September.

To give the news AU Optronics Corp.. and Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.., the two companies will provide to Apple 3 million display that equipaggeranno the next generation of laptops consumer therefore expected between July and September next, just in time for the school season.

And if MacBooks have been updated recently - and unexpectedly - to February last year with the shift to type Penryn processors, it could be argued that the next revision will take chip race Montevina (ie Centrino 2), whose output is planned for June.

It remains to be seen whether, in addition to the engine, change the bodywork: according to some sources, in fact, we soon to a radical change in the design of the MacBook with a transition from polycarbonate aluminium and steel, much more environmentally friendly and in line with that look characterizes the rest of the range Mac.

Available for download the new software release Voip most used - Skype - which reaches version 2.7.0.330.

Some improvements and a thick list of bugfix accompany his exit, here’s some:

Added support for NAT-PMP, uPnP and Proxy authenticated
Program more scattante after a video
Improvements for users of Tiger
Adjustments to the minors

For a stock to the whole list of novelty, as always, you can see the ChangeLog complete this page. To proceed to download Skype 2.7.0.330 is sufficient to point to page dedicated and follow the instructions.

Well, almost a year after the first appearance in American stores is announced the availability of iPhone in our country. Actually, since we do not miss anything ever, Italy will (unless new agreements yet to announce) the only country to have the smartphones of Cupertino proposed by more than one carrier without that agreement of exclusivity that has characterized so far trade policy desired by Steve Jobs. And, of course, without revenue sharing.

But the belpaese, as we all know, is a particular market: some say is, as regards mobile phones, the most advanced in the world, others say simply that it is strange and complicated.

Keep reading: Phenomenology dell’iPhone “tricolore”