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The first Blu-ray movie disc with Fox’s Digital Copy has been released today. For those who were wondering, it’s exactly the same deal as the Digital Copy DVDs, such as the one we looked at, Blue Harvest. Inside the specially marked Blu-ray case you’ll find two discs — the Blu-ray movie, and a regular DVD [...]

After a couple of weeks’ worth of delay, the much-publicized Take 2 update for the Apple TV has finally been released. Now that everyone can get their hands on a much-improved Apple TV, we have to ask: was it worth the hype/wait/purchase? Let’s take a closer look.

Thanks to a new deal between Apple and Fox, now marked DVD titles will include a digital copy of the movie for use with iTunes. The title I tried out was the first one that was revealed — even well before the announcement, thanks to a lucky guy who grabbed a copy of the DVD [...]

Things is a new GTD app from CulturedCode, who are responsible for the Xyle scope application that was also well-received here in Mac Recon. Like Xyle scope, Things has a fantastic interface that really packs more than it appears at a glance. To get started with Things, just type in a task to do, add [...]

Transmission had been in a pre-1.0 state for such a long time that some may have wondered whether we were ever going to see its proper version finally released. Granted, those releases still oozed with quality from its fantastic — yet simple — interface, which is exactly what made it such a big success. Now [...]