Hey Kids! Max Out Your Credit With Apple’s Back-to-School Season Refresh!

That tell-tale “We’ll be back soon” sign appeared on Apple’s online store early Tuesday morning and when it disappeared a few hours later the company had refreshed a number of its product lines and debuted some entirely new gear as well. Announced this morning: new Mac Pro desktops, new iMacs, a 27-inch LED Cinema Display, an eco-friendly battery charger and a multi-touch Magic Trackpad.

Apple Notebook Event: MacBook Air Update and a New LED Display

The MacBook Air is also getting an update. The new model will have a faster graphics chip, a new mini-display port, a faster Intel Core Duo chip, and bigger drive.

Anyone Can Produce, And Star, in a Video — Just like Mine

Walt Mossberg explains how he makes his weekly Web videos — and how viewers can easily do so as well.

Joining the Contest Craze Through the Internet

Bix.com allows users to participate in contests that include singing, comedy photography and art, where members can vote using a thumbs-up or thumbs-down icon.
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Seeing Is Believing

When you think of videoconferencing, it might conjure up images of a cavernous corporate boardroom, its stiff executives sitting perched in front of costly cameras and viewing a slick video feed of colleagues in, say, Tokyo. Or perhaps you think of Joe Average staring into a cheap Webcam while squinting to make out a garish, [...]

The iPod Out Loud: Testing Speaker Attachments

Your iPod usage doesn’t have to end when you take off your headphones. Walt Mossberg tests four speakers for Apple’s digital music player.
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