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Apple has removed a common security measure from its iWork ’09 office suite, according to an official support document. Mirroring a decision taken with iLife, which is bundled with new Macs as well as sold separately, Apple has eliminated the need to enter a serial number when installing a retail copy of iWork ’09. A number is still needed to…

That’s not a typo. You can celebrate the inauguration the old fashioned way, with a spycam/DVR belt buckle featuring a visage that in no way resembles our future President.

Beer sales are known for being recession-resistant, but that isn’t looking to be the case this time around. The London-based brewer behind the Miller brand recently reported that its shipments dropped unexpectedly in the third quarter. However, in some spots, sales of liquor with more than 21% alcohol is on the rise.

New BulletFlight program could be a ‘killer’ app for Apple

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Voidsinger writes “The latest firmware updates to correct Seagate woes have created a new debacle. It seems from Seagate forums that there has yet to be a successful update of the 3500320AS models from SD15 to the new SD1A firmware. Add to that the updater updates the firmware of all drives of the same type at once, and you get a meltdown of RAID arrays, and people’s backups if they were on the same type of drive. Drives are still flashable though, and Seagate has pulled the update for validation. While it would have been nice of them to validate the firmware beforehand, there is still a little hope that not everyone will lose all of their data.”

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Martin Hellman writes ” DeviceGuru.com ran my piece raising questions about the EPA’s Energy Star program. For example, an Energy Star compliant TV that claims to draw 0.1 watts in sleep mode appears to do that — but only seems to sleep about 25% of the time that it is ‘off.’ The other 75% of the time it draws about 20 watts, for an effective sleep power draw from the user’s perspective that is 150 times what the manufacturer claims. Based on the observations described, it is also questionable how many PC’s really are sleeping when their screens are blank, even if the user has turned sleep mode on. Given the billions of dollars and tons of CO2 that are at stake, this situation demands more attention.”

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