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You don't need to spend a fortune traveling around the world, filming in exotic locations to create an interesting music video. There are "tons of cool ways to use a Mac to the song of 'Again & Again' by the Bird & the Bee." Video after the break.

The set? His Mac desktop. You sort of have to see it for yourself to understand; luckily, Dennis has dropped it on YouTube so that the world can see it in low-res glory.

Not your average MacBook Air parody -- no Apple bashing -- this one shows why the standard MacBook is definitely "thin enough" to fit inside a manila envelope. Continue reading to watch.

Now here's an interesting game, Raging Thunder for the iPhone. This early version makes use of the phone's accelerometer to control the vehicles. Video after the break.

..everything's rendered in pretty decent OpenGL 3D graphics as well. It's no GTA4, but you can download it from Installer.app now.

If Sony were to partner with Apple for their next portable, all-in-one gaming device, then it might look something like the iWish. Click here for one more picture.

I call this the iWish because I wish Sony would get their act together and improve the PSP. So many people are doing such amazing and innovative things these days, and yet the only innovative thing to happen to the PSP since 2005 was that it got a little slimmer.

How about a "robotic watering system that can to take directions from an iPhone?" Look no furthur than Peter's solution. Continue reading to watch.

When Safari's screen state goes from horizontal to vertical, it sends a status update to a web server via JavaScript that sets the watering can up or down.

What's so special about this particular Apple Store, opening in Boston on May 15th - 17th? Well, it supposedly is the largest in the world, with Apple estimating that "1,500-2000 customers/hour will visit." The green construction walls were modeled after Fenway Park's Green Monster. Click here for first picture in gallery.

We're talking largest Apple Store in the world, by square footage. The store, in the city's historic Back Bay district, looks like a four-story glass cube. It's the first store inside Boston proper and the first with easy subway access

The guys over at iPhon.fr apparently managed to get their hands on an early iPhone 3G test unit, and from these pictures, it definitely looks slightly thinner than its predecessor. Click here for one more picture.

We have a hard time imagining that anything like this can come out of Monssieur Jonathan Ive's brain. Or better said, we have a hard time envisioning us buying what looks like a soulless piece of machinery, even while the true soul of the iPhone is its operating system

Do you know any gamer who's already finished Grand Theft Auto IV? Then it's time to start looking for amusing signs, such as this Apple / iPhone parody. Click here for one more picture.

And if that's not enough, the site advertises a new banana-shaped iFruit phone. Its sales points made me laugh out loud: No buttons, no reception, no storage capacity, all Ego!

The iSwish application brings the "rubber band-like scrolling, jiggly icons, screen flicking, SummerBoard themes, and even simulated multi-touch pinching of photos" you've come to love to any Windows Mobile device. Video after the break.

While you can argue that Windows Mobile is feature-for-feature and spec-for-spec superior to OS X on the iPhone, Apple's mobile UI is certainly more fun to use

Apple's updated iMac line features a top-of-the-line model with a "3.06GHz processor, 512MB of NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS graphics, 2GB of memory, and a 320GB 7200rpm disk for $2,199." Product page. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Rounding out the specs across the lineup are Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, 802.11n WiFi, Gigabit Ethernet, built-in iSight cam, and 5x USB 2.0 and 1x Firewire 400 and 1x Firewire 800