A year on, Psystar still defying Apple

One year ago, an otherwise sleepy April in the Apple universe was turned upside down by a tiny company from Southern Florida, kicking off a real-world Clone War between Apple and Psystar.

Today, the essential question regarding Psystar is unchanged: does the company have the right to sell computers with Apple's Mac OS X Leopard preinstalled, as it has been doing since April 14, 2008? Psystar set off shock waves through the Apple world that week, as an army of journalists, bloggers, fanboys, and detractors set off on a manic search for anything and everything related to the company and its desktops.

Psystar emerged a year ago as a small independent system builder, the likes of which can be found in any medium-size town in the US. What provoked the interest and ire of the Mac community was Psystar's decision to ship so-called "white box" systems with Mac OS preinstalled alongside systems with Windows Vista and Linux, in defiance of Apple's licensing policies for that operating system.
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Tax-free Internet shopping may be at an end

If a little-known but influential alliance of state politicians, large retailers, and tax collectors have their way, the days of tax-free Internet shopping may be nearly over.

A bill expected to be introduced in the US Congress as early as Monday would rewrite the ground rules for mail order and Internet sales by eliminating what its supporters view as a "loophole" that, in many cases, allows Americans to shop over the Internet without paying sales taxes.

Currently, Americans who shop over the Internet from out-of-state vendors aren't always required to pay sales taxes at the time of purchase. Californians buying books from Amazon.com or cameras from Manhattan's B&H Photo, for example, won't pay sales taxes at checkout time that they would if shopping at a local mall.
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LaCie's rugged external hard drive gets bigger

If you own a compact Rugged All-Terrain external hard drive from LaCie, you know how tough the device is. It has a rubber bumper, and the scratch-protected aluminum case can take a serious beating.

Now the same drive has evolved to a bigger physical size with larger storage capacity.

LaCie announced Tuesday the new Rugged LX external hard drive that shares the same distinctive design by Neil Poulton.

The new drive is now based on a 3.5-inch internal hard drive and is therefore much bigger than the Rugged All-Terrain, measuring 8.46 inches by 5.11 inches by 1.73 inches. It also has an increased capacity of 1TB.
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Microsoft beefs up SideWinder mice with baby X3

Since launching the original SideWinder mouse in 2007, Microsoft has been following up with newer entries, including the midrange X5 and wireless X8. To complete its gaming mice lineup, the Redmond company has just announced the SideWinder X3 for the region, its most affordable laser-based model in the series. The corded X3 is compatible with both Windows Vista and Windows XP operating systems and will be available throughout Asia from May.
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Recycling goes down the loo, the Mac way

I don't know about you, but when I reach for the toilet paper dispenser, a Mac Mini is the furthest thing on my mind, aside from my posterior. But it seems a reader of Journaldugeek, probably a Windows fanboy, decided the Apple system has better utility as a dispenser of cleaning material than as a desktop. Check out his mod after the jump.
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