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So today I went to import a video from my Panasonic HDC-SD1 digital video camera, which records on SD memory cards into iMovie on a Mac. I had to go get that little Sandisk memory card reader I bought from Staples and plug it in the USB port.  SO annoying.

My point is that Apple computers, should have SD card readers.  The Eee PC has an intregrated SD reader and it’s only $400.  Furthermore, Mac’s are considered high-end computers and a memory card reader should not be too much to ask for the price.  With Apple bundleing so much multimedia software a memory card reader to import the pictures from your camera should have been built in by defualt.  Plenty of computers have SD card readers and it would be trivial for Apple to build one in.

Mozilla has officially released Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1.
See the Release Notes and Known Issues or just get Firefox 3 RC1.

When they ship Nokia’s Internet Tablets (n770, n800, n810) have instant messaging. However they can only communicate on Google Talk and other Jabber (XMPP) networks. You cannot chat with buddies that use AIM, Yahoo!, MSN or other more popular IM networks. The current solution is to install the port of Pidgin for Maemo. However it does not integrate as well with the Maemo environment as the built in Google Talk client.

There is now a solution!! Maemoapps.com explains how to get on almost all the IM networks available on Pidgin using the built in Maemo chat client. Steps are as follows:

1. Enable Red Pill mode see here for instructions.
2. Install this on your N800/N810.
3. Run the RTCom update installer in the Extras menu.
4. Control Panel–>Accounts and add your AIM/MSN/Yahoo! or other IM account.
5. Go back into Blue Pill mode for using your tablet normally.

This also installs a program to view saved chat logs.