"Should I upgrade PowerMac G4 Sawtooth, or buy new iMac," that's a good question! In fact, the answer is pretty simple, because the new iMacs are still being delayed, and the Sawtooth should still be able to handle most office tasks, as long as you don't want to encode HD videos using it... Just think about the fact that, almost a decade ago, this beauty from Apple was the first personal computer classified as munitions, and under export restriction, simply because of its awesome power for those days!

My choice would be to upgrade the PowerMac G4, or simply keep it the way it is, as long as everything's fine. After all, think about this - you can upgrade the processor up to 2 GHz, or dual 1.8 GHz, so even Leopard will run on this old machines without too many problems.

Now, what about those new iMacs? Well... here's the catch - Apple added new CPUs and GPUs to the iMac line on the 28th of April, 2008, and a lot happened in the industry since then. While rumors about quad core iMacs emerged in late 2008, Macworld 2009 was silent. When I say "silent," I think about the fact they didn't say anything about the new iMac, of course. The reason?
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Heh, I think the new iMacs were headed this way, in fact, only that they were planning to make them without the FireWire ports. As you surely know, the MacBook Unibody without FireWire create a lot of noise. And it wasn't positive karma coming with it...

...so my guess is this: wait a little, Apple is working on adding back to the iMac what they shouldn't have removed in first place: the FireWire ports! Other than that, remains to be seen, but if you see "upgrade PowerMac G4 Sawtooth, or buy new iMac," I strongly suggest you to get some juice into that old beauty, it can still rock for a year or two!

I don't know if you remember it or not, but we had a very nice giveaway a few months ago. I know the idea was to have the winners announced by the 1st of December, but we ran into a lot of trouble receiving the prizes, and we finally decided to end this one and get some prizes for you anyway. We're still talking about 4 GB thumb drives, so let's talk about the entries and the winners now, shall we?

Despite the fact we said it all ends on the 30th of November, we decided to allow everyone who posted comments to enter. After all, we only had 6 comments, so this means a 33% win chance for each of those who entered the draw: Ari, Political Disgust, Jess, Dana, Adi, and Daniel Manning.
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We simply got all those names into Random.rog's randomizer, and chosen these two as winners: Dana and Jess, the first two items in our randomized list.

Congratulations to both our winners, and we'll get in touch with you to discuss shipping of your prizes. That's all folks!

This concludes our Thumb Drives Giveaway, but be sure we'll get back with others in the future. Just be sure to follow us closely - bookmark BindApple, subscribe to our news by email, do whatever it takes, we're not going anywhere! ;)

If you want to record audio while moving around, you may need some iPhone 3G microphone, so USBfever decided to do something about that, releasing the Mini Microphone for iPhone 3G, pictured below.

This little mike comes in pretty handy, and I am not talking about iPhone users now, because there has been too long since I said for the first time "I gotta get some USB mike for my computer," and I didn't get there just yet. Anyway, let's check the features of this USBfever product now, shall we?

Features:
- Plug and Play
- High Quality Microphone, Fine sensibility
- Small and portable
- No need battery
- So conveninent, you can wear it as a necklace
- As a capsule, so compact and lightweight
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When it comes to that painful compatibility part, you'll be delighted to find that this accessory is fully compatible with the iPhone 3G, iPod Touch 2G, iPod Nano 4G, and the iPod Classic 120G version. Oh, yeah, one more thing - for the first two ones, you'll need to download install to your iPhone software like iTalk Recorder or Easy Recorder.

The price? A mere $14.99!

iTunes leaks? Haha, watch out! I hope you don't want to have your computer room flooded, that's why? Or, maybe...yes, you do, as long as being flooded by iTunes means to get Kelly Clarkson's unreleased "All I Ever Wanted" album!

According to RollingStone, Clarkson's entire upcoming album, expected to be released on the 10th of March, accidentally became available on iTunes Norway. Pretty cool for those into her, but considering Norway's musical scene, I would have imagined they'd leak some Black Metal album. Anyway, Clarkson or not, the iTunes leak remains a leak, that's certain.
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"Clarkson fans rejoiced earlier today when they noticed that Norwegian iTunes was streaming 30-second clips of each song on All I Ever Wanted, which is typical of the digital music service’s pre-purchase preview. However, listeners soon realized that they could, due to an iTunes error, purchase the entire new album rather than just settle for snippets. And as things snowball quickly on the Internet, All I Ever Wanted was quickly distributed on P2P sites and message boards," wrote RollingStone.

Even more, "Rock Daily confirmed that the file contains a 192kpbs version of the album that was encoded via iTunes," so everything seems clear - iTunes leaks, but - as usual - there's no official statement from Apple regarding this topic, and I wouldn't be amazed to see this story fading away without any words from the Cupertino-based company at all!

Sometimes, best thing to do is just sit back and enjoy the finest things in life, no matter what you should do. We all need our quiet and peaceful moments, and flowers would fit in perfectly for a lot of people. I am not speaking for myself, because I am not crazy at all about flowers, although I really enjoy seeing my uncle's Japanese flower arrangement and Bonzai trees from time to time. Now, what if...

...what if you could enjoy flowers and peaceful soundscapes on your iPhone? You can even turn sounds off, if you want! I know, it sounds a bit exaggerated, since there's no smell, and no positive energy you can get from a real flower, but when there's no real flower around, I guess Jiyuka could replace it, at least for a while.

"Jiyuka means "free flower" and is a modern form of Ikebana, the traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement. With Jiyuka, create and explore beautiful compositions of randomly generated flowers with complementing generative soundscapes. Jiyuka will put the user into the relaxing state of creating ever evolving compositions and exploring ever changing floral designs."

Randomly generated art, that's not bad, not bad at all! Since I am crazy about fractals and abstract art, seeing how Jiyuka works made me believe that there's still a ray of hope for new iPhone apps to get my attention. Just check this -
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"Flowers are created randomly as unique combinations of petal shapes and colors yielding an unlimited multitude of designs. Favorite flowers can be saved in a palette or be combined into new ones by crossing. The user can change the flower sizes, stack and layer them into beautiful arrangements and choose a matching background color shade from the wheel of colors. Completed arrangements can be saved in high quality to the photo library of the iPhone or iPod touch.

Jiyuka will complement the visual experience with a meditative soundscape reflecting the flower arrangement and colors. The music offers ever evolving melodies from four different user selectable tonal scales."

Considering that you'll get this program for $3.99 and it won't fade away, that's a pretty good deal. Even more, you can create interesting art for various projects - like flower textures, for example.