The guys over at ars technica are reporting that the next major revision of Office for Mac will include Outlook. Finally, Entourage will be replaced with a bona fide version of Outlook. Microsoft is also reporting that Outlook for Mac withh have a completely redesigned database that will be compatible with Spotlight and Time machine.

“Because it’s designed for the Mac, it will be different from Outlook for Windows,” Mac BU general manager Eric Wilfrid said. “But it will be fully compatible. For instance, Outlook for Mac will support Information Rights Management, which controls access to sensitive documents.”

To see more details and get info about Entourage Web Services Edition, which is designed to connect to Exchange 2007, jump on over the ars techica’s article.

Do you have a second computer, Mac or PC, with a good display that you wish you could use as another display on your Mac? I have an old Flat Panel iMac that has a fantastic display but there is no way to access the display to use it with the extended display feature of my MacBook Pro.

I found a great program that allows you to do just that. It’s called ScreenRecyler. Use your old iMac as a second screen for your new iMac as pictured. You can even use an old Windows PC. It’s easy to setup and is surprisingly fast. Try it out!

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5 on the ScreenRecycler computer.

Still able to make a tethered connection

MacRumors.com posted an article today that the latest iPhone 3.1 Beta 2 disabled unauthorized AT&T tethering. The latest beta version disables tethering hacks because of the latest flurry of hacks circulating right after the release of the 3.0 firmware.

The NetShare app that appeared and then reappeared for a short time last summer on Apple’s App Store worked with the release of iPhone 3.0 and still works with the latest 3.1 beta 2 release. It will be interesting to see if NetShare still works by the time AT&T officially releases it’s tethering solution later this summer.

iPhone 3G owners who are ineligible for a subsidized upgrade to the iPhone 3G S will really enjoy this little find. Here’s a way to get the 3G S at the full subsidized price. The trick is you need to go to an AT&T store to get it done. Details after the jump…

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Mac Pro customers now have two additional options for high-performance graphics: the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 graphics cards.

The ultra-high-end NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 features 1.5GB of GDDR3 memory, two dual-link DVI ports, and a 3D stereo port for use with stereo-in-a-window applications.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 features 1GB of fast GDDR3 memory, two dual-link DVI ports, and outstanding performance for graphics-intensive professional applications as well as games.

Both cards are available separately as user installable kits from the Apple Online Store and through NVIDIA channel partners (Quadro FX 4800 available through PNY in the US and EMEA, Leadtek in APAC, and Elsa in Japan; GeForce GTX 285 available worldwide through EVGA). The standard graphics card, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 and the high-performance configure-to-order ATi Radeon 4870 continue to be available for customers interested in those graphics choices.

Ever tried to remember the exact filename for something that you saved last month or the subject of an email you sent three months ago. If you’re like me, I’ve got other things to do that remember details like that. Spotlight in Leopard is not picky and will take any info you give it to help you find what you are looking for.

For example, if you know the file was created in a certain time period you can enter the date range into Spotlight search box like this: date:3/15/09-3/31/09. Other tags that can be used are basically any of the categories that are available to Spotlight from the Spotlight preferences pane, like message, contact, image, music, movie, font, etc.

So if you knew a word in the subject of an email you wanted to find, you could enter, kind:message subject:invoice #3452. Using the tag limits the results to a category and you see more possible matches. By default Spotlight shows all category results and it can get too crowded in the drop down list, and the Show All option can give too many results. So start using tags and see if you get close enough for Spotlight to figure out what you are looking for.

Using multiple wavelengths and polarizations of light to record data on multilayered discs, researchers could pack 1.6 terabytes of data on a standard-size DVD.

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Apple’s said no background apps on the iPhone, citing it destroys stability and system resources. Today, three reputable publications have independently claimed that Apple is having a change of mind. I think it’s a great move on Apple’s part, just a long as there is a good way of controlling the background apps. I don’t want to have to use an app like Free Memory to clean things up.

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Wow, checkout the trailer for Gameloft’s iPhone version of its upcoming Terminator: Salvation game. It’s hard to tell how the controls will work, but the graphics and gameplay really do look great. And the sound is not bad. I’m psyched.

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Apple is preparing to launch not one, but two new devices according to a new rumor, one of which could be coming as early as this summer. The sources claim that one device is a smaller, cheaper iPhone while the other is a “media pad” that could let users watch HD video, listen to music, and do other fun, touchscreeny things.

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