The 12-inch figurine from In Icons -– which will sell for $99, before shipping — will go on sale in the U.S. in February. The site said it is selling the action figure “to honor the American icon and great visionary Steve Jobs.”

The figurine is extremely detailed and more realistic than other models we’ve seen of the former Apple CEO in the past — he’s even wearing a wedding ring.

It also comes with a pair of black socks, a chair, a backdrop that says “One More Thing” and two apples — one with a bite. iPhone not included.

Will you buy a Steve Jobs action figure? Is it too soon for companies to monetize items based on Jobs?

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Screenshots of Mac OS X 10.7.3 developer builds have revealed what we already suspected: ultra-high definition Macs are coming. This Get Info window capture reveals a HIDPI (Hi-Dots-Per-Inch) mode checkbox that may come in the next update of Apple’s desktop OS.

The checkbox would open any application using the special high definition screen mode needed to support new hardware. Instead of using low resolution interface elements, Mac OS X would use assets with double the pixel resolution of the current ones. This means that, if you are using new Retina-like displays, the relative resolution will double, making everything twice as sharp while retaining the same absolute size in the screen.

This supports the rumor that a new 15″ MacBook may have a 2880 x 1800-pixel screen early next year. The option box has disappeared from the last Mac OS X developer build, version 11D36.

Like always, take all rumors with a grain of salt. Nobody knows for sure when these ultra-high definition may come. [MacRumors]

(Text & Image source: gizmodo.com)

• Improve stability
• Address issues that could cause hangs and excessive memory usage
• Address issues that could cause webpages to flash white
• Allow PDFs to be displayed within web content

Safari 5.1.2 is available via Software Update.

Everything in the new Lion OSX seems to be wonderful and very helpful to the mac users but only one thing concerns me to write this blog post. The main concern of mine as well as most of the people might be the upgrade system Apple has announced this time. The new OSX Lion will be only available in Mac App Store and will be automatically upgraded from Mac App Store only eliminating the Disc that we used to buy for upgrading Apple’s previous versions of the OSX. They have dramatically decreased the price of the new OSX from previous $129.99 to $29.99 only for Lion but how is everyone who owns a mac will updated the 4GB download keeping in mind that not every part of the world have high speed internet access to them and not all mac users have iTunes account/Mac App Store account with them, so how are they going to update their current Snow Leopard OSX to Lion? This thing concerns a lot to me.

I am lucky that I am using my brother’s credit card account for iTunes/Mac App Store to buy apps but not everyone is lucky as I am, isn’t it? So, is Apple is going to bring any alternate method for those users who doesn’t have iTunes/App Store account with them? or are they gonna stick up with the Mac App Store upgrade only?

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Recently I visited of the the Apple Retail Store here in Kathmandu (I don’t want to disclose the name of that retailer), I was there to ask if they have got any External Harddrive and their answer was “No, we don’t sell hard drives”. Well that’s okay. So, as I was there I thought asking if they have got iPhone 4 and the prompt reply was “Yes, we do that iPhone 4″ (with a exciting face). I had no idea why that lady was so excited about when I asked her about the iPhone 4. But once I asked the price on how much damage it was going to make on my savings and the reply from that lady was “It would cost you 88,000.00 NRP for 16GB”. I was totally shocked to hear the price from her and then I realized why she was so excited before when she told me that they have got iPhone 4 (may be she thought I was going to buy it without any single thought on it).

So, I was speechless there and didn’t even bothered to ask her why the price was so high, cause I think I know the answer already. So, I just turned around and left the shop. After getting home I directly went to Apple Singapore website and checked the price for the same iPhone 4 16GB and the price listed at the moment is S$ 888.00 which will make 49,093.59 NPR if we convert it. But, I also understand that the price in Nepali market will not be same as the converted price but little more than that and I totally agree with it, so how much it should have been in here??? Even if the retailers add 5,000.00 – 7,000.00 NRP extra to it it will be fine cause of tax and all, but 88,000.00 NRP?? How do they tag the price?? I really wonder about it, or do they add the price of 5MP camera and HD video camera’s price to it also? (just my thought), cause no way it will cost 88.000.00 NRP. So, I think iPhone prices are way to high for the nepali market, what do you think??

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UPDATE: Now the iPhone price has been lowered down from 65k to 70k in different stores.

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Yesterday (07.06.2010) Apple, announced iPhone4 and iOS 4 eliminating Phone from its OS name as now its not just limited to iPhone but iPad and iPod too.

Many people in Nepal are using unlocked version of iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS as our carrier are not so interested in introducing legal iPhone in the country so far. So, people using iPhone have to use unlocked version of the iPhone and which keeps us away from updating its OS directly from iTunes but instead wait until we get a way to unlock it after getting our hands on Jailbreak software is released with every OS update and it’s not an easy job to unlock the phone after jailbreaking it because we always have a fear of baseband change which leads to keep the iPhone locked for the rest of the life and we can use it only as an iPod .

So, now another part will be limiting us to use iPhone4 in Nepal and that would be the “MicroSIM”. Apple now has introduced MicroSIM slot in new iPhone4 device. So there is no point of buying it to use it in Nepal and don’t seem chances that NT (Nepal Telecomm) or Ncell (formerly MeroMobile) will be introducing MicroSIM to its customers just for the sake to let us use iPhone4 .

But, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users can enjoy the new features of iOS 4 in their phone by jailbreaking it (once its online).

So, if you are Apple fan and want to buy iPhone4, please go though the specifications carefully before you invest your huge loads of saving in buying one.

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Being an Apple user from last year I have been buying all the genuine softwares as far as possible for my machine. While I was in Dubai, it was not that hard for me to find the new softwares cause sooner or later within few days/weeks they used to get available in the market and the prices were somehow little bit more when we used to convert them from $$$. But, as I am in Nepal now, I bought iLife ’09 here which original price (apple.com/ilife) is $79 which will be around Nrs. 6004.00 (79×76) and they charged me Nrs. 9500.00 for a single user pack which is really a big deal for mac users in Nepal to pay such a huge amount of money for iLife ’09.

And today Apple launched its new Mac OSX named Snow Leopard which costs $29 for an upgrade DVD for single user pack and here they told me that it will be available for us in 10 days and I have to pay around NRs. 3500.00-4000.00, how can you just put your own price tag??? Ok I understand we have to pay tax and all while importing these kinds of stuffs but being a premium reseller in Nepal this is not what you charge for your customers. So, I am little bit confused here, if I should buy it here paying NRs. 3500.00-4000.00 or should I ask someone abroad to send me one.