Apple has decided to begin shipping a refreshed version of the popular MacBook Air next month in an attempt to stave off dwindling sales of current Air models. Many users have bought MacBook Pros in order to get a much faster machine for their money and to experience the Thunderbolt technology that's been included in the MacBook Pro since the beginning of this year.

The new MacBook Airs are rumored to include Intel's latest microprocessors, updated Intel integrated graphics, and of course the Thunderbolt technology which is an Intel interface for super high-speed data transfer with speeds of up to 10 gbps.� According to Intel using Thunderbolt you can transfer full-length high-definition movies in under 30 seconds and backup enough music to play continuously for a year in just over ten minutes.

The addition of the more powerful components paired with this wonderful data transfer technology should definitely help sales of MacBook Air models to recover in upcoming calendar quarters.

If you're interested in knowing more about Thunderbolt, including how it works and why it's worth having support for on your machine checkout the official page on Intel's site.

[via Appleinsider]

Google announced on April 29 that all Google Videos will no longer be viewable on the site, users will need to transfer their video clips to other Google's video service, YouTube, by May 13th. Since its announcement, there has been a lot of feedback of how to make this process easier and quicker.

In respond to the feedback, Google has created an "Upload Videos to YouTube" option, making it easy to send videos from a Google Video account to an associated YouTube account.

Here is the message posted on the Google's Webmaster Central blog on April 22 regarding the details and how its work. Also, an email was sent to all Google video users on April 23 as well.

Last week we sent an email to Google Video users letting them know we would be ending playbacks of Google Videos on April 29 and providing instructions on how to download videos currently hosted on the platform. Since then we've received feedback from you about making the migration off of Google Video easier. We work every day to make sure you have a great user experience and should have done better. Based on your feedback, here's what we're doing to fix things.

Google Video users can rest assured that they won't be losing any of their content and we are eliminating the April 29 deadline. We will be working to automatically migrate your Google Videos to YouTube. In the meantime, your videos hosted on Google Video will remain accessible on the web and existing links to Google Videos will remain accessible. If you want to migrate to YouTube now, here's how you do it:
We've created an "Upload Videos to YouTube" option on the Google Video status page. To do this, you'll need to have a YouTube account associated with your Google Video account (you can create one here). Before doing this you should read YouTube's Terms of Use and Copyright Policies. If you choose this option, we'll do our best to ensure your existing Google Video links continue to function.

[via Mashable]

The folks at Cupertino have decided that the next version of their iPhone will include the much snappier, dual-core A5 processor that is currently in use in the iPad 2. �This comes as no surprise as�the processor provides superior performance, especially for game play, especially after the discovery in the iOS 4 SDK that the iPhone 5 will be A5-equipped.

Apple has a team of developers already working on new versions of their iPhone apps to leverage the additional power of the A5 chip. �It seems that the majority of these developers are from shops that produce high-end gaming apps which is a good fit since the A5 processor can mainly be leveraged by game designers.

The handsets that they've shipped to developers are prototype units and are not actually early versions of the iPhone 5. �They are simply testing what can be accomplished by developers with the new processor and most likely deciding what other features and hardware they will pack into the next release of the device. �Some speculate that the iPhone 5 will also include a higher-resolution camera and a world phone chip. �Insiders have said that the phone stays locked in a vault at night so who knows what's in store.

[via 9to5mac]