Since Google purchased YouTube, the wildly popular video sharing site has endured a number of growing pains as it works to reinvent itself into a more commercial-minded portal. One of those pains came to light this week as YouTube announced it’s cutting off API access to at least one maker of set-top boxes tied to televisions.

Apple has always been fairly aggressive in protecting their product trademarks and likenesses, as The Little App Factory recently discovered when they received a letter from the law firm of Baker & McKenzie asking them to change the name of their Mac software, iPodRip.

ZDNet’s Jason D. O’Grady has some further details on the rumors coming out of China this week regarding Apple’s mysterious “iTablet.”

The classic Choose Your Own Adventure series already had a brief flirtation with the iPhone a year ago (courtesy of Magnetism Studios) with a 99¢ app featuring two books — Return to Atlantis and Journey Under the Sea. But now, you can collect nearly 30 more titles, courtesy of the free Amazon Kindle app.

Glancing at a spec sheet, Apple’s latest iMacs might seem like run-of-the mill product refreshes. Sure, there’s the requisite processor bumps and storage updates, but an iMac’s an iMac, right? Ah, not so much. When you see these machines in person, their differences are much more apparent, striking even. The new line-up includes four new machines--two small ones and two bigguns--and we had the chance to review one of each size for this article.

The only MacBook left standing isn’t some neglected also-ran. With this redesign, Apple gave its most modest notebook nearly all the power and the style of the 13-inch MacBook Pro. For $999 ($200 less than the base 13-inch Pro), the white MacBook has nearly the same specs, minus the FireWire port, SD card slot, IR sensor, and backlit keyboard--and the MacBook has a bigger hard drive: 250GB to the base Pro’s 160GB.

If you take your Internet security seriously, now there’s an app for that.

What do you get when you match original art from the Threadless.com community with a sleek, smooth-to-the-touch case for your iPhone from Griffin? One awesome case!

Looking for your app to get noticed and become the next major player?  Flurry's AppCircle may be the tool to do just that.

Pocket-lint.com is reporting that Cisco will be adding Wi-Fi to its popular, pocketable Flip digital camcorders as early as the first part of 2010.