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Remember iPhone 4 antenna issues? In case you lived on a different planet, you probably heard the whole brouhaha that ultimately forced Apple to offer a free case to alleviate the antenna problems. The program lasted for a while, but it ends today, so you better hurry if you didn’t order yours yet. Here is how to do it:

1. Go here iPhone 4 Case Program app and download the application
2. Start the application form your iPhone
3. Choose the case you like the most. There are several actually good options available
4. Wait for a number of weeks until you get it

Depending when you bought your iPhone, it might be too late already. If you got yours before July 23, you are out of luck.

Joining the already large crowd we have a new media streamer box from QNAP. Known more for its storage solutions, QNAP forays into the streaming market with their newest product NMP-1000P. At its heart there is a Sigma Designs SMP8643 SoC CPU, at  667MHz paired with a igh performance Wolfson WM8524 stereo digital to analog converter for high sound quality. Among the video formats supported are AVI, MPEG/MPG, VCD (ISO, MPG, NRG), DVD (VOB, IFO, ISO, NRG), WMV, ASF, TP, TS, TRP, M1V, M2V, M4V, M2P, M2T, M2TS, BDMV/ BD ISO, MTS, MOV, MP4, RMP4, MKV, MOD, 3GP (so pretty much everything under the sun)

The NMP-1000P is capable of full HD 1920 x 1080p (including 23.976p and 24p frame rates), can access your network shares, has a wired Ethernet connection (and an optional wireless one), supports FTP and Bit-torrent and can also work as NAS with a maximum of 16 concurrent connections. A fairly capable box we would say, which can also display movie covers and metadata.

NMP-1000P also supports several web clients like Flickr and Picasa photos, Apple movie trailers, Internet radio, Mediafly™, weather forecast. Unfortunately there is nothing mentioned about Netflix which is a pity.

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