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AViiQ Portable Quick Stand Now Available

The AViiQ Portable Quick Stand launched a week ago, but being a fan of the company and the great products they make, we didn’t want to miss out on celebrating the launch of AViiQ’s next generation of portable stands. Following AViiQ’s Premium Portable Laptop Stand (and we thought the original was a grade A laptop stand), the Portable Quick Stand is the younger brother that folds out into a triangle to lift your laptop to comfortable heights. Just like the Portable Laptop Stand, the Portable Quick Stand snaps open and uses the weight of the laptop to secure its position, utilizing a colored grip (so it totally fits your style) to stay seated and prevent any shifting. I just got mine a couple days ago, and I can tell you I’m pretty impressed with the quality of AViiQ’s newest family member so far. I’ll be doing a full review next week, so keep yours eye glued to MacStories for the final verdict. In the meantime, you can check out AViiQ’s Portable Quick Stand in action past the break, along with the press release.

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The MacLegion 2011 Spring Bundle

A week or so ago, I discovered a new bundle/sign-up page on twitter. I added my email address and patiently awaited to hear more. They have been teasing followers with tweets but last night at midnight EST, MacLegion was revealed. I checked out the site and am very pleased with its offerings. MacLegion’s 2011 Spring Bundle is 10 quality Mac apps for $49.99 (a $552 value). We’ve seen many bundles similar to this price point, but this one really stands out.

The inaugural Spring bundle contains an arsenal of apps aiming at productivity and usefulness of your Mac. There are no games or social media apps, only rich and powerful tools to help you take on your project goals, and better enhance the way you use your Mac. Read more

BananaTunes Streams Your Music From iOS To OS X Through AirPlay

Erica Sadun, author of the great AirPlay hack BananaTV has come out with a new beta application; BananaTunes. Taking advantage of the recent reverse engineering of AirPlay it will allow you to transmit full stereo music from an AirPlay enabled iOS device to any Mac running BananaTunes.

Previously AirPlay hacks such as BananaTV or AirFlick and AirTuner only expanded upon the video side of AirPlay but thanks to that reverse engineering magic we can now stream music too. TUAW reported mixed results with BananaTunes (it is beta after all) with it working fine with their iPad 2 but having some issues with an iPhone 4. I personally had no issues using both my iPhone 4 and iPad 2 in playing music to my Mac through BananaTV, except a few initial seconds of stuttering that soon disappeared.

Ultimately Erica plans to merge the BananaTuner functionality into the BananaTV software, but for now you can download these two zip files (or this all-in-one installer) to try it out, but be warned it requires OS X 10.6 and only runs as a 64-bit application.

[Via TUAW]

With iMac Orders Delayed, We’re Expecting a Refresh

CNET’s Brian Tong previously reported at the end of March that now would would be a bad time to purchase an iMac, as a refresh coming in May would bring no cosemtic changes, but Thunderbolt and Sandy Bridge would flesh out the range of Apple’s refreshed desktops. 9 to 5 Mac reports that the iMac is continually seeing supply restraints for the current generation of iMacs, and that a source revealed new iMacs should be shipping next week as Apple stops shipping to resellers this week.

Due to an unexpected delay, we are unable to ship the following item(s)
by the date that you were originally quoted:

Z0JP, IMAC 27\”/5750/SD
will now ship on or before
May 02, 2011

We’re keeping an eye out for May 3rd and 4th delivery dates, and we expect a MacBook Air refresh to include Sandy Bridge processors in June, with Thunderbolt products to hit the mainstream this summer.

[via 9 to 5 Mac]
Image via: MacRumors