Apple has launched a new campaign, self-proclaiming themselves as producers of the greenest notebooks ever. The ad is mainly about their new unibody aluminum construction and glass displays that were one of the highlights at the most recent Macworld event.

Among other changes from standard notebooks, the new Macbooks have eliminated the use of toxins such as mercury that are found in other notebooks computers.

Apple also brags about the energy efficiency of their notebooks, claiming that they run on 25% power of a single lightbulb now that the LCDs are backlit by the use of LEDs.

Steve Jobs promised to eliminate all toxic materials from Apple hardware by the end of 2008.

There is a new Breathalyzer iPhone app in the neighborhood, DuiPhone. The cleverly named hack measures the alcohol content in your breath to see if you are sober enough to drive. This can also be told without the use of an iPhone app by if the room is spinning or not.

Also, by hack we don’t mean your usual "tinker with some code" type thing. You have to literally affix a Breathalyzer to the back of your iPhone. If you have that kind of time on your hands, and you are an alcoholic, this might be a match made in drunken heaven. Check the video below:

The iPod Touch can finally join its brother, the iPhone 3G, in offering Google Street View. You’ll have to jailbreak your Touch in order to use it, however. Click here for step by step instructions so you can creepily eye the house your ex-girlfriend used to live at. Apple offers no word on when and if the iPod Touch will receive a legitimate use of Google Street View. It probably won’t be long considering the recent iPhone firmware 2.2 upgrade featured legit functionality.

Also, the video below highlights another coup for the iPod Touch. The 2G Touch is pitted against an original Touch, an original iPhone and a 3G iPhone in a game of TouchSport Tennis. It handily beats all three in load times. Not bad, little guy.

Both QuickPwn and PwnageTool have been updated to support the recent iPhone 2.2 firmware upgrade. They sure do work at breakneck speeds to allow you to jailbreak your beloved iPhones. The firmware upgrade was just released less than 72 hours ago. Color me impressed.

Below is a video of what sounds like an 8-year old kid showing us how to install the programs into the new firmware upgrade. Kids learn just as fast as hackers these days.

According to various sources, running your MacBook or MacBookPro without its battery will cause a noticeable performance decrease. Those of you who adopt this practice in order to squeeze out an extra month or two of battery life will find your Apple laptops run 40 or even 50 percent less efficiently.

This is apparently by design: The company made it so processor speed is lowered when the unit detects that its relying solely on A/C to power itself. It begins to demand less power than usual in order to avoid unpleasant shutdowns. The end result is your programs will start running slowly.

Faulty line of reasoning or not, best keep that battery resting snugly where it belongs. If you think this has been happening to you, click here to run Cinebench to benchmark your Apple system.