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Wednesday 19 November

  • OS X Summary Service and the US Constitution (14:58) - I just learned about this great feature of Mac OS X that allows you to automatically summarize text from your web browser, email, word processor, etc. I decided to put it to the test on the US Constitution, summarized down... | 0 Comments

Friday 24 October

  • Apple publicly opposes California gay marraige ban initiative (16:16) - One more reason to admire Apple: Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’... | 0 Comments

Thursday 7 August

  • QuickBank Personal Finance for iPhone (09:50) - I've started writing some iPhone software in my spare time, the first of which has just gone on sale on iTunes. QuickBank is a fast, easy and powerful personal finance application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Entering a transaction... | 2 Comments

Thursday 17 July


Monday 14 July

  • Recorder, the iPhone Voice Recorder Application (09:24) - The iPhone App store is in full swing and my friend has created a very simple and very popular voice recorder application for the iPhone. It does exactly what you want a voice recorder to do with ease. It is... | 1 Comments

Wednesday 21 November


Tuesday 13 November

  • iPhone Gameboy Emulator Released (22:20) - Awesome news for iPhone and iPod touch owners, a new emulator is climbing the ranks. I'm hoping that once the iPhone SDK is released in February, someone will be able to get the Wii classic controller to work with the... | 2 Comments

Monday 29 October

  • 250,000 iPhones purchased yet remain unactivated (16:05) - Not mentioned in the spectacular quarterly sales results Apple released Monday was a stunning fact: Nearly 18 percent of iPhones sold in the past four months can't be accounted for.... | 1 Comments

Sunday 2 September


Friday 24 August

  • iPhone officially unlocked, works with any carrier (15:02) - Now all you folks who have made comments such as, "Dude, if it was on Verizon I would totally have one" can run out and buy an iPhone because it has been unlocked. You will have to wait until the... | 0 Comments

Sunday 8 July

  • Telekinesis - OS X Remote Desktop for iPhone (21:53) - By far the best iPhone application I have seen yet. Telekinesis (iPhone Remote) is a web application/service you run on OS X 10.4 to provide access to your desktop from your iPhone. While it is still in a very early... | 2 Comments

Thursday 19 April

  • Japanese Get a Mac Ads (11:30) - I'm surprised I didn't post this already, but here they are: The Japanese Get a Mac ads. ... | 0 Comments

Thursday 11 January

  • The bad news regarding iPhone starts to roll in... (13:19) - From TUAW: The lucky Gizmodo guys got their paws on an actual iPhone plus an hour of Q&A with some Apple VPs. Here are some of their scoops: The OS isn't going to be "OS X for real." It's more... | 2 Comments

Monday 2 October

  • Boom! (11:04) - Steve likes to say boom to insist on how fast his software can react. ... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 31 May

  • Useless but Fun Mac Apps (15:37) - MegaMan Effect The MegaManEffect is an application that emulates an effect seen in the classic NES game Mega Man 2. When you launch an OS X application, the screen goes dark, stars sweep the night sky and your application’s icon... | 11 Comments

Saturday 20 May

  • AppleMania (02:05) - Time lapse photography of the line outside the new Apple store on 5th Ave in Manhattan.... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 5 April

  • Boot Camp -- Windows on the Mac (10:56) - Apple announced hell had frozen over about 3 years ago when iTunes was released for Windows. I think they should have saved that announcement for today. As of today, Apple has released free software for OSX to allow users to... | 2 Comments

Saturday 4 February

  • iBelieve (14:38) - Interesting lanyard for the iPod Shuffle...... | 0 Comments

Friday 3 February

  • Apple sued over iPod volume (14:05) - Ahh, how I love bullshit lawsuits. Apple is facing a class action lawsuit over the iPod. The lawsuit states that Apple does not adequetly warn owners of the risks of hearing loss when listening to the iPod at high volumes.... | 5 Comments

Tuesday 10 January

  • Mac Book Pro (13:35) - The scoop from Macworld: - The Powerbook is no more: Introducing the Mac Book Pro with dual core Intel processors. 5x faster than current Powerbooks. - New dual core iMacs -- 2-3x faster than current G5 iMacs - New universal... | 2 Comments

Wednesday 9 November

  • The day the iPod was announced (08:41) - The MacRumors forums from October 23rd, 2001 - the day the iPod was announced. 6 pages of people ranting about what a disappointment the iPod announcement was, with very few people agreeing that the device was anything close to revolutionary.... | 1 Comments

Thursday 27 October

  • Command-V (15:53) - Command-V is paste. Get it?... | 5 Comments

Thursday 20 October

  • iPod Costumes (14:04) - No, it's not what you are thinking (or maybe it is). It is worse. Now you can dress up your iPod for halloween for the bargain price of $39.99. Yes, 40 bucks for a tiny bandana and eyepatch. Other costumes... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 7 September

  • iPod Nano and Rokr (15:43) - You can never keep up with these things.. Months after I buy an iPod mini, Apple announces the iPod nano. It looks like the nano is replacing the mini. Quick specs: 2 & 4GB models, 1/4 inch thick, 1.5 ounces,... | 7 Comments

Thursday 11 August

  • OSX for Intel has been cracked (13:49) - It took a bit longer than I expected. I still won't completely believe it until I have OSX booting on my PC at home. Video of OSX booting on a 1.6Ghz Pentium-M Laptop [bittorrent required] It boots fast as hell... | 2 Comments

Tuesday 2 August

  • Apple's Mighty Mouse (09:18) - It's about time, finally a two button mouse for the Mac. I've been using a Microsoft mouse on our iMac for nearly 2 years now as right click features have always been built in to OSX. The Apple mouse features... | 2 Comments

Monday 6 June

  • "It's True" (14:21) - Some notes on Steve Job's keynote today at the WWDC. The long and short of it: Apple is moving to x86 starting next year with the full move completing in 2007. This isn't to say that your new G5 will... | 4 Comments

Friday 3 June

  • Apple switching to Intel Chips (22:59) - The rumors of Apple moving to Intel started last week when the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple had been having meetings with Intel as of late. I *really* did not expect this to happen. This is a huge move... | 0 Comments

Thursday 31 March

  • Return of the Mac (10:06) - All the best hackers I know are gradually switching to Macs. My friend Robert said his whole research group at MIT recently bought themselves Powerbooks. These guys are not the graphic designers and grandmas who were buying Macs at Apple's... | 5 Comments

Monday 21 February

  • Is Wednesday the day for new iPods? (19:03) - Is Wednesday the big day for new iPods? For the past week or so we’ve been inundated with iPod rumors (that the iPod is going to come in a bunch of different new colors, that the iPod mini is...

Tuesday 15 February

  • Apple & Celebrities (10:31) - Melanie Griffith threw a tantrum when she was unable to buy a pink iPod mini early last year, according to the sales associate who tried to serve her. The associate, who asked to remain anonymous, said Griffith came right...

Thursday 10 February

  • Jobs says: Three PC makers are hitting me up for OS X (20:55) - Bombshell-lovin’ Stevie J. reveals plenty in a recent in-depth interview he did with Fortune mag, but the one that really got our juices flowing was when he drops that “three of the biggest PC makers” are trying to convince...

Monday 7 February

  • iPod Shuffle RAID (11:45) - So, what do you do when you and some friends are all getting iPod Shuffles? You make a RAID array out of them, of course! ...

Wednesday 2 February

  • Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill (10:50) - Microsoft's leafy corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, is beginning to look like the streets of New York, London and just about everywhere else: Wherever you go, white headphones dangle from peoples' ears."About 80 percent of Microsoft employees who have...

Wednesday 26 January

  • Ancient Macs Make Modern Art (11:51) - British artist Richard Bolam is part of Europe's techno-art avant-garde, but he uses some pretty old technology: classic Macs and HyperCard. By Jason Walsh. ...
  • Matt Groening Apple Ad (11:48) - Matt Groening Apple Ad, circa 1989. Featuring Polamex: ...

Tuesday 11 January

  • iPod Shuffle and Mac Mini announced (14:10) - Apple.com is getting nailed right now, but they have a site up for the new Mac Mini. Starting at $499 it comes with a 1.25Ghz G4, 40GB HD. You can spend a little more to get a faster processor and...

Tuesday 4 January

  • The Apple Product Cycle (10:44) - The Apple Product Cycle takes a humorous look at Mac culture. A good read with MacWorld a week away and rumors flying about a $499 Mac and flash based ipods. As Macworld or the Worldwide Developer�s Conference draws near, the...

Tuesday 26 October

  • iPod Photo (16:52) - The rumors were true. Apple announced the iPod Photo today. I don't really see the point, especially for the kind of cash they want you to dish out ($499 for 40Gb, $599 for 60Gb). <tomo: insert comment about hipsters wasting...

Tuesday 31 August


Monday 7 June

  • AirPort Express with AirTunes (15:34) - PC & Mac users alike should be drooling over this. "Enjoy your iTunes music library in virtually any room of your house. Share a single broadband Internet connection and USB printer without inconvenient and obtrusive cables. Create an instant wireless...

Wednesday 19 May

  • OSX under Windows, mac classic under Flash (13:04) - "OS News has an article by a user who successfully installed Mac OS X using the 0.1 version of PearPC, the PPC emulator for x86 machines. He said it took 5 hours to run the first install CD but he...

Thursday 8 January

  • Switch to Linux (15:26) - Another parody of Apple's switch commercials. Ubergeek has some other pretty funny geek-humored things as well....

Wednesday 10 December

  • Longest Line (00:35) - An Apple store opened up in Ginza, Tokyo. Some people made a pilgrimage to this gigantic Kaaba. No, seriously, there are more people standing in this line than a lot of Michigan towns. ...

Wednesday 26 November

  • Terrorist Advertising (01:56) - The Neistat Brothers' "dirtylittlesecret" video makes me wonder: Are they no better than terrorists or are they simply exercising their freedom of speech in a public forum? We are surrounded by exposed surfaces which steal our focus by otherwise blocking...

Thursday 16 October

  • iTunes (17:01) - iTunes was released for Windows 2000/XP today. As Apple put it, "Hell froze over." Of course, making an online music store available to nearly all computer users instead of just 3.48% seems more like a good business plan rather than...