YouTube Find: Leopard Intro Video
This is the video that you’ll see (assuming they don’t change it) when you install Leopard and it runs for the first time. It’s a nicely produced little intro video. Take a look.
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Software Spotlight: Tubesock
I’ve been posting a lot of video over the past week, so it seemed like a good time to spotlight Tubesock, one of my favorite flash video grabbers for OS X. Tubesock grabs videos off the web and converts them to play on your iPod, Mac, or PSP. TubeSock knows how to convert the video…
Hang Your iPad on a Wall, AND Get a Case, Too
The iPad is a unique device. For some people, it’s become a product that they carry around every day, and for others, it’s a utilitarian thing that serves multiple purposes but is still very specialized. For example, some people really enjoy using their iPad in the kitchen, so that they can access their recipes and videos while…
Tempo External Drive saves what you Delete
This unique take on the back-up drive from designer Franco Cagnina (for Intech) is a concept design that, by default, will automatically copy anything you delete from your hard drive to itself. Now, some will argue (me being one of them) that you probably don’t want the stuff you delete…you know…since you deleted it…but the…
Funny Apple Pencil Tweets (#iPencil)
Not your ordinary pencil, yet not quite a smart pencil either, the Apple Pencil has been the butt of many jokes since it was unveiled during last week’s Apple event. It does have pretty interesting (impressive even) features, but spoofs, parodies, disbelief, and disappointment abound. Our own Justin McGee is disturbed by the whole naming…
Create Your Own LEGO 1984 Mac
Vintage Macs – vintage anything, for that matter – fetch a handsome price, but who’s to say you can’t have your own 1984 Mac? Well, not exactly the real deal, but pretty, pretty close. How does a LEGO 1984 Mac sound? But wait, there’s more! Not only do you get the perfect excuse to play…
Why They Won’t Win
There’s a great article written by Jason Schwarz at The Street which I recently discovered, which talks about why companies like Google, Samsung and Microsoft just aren’t going to beat Apple handedly with any old product. It’s a fascinating read, so I’ll let you all check it out, but here’s a few of my thoughts…
Pro Terminal Commands: Run a Python Script on Mac
Python is a very Mac-style language. It ditches many of the syntax conventions of traditional programming languages in favor of human-readable code, tab-based hierarchy, and abstracted memory management. It’s a great first programming language especially, which leaves a lot of folks looking for explanations on how to perform tasks that are apparently so simple, no…
Pro Terminal Commands: Working with chflags in macOS
Flags are a system outside of permissions on macOS that are used to control how files can be changed. They are primarily concerned with controlled the modification of a file, but differently from permissions. Flags can only be set by an administrative user or the owner of the file, except in cases of system flags….
AutoCad Coming to Mac
My wife and I both enjoy Apple products, but I’ve been more into them than her for a little while now. That’s mostly because of her work as a kitchen designer, which requires her to use AutoCad and other Windows-only products. If it weren’t for that, she’d probably switch over to a Mac tomorrow. Strangely…
“Home On iPod” in Leopard?
Apple Insider reported today on the resurfacing of the patent for the “Home on iPod” feature that was to be a part of Panther a while back. While the granting of this patent doesn’t ensure anything as far as the feature being implemented is concerned, it does bring the question of “Will we ever see…
Apple Giving Back Money for Defective 27-inch iMacs?
A few weeks back, I posted about the big delay with the 27-inch iMac. There have been reports of yellowing and flickering screens since their debut, so the delay wasn’t particularly shocking. Now though, there’s another wrinkle to the story. Gizmodo is reporting that those who decide to return their iMacs back to Apple are…