PC World has some fun examples of what to do with older Macs – including robots, car-puters and more.
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Adobe Flash Murders Computers
Jon Armstrong of Blurbomat (he’s married to Heather of Dooce), has posted this jaw-dropping screenshot of his Mac Pro working way too hard. The culprit? Adobe Flash.
Steve Jobs, on the Television
Out of a Rolling Stone interview in 2003: The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television — but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent. Because the average American watches five hours a day of television, and television is a passive medium. Television doesn’t turn your brain on. Or, television [...]
Computers in Media
Starring the Computer is a site dedicated to pointing out computers in TV shows and movies. Pretty fun to click through.
iPhoto 09′s Flickr Support Seems Half-Baked at Best
Fraser Speirs is the developer for the wonderful FlickrExport tools for iPhoto and Aperture (I use the Aperture plugin every day) and Darkslide, an iPhone app that allows an excellent Flickr experience on the handheld. When Apple announce iPhoto 09 was going to have a built-in Flickr exporter, I was worried. Often times, when Apple “adopts” a technology [...]
‘The Pluto Files’
A hilarious interview on The Daily Show with Neil DeGrasse Tyson who wrote a book called The Pluto Files:
Photos of New Porsche Museum Makes Users Lick Their Screens
Dear CNET, you are why my iMac is now all slimy: The museum building, designed by Roman Delugan from Delugan Meissl Associated Architects in Vienna, Austria, touches the ground at only three points and so appears to be floating.
Possible Future Uses of the ‘App Store’
With the advent of iPhone 2.0, Apple’s App Store has made it easy for users to find, purchase, and install software on their iPhone anywhere – adding programs is no longer dependent on a “host computer.” Macworld’s Ryan Faas ponders what could be next for the App Store: Since netbooks essentially fit in between a smart [...]
About Those ‘Push Notifications’
Back in June, Apple showed off its solution to the problem of iPhone apps not being able to run in the background – push notifications. Basically, Apple would relay updates from the Cloud and push them to the phone. The most obvious winners would be apps like AIM. Now, if I close the app, I [...]
