December 2007
65 posts
How to Install Third-Party Apps on Your New iPhone... →
If a new iPhone or iPod touch found its way under your tree and you just can’t wait until Apple officially supports third-party application development to extend its functionality , it’s time you jailbreak your favorite new portable device. read more
Like it or not, Apple wants to save you from loud... →
Is Steve jobs turning into an overprotective nanny in his old age? As Apple continues its attempt at world domination through well-designed products and heavy advertising, it’s good to know that the company is looking out for our eardrums. Your next iPod could calculate how long you’ve been listening to music at high volume, and reduce the volume. read more | digg story
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL! →
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Apple to turn down the volume on iPod →
Apple Corp has filed for a patent which includes technology to force IPODS to automatically lower their volume after extended play. read more
Get a Mac for X-Mas? Here’s 10 things to know... →
If you are one of the millions to open up a new Apple Macbook or iMac tomorrow morning and you are switching to OS X from Windows with the gift, here is a list of 10 things you need to know before hitting the power button. Tip number 1, “When you install an application, you might not have actually installed an application.” read more
TEST of marsedit →
WOW this is cool
OS X Leopard 10.5.2 Update ‘Fixes Stacks!’ →
According to a source familiar with the latest Leopard build seeded to developers, in addition to all those meaningless “little” fixes, our source tells us that Apple has fixed Stacks by adding the missing “list view” option that should have been there all along. read more | digg story
German ship fights climate change with high-tech... →
By Erik Kirschbaum HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Turning ocean winds into gold while cutting greenhouse emissions in the process might sound like some sort of alchemy for the 21st century. But unlike futile earlier efforts to convert ordinary metals… read more
Spy planes to recharge by clinging to power lines →
The next time you see something flapping in the breeze on an overhead power line, squint a little harder. It may not be a plastic bag or the remnants of a party balloon, but a tiny spy plane stealing power from the line to recharge its batteries. read more
First Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2 Update builds due... →
Continuing to refine its recently-released Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system at a rapid pace, Mac maker Apple Inc. will soon begin testing the first pre-release builds of Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update, AppleInsider has learned. People familiar with the matter say developers could receive an initial test builds as early as this week… read more
Apple releases update for freezing MacBook... →
Apple has released a software update for its MacBook and MacBook Pro systems that addresses chronic freezing issues with the systems’ keyboards. read more | digg story
The Mann Family →
The Family
Originally uploaded by merlinmann
Good to hear him on mac break Weekly Again.
Awesome!
Snow in Mammouth →
Snow in Mammouth
Originally uploaded by Tom & Anne
ITS COMING
Sonic The Hedgehog iPod Game Released →
The game, made by Sega, currently does not have any accompanying information, but is available for all iPods that are game-compatible, including the 3rd generation iPod Nano, the 5th generation iPod, and iPod Classic.
He is back!
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Apple releases dozens of Tiger, Leopard security... →
The security patches are mostly geared for users of Mac OS X 10.4, known as Tiger, but there’s a bunch as well for version 10.5, known as Leopard. They should be automatically pushed to Mac users through the Software Update function, but you can also go to Apple’s Web site and download the patches. read more
The Hobbit Greenlit with Peter Jackson →
Peter Jackson and NewLine have made up, and The Hobbit is moving forward. read more
Story of the Cheating Woman - Sports Timeout... →
Story of the Cheating Woman [Archive] - Sports Timeout Forums
Oh, the tangled web of lies and deceit she has wrought around herself and I am about to hack through them with a few pieces of paper.
Funny stuff, and oh how that line sums it all up
Caught on Tape: Death Star Galaxy →
WASHINGTON — The latest act of senseless violence caught on tape is cosmic in scope: A black hole in a “death star galaxy” blasting a neighboring galaxy with a deadly jet of radiation and energy. read more
BBC Launches iPLayer for MAC and Linux →
A streaming version of the BBC’s iPlayer online TV on-demand service has been launched for Windows, MAC and Linux. read more
Gollum guy on “Tintin” team →
Andy Serkis is reteaming with director Peter Jackson in “Tintin,” the DreamWorks movie trilogy collaboration from the “Lord of the Rings” director and Steven Spielberg. read more | digg story
Old Man Goes Nuts In Car Wash (All of it was... →
UMMMMM I have always wanted to do that.
The most important part of the above sentence “Wanted”
thanks for playing read more | digg story
Google.com 1997-2007 →
Angry dad sells $100 game for $10,000 - Technology... →
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brink
Originally uploaded by e.palecek
Fantastic Photo
thanks e.palecek
retroCRUSH: The World's Greatest Pop Culture Site →
Full Mitchell Steroid Report in PDF Format →
The full 300 page report in PDF format, including appendices showing photocopies of checks written by players to a known steroid dealer read more
COMPLETE STEROID LIST: Clemens, Pujols, among... →
Newschannel 4’s Jonathan Dienst has obtained the expected list of current and former major league players linked to steroids, according to George Mitchell’s investigation. The list includes former MVP’s Barry Bonds, Albert Pujols, Jason Giambi, Ken Caminitti and Albert Belle. The list contains two sets of brothers: Jose and Ozzie Canseco and…
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Michael Schumacher takes taxi for a high-speed... →
Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher shocked a cab driver by taking over the wheel to get to an airport on time for a flight. read more
UPS saved 3 Million Gallons of Gas– By Not Turning... →
Mapping out routes for its drivers, drastically reducing the number of left-hand turns they make helped the company shave 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas and has reduced CO2 emissions by 31,000 metric tons. read more
It is kinda like USC. →
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16. Rochester Institute of Technology- Ugh, this place is drab city. Sure, it’s full of smart people, but it’s just a brick campus. Gross brick that has no such spoke of “character” that brick usually has. These buildings that make up the RIT campus are all factory-esque. Not something you want to be looking at all day, especially if you’re going to be spending thousands of...
Top 9 Most Humiliating Sports Moments →
Some truly cringe worthy and legendary moments in sports read more
TomTom developing iPhone GPS module? →
Here’s a fresh Apple rumor in the run-up to MacWorld: a TomTom GPS module for the iPhone. read more
From the top →
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Repurposing the Apple TV →
With content fading fast from the iTunes Store, Apple TV should no longer be defined by its content but rather by its features. All Apple needs to do is open up that USB port and we’ll probably see modules for DVR, optical drive, Satellite radio, web and a host of others. read more
VOIP on iPod touch →
Remember Marian, the guy who’s building a preamped mike for the iPod touch? Today he writes that touch hacker eok has ported Samuel’s SvSIP to the iPod and has both sent and received phone calls read more
Apple Ultra-Portable MacBook Rumor Roundup →
As rumors start to build for Macworld San Francisco 2008, the most consistent rumor appears to be one of an ultra-portable Apple notebook computer. more in dblog
These rumors started back in March 2006 by MacScoop who indicated that “very reliable” sources had indicated that Apple was planning on releasing an … read more
New Western Digital HDs Won’t Let You Share Files... →
Western Digital’s 1TB MyBook external hard drives won’t share media files over network. It doesn’t matter what the files are: If you try to share these formats over a network, Western Digital assumes not just that you’re a criminal, but that it is its job to police users. You see, MP3, DivX, AVI, WMV and Quicktime files are copy-protected formats. read more
10.5.2 rumored to accompany rumored Macworld... →
Hardmac claims to have details that Mac OS X 10.5.2 will be released by Jobs at Macworld ‘08, bringing along “the largest and most important intermediate system update ever released by Apple.” the update will leverage a new compiler and libraries for Intel processors that will bring significant performance boosts to Intel Macs. read more