Say it ain’t so, Jonny!
Gizmodo has posted a somewhat incendiary piece outlining some rather unmistakable design similarities between the work of Apple’s Jonathon Ives and Dieter Rams, the famous 1960’s era designer for Braun. Gizmodo stops short of accusing Ives of ripping off Rams, instead merely saying that Rams’ work has influenced “every single product at Apple, from hardware... Read More
Commence postulating: First Macworld Teaser Banner unfurled
Ars has posted the first shots of Apple’s 2008 Macworld teaser banners. The shots taken at the Moscone Center show a giant banner with the words “There’s something in the air.” What could it mean? We’re guessing, either Steve knows he’s going to have broccoli the night before his speech, or we’re talking wireless HD rental movies streamed... Read More
Write a caption, win a prize
“Where all the white women at?” Think you’re funny enough to be the next Margaret Cho? Well, now’s your chance to prove it to the world. Write your best caption for the above photo of what we assume are 3 German rocket scientists enjoying a day at the pool, and if we think it’s the funniest, we’ll send you off a $25 iTunes gift certificate. Leave... Read More
Find 3 awesome things in this picture
Fans of the Transformers movie likely remember actress Megan Fox more than the robots, and with good reason. Somehow giant alien robots seemed more plausible than that someone on Earth could actually look as good as she does. Since we are big fans of Megan’s, we we overjoyed when faithful Macenstein reader Kevin sent us the above pics taken at the premiere of The Terminator... Read More
Unilever’s “shuffle pops” sighted
Gizmodo has managed to find pictures of the legendary “Brazilian iPod shuffle popsicle“, long thought to be extinct until Unilever’s Kibon ice cream brand found 10,000 of the skittish creatures in some god-forsaken jungle, and decided to give them away as a promotion. Apparently, Apple had a hand in helping to certify the “Shuffle pop”‘s packaging... Read More
Pretend you’re cool with the Leopard Server Blue Aurora Wallpaper
Not available in any stores! (Well, actually I guess it IS…) Deviant Art user jawnx108 has posted the default desktop background found in OS X Leopard Server 10.5 for all to download (we’re taking his word for it, as we don’t have Leopard Server handy). Now you can impress your friends by showing off your Leopard Server background on your regular old Client copy... Read More
How To: Make a photomosaic (great last minute gift idea!)
The other day I came across a “tutorial” on how to make a photomosaic using Leopard’s cool new photomosaic screensaver. While the title sounded intriguing, unfortunately what it eventually boiled down to was “take a screenshot of the mosaic when it resolves”. Pretty lame. The resolution on such a screen grab would not be high-res enough to use for printing,... Read More
Three uses for a dead PowerMac G3
Much like the resourceful native Americans who learned to use every part of the Buffalo they hunted, faithful Macenstein reader Devin Singley recently managed to re-purpose the innards of his dead G3 PowerMac and put them to good use, creating items such as a liquor cabinet, a Christmas display, and a cat brush. (Well, OK, maybe not good use, but a use nonetheless). Writes Devin: “I... Read More
#15 is of course the most impressive
Much like climbers of Mt. Everest, sometimes you just have to do things because you can. Faithful Macenstein reader Craig Fine sent us a screen shot we found pretty cool. It wasn’t all that long ago that running even a quarter of this simultaneously wasn’t possible (well, except for #15). Why did I do this? Cause I can! In the picture above, I am running the following: 1-... Read More
Gotta love our faithful readers!
Faithful Macenstein reader Jerrett writes: Greetings Doc- I was having a Mac party tonight, really I was just simultaneously upgrading macs to Leopard and installing software. I Apple tech on the side for extra cash, and my uncle just happens to be a re-seller so it works out for both of us. Anyways, I realized I had 6 Macs in the room at one time and decided to snap a photo for... Read More
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