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touchscreen imac g4: a nice mixture of new, old and windows

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Earlier this year we featured modder Jonathan Berg aka Dremel Junkie’s Wall-E casemod. Now he’s back with a 20-inch iMac G4 with touchscreen capabilities and *gasp* a bag of hurt a Blu-Ray drive.

Berg encountered a couple of problems while modding the G4, the first being the proprietary connector that the iMac monitor uses to…

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November 19th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing hacks + mods just plain fun strange + wonderful technology

matias tactile pro 3 keyboard: the mac gets a real keyboard again

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While many of you might like the industrial design of the keyboards that Apple has been churning out for the last several years, I still long for keys that FEEL like keys. Thankfully, the guys over at Matias have the same sentiment and are getting ready to release a new Mac keyboard with REAL keys,…

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November 18th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing design technology

mic & mac prove that love knows no operating system

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Staunch loyalists of either Apple or Windows will not approve of the romance between Mic & Mac, two machines who fall in love with each other despite their differences. The Pixar-like video, created by a certain gverstraeten, is quite old but it’s still dawwwwwww-inducing.

While Apple zealots will no doubt deem the classic gray PC…

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November 10th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing geek art + craft just plain fun video

os calculators: I bet the mac version will be twice as expensive as the windows one

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Call it a case of life imitating software: a designer at Mintpass recently showed off a couple of designs for calculators that look exactly like the calculator apps in Windows and in OS X.

The Mac version has a metal case and a 2-liner LCD screen like its software counterpart, while the Windows calculator sports…

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November 4th, 2009 comments (6) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing design gadgets geek art + craft just plain fun mobile tech technology

moto g4 mac mod speeds down the road

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Now in all my research of the old Apple PowerMac G4, I can’t find anything in the spec sheets that mention a 49cc, 2-stroke petrol engine. I must have missed that part somewhere. As a matter of fact, this is the first Mac I’ve ever seen that measures its speed in MPH, not MHz.

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October 23rd, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing hacks + mods retro strange + wonderful

rumornabob: new imac and macbook to be released “in the next several weeks”

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Research firm Wedge Partners recently claimed that Apple will unveil updates to the iMac and the MacBook within “the next several weeks” (like what, 64 weeks from now?) The MacBook redesign “is likely to be limited,” (perhaps it’ll just be renamed to macbook. or MaCbOoK) while the new iMac will have a “thinner, organic design,…

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September 24th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing future tech gadgets technology

oops: upgrading your mac’s os to snow leopard downgrades your flash player

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If you’ve upgraded to Apple’s much-hyped and well-received Snow Leopard, I recommend that you update your system’s Adobe Flash player – even if you already had the latest version prior to the installation. That’s because in the process of installing Snow Leopard, your current Flash player will be replaced by version 10.0.23.1. Both Adobe and…

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September 4th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing technology

zelda iphone case for storing iphones, not rupees

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Oh man, this little gem couldn’t have come at a better time. You see, last week I was overcome by a powerful urge to replay The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. And so I did. In fact, as I write this post, poor little Link is idling at the Tower of Ganon…

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September 2nd, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: chris h.

filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun

rise from your grave, apple tablet development rumors

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You just can’t keep a good rumor down. One would think Apple aficionados would have enough to talk about, what with Snow Leopard now gracing the machines of any Mac-owner willing to pony up the paltry $29 Apple asking price.

I guess not.

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August 31st, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: chris h.

filed under: computing future tech technology

rare red original mac computer up for bid on ebay

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This just in… It turns out the very first MAC computer was not released in 1984 by Apple. In fact, you can get your hands on a very rare candy apple red MAC made all the way back in 1980 if you’re the high bidder over on eBay.

Gotcha! This relic from 1980 wasn’t made…

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August 30th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing retro technology

retro skins make for delicious apple gadgets

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Infectious is like Threadless for your gadgets – the designs are submitted by users, so you’re bound to find something that suits your tastes. Here are a bunch of retro laptop, iPod and iPhone skins currently available at Infectious:

The awesome cassette tape player skin is called Retro Stuff is Better, designed by Tony Aguero.…

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August 24th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: design gadgets geek art + craft just plain fun retro

apple tablet pc pics, specs, price and release date speculation

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last month, tech geeks all around the world have been speculating salivating about the impending announcement of a Apple’s tablet computer, currently rumored to be called the iTablet (I’ve also heard it could be called the MacBook Touch or the iPAD). Today, the guys over at…

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August 15th, 2009 comments (6) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing future tech gadgets mobile tech technology

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