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imaxi: the apple ipad maxipad case!

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After the whole iPad naming fiasco, we all knew that it wouldn’t take long for some more maxi-pad humor to come our way. Here it is: the iMaxi, the apple iPad case with maxi wings!

A lot of women, including my wife, were thinking that there couldn’t have been single woman on the iPad…


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March 1st, 2010 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: range

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mac fans: put an eddy award in your own trophy case

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If you’re a big Mac fanatic, you might want to check out this item I stumbled onto over at eBay today. It’s an authentic “Eddy” award statue, originally presented by MacUser Magazine (more recently given out by Macworld).

Originally awarded back in 1996 to Edmark software (now defunct), this trophy is a great conversation…


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January 31st, 2010 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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apple tablet designs surface (from 1983)

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Back in the ’80s, Apple was already thinking about a tablet-like computer. These are the early prototypes that were created all the way back in 1983.

This tablet was named Bashful, which seems kind of strange. Apparently, it’s a reference to Snow White. It was supposed to be an extension and companion for the…


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January 25th, 2010 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: range

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guitar hero drums hacked to play real music

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While word on the street is that future versions of Rock Band might actually teach you how to play real instruments, modder Andy Lunn couldn’t wait that long and figured out a way to make real music with his Guitar Hero drum kit.


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December 12th, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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apple-apple pie: eat different.

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Full disclosure: apple pie is one of my personal favorites–for holiday time, or really, any time, so as a Mac-head, I think I can say with some conviction that I may have never seen anything as beautiful as this Apple apple pie. There may be a tear, even.

Really, it’s a fusion of all…


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December 2nd, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

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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…


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

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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…


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November 4th, 2009 comments (7) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

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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

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the real mac tablet is a coffee table [casemod]

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With all of the buzz on the ‘nets about Apple’s upcoming tablet Mac, I think I’ve got the scoop on the original Mac Tablet.

Yvan of Switzerland’s Cosm!k’ Art Deco Team built his Tablet Mac into a coffee table.

The Tablet Mac was built using the brains of an old iBook G4 laptop (running…


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September 5th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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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…


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

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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…


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

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openemu mac emulator lets you play and play with retro video games

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There aren’t as many video game apps for the Mac as there are for Windows computers, and even then I have a feeling that there’s no program, Windows or otherwise, that lets you play and play with retro video games the way OpenEmu does. The basic function of the app, as its name implies,…


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July 2nd, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

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