Hackers Dissect Apple TV to Create the Cheapest Mac Ever

Posted on April 06, 2007 in Hack

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Inside the Apple TV

Apple TV is dead, long live the Mac Nano. Sort of.

Just two weeks after Apple released its streaming media box to the public, hackers successfully installed OS X, Apple's desktop operating system, on the $300 device, making it the cheapest PC …


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Intel Mac Mini Beats the XServe G5

Posted on March 31, 2007 in General News

Apple's latest Mac mini system with an Intel Core Duo processor and gigabit Ethernet outperformed an older Xserve G5 server system, according to one user who offers colocation services.

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SXSW Panel: How to bluff your way in Web 2.0

Posted on March 11, 2007 in General News

Andy and Jeremy ROCKED THE HOUSE. Panel discusses how to bluff your way through Web 2.0 at a party or conference. Don't be the idiot who does not know how to speak the speak even if you have no idea what it means. Also has a video about the …


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20 Things you do not know about Windows XP

Posted on February 22, 2007 in How-to

1. It boasts how long it can stay up. Whereas previous versions of Windows were coy about how long they went between boots, XP is positively proud of its stamina. Go to the Command Prompt in the Accessories menu from the …

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SunriseBrowser

Posted on February 22, 2007 in General News

Light & fast. The open-source browser for web developer.

Daring Fireball: BBColors 1.0

Posted on February 14, 2007 in General News, Hack

One feature still lacking in BBEdit which I’ve wanted for years is a way to easily save and switch between different text coloring schemes. BBEdit’s text colors have been configurable ever since syntax coloring appeared in BBEdit 4.0 in 1996, but there …

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How to regularly backup Windows XP to Ubuntu, using rsync

Posted on February 13, 2007 in Uncategorized

This blog covers one of the more exotic solutions - backup Windows XP to Ubuntu, using rsync

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How Long Does It Take To Catch A Computer Virus?

Posted on February 02, 2007 in General News

In fact, after only 8 seconds, the unsuspecting little rascal was undergoing the machine equivalent of being turned into a "Pod person from the planet Mars!" First, it was hit by Sasser, one of the fastest spreading worms on the Internet. Then it started downloading strange programs from mysterious internet …


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Introducing the Hipster PDA | 43 Folders

Posted on January 30, 2007 in How-to

The Hipster PDA Parietal Disgorgement Aid is a fully extensible system for coordinating incoming and outgoing data for any aspect of your life and work. It scales brilliantly, degrades gracefully, supports optional categories and “beaming,” and is configurable to an unlimited number of options …

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Macworld: First Look: First Look: ModBook

Posted on January 29, 2007 in Uncategorized

Third-party modifications turn MacBook into a tablet computer - By Jonathan Seff

Ever since the Newton came—and went—in the 1990s, a small but vocal group of Mac users have clamored for a tablet Mac. At least to this point, Apple has shown no …


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