This is stupid enough that I had to post it. First there was the iPhone, then the iPad… what’s next? The iBoard… then the iMat!

[ via BeGeek ]

Have an iPhone? Like to use gloves to keep your hands warm in the winter? Annoyed that you have to take your gloves off to use the iPhone? Keep those gloves on! Korean iPhone users are driving a 40% increase in snack sausage sales because they’ve figured out the little meat sticks can be used as an iPhone stylus in cold weather… no really.

This is the most ridiculous and amusing thing I’ve seen all day.

[ Google Translate: ITNews via ClusterFlock.org ]

If you’re a Ghostbusters fan you’ll get a kick out of this creative use of the Genie minimization effect in Mac OS X… Matt Mira arranged a bunch of picture windows and strategically minimized a ghost to recreate a few scenes from the 80’s classic movie Ghostbusters. Totally pointless outside of the high amusement factor.

and of course, the art museum:

[ via Nerdist and @MattMira ]

I often forget to empty my Trash can but this is taking it to a whole new level. 489GB? What on earth is in there? That’s bigger than my main hard drive! Time to empty that huge Trash can!

from Marco.org

Hey look it’s raining out of the snow! That’s something I don’t see everyday.

You can cycle through all the possible weather graphics in the Dashboard Weather Widget by hitting the Command+Option keys and clicking on the main weather icon, which changes the location to ‘nowhere’, keep clicking and you’ll see different weather graphics. Some of them look pretty awful, there’s no real point to this as far as I can see, unless you wanted to play a prank on someone.

Yes, you read that right. You can use your Mac as a psychotherapist from the Terminal, thanks to emacs. It’s pretty amusing, and here’s how to do it:

* Launch the Terminal
* Type ‘emacs’ and hit return
* Press Shift+Escape keys, then hit X
* Type “doctor” and hit return
* Mac psychotherapist to the rescue! See the screenshot below:

In case you’re wondering, this is not just a Mac specific feature, it’s part of emacs, a UNIX text editor, and it works on virtually any version of emacs out there.

I love icons and customizing my Mac desktop, so I decided to share with you all my personal bookmark list of free mac icons. These are the sites I visit when I want to change my Mac appearance and all the icons that define the OS X desktop and dock. Of course if you’re on the other end of the spectrum and you hate icons you can hide all desktop icons in Mac OS X, but that’s not the purpose of this article. You are here for great icons, so if you too are an icon geek, look no further.

Artua: Free Mac Icons – the QuickTime X icons here are simply beautiful. The Mac OS Finder icon at the top of this article is from this set, highly recommended.

WeLoveIcons – as the name suggests, they love icons and it shows. Tons and tons of hand selected and beautiful icons, some are individual others are sets, covering a wide range of themes. If you like icons, bookmark this site.

InterfaceLift: Icons for Mac – very diverse sets of icons and literally thousands to choose from, icon overload!

IconDrawer: Free Icons – varying themes, I think the Black & Blue set of Mac OS X icons is particularly attractive. There’s 2 good sets of Holiday and Christmas themed icons too and we’re quickly approaching that season.

A2591: Container & Cargo Icons – several icon sets featuring various types of containers and cargo boxes, very unique.

YellowIcon: Star Wars icons & more – who doesn’t love Star Wars icons? Yellow Icon has a great set of Star Wars icons and many others, some free to download and others are paid.

HongKiat: iMac & MacBook icon sets – pretty much the definitive list of Mac hardware icons, covering the MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, and Mac Mini. If you want hardware icons look here first.

Apple.com: Icons & Screensavers – I’m a little disappointed that Apple still lumps the icons and screensavers together, but nonetheless they have a really excellent collection of icons. The staff picks are almost always great, be aware that some icon sets are considered shareware so not technically free.

It’s Sunday funday again… this time we bring to you a Mac that has a bullet hole right through the screen! How exactly does a Mac get shot?

“Apparently, someone was cleaning his gun, and didn’t realize it was loaded! Whoops”

As quoted from the SmallDog Flickr stream. That’s pretty good aim for an accident, wow, just wow!

[ Image from MacGuys via Flickr ]

The above image was generated with ShapeCollage, which is a great free software program that allows you to create some pretty fancy photo collages, fitting into various shapes (even ones you define yourself) and text barriers. It’s surprisingly quick and very easy to use, basically you just drag and drop images into the application that you want to create your photo collage out of, set the parameters of your collage, and then click ‘create’ to save it at whatever size you want. Does it get much easier to make photo collages?

The ShapeCollage photo collage software is downloadable for free, but your generated collages will have a tiny watermark embedded in the corner (easily removed with Photoshop or cropped out in Preview). ShapeCollage Pro removes the watermarks and is available for $25, it also adds even more options and features if you’re really serious about making photo collages with your digital images. Check this app out, it’s pretty great.

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It’s worth mentioning that ShapeCollage is completely cross platform compatible, with Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and even Java versions available. So if any of your friends are envious of your new cool photo collages that you made, you can share the application with them regardless of what operating system they are using.

If you’ve ever wondered what your Mac Multitouch Trackpad is doing, download this fun little application. It tracks multitouch input and shows you just how sensitive the multitouch surface really is, detecting up to 11 input points, and also knowing the surface area. Not the most useful app in the world it’s certainly a fun way to see what your multitouch is up to and to get a glimpse of the technology behind the scenes of our favorite laptop computing surface. Multitouch trackpad Mac required (works with the Magic Mouse too apparently), and this supposedly works on some 2008 MacBook/Air/Pro models as well but I’m not able to test them specifically.

Lericson Programming: Multitouch on Unibody MacBooks

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