Weekend Projects: Mac OS X Lion Edition

Jul 23, 2011 - 6 Comments
Installing Lion

The weekend is here, and there are quite a few people who haven’t installed Mac OS X Lion yet. Why wait? Now’s as good a time as any, so head over to the App Store and download Lion, and check out some of our recent OS X 10.7 info: OS X Lion Upgrade and Installation … Read More

Western Digital External Hard Drive Deals: Amazon Sale on 3 TB for $120, 2 TB for $80

Jul 23, 2011 - 6 Comments
Western Digital 3TB Drive Deals

If you need more storage capacity, these two top-rated Western Digital drives on sale from Amazon are great deals, they both have giant capacities of 3TB and 2TB respectively. 3 TB Western Digital WD Elements USB 2.0 External Hard Drive for $119.99 2 TB Western Digital WD Elements USB 2.0 External Hard Drive for $79.99 … Read More

Introducing OS X Lion’s New Gestures (Humor)

Jul 22, 2011 - 7 Comments
Lion Gestures comic from Joy of Tech

I love Mac OS X Lion like the rest of us, but I found this Joy of Tech comic strip hilarious, it touches on everything from natural scrolling, the lack of PPC support, new scrollbars, downloading from the App Store, and more. On a more serious note, if you plan on upgrading to Lion soon, … Read More

Steve Jobs: “Your phone is the dumbest f***ing idea I have ever heard”

Jul 21, 2011 - 137 Comments
ESPN Phone that Steve Jobs wasn't fond of

This will be the funniest thing you will read all day. An apparent excerpt from Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN quotes an epic exchange between Steve Jobs and the ESPN president: The story goes that ESPN president George Bodenheimer attended the first Disney board meeting in Orlando, Florida, just … Read More

Install Lion Final Release Over Lion GM

Jul 20, 2011 - 51 Comments
Install OS X Lion Final over Lion GM in the App Store

First a quick note: if you’re a developer who is running the Lion GM build 11A511 there is technically no need to install the Lion Final, both builds are 11A511 and identical. That said… If you are running the Mac OS X Lion GM build and you want to buy and install the Final release … Read More

OS X Lion Review Roundup

Jul 20, 2011 - 25 Comments
Lion Review roundup

Unless you live under a rock, you probably know that OS X Lion is available to download on the Mac App Store. We’ve been covering Lion for a while now (check out all of our posts on OS X Lion for a ton of tips and relevant information) and we think it’s awesome, but if … Read More

Install & Run Chromium OS on a MacBook Air

Jul 19, 2011 - 8 Comments
Chromium OS on a MacBook Air

If the prospect of installing Mac OS X Lion isn’t your thing, you can try running Chromium OS on the MacBook Air instead. Chromium OS is the open-source version of Google’s Chrome OS, which is an operating system based almost entirely around the Chrome browser – you boot directly into a browser, and that’s basically … Read More

8GB RAM Upgrade for 2011 MacBook Pro Core i5 & i7: $50 with Free Shipping

Jul 16, 2011 - 22 Comments
MacBook Pro 2011 8GB RAM Upgrade

Want to upgrade the memory on your new 2011 MacBook Pro for a great price? Amazon is offering an 8GB upgrade (2 X 4GB) DDR3 Laptop Memory Kit (1333MHz Unbuffered CL 9 SODIMM) for just $50 after a $10 mail-in rebate from Corsair. The kit installs on the most recent Core i5 and Core i7 … Read More

Thunderbolt MacBook Pro Supports Dual External Displays by Daisy Chain

Jul 15, 2011 - 16 Comments
MacBook Pro with Dual Thunderbolt Displays

Thunderbolt MacBook Pro hardware will support dual external displays daisy-chained by compatible Thunderbolt hardware, according to an image that popped up on Apple’s website. This suggests the possibility that upcoming MacBook Air refresh may support the same feature. This image comes from a recent post on MacRumors, where they noted that Apple accidentally leaked a … Read More

Oops: Apple.com Shows USB Drive Stuck in the Ethernet Port of a MacBook Pro

Jul 14, 2011 - 15 Comments
USB Drive in a MacBook Pro Ethernet Port

Remember that classic Sesame Street song “Everyone Makes Mistakes”? Your sister and your brother and your dad and mother too? Well even Apple does too, at least in regards to their website stock photos. In an amusing picture featured on the Apple Store’s Parallels Desktop 6 page, the Parallels USB installer stick is jammed into, … Read More

Spotify Comes to the USA – Enter to Win a Spotify Invite in our Twitter Giveaway!

Jul 14, 2011 - 27 Comments
Spotify Logo

Spotify, the extraordinarily popular streaming music service that took Europe by storm, has just launched in the USA. Currently it’s open by invite-only, but no big deal, we have a handful of invites to give away, so here’s how to get in the drawing. Enter to Win a Spotify Invite from Us! Here’s all you … Read More

Quickly Enter LaunchPad “Jiggle” with Option Key in Mac OS X

Jul 13, 2011 - 10 Comments
LaunchPad Jiggle

Clicking-and-holding on an app icon in Mac OS X LaunchPad activates the jiggle, but you can also hold down the Option key to immediately start the jiggle.

Apple Company Store T-Shirt Makes Fun of Apple’s Legendary Secrecy

Jul 11, 2011 - 7 Comments
I visited Apple Campus T-Shirt

Apple has a good sense of humor and doesn’t mind picking on themselves and their legendary secrecy. The t-shirt is available for purchase exclusively at Apple’s Company Store in Cupertino California, the message is: “I visited the Apple campus. But that’s all I’m allowed to say.” You’ve always been able to buy Apple t-shirts and … Read More

Set a Mac Mouse to be Left Handed

Jul 9, 2011 - 12 Comments
Secondary click in the left corner on a Mac

Most lefties have adapted to the righty-centric world of computing, but this isn’t necessary on a Mac. The Apple Magic Mouse, Apple wireless mouse, wired mouses, trackpad, and even most 3rd party mice have a symmetrical shape, so those that are left handed just need to adjust a few settings in Mac OS X to … Read More

Refresh Dashboard Widgets: Command+R Sends a Widget into a Whirlpool

Jul 7, 2011 - 7 Comments
Refresh Dashboard Widget into a Whirlpool

Mac OS X has a fancy way of refreshing your Dashboard widgets. It’s better watched than described or shown in pictures, so open up Dashboard, click on any widget, then hit Command+R and watch the widget disappear and reappear into a twirl. The larger and more colorful the widget the better the effect, and you … Read More

Enable Facebook Video Chat Calling in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Jul 6, 2011 - 16 Comments
Enable Facebook Video Chat in OS X Lion

Facebook just announced their built-in video chat feature that uses Skype to initiate video calls, but unfortunately support for the new feature is lacking for users with Mac OS X Lion and the latest version of Safari. If you try it, you’ll see the video call button has been greyed out with a message saying … Read More

Kingston SSD Sale: 64GB for $60, 96GB for $110, 128GB for $150

Jul 5, 2011 - 6 Comments
Kingston SSD

If you’ve been waiting for a good deal on an SSD upgrade, don’t miss these Kingston 2.5″ SSD’s from Buy.com. Each drive comes with free shipping and a huge discount after sending in a mail-in rebate, but the offer is only valid until 7/10/2011. Kingston 64GB SSD v100 Series for $59.89 with free shipping from … Read More

Prototype iPhone 4 Selling for $100,000 and Climbing on eBay Auction

Jul 3, 2011 - 6 Comments
iPhone 4 Prototype

Prototype Apple gear is a hot commodity, but would you guess that a prototype iPhone would be selling for over a hundred grand? Me neither, but an eBay auction for a prototype iPhone 4 has hit $100,800 and continues to climb north into the stratosphere. To make this even more ridiculous, the prototype iPhone doesn’t … Read More

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