This awesome Mac setup from features a 27″ iMac, Apple Cinema Display, a MacBook Pro, and on the far right a Wacom Cintik 21″ tablet screen that lets you draw directly on the display. I guess that tablet is about as close as you can get to a touchscreen Mac at the moment. Picture from … Read More

The excellent media center software XBMC has finally come to Apple TV 2, but beyond being a great media center, if you’re wondering why else you should care I’ll sum it up in one word: 1080p. Yes, using XBMC, you can unleash 1080p video playback on the $99 Apple TV2… the playback suffers from occasional … Read More

Two new patents have surfaced that may provide a look into the future of Mac input devices. The first is for a Magic Mouse that has an integrated touch screen, which could adjust to display things like virtual buttons, keys, menus, text, and video. The patent application shows a diagram of the Magic Mouse displaying … Read More

I just came across this picture on Flickr and I think it’s a cool tribute to all the years of the Apple mouse. It’s missing the latest creations like the Magic Trackpad and the Magic Mouse but it still shows the evolution of hardware pretty well. Great picture!

The Twitter for Mac client has a great feature that lets you send tweets from just about anywhere in Mac OS X, including the Finder. I’ve tested this out in the Mac OS X Finder, iTunes, Chrome, Safari, iChat, TextEdit, Terminal, and can confirm that this works all over the place. To access the ‘Tweet’ … Read More

Apple was recently awarded a patent for solar powered portable devices, which could pave the way for Macs, iPhones, and iPads running on a solar supplemented power source. The patent, which is Apple’s first to relate to solar powered portable devices, shows an unspecified “Portable Device” that has a standard battery which is augmented by … Read More

If you want to quickly access the Mac OS X System Preferences, you can do so with an indirect keyboard shortcut trick by holding down the Option key and then hitting various function keys. This jumps directly to the System Preference panel corresponding to the function key. For example, Option+Brightness pulls up the Display preference … Read More

The Mac App Store includes a hidden Debug menu that can be enabled with a simple defaults write command. The menu includes a variety of interesting options and tweaks that are clearly intended for internal development purposes.

I really like the MacBook Air 11″ so it should be no surprise that I’m posting a picture of one, but this is also a bit of a homage to Angry Birds making its way to Mac OS X via the Mac App Store. If you don’t have Angry Birds yet, don’t get it, it’s … Read More

Starting January 7, new and existing AT&T customers can get the iPhone 3GS 8GB model for just $49, this is not a refurbished unit, it’s brand new. The low price is valid only through AT&T stores and online, which has caused many to speculate the reason for the price drop is to try and grab … Read More

Ever wondered what your return on investment would be if you had bought Apple stock instead of Apple hardware at the same cost? Great, because now you can torture yourself with the riches you don’t have! If you bought a top of the line PowerBook G3 in 1997 for $5700 get ready to pinch yourself… … Read More

Android 3.0 Honeycomb is Google’s upcoming version of Android for tablet devices, aimed to compete directly with Apple’s iOS and iPad. This trailer video shows off the Android 3.0 lockscreen, parts of the main ‘desktop’ interface, a virtual desktop-like GUI, gestures, books, gmail, YouTube, Google Talk and video chat, 3D Google Maps, and more. I … Read More

If you’re looking for some additional hard drive space or a Time Machine backup drive, here’s a good deal on a Lacie 1TB USB 2.0 External Drive. The drive spins at 7200RPM and has a sleek finish with a nifty glowing blue light. Grab the Lacie 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard drive for $64.95 from … Read More

If you want to customize your Mac OS X login screen but don’t feel like getting your hands dirty mucking around in system files the old fashioned way, check out a free app called Ravissant.

If you want a hard shell case for your iPad, well, look no further because this one is a buck. Sound too good to be true? It’s not, Amazon is offering the CaseCrown Hard Shell Case for iPad for $1 plus $4.99 shipping and handling, which is 95% off the retail price. Various colors are … Read More

Is this enough portability? A new MacBook Air 11″ rests on top of a unibody MacBook, on top of a MacBook Pro 15″, on top of a 17″ MacBook Pro. The more I see the new MacBook Air’s the more I like them. This picture also does a great job of demonstrating how Apple iterates … Read More

You probably know by now that you can zoom into anything in Mac OS X by holding down the Control key and then using the scroll wheel or a two-fingered forward swipe on the trackpad. You’ve also probably noticed that the more you zoom in, the blurrier things get because you’re zooming into anti-aliased graphics … Read More

Amazon has just released their “Best of 2010” list, and sitting right at the top of their bestselling computer list is the MacBook Pro 13″. Apple’s popular laptop also grabbed the number one spot for the “Most Wished For” computer of the year. I’m not surprised at all to see the MacBook Pro take this … Read More