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Get an 8-Bit Pixelated Virtual Fireplace for Mac OS X

Dec 22, 2011 - 5 Comments
Fireplace

Just in time for the holidays, Fireplace is a totally awesome interactive 8-bit fireplace app that fills your Macs screen with a pixelated fireplace. But don’t stop there, you can add logs, roast hotdogs and marshmallows, and even burn papers and photos. Each log ‘burns’ for about 30 minutes of pixel torching glory, and although … Read More

Santa Uses an iPhone 4S and Siri in the Latest Apple Commercial [Video]

Dec 18, 2011 - 8 Comments
Santa using the iPhone 4S

Apple has started to air a new Christmas themed TV ad for the iPhone 4S and Siri featuring none other than Santa Claus. The commercial is the most entertaining iPhone 4S ad yet and features Santa asking Siri for directions, what kind of weather to expect at various locations around the country, requesting an email … Read More

Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy – BBC Documentary [Video]

Dec 17, 2011 - 8 Comments

The recently aired BBC documentary Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy may have a dumb name, but the show itself is worth a watch for anyone interested in the subject matter. About an hour long, it features classic footage of Steve Jobs, in addition to interviews with a variety of Apple execs and industry leaders, including … Read More

Apple Pokes Fun at Rumor Mill: References to iPhone 11, iPad 10, Apple TV 10, etc, Found in iOS 5.1 beta 2

Dec 12, 2011 - 5 Comments
iPad 10 and iPhone 10 fake references

Apple’s iOS developer team appears to have gone on the offensive in an attempt to throw off the Apple rumor mill with a hilarious new approach; including references to fake product numbers in the latest developer build of iOS 5.2 beta 2. Examples include references to such far-flung and imaginative hardware as the iPhone 11, … Read More

What is the Background Music in the iPhone 4S Commercials?

Dec 11, 2011 - 7 Comments

Apple has aired several iPhone 4S commercials, a few focus on Siri, while others center on iCloud or the new camera. Each iPhone 4s ad shares the same background music, but you might be wondering, what’s the catchy tunes name?

Is This The Worst Mac Setup Ever? [Humor]

Dec 8, 2011 - 12 Comments
Double Decker Mac Setup is easily the worst ever

Don’t like your desk setup? Wishing you had a better Mac, or maybe a more stylish desk to work at? Do you ever long for a more ergonomic workstation that aids in a productivity surge? Well folks, remember this picture, because your desk situation could be worse – a lot worse – you could be … Read More

iOS Version Code Names Are Labeled After Ski Resorts

Dec 5, 2011 - 5 Comments
iOS versions named after ski resorts

Fitting news as the Northern Hemisphere approaches winter and ski season, it has been discovered that Apple internally identifies iOS versions with code names based on ski resorts. The current list of iOS versions and their mountain code names is printed below, courtesy of AppleInsider: 1.0: Alpine 1.1: Little Bear 2.0: Big Bear 2.1: Sugarbowl … Read More

Macintosh Portable Ejecting a Disk in Space [Video]

Dec 3, 2011 - 6 Comments

In 1991, astronauts took a Macintosh Portable aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-43, and amongst other things, it became the first computer to send an email in space. A slightly less historical aspect is this fairly entertaining video clip from that mission, demonstrating the Macintosh Portable’s disk ejection system, which works perhaps a little too well … Read More

Steve Jobs: Thoughts on Life [Video]

Dec 1, 2011 - 3 Comments

This short clip of Steve Jobs sharing his thoughts on life is well worth watching. Taken from a 1995 interview when Jobs was still working at NeXT, he reflects on some important lessons and simple facts about life and the world around us. Here’s a great inspirational quote: “Everything around you that you call life, … Read More

Decorate a Christmas Tree with iPad & iPhone Ornaments

Dec 1, 2011 - 1 Comment
iPad and iPhone Christmas Ornaments

The Holiday season is here, and what better way to bring the Holiday Apple cheer to your home than some iPhone and iPad ornaments hanging on your tree. Sure, you can buy some of these from an Etsy store that MacTrast found, but realistically you can make iOrnaments yourself just by printing out high quality … Read More

Free Online Computer Security Class from Stanford & UC Berkeley

Nov 30, 2011 - 3 Comments
Computer Security class from Stanford & UC Berkeley

If you already signed up for a few of the 10 free online Computer Science classes from Stanford University, get ready to pack your self-learning schedule even further, because three professors from Stanford University and University of California Berkeley are teaming to offer a new free online course on Computer Security, starting in February 2012. … Read More

Run a Windows Phone 7.5 Demo on iPhone

Nov 29, 2011 - 19 Comments
Windows phone demo on the iPhone

The smartphone discussion is typically focused around iPhone and Android, but Microsoft is still cooking up it’s own unique smartphone OS: Windows Phone 7. Now thanks to an HTML5 demo, the curious can try out a basic Windows Phone 7.5 experience directly on your iPhone. Open up Safari and throw in the following URL: http://aka.ms/wpdemo … Read More

Read & Download all the Skyrim Books for iPad, iPhone, Mac, or Kindle

Nov 28, 2011 - 2 Comments
Read Skyrim Books

Skyrim is one of those games that is so massive with so many individual elements that it could take forever to try and cover everything. Included all over the game is a massive collections of books that fill in elements of lore, backstory, information on quests and characters, you name it, but who has time … Read More

Siri Dictation Comes to iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, & iPod touch with Siri0us

Nov 27, 2011 - 6 Comments
Siri0us on iPhone 4

A new third party tool called Siri0us has appeared that brings Siri Dictation (speech-to-text) to the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch 4G. The add-on, which requires a jailbroken device, uses Nuance technology to work almost exactly like the dictation feature of Siri does to convert your speech to text. It’s accurate and initiated … Read More

The Future of Siri is Now: Start a Car, Adjust Home Thermostat, and More [Videos]

Nov 25, 2011 - 4 Comments
Siri Starting a Car

“Siri, start my car”, “Siri, Set the thermostat to 72 degrees” – saying that to the iPhone and having an AI agent perform those tasks sounds futuristic doesn’t it? It’s not from the future though, it’s now, thanks to the ambitious work of a third party developer who created something called Siri Proxy. As the … Read More

Profile of a Typical iPad Owner: Pet Owning Male Doctor Who Plays Video Games

Nov 18, 2011 - 7 Comments
Typical iPad buyer / owner

What do you think the profile of an average iPad owner would be like? Would you guess that the most likely individual to buy an iPad was a male who owns pets and plays video games, who might be a business traveling doctor or scientist that takes vitamins and prefers organic food? Yup, all those … Read More

iShred: the Snowboard with an Embedded iPad 2 [Video]

Nov 17, 2011 - 2 Comments
Signal iShred: iPad snowboard

For those of us in the northern hemisphere, ski and snowboard season is upon us, and while it seems like everyone on the mountain has an iPod or iPhone, the guys at Signal Snowboards took the Apple love a step further with the iShred. Yup, the the iShred, it’s a snowboard built to honor Steve … Read More

Run Skyrim in Mac OS X with an Unofficial Port

Nov 16, 2011 - 40 Comments
Skyrim in Mac OS X

For the truly dedicated, you can now run Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim directly in Mac OS X thanks to the Porting Team’s unofficial Mac port of the freakishly popular game. The game is played either through a Cider wrapper or Wineskin, the latter being easier but the former apparently having better performance, but in both … Read More

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