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December 20 to 31, 2005
Are you a PC user who bought an iPod? With rumors of a sub-$500
mac
, many are thinking of switching...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
mac
OS X Tiger
April 18 to 24, 2005
If you're switching to a
mac
, it's now cheaper to get your HP or Dell PC recycled...
The miniMate adds extra storage and ports to your
mac
mini. I wish the logo printed on it didn't suck though...
Use two microphones with your
mac
with this cheap $16 gadget...
April 11 to 17, 2005
It now seems possible to start and maintain a scalable company using nothing but hosted Web applications. Who needs
mac
hine rooms any more? As the net gets faster, physical location becomes mor...
Laptop design is causing posture-related problems: http://www.
mac
sonly.com/
mac
imp/kamas2.htm...
Give your photos the comic treatment with Photoshop: http://www.
mac
merc.com/articles/Graphics_Tips/20...
April 4 to 10, 2005
A immediate flurry of inventive activity was sparked by the release of the Google Maps satellite imagery feature last week. People started making "memory maps" at Flickr...
An interview with the CEO of the last pinball
mac
hine manufacturer on Earth...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
All the great hackers are switching to
mac
s, again mirroring the early growth of the Web (which was developed on an ancestor of today's
mac
, the NeXT). We'll just see what happens...
Jared Tarbell's Gallery of Computation continues to get more beautiful and eerily biological at the same time: http://www.complexification.net/gallery/
mac
hines/substrate/index.ph...
March 21 to 27, 2005
mac
s are starting to make under-the-radar inroads into companies. This is exactly how the Web got started in the corporate world, and CTOs and IT staff are beginning to think about what it means...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Hey America - India isn't going to take the same kind of economic s
mac
kdown you gave Japan not so long ago...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Yeah, an FM transmitter for the iPod shuffle! http://www.xtreme
mac
.com/adapters/airplay_shuffle.shtm...
February 21 to 27, 2005
In related news, a man connects a
mac
mini to a 60-inch TV and creates a spectacular-looking media center. It ends up being far more capable and much, much smaller than any of the other boxes attache...
Stuff For Web Developers http://www.s
mac
kerel.net/s
mac
kerel_home.htm...
February 14 to 20, 2005
A muralist is jailed for painting breasts in a Michelangelo reproduction on a wall outside his studio: http://www.freep.com/news/loc
mac
/mural18e_20050218.ht...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Recording an album? Here's how to make an inexpensive yet powerful music studio out of your
mac
mini...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Microsoft is mad about all the Apple iPods that employees are buying and using at work: http://www.wired.com/news/
mac
/0,2125,66460,00.html?tw=rss.TO...
Turn your
mac
into a streaming music station with Nicecast...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I went to the Palo Alto Apple Store, which until 1995 used to be Swain's House of Music, where the Grateful Dead played a few times and where it's rumored that Jerry Garcia bought one of his firs...
If you have some Robert Johnson recordings and a
mac
, you can slow down the music with this program...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The big news in Kev's world this week was the introduction of the
mac
mini - it's a small yet powerful box not much wider than a CD that supports pretty much any display, keyboard, and mouse for $500...
About two minutes after someone pointed out that the
mac
mini was smaller than a standard car radio, companies started working on plans to offer in-car
mac
s to handle entertainment and car functions...
Of course, note that you can create installations of hundreds of
mac
minis (for computer labs and offices), all remotely (and centrally) upgradable and managed via Apple Remote Desktop...
Are you a
mac
-hating bigot...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Before and after tsunami photos, matched up with each other: http://homepage.
mac
.com/demark/tsunami...
December 13 to 19, 2004
A nice-looking homemade iPod ad is the first true homebrew ad on the net: http://www.wired.com/news/
mac
/0,2125,66001,00.htm...
Self-service USPS stamp
mac
hines have been taking people's photos without their knowledge, courtesy of the FAA...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Handy
mac
-based tools for those recording audio interviews that need transcription...
New old tech - Apple's selling refurbished
mac
s now, at discounts up to 1/3 off...
The military's using robots with
mac
hine guns now...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Tyranny of the few: A $1.2 million indecency fine levied against Fox by the FCC was brought on by only three people, of the millions that watched one show...
November 8 to 14, 2004
An interesting interview with a man that has collected over 900,000 mp3 files online, for posterity's sake: http://www.
mac
net2.com/more.php?id=536_0_10_...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Yes, those same Hart voting
mac
hines used in Hawaii caused a few problems in Texas. But here's what gets me... the article's last sentence reads "Election officials say eSlate
mac
hines are reliabl...
Note that modern
mac
s are compatible with Verizon's wireless BroadbandAccess plan ($80 a month for unlimited access)...
iPodder allows you to browse audio feeds via RSS and download them to your iPod. For
mac
and Windows...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Yes, the same Hart eSlate voting
mac
hines used in Hawaii caused Democratic votes to turn into Republican ones in Austin, Texas...
October 11 to 17, 2004
It's been a while since a Hawaii-based tech company made big news - CherryOS (based on Maui) touts a
mac
OSX emulator for PCs, and their Web site is getting slammed...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Hart Intercivic makes those evoting
mac
hines that people in Hawaii will be using in the upcoming general election. Here's a recent article about a letter written by a former Hart technician wh...
Inside the recently upgraded world's third-most-powerful supercomputer at Virginia Tech (it's also powered by
mac
OSX)...
September 20 to 26, 2004
PC Magazine and Time give the new G5 i
mac
top ratings and reviews, named "Gadget of the Week"...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Life in a Cambodian garbage dump: http://www.pbase.com/
mac
iekda/stungmeanche...
September 5 to 12, 2004
"A new study shows that kids who watch lots of TV ads are more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety, sto
mac
haches and other problems....
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Skype, the most popular Voice Over IP (VOIP) app, is now available for
mac
OSX! Talk to friends around the world for free using your Internet connection...
August 22 to 29, 2004
Finally, Coke vending
mac
hine offers cashless purchases via cell phones...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Got a
mac
, guitar, and a microphone? Here's the cables...
August 8 to 14, 2004
A great business model for online publishing - "fast turnaround e-books": http://wired.com/news/
mac
/0,2125,64563,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
SecuritySpy - This
mac
-based software allows one to install a cheap multi-cam security system for many thousands less than traditional systems...
Where do whales go when they die? A newly discovered worm lacks a mouth, sto
mac
h, legs, and eyes and lives on deep-sea whale bones...
July 19 to 25, 2004
An inside look at the birth of the iPod. Its manager quit because he had no confidence it would be popular. He works for Microsoft now...
A photo tour of the N521DB, the luxury liner used to transport the Bin Ladens out of the U.S. after 9/11. It was also used by Fleetwood
mac
and the Rolling Stones...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Tired of Hotmail and other free mail services that bombard you with junk mail and don't let you send large attachments? Try Spy
mac
's new "Spy
mac
mail", with a 3GB inbox, a 20MB attachment limit, jun...
e
mac
hineShop - design and
mac
hine custom mechanical parts online...
July 5 to 11, 2004
With this
mac
application you can view the current top ten most purchased tracks from the iTunes Music Store in your menubar...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
An Antarctic scientific research vessel gets equipped with two heavy-caliber
mac
hine guns to fight fish poaching off of Australia...
June 21 to 27, 2004
Apple's preview of Tiger,
mac
OS X 10.4. Now with high-quality four-way videoconferencing. I and my friends have videoconferenced with PowerBooks from Honolulu to California, Boston, and Israel, an...
June 14 to 20, 2004
CD Origami http://www.merri
mac
k.edu/~thull/CDcase/cd.pd...
Independent music labels in Europe break negotiations with Apple over disagreements due to the length of their contract: http://www.
mac
observer.com/article/2004/06/16.1.shtm...
June 7 to 13, 2004
A tutorial on how to make your Windows PC look just like a modern
mac
...
Although this is not new, SubEthaEdit is likely the best application for collaborative text editing. Imagine multiple people collaborating on meeting notes, screenplays, and class lectures! Sorry, Ma...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"L.A. To Oregon at
mac
h 9...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Here's how Apple's nifty spam filter makes use of latent semantic analysis to successfully mark 98% of spam mail: http://www.
mac
devcenter.com/pub/a/
mac
/2004/05/18/spam_pt2.htm...
May 10 to 16, 2004
One of the coolest painting programs I've seen in years: Cosmic Painter! It's free and better than a Spirograph. (Sorry, for
mac
OSX only)...
May 3 to 9, 2004
...and experts warn of worse to come. Now why banks, airlines, and stock exchanges would open themselves up to being so vulnerable by using unpatched, networked Windows systems is completely beyon...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
Pictures of wacky Japanese vending
mac
hines...
Here's a cool (
mac
and Windows) screensaver - an airplane window, with a moving aerial background...
April 19 to 25, 2004
Voting
mac
hines company Diebold may face criminal charges...
April 5 to 11, 2004
"Americans are increasingly resorting to sto
mac
h-shrinking surgery so much so that health experts and insurance companies are becoming alarmed"...
March 22 to 28, 2004
A reporter's journey through the massive, im
mac
ulately organized, and sometimes bizarre archives of the Stanley Kubrick estate...
March 15 to 21, 2004
"Shocking" videos of closed-door meetings show Diebold (electronic voting
mac
hines manufacturer) representatives mention that data gets lost,
mac
hines are not certified, and that things generally jus...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Mind Over
mac
hin...
A surreal report of Arayanfest 2004, the latest "international" gathering of white supre
mac
ists...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Got a Windows PC? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Thanks to the recent Windows code leak, this security vulnerability has been found - if you're running Explorer version 5, simply loading a certain imag...
Got a
mac
? Hallelujah...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The image of Buddha, automatically generated by a simple mathematical algorithm that plots points on the real and imaginary planes: http://www.complexification.net/gallery/
mac
hines/buddahbrot...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
Well, the last week has been short on news, due to my being stuck in California at a crappy hotel - Crowne Plaza - the toilet's broken, the hot/cold faucets are reversed, the vending
mac
hine doesn'...
January 19 to 25, 2004
Here's a look at one of the hearts of the Internet - the Network Operations Center hosting one of the dozen or so class A root servers that exist around the globe - if these
mac
hines went down...
January 12 to 18, 2004
A new joystick combination fitness
mac
hine gives you a real workout.....
December 22 to 28, 2003
Does anyone in Oahu need a free business-class RICOH FT7870 copy
mac
hine? I'm not sure if it's been sold yet...
An article about Apple's Jonathan Ives, who designed the iPod, i
mac
, PowerBook, and lots of other stuff. He just received one of the most prestigious awards for industrial design...
December 15 to 21, 2003
At least five convicted felons secured management positions at Diebold, the maker of those electronic voting
mac
hines. One of them is a programmer who was jailed for falsifying computer records.....
Spammers can do what terrorists can't - military hardware turned into spamming
mac
hine: Thanks to the US Navy choosing Microsoft as their official operating system for vessels, a hacked Microsof...
December 8 to 14, 2003
This Chinese video has been wildly popular this week: A great "new" way to fold your shirts (it's true, I learned too) the way professionals do in retail stores. You may be able to download it her...
When Apple opened its first non-U.S. store in Tokyo, it created the longest line ever seen in the Ginza district, with 2,400 people spanning 10 long city blocks...
November 17 to 23, 2003
The rise of informal iPod sharing: http://www.wired.com/news/
mac
/0,2125,61242,00.htm...
November 10 to 16, 2003
"Playlistism" http://www.wired.com/news/
mac
/0,2125,61177,00.htm...
The first supercomputer made of
mac
s, "Big
mac
", is the 3rd most powerful...
October 27, 2003
"How I Met My Wife" - a mind-blowing play on words: http://beebo.org/s
mac
kerels/how-i-met-my-wife.htm...
October 20, 2003
A summary of the launch of iTunes for Windows this week: http://www4.
mac
nn.com/
mac
nn/musicevent/apple.com/itune...
September 30, 2003
The RIAA withdrew one of their suits due to mistaken identity - This
mac
-using grandma was liable for $300 million for stealing songs by artists such as the rapper "Trick Daddy"...
September 22, 2003
All about the best slot
mac
hine cheater ever...
One local columnist is wondering about his schools switching to Windows from
mac
...
September 15, 2003
The iTunes music store just sold its 10 millionth song! Yay! http://www.
mac
world.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=684...
Of all people, the Chief Technical Officer of InfoWorld (long a Windows/UNIX-oriented publication) has moved to a
mac
and wrote two articles about the experience... "It just works... an option that'...
September 8, 2003
According to "youth marketing experts", Apple is one of the coolest, popular brands among teenagers (even though they're probably using Windows at school)...
Diamond-cutting robots are on the rise! Contrast with the recent progress made in synthetic diamond tech (see the recent Wired) and you'll see how the entire industry could be completely automated i...
August 25, 2003
Affected by the recent computer viruses? The solution: 1) Don't use Outlook. 2) Don't use Windows. I just spent a couple hours cleaning up a friend's infected Windows
mac
hine this week. In over 1...
July 10, 2003
"This is coming whether we like it or not," said Jim Lewis, with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "It's not how do we stop the tidal wave. It's how do we manage it." Also, if yo...