It’s not an easy time for Microsoft — with Steve Ballmer having to field questions about being “buffoons” and an “evil empire” at the shareholder’s meeting (.doc) — so when they get together “the world’s most influential technology pundits and online writers” (nb: we weren’t invited) for Mobius to discuss super-secret mobile tech you’d think [...]
Here’s a guide for finding the best bargains on Apple-related gear during the infamous Black Friday sales on November 27. We’ve compiled a comprehensive list of gear from leaked photos of sales flyers and descriptions of sales.
The bargains include a 2.26 GHz MacBook + $150 gift card at Best Buy for $999.99 ; a 32GB [...]
New on the App Store is Voices from the clever folk at Tap Tap Tap. You can guess what it does.
Open it up, pick a silly voice. Helium is pretty silly. A microphone appears and the app even clears your throat for you (try it, you’ll see what I mean). Now speak your brains, and [...]
Press releases, you will hardly be surprised to hear, are rarely very interesting. But one arrived in my inbox a couple of weeks ago that made me double-take.
“Sony’s S Series Walkman,” it chattered, “is a serious challenger to the iPod Nano.” Gosh, really? Perhaps the Cult had better have a look at one, then, despite [...]
11:04 pm, December 11th, 2007, Pete Mortensen
Leander’s got the full story over at the Mothership. Anyone else have some gorgeous laser-etched Apple stuff they’d like to share?
Image via Flickr
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Ninja Assassin the movie is an anticipated Hollywood swords and sandals epic from James McTeigue, director of V for Vendetta, with a story from J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of Babylon 5 and the only Spider-Man comic in which Dr. Doom cries (though the artist allegedly came up with that last bit).
It’s also now an [...]
This is what you’re about to ask: Is Star Wars: Trench Run so good that it’ll have you wondering how magically your iPhone becomes an X-wing fighter? Answer: No. It’s better — it’s actually so good, you’ll be trying to figure out why your X-wing looks suspiciously like an iPhone.
Hit the game’s icon and you’re [...]
New on the App Store is Voices from the clever folk at Tap Tap Tap. You can guess what it does.
Open it up, pick a silly voice. Helium is pretty silly. A microphone appears and the app even clears your throat for you (try it, you’ll see what I mean). Now speak your brains, and [...]
Press releases, you will hardly be surprised to hear, are rarely very interesting. But one arrived in my inbox a couple of weeks ago that made me double-take.
“Sony’s S Series Walkman,” it chattered, “is a serious challenger to the iPod Nano.” Gosh, really? Perhaps the Cult had better have a look at one, then, despite [...]
If you jailbreak your iPhone, the first thing you ABSOLUTELY MUST DO is change the default filesystem password.
When you jailbreak, the filesystem’s password is set to the common password “alpine.” As people usually don’t bother changing this password after performing a jailbreak, it’s really easy for hackers to get access to any jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch [...]
Convert your mild-mannered Mac Pro into a hard drive speed demon. Stuff it with drives fast enough to work with full-quality, uncompressed video. Get more than 300 MB/s on your internal drives! It’s so easy even I can do it!
I’ve been working in video production for the last 20+ years. When you’re working with video [...]
Some readers might remember the fuss a few weeks ago, when Snow Leopard came out and people noticed that it did something screwy to the way files behave.
By removing support for Creator Codes in 10.6, Apple also removed the system’s hitherto built-in ability to distinguish which application created a file, and re-open it in that [...]
George Hotz a.k.a GeoHot has released blackra1n RC3, which is an update to a 1-click jailbreak that adds activation options and an add-on blacksn0w, which unlocks latest iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS baseband version 05.11.07. To use blacksn0w, make sure you have this new baseband (check under Settings –> General –> About –> Modem Firmware) [...]
I’ve had mine etched for a while now:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jabella/sets/72157600033633262/
Gets quite a few questions at conferences.
John, on December 12th, 2007 at 6:07 am
No offence, John, but why do people tamper with classic industrial design? You can still buy Coke in those classic green twist bottles. The periodic element graphic is cool, but the PowerBook design stands on its own – and has for about 6 years. I completely understand the desire to personalise, but I just think the starkness of the metal with the glowing white apple is head and shoulders above any etching. If you just can’t resist, then a small postage stamp-size design makes it personal without completely destroying the inherent beauty of the case. And it will draw the viewer in to see it, not shout it from the rooftops.
Of course, if somebody can make me one of them naked lady mud flap designs…
imajoebob, on December 12th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
I absolutely understand the idea of not messing with such a well known (and liked) industrial design. In my particular case, I use my laptop to present at number of conferences every year — conferences were having a Mac is becoming more common. It makes mine easier to identify in a crowd, and since it IS so well known now – it makes it less of a target for theft, or at least that’s what I tell myself.
John, on December 12th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Good point, John. I skipped including that a discreet personal identifier (across the bottom, perhaps?) would likely not detract from the overall look. I’m just one of those annoying “less is more” types.
But I’m still looking for that mudflap design. Or maybe one of those contraband Calvin images whizzing on the Windows logo? Classy.
imajoebob, on December 13th, 2007 at 11:34 am
[...] via cultofmac [...]
Kreatives Weihnachtsgeschenk gesucht? at pl0g.de, on December 18th, 2007 at 9:36 am
Another story with the delicious Leah Culver who etched her mac too
http://leahculver.com/laser-etched-laptop/
Bastien, on December 30th, 2007 at 1:32 pm