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 [...]
9:51 pm, October 25th, 2007, Pete Mortensen
Oh, Apple. You shouldn’t have. It’s far too accurate (discovered by David R. Perek)
Via Digg.
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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) [...]
That’s not surprising at all…
Sotek, on October 25th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Bwahahahahahaha! Never say that the programmers at Apple don’t have a sense of humor.
JT, on October 26th, 2007 at 7:58 am
priceless
Jay, on October 26th, 2007 at 9:02 am
[...] Browsing a network full of PCs on a Mac running Leopard? This is what you see. A well-deserved poke at Microsoft from Apple. Found via CultOfMac.Com [...]
Pic of the day. « VistaSucks.WordPress.Com, on October 26th, 2007 at 9:02 am
@JT. Uh…who was saying that exactly?
Peter, on October 26th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
[...] Windows Machines Represented in Leopard With Blue Screen of Death – apple left “the blue screen of death” easter egg in leopard. “Oh, Apple. You shouldn’t have. It’s far too accurate” [via waxy] [...]
… piece 0 plastic - the revolution will be blogged … » Blog Archive » ruff linkage . 200743, on October 26th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
OMG. i work in a call center for apple (plenty blue screens actualy on leopard hahahahha) but that aside this is going to be awesome when i tell them about this. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, i really gotta find a windows machine and show them this
. thanks guys.
Andre_jay, on October 26th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
[...] particolare scherzoso, che era presente nelle versioni in sviluppo, in quella definitiva. [via Cult of Mac] PUBBLICITÀ PUBBLICITÀ (nessun voto) 0 [...]
Leopard si fa beffa di Windows, on October 27th, 2007 at 12:41 am
Don’t worry Uncle Steve, we still love you, you adorable ape.
Joe
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Joe, on October 27th, 2007 at 10:52 am
[...] Apple left a Blue Screen of Death Easter Egg in the final release of Leopard, which was released yes…. Bad Apple! [...]
| friskyGeek, on October 27th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
[...] Windows machines represented in Leopard with BSOD. Brilliant. © 1999-2007 Justin Blanton (e-mail) e v e r y t h i n g i s r e l a t i v e In partnership with [...]
Justin Blanton | Windows machines represented in Leopard with BSODs, on October 27th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
I thought it was a Joke until I saw my friends computer on their home network.
Alexander van Houten, on October 27th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
[...] quella schermata blu che accompagna ogni errore di sistema dei sistemi operativi Microsoft. [via Cult of Mac] Converti in [...]
HeavyTrader » Blog Archive » Leopard easter egg…ai danni di Windows, on October 28th, 2007 at 1:26 am
This only applies to machines sharing with SMB, right?
The CRT display is also funny. It looks generically antique.
When Jobs shows a Windows screen in one of his presentations, it’s always running Solitaire. That would have worked also. They could change to that in 10.5.1 to tone it down a notch and this would still be a classic BSOD appearance.
The Leopard icons are about the same resolution as a real BSOD, that’s why you can read the BSOD text in the Leopard icon.
Fred Hamranhansenhansen, on October 28th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Although I’ve made my livelihood with Windows for many years, I would have pretty much laughed my ass off at this.
In, say, 1998.
How traditionally snide and unnecessary. How uncharacteristically out-of-touch.
Western Infidels, on October 31st, 2007 at 12:12 pm
[...] 18 November 2007 at 1:06 pm (Photo of The Day) Browsing a network full of PCs on a Mac running Leopard? This is what you see. A well-deserved poke at Microsoft from Apple. Found via CultOfMac.Com [...]
Sonjaya’s Blog, on January 17th, 2008 at 10:08 pm