Archive for March, 2007
We have now Officially moved to a new and improved site, titled Macweek.
It’s all the same, just a little title change, a domain name, and a complete web makeover, that’s it!
Update #2: We have now moved to Macweek.ca, please navigate to: The Macbook Reviewed After 6 Months of Wear and Tear
It was 6 months ago, to the day, that I received my shiny new Macbook in the mail, a 2.0 Ghz Core Duo if you’ve been wondering. It’s been quite a ride, especially being my [...]
LifeHacker has posted a great tutorial on using GeekTool. GeekTool is a cool little preference pane which allows you to run terminal commands, show logs, or even display pictures (e.g. from the net) directly on your desktop. Common uses include running the command top which displays which processes are utilizing the most system resources, displaying [...]
“Are Macs just for hipster designers? Not at all! Maybe you’ve wanted to switch to a Mac, but you were afraid it wouldn’t work with your Office files. Maybe you can’t convince your parents they won’t lose their vacation photos. Maybe your boss thinks Macs are toys not meant for serious adults.”
Valleywag, one [...]
Via Infinite Loop
Have you ever wondered where all those extra gigabytes dissapeared to the moment you opened your new Mac, and when you looked at your free disk space after a month or two?
Formatting surely wastes space, and it’s clear you’ll lose some while translating between classic and new and improved gigabytes. BUT, the real [...]
“Every browser has it’s positives and negatives but none can fulfill all of my needs alone.”
Via Low End Mac
Brisbane Creative has posted quite a nice article outlining the positives and negatives of nearly every OS X web browser on the planet. I very much agree with this, both the positives and negatives, as well as [...]
Via Theocacao
Scott Stevenson’s Theocacao blog has brought Locomotive from Ryan Rauum to my
attention with his post regarding the Apple Design Awards. Locomotive is an environment for developing Ruby on Rails applications on your Mac. It allows you to “try Ruby on Rails without worrying about breaking your current system, it’s an entirely self-contained environment.This seems [...]
Just Kidding, but this video is pretty hilarious. Apple’s increasing popularity is making Steve Jobs more recognizable outside of the usual circles of computer geeks. In this MadTV skit, steve introduces the “iRack.” Jobs has shown he is ripe for satire and much social commentary.
Via TUAW
I noticed this nicely modded MacBook over on TUAW’s Flickr pool
It Features:
-A See-Thru shell from Speck (I’ve been wanting to get one…)
-The keys from a black MacBook (which the owner notes eases use with Ableton Live)(I’ve been hoping to do this sometime as well)
-An Airport Card from a Mac Pro, for 11n Airport spec [...]
Via gWhiz
Credit cards all over the world are beginning to be charged for delayed product orders. Apple Discussion Forums lit up yesterday regarding credit cards being charged (finally) for the Appletv orders.
Online Apple Store and Apple’s 1-800 number don’t yet reflect it (as of yet). But, a quick and simple question to the sales agent [...]
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