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It’s hard to deny that Macs and Legos are two of a typical geek’s favorite play things, so when you combine the two, nerdgasms are sure to occur.
Inside of this full-sized Mac Pro replica is a PC running OS X, as well as a Mac Mini, and the outside is 100% Mac as well, compete with a Steve Jobs minifig looking out from atop the Apple logo.
Specs include 2,588 Lego bricks, a 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo Hackintosh, and a 1.66 Ghz Core 2 Duo Mac Mini.
Now go change your pants.
[Via: Gizmodo]
Times is “a new type of newsreader for Mac OS X Leopard”.
Instead of treating your RSS feeds like emails, Times is designed to present them like a newspaper, with headlines and photos from a variety of sources to guide your way.
Like a newspaper, Times allows you to separate feeds into their own areas, create pages for different subjects, and more.
Times also shows the entire article within the program, and formats them all the same for easy reading.
Ready to give RSS a try, but aren’t quite ready to give up your newspaper just yet?
Then Times just might be the perfect solution.
[Times]
Leopard’s Back to My Mac tool is a fantastic resource for anyone who wants to access their Mac from anywhere around the world without bringing it with them.
The program is designed to let you “Access and control your Mac running Mac OS X Leopard from any other Leopard-based Mac over the Internet — right in the new Finder”.
It’s a great program, but unfortunately, it requires a .Mac account if you want to use it.
However, if getting back to your Mac sounds like something that you’d like to do, but a .Mac account doesn’t sound like something you need, then check out Lifehacker’s guide to Get Back to Your Mac Without Paying for It, as it will guide you through the process of setting up Back to My Mac on your Leopard computer with tools that are available for free, right out of the box.
With four days left until Leopard’s release, Apple is doing everything it can to entice you to buy.
The guided tour that they’ve put together lets you see what’s new and what’s different, and should give you a good idea of what Leopard is all about.
Are you ready?
If you love the look of the iPhone, but can’t give up the functionality of your CrackBerry, then give it a bit of iStyle with the bPhone theme.
The bPhone features icons that have been pulled directly from the Apple theme, custom icons to match, a dark glass top banner, a Macified signal and battery indicator, an OS X beachball ‘busy’ indicator, and a liberal use of gray and blue.
It might not add multi-touch, but at least you can pretend…
[bPhone]
[Via: CrunchGear]
A big event at the WWDC that Apple puts on each year is the giving out of Apple Design Awards, a celebration of “technical excellence and outstanding achievement in Mac OS X software design and development”. With categories like User Experience, Dashboard Widget, Student Project, and Game, it’s a good way to find out what’s the best of the best in the Apple software world, and this year was no different, with Delicious Library, Coda, and Picturesque among the winners. Check it out for a look at Mac’s greatest.
Ambient Indicators are an interesting and subtle feature that’s built into OS X. Since I just learned about them after over a year of using a Mac, I’d be willing to bet that not many of my fellow OS X users know about them either. The next time you have an open window, check out the close button. When an open file hasn’t been saved in its current state, the close button goes from solid red to red with a dark dot in the center. Though it might not do much, if you look out for it, you’ll never be surprised by the “Do you want to save?” pop up box ever again.
Though I didn’t expect any of my predictions to actually come true (I hoped they would, but didn’t expect they would, and I think I ended up with 0 out of 8 correct), Apple dropped a bomb in the form of the iPhone that caught everyone by surprise. I even got a few Apple fanboy goosebumps when the full specs were announced. Combining “a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching”, the iPhone will do it all and then slip away into your pocket. Features include:
Since this thing is already clogging all of the Internet’s tubes, I figure I’d give the readers of DYH a little something different. First off, let’s see how the 10 people whose reputations relied on the iPhone did.
What I find interesting is that if you combine everyone’s information and pick and choose the good stuff, you could have had a pretty good idea of the specs of the actual iPhone. Most got the fact that there would be two models in 4 and 8 GB form right, Kevin predicted the January launch date and the touchscreen, Rebecca got the pricing very close, the size close, the Cingular exclusivity right on, and the LCD screen size right on, and Think Secret got the GSM/EDGE thing right as well as the inclusion of a camera.
Besides the iPhone, Apple (as they’re now officially being called after they announced they’ve dropped the word Computer from their name) finalized the specs on the Apple TV (the now official name for the iTV). Designed to bridge the gap between your iTunes and your TV in a wireless way, the Apple TV features its own Intel processor, a 40 GB hard drive, 802.11n networking, and does 720p high def video. Plus, it’s scheduled to ship in February.
Lastly, Apple secretly updated their Airport Extreme Base Station to 802.11n specs and changed the form factor to a more Mac Mini style. Very sneaky.
Overall, some great stuff, though some definite shockers. No iLife update? No cameras in the monitors (Is that one really that hard to include)? I did like what I saw though, and Apple definitely managed to show that the first 30 years were just the beginning.
[Apple]
[Keynote Via: Engadget]
If a drinking game isn’t the way you want to celebrate the “just the beginning” keynote announcement, try some simpler fun with the Macworld Bingo board. Some of the descriptions are a little confusing, so half the fun is trying to figure out if something has actually happened, but it should be a great way to check out the announcements. One more thing, bonus points to anyone who yells out Bingo! during the actual Macworld keynote. I’d do it myself if only I had the opportunity. I think it’d definitely be worth the swift kick out of Mac Meca.
[Via: Digg]
