Tag: MACBOOK

If you have a MacBook, you're probably used to using the trackpad as a basic mouse, and throwing in multitouch gestures if you have a recent model. It turns out that's not all your trusty trackpad is good for, though. With an app called Inklet, that trackpad becomes a tablet you can write and draw on. You can even get a special stylus for it. Inklet can do a lot of the things a full-sized ...

So you can't find time in your day to watch the 90 minute Steve Jobs Keynote that took place yesterday, even though you live and breathe Apple? Is your computer in the manager's line of sight, so you can't even watch it at work? Mahalo Daily has got you covered: they've managed to shoehorn the Steve Jobs Keynote into 60 seconds. No, this isn't some fancy new video compression; let's just call it ...

This little Mac application is the definition of a time waster; it performs no real useful function, and yet we can't stop playing with it. It's not a game, as such, in that there is no goal and no score, but it sure is fun to play with. To see what we're talking about, you're going to need to be running a newish MacBook or MacBook Pro with an accelerometer built in. Got that? Good. So ...

Is it just me, or is the market for novel anti-theft apps for laptops exploding? Undercover is a program for Apple laptops from Orbicule that does a number of things to help you recover your laptop in the event of its theft. When the laptop boots, Undercover checks Orbicule's web server to see if you've reported your laptop missing. Once it knows it's been stole, Undercover begins doing all sorts ...

Your MacBook Pro has a built-in tilt sensor and camera. Since using Apple products for their intended purpose (like, say, running Mac OS X), here's a cool way to repurpose those features: iAlertU is theft alarm software that monitors your MacBook's camera and tilt sensor and, if it thinks your laptop is being manhandled while you've stepped away to grab another latte, sounds a loud alarm. ...

Largely lost in the shuffle among yesterday's flurry of Mac news was this bit: Microsoft and Apple have signed a five-year pact in which Apple agrees not to prevent users from installing Windows on their Intel Macs and Microsoft agrees to keep making Office apps for OS X. The first part is cool, but the second seems strange, what with Apple announcing an update to its iWork office suite. According ...