Tag: MACINTOSH

Delicious Library offers users the ability to catalog their entire collection of music, movies, electronic gadgets, kitchenware, clothes and most anything else using a web cam onto digital shelves on their Mac. All you have to do to enter an item in your database is scan the product's PC using a webcam. Delicious Library connects to Amazon to determine what that product is. From there, it will ...

Ah the dreams of spinning the wheels of steel, feeding off the energy of the crowd as you weave song after song in a tapestry of grooves and beats. Of course that's what it would have been like if you didn't get that 9 to 5 to pay the rent. That and actually taking the time to learn how to mix records. But fear not, algoriddim GmbH has come to the rescue with djay 2.1. Working seamlessly with ...

If you've been using a Mac since the glory days of System 7, you probably remember Hypercard. It was the workhorse app of choice for old-school Mac users to put together databases, presentations, and all kinds of other important information. Unfortunately, since Apple discontinued Classic, there's no way to run HyperCard on a new Mac. There's a workaround, though, in the form of Danny Goodman's ...

Apple's Leopard operating system is about to get a hefty update. Version 10.5.2 was seeded to developers and according to AppleInsier the update will contain around 100 code fixes and enhancements. The only specifics available on features being updated seem to be Time Machine backups and the handling of PDF documents, and image/mail attachments. Die-hard Leopard users are also hoping the new OS ...

WebEx, one of the premier providers of web-conferencing software, has announced that their desktop sharing software is available for Apple's OS X operating system. PC users have long known the advantage that WebEx provides - being able to share desktops for online meetings, product presentations, and joint collaboration. Just in time for MacWorld, WebEx has announced that they are expanding their ...

Few companies inspire such wicked fanboy love as does Apple, and few have such creative 'haters'. Here's two things we've stumbled on just today that illustrate the Apple love that's flying 'round in the lead up to the iPhone. First, a history of Apple in pictures. It's all there. Jobs, The Woz, The Apple I, The Lisa -- the predecessor to the original Macintosh -- and a ton of candid shots that ...

Apple announced in a statement yesterday that OSX 10.5 Leopard will be delayed until at least October. Leopard was originally planned to be released during Apple's WWDC in June but members of the development team for Leopard were pulled away from the project for some last minute tweaks to the iPhone software forcing the release date to be pushed back. In their statement Apple said, "While ...

Imagine sharing your life with your friends, and having them check out your favorite tunes, sites, and videos. Maybe you want to be an open book, maybe you don't. If you do, Slifeshare can help. To start using Slifeshare, sign up for a free account and download the application, and run it on your computer. The Slife application looks at everything you do on your computer, from what music you are ...

Today's holiday download is bocken, a widget from hockeywidgets that shows the live webcam feed from the Gävlebocken, a giant straw Christmas goat erected each year in the Swedish town of Gävle. As christmas traditions go, this one is so much cooler than a guy in a Santa suit sitting in a mall food court that I don't even have words for it. As cool as a live feed of a straw goat is on ...

Disco is a relatively new Mac OS X disc burning application that strives for simplicity, functionality, and good looks. It supports common disc burning activities (creating data CDs and DVDs, disc imaging, creating audio and MP3 CDs) but also packs a ton of other handy features: CUE/BIN burning, multiple file system support (Hybrid, HFS+, UDF, Joliet, ISO 9660), disc spanning support, and more. ...

I often find myself in a stealth-like combat zone (home) where secrecy and the element of surprise is priceless (blogging late at night). Darkness can often provide the best natural cover in a covert environment such as this. DarkAdapted will help take the bright edge off your computer screen by adjusting your gamma so you can continue to blog, work, or generally download stuff willy-nilly all ...

Last week Microsoft announced the official hardware requirements for Windows Vista and released an "Upgrade Advisor" tool to tell you how "Vista-ready" your computer is. Ina Fried at the CNet News blog has an interesting anecdote about running the tool on her various machines. The Upgrade Advisor told her that her four-month-old Compaq with 512MB of RAM was not Vista-ready and her laptop would run ...

Chris Seibold at Apple Matters has written a fun how-to on tweaking the Mac OS X login window to display whatever image you want in place of the Apple logo and whatever text you want below. Sure, it won't really impress your coworkers, but if you'd like to be greeted by a picture of your cat or, say, Bill Gates when you boot up, then why not? It's kind of an involved process, but doesn't look too ...

According to a study done by Forrester Research, widespread consumer distrust of Microsoft could lead to massive defections that could help Apple double its PC market share. In the study, which was done before Apple's switch to Intel, 5.4 million households gave Microsoft a rating of "mistrust a lot" or "mistrust a bit," and Forrester says that "compared with all Microsoft ...

I got a kick out of this: MyOldMac.net has a Flash toy called Web SE that's a great little simulation of System 7 running on the venerable Macintosh SE. Of course, it doesn't do everything your old Mac did, but many of the little details are captured perfectly, like the Eyeballs in the menu bar, the AfterDark Warp screensaver, and classic sounds like "Eep" and "Quack". Web SE ...