Posts catagorized 'Asides'

iPhone Transformes into Fembot with iBoobs

Macenstein with a YouTube post demoing iBoobs, a psychological first-person thriller of a game which Apple – or The Great Prude, in some circles – has denied from it’s App Store. I imagine that the denial is based largely on the possibility that such an app would rocket to the top of the charts and [...]

Aluminum and Glass Multi-Touch Mighty Mouse?

MacBlogz offers up a prototype design of a new, multi-touch Mighty Mouse. The mouse may be aluminum and glass. Sound familiar? Of course. And pretty soon we’re going to be seeing aluminum cables and glass carrying cases for our notebooks. Via 9 to 5 Mac.

Steve Jobs Runs the American Auto Industry

Bob Cringely asks, “What if Steve Jobs ran one of the Big Three auto companies?” There’s some real harshness to the article but it’s an entertaining read. Desperate times.

Blue Screen of Death T-Shirt

Terminal Command to View Folder Paths in Finder Toolbar

TUAW with a quick terminal command to show full folder paths in Finder’s toolbar. Until now I’ve always Command clicked on the folder’s icon in the toolbar to see its path. This makes it even more simple.

iPhoto’s Trash – Bastion of Wasted Disk Space

Macworld with some great advice to free up some disk space: empty iPhoto’s trash. When you delete a photo from iPhoto, it isn’t completely deleted. Rather, much like the Finder, the photo is moved to the Trash section in the side bar. Right click on the Trash section and select Empty Trash from the contextual [...]

Suggestive Finder Icon

BabyGotMac, which apparently lists Mac software that has been discounted, updated or released (I haven’t spent much time on the site), has this excellent logo which made me laugh out loud: Really, that’s brilliant, although I can’t see any logical connection with the content on the sight, and moreover it looks to be something that [...]

Macworld’s Eddy Awards Posted

Macworld‘s 2008 list of Editor’s Choice (or Eddy) software and hardware for your Mac. Some of my favorites include Airfoil, CSSEdit and Flock.

Top Apps of 2008 on iTunes

A new section of itunes lists the Top Apps of 2008 for every category (iTunes link). I’ve already seen a few I didn’t know about.

Control iTunes by Waving Your Hands About!

Smoking Apples: FluidTunes uses your iSight to let you scroll through your albums by moving your hands in the air. Haven’t tried it, but it looks a bit neat.