Category: All things Apple

  • Media Day for Apple

    Indeed it is. wow– Apple came out with some cool stuff! New shuffle,Video Ipods, and nanos. Also updated Itunes 7 and a sneak peak at their new content streaming device code name I-TV. man that is going to be awsome. I was expecting a little more- maybe I have my expectations too high lately, but…

  • It’s ShowTime

    Well you’ve probably already heard this, but Apple is coming out with some big stuff today. Last week the introduced the 24inch I-Mac (haven’t seen it yet) and today they have a special announcement. Well I just checked out I-Tunes and its completly black the the text “It’s showtime- The I-tunes store is being updated”…

  • iStat 3.0

    “iStat pro 3.0 is the next incarnation of the chart topping system monitoring widget. 4 new skins are included which all feature fully anti-aliased cpu and memory usage graphs complete with beautiful gradients. Also added is the ability to choose which drives, network interfaces, temp sensors and fan sensors are displayed, giving you complete control…

  • backup!

    As a sad side note, my PowerMac’s harddrive passed away rather suddenly earlier this week. She started having problems on Sunday- shortness of breath not able to get up and move around, the usual signs. I realized that she wasn’t going to make it, so I bought some expensive medication to help her recover but…

  • My PowerMac G5 has Killed Over!

    Situation: PowerMac was running fine. Did all updates last week (10.4.7, QT 7.1.1 etc) and everything worked fine. I thought i’d catch up my backup stuff so yesterday morning at 10am I tried out Super Duper! to do a backup. Before I ran the back up, I repaired permissions, and verified disk. Everything dandy. I…

  • I-Life Tutorials

    Apple has posted some new video tutorials on their website. This is really good for people to learn I-Life and to see what it has to offer. http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/index.html

  • Playing Games on your OSX Dashboard

    So- we all know we gotta kick back a little during work and home. So why not play a game? Well if you have Mac OSX Tiger there are now free games that you can play when dashboard is activated. (widgets) Check out Unity’s website that held a contest for Widget Games. What is Dashboard?…

  • Students doing cool stuff

    Here is how apple is promoting creativity in the youth. This works! http://edcommunity.apple.com/gallery/student/