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Alex is a blogger. You can find his personal blog here. You can also find him on Twitter.

Put The News On Your Desktop With GeekTool

March 13th, 2009

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A man by the name of Rodolfo Novak has created a shell script that parses RSS feeds and generates excerpts for the last few entries. By itself, not very useful unless you love the terminal (like I do). That’s where GeekTool comes in. GeekTool is a preference pane for embedding images, system logs, and output […]

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Pretend You’re A Techno God With iDaft

March 13th, 2009

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If you’re a huge Daft Punk fan or just a techno junkie, then iDaft is right up your alley. It plays the voices from Daft Punk’s song “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” along to your random keyboarding: It’s really fun to just hold down the keys.

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Mac Startup Sound On Your Hackintosh

March 13th, 2009

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For those of you who have a real Mac, you’re probably familiar with the “Sosumi” sound; that cheery “BONG!” that greets you when you boot OS X. Unfortunately, for those of us intrepid hackers who use OSX86, the sound is unavailable. Apple has baked the sound into their EFI firmware, which as of yet doesn’t […]

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