On Tuesday, the Apple Store went down, leaving only the much-anticipated “We’ll be back soon” sticky note. When the Store came back up, there were new MacBooks, iMacs, and a new mouse, along with other refinements to the traditional line-up of Apple products. The new MacBook basically brings it up to par with the MacBook […]
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Never In My Entire Life Have I Seen Anything as Awkward as This Windows 7 Ad
October 10th, 2009
This article appeared originally on subjectivemorality.com, where I put all the other crap I write. Microsoft, in a not-so-well-thought-out move, has actually let this horrible, horrible, horrible advertisement for Windows 7 launch parties out of the torture chamber basement to see the light of day (not to mention the stares of disbelief and disgust of […]
Apple Beats iTunes With The Ugly Stick, Announces New iPods
September 9th, 2009
I am appalled at Apple and what they’ve done with iTunes 9. Sure, they’ve included some important functionality and all, like app management and a new interface for the iTunes store, but did they really need to make it so fricken ugly? I mean, just take a look at the thing: Fucked up gradients and […]
Grab Snow Leopard’s 35 New Wallpapers Now
August 10th, 2009
Awhile ago, I did a post about getting the new default wallpaper in Snow Leopard. Now, we have the entire 35 wallpapers that Snow Leopard is shipping with next month. They include images of nature, snow leopards, fine art and even graffiti, so download them here, courtesy of creativebits. Some samples:
OS X 10.5.8 Installation Guide
August 10th, 2009
The first time I tried installing 10.5.8, my keyboard and trackpad didn’t work. I reinstalled OS X, and tried again. My keyboard and trackpad worked fine after the update. When Thomas updated, he kept getting kernel panics until he booted into safe-mode (-x) and installed the audio drivers. Just goes to show that this can be […]
October 22nd, 2009
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