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more about #mac more comments → Seiven: I think it is kinda cool that he actually tried to help...that is what I call support more » Dr. H. F. Danger: You brought a Vintage Mac to some Mac geeks in NYC, of course they are genuinely interested. Apple has an official "Vintage and obsolete product" lis... more » LVP: I've got one of those that needs a system disk. You've given me an idea. Thanks! #geniusbar more » SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: Adam, I think your "cameraman" have a thing for men's arses...I recommend you to protect yours. #geniusbar more » N@tedog: Did you pick it up and drop it? #geniusbar more » Pessimippopotamus: That's nice. That's certainly better than what I've seen before at an Apple Store. Now this really happened to my friend and I was right next to him. ... more » günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi: video doesn't work.... i'm disappointed... i wanted to see that... #geniusbar more » discounteggroll: beeping upon boot signifies a RAM issue, in case this situation arises again #geniusbar more » lostarchitect: Wow, that is an absolute classic. I'm not sure if I have any electrionics that old that still work, with the exception of my ColecoVision. I believe t... more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Next time you should really mess with them and jam a MacMini into that case. Let them figure out how you're running Snow Leopard on that antique... #... more » -
#apple
What Happens When You Bring a 22-Year-Old Mac to the Genius Bar?
I didn't know, so I figured I'd give it a shot. I brought an ancient and non-functioning 1987 Macintosh Plus 1MB to the Apple Store in the Meatpacking District in NYC, and this is what happened. More » -
#microsoft
Microsoft Disowns Manager For Suggesting That A Mac OS Inspired Windows 7
Poor Microsoft Partner Group Manager Simon Aldous. His Microsoft brethren is calling him uninformed and practically disowning him for the quotes he threw out earlier about Windows 7 basing its UI on the Mac OS. More » -
#blockquote
Microsoft Manager Admits Mac Influence Amidst Other Nonsense
Windows 7 has taken some heat for aping a few Mac OS UI features, but it's certainly not a copycat OS—something Microsoft Partner Group Manager Simon Aldous might not know, given his recent quote. More » -
#mediastreaming
Orb Media Streaming Finally Available For Macs
Orb's been out for a while, but now there's OS X 10.5 and 10.6 compatibility. Mac users can finally use the app to stream all sorts of media from iTunes to nearly any internet-connected device. Oh, and it's completely free. More » -
#apple
Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears
The iMac revived Apple after a decade of sickly malaise. The name is so obviously iconic. So it's shocking that Steve Jobs hated it and wanted to call it something so awful it would "curdle your blood." More » -
#snowleopard
Parallels 5 Runs Windows 7 Right Next to Snow Leopard With Full Multitouchiness
It's a virtual war: VMWare Fusion 3 for Snow Kitty and Win7 popped out last week, and now here's Parallels 5. It's also fully 64-bit, with Windows apps that behave like native ones, including full multitouch gestures, and more zoomzoom. More » -
#os
More Giz Readers Own Macs Than PCs
Surprisingly, our our poll yesterday revealed that Mac owners were running neck and neck with PC owners, each commanding 41% of the vote. Although Mac owners have maintained an extremely slight edge over the last few hours in actual numbers. More » -
#questionoftheday
Do You Use a Mac Or a PC As Your Personal Home Computer?
Now that Windows 7 and Snow Leopard are both out in the wild, it is time, once again, to take stock of the state of home computing. That is to say, are you using a Mac or a PC? More » -
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#photography
Image.jpg Could Be The First Analog Digital Photo Frame
Save those precious moments for posterity with the image.jpg photo frame. Digital and analog worlds collide with a silk-screened, wooden representation of a Mac image window that will contain a picture you probably took with a digital camera. More » -
#snowleopard
VMWare Fusion 3 Fuses Snow Leopard and Windows 7 With Full 64-Bit Power
VMWare's Fusion 3—with full support for Snow Leopard and Windows 7—is out today. Besides being natively 64-bit in Snow Leopard, it lets you migrate a PC to your virtual machine, launches Windows apps like native apps, and more. More » -
#halloween
The iMac Cylon Mask Is Both Trick and Treat
Giz reader Gary Katz has definitely fixed his iMac-o'-lantern error with this wonderful and even dorkierer iMac Cylon Mask. It uses an old lamp iMac base and Larson Scan Kit, like the one used in the Cylon Pumpkin. [Thanks Gary] -
#apple
Apple Kills ZFS Plans for Snow Leopard
Don't hold your breath for the ZFS filesystem to appear in any future Snow Leopard updates. A message yesterday on the project's homepage very clearly acknowledges that development has stopped completely. More » -
#psystar
Psystar's $50 Software Lets You Put Snow Leopard on a Non-Hacked PC
Not content with waging a crazy legal battle with Apple based on just selling hardware with Snow Leopard on it, Psystar is now selling software that lets you put OS X on any new PC. More » -
#howto
How to Survive Boot Camp (and Run Win 7 on a Mac)
Windows 7 and Snow Leopard are great. And cheap. Boot Camp's the free, official way to run them both natively on one machine. It's easy to setup, and just works, except when it doesn't. Here's how to survive Boot Camp. More » -
#windows7
Microsoft's Favorite Windows 7 Statistic
Sure, 91 percent of release candidate testers surveyed said they'd recommend Windows 7 to friends and family. But, undoubtedly Microsoft's favorite statistic is that 80 percent of Mac users in the survey said they'd recommend Windows 7 to friends and family too. More » -
#roundups
10 Things You Need to Know About Apple's New Stuff
Cupertino released a lot of new products today, and it was easy to miss something in the press release onslaught. To stay versed in the Tome of Apple, here are 10 things you need to know: More » -
#apple
New Unibody LED MacBook Hands On
At the center of today's minor product explosion, Apple's refreshed $1000 White MacBook is the only right-fielder: It's got a rubberized bottom, multitouch trackpad, LED backlighting, the MacBook Pro's non-replaceable battery, and healthy spec bumps. UPDATED More » -
#apple
Apple Crushes Recession by Selling More Macs and iPhones Than Ever Before
Apple just sold more Macs and iPhones than ever before: 3.05 million Macs and 7.4 million iPhones. iPods, doomed that they are, are still dying. But, Steve promises "some really great new products in the pipeline for 2010." Updated live. More » -
#apple
OS X 10.6.2 Beta Addresses Hard Drive Killing Bug
We know that Apple is aware of the data-annihilating Guest Account bug in Snow Leopard, and it looks like a fix is on the way. The latest 10.6.2 beta seeded to developers specifically addresses the issue, and throws in a few other tweaks for good measure. If you're staring at that Guest Account on the login screen with fear and loathing, sit tight. Hopefully this will all be resolved soon. [9to5 Mac] -
#apple
You'll Be Seeing Justin Long's Smarmy Apple Face a Lot More Soon
Windows 7 launches a week from today, so you're probably ready for the Microsoft advertising blitz that's already started. But are you prepared for the Apple Windows 7 onslaught? More » -
#btw
You Can Use Google Chrome for Mac Right Now
Google CEO Eric Schmidt says Chrome for Macs is coming in a couple months, but if you're impatient and only mildly adventurous, you can run it a surprisingly solid early version right now. More » -
#cases
Buffy and Hellboy Skins on Apple Products, Dual-Fanboys Ascend to Nirvana
Dark Horse Comics (Buffy, Hellboy) and GelaSkins (those dudes who make reusable sticky skins for iPhones, Macbooks, etc) have conceived and birthed a line of products to which all geeks will find themselves un-immune. More » -
#psystar
Final Round of Psystar vs Apple Might Be Called Off
I'm pissed. For months, I've been waiting for the Psystar vs Apple trial to hit the court. And now both companies are filing motions for summary judgments and potentially denying me a show? More » -
#chrome
Chrome for Mac Coming in Months Says Guy Nominally in Charge of Google
I'm not sure how much we can weight we can put in the prognostications of Eric Schmidt, since he doesn't even know when the company he's theoretically in charge of buys entire other companies for millions of dollars, BUT if you're just looking for some hope, he says that Chrome for Mac will be done in months. Not too surprising, though, since the Chromium builds have been getting more solid for a while now. [MediaMemo] -
#zune
Microsoft: There's Still a Sliver of Hope For Zune On Apple Products
Microsoft's all about letting little nuggets loose this fine afternoon: a Microsoft rep just told Mary Jo Foley that the company is mulling "port[ing] the Zune software and services to other platforms, including Apple's." Hey, yes! Do that! More » -
#macvspc
Almost Nobody Owns Just Macs
NPD's Household Penetration Study found a 3% uptick in Mac households for 2009. This makes sense! What's surprising (or not) is that of the 12% of homes with a Mac, less than 2% are Mac-exclusive. More » -
#blackberry
Download BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac Now
It's out, and you should get it, if you own a BlackBerry and a Mac. That's about it. [BlackBerry] -
#startrek
Gene Roddenberry's 1984 Original Macintosh for Sale
Would you like to write a saga about a spaceship with a womanizing captain, an awkward scientist/philosopher, a maniacal doctor, a drunk engineer, a voluptuous communications officer, a communist pilot, and a gay helmsman? Well, this Macintosh 128 won't help. More » -
#apple
The Macintosh as Designed By Leonardo da Vinci
I really liked the iPhone as designed by Leonardo t-shirt, but I absolutely love this one, showing the original—and still my favorite—1984 Macintosh in the same style. Pretty: More » -
#apple
First Snow Leopard Update: 10.6.1 Is Here
We knew it was in the works, but now it's here—the 10.6.1 update, with newer Flash plug-in and tweaks for 3G modems, DVD playback, Dock, Mail and other areas. Have at it. [Apple] -
#chess
Mac vs PC: Battle It Out Bobby Fischer Style
Who would win in a chess match between Mac and PC? Chess seems like PC's game, but winning won't be easy on a board that's Apple's home turf. More » -
#snowleopard
Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Complete Guide
Though you might mistake Snow Leopard for plain old Leopard when you first boot it up, there's a lot of subtle stuff happening on screen and under the hood. Here's our guide to everything new in the latest Mac OS. More » -
#blackberry
BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac Leaked (Download It Now)
I caught the long-awaited BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac in action a bit ago, and it's pretty damn nice—it's even better than the Windows equivalent, since one app syncs everything. You can download a leaked beta here: [CrackBerry] -
#snowleopard
First Snow Leopard Patch Released To Developers
As rumored, less than a week after the release of Snow Leopard, Apple has already dropped the first patch on developers for testing. The 71.5 MB download includes several fixes related to 3G modems, the Dock and Motion 4. More » -
#creative
Creative Vado HD Pocketcam V2 Features Direct Transfer to iMovie, Slightly Better OS X Support
Creative today announced their second-generation line of Vado HD pocket camcorders. The most interesting tidbit is the new Mac-friendlier Vado Central software, which allows for easy direct transfer to iMovie. Even better, that software will also work for older Vados. More » -
#photoshopcontest
56 Redesigns of the Snow Leopard Box
Not blown away by the box Snow Leopard comes in? What a life you must lead to be bothered by such things! Allow me to soothe your soul with a veritable tsunami of redesigns, most of them much, much worse. More » -
#snowleopard
The Other Snow Leopard Review You Should Read
Twenty. Three. Pages. Ars' deeply technical review of Snow Leopard ain't for the faint of heart, but if you want to dive deep inside Snow Leopard's guts, after our comparatively breezy take, the entry point is here: [Ars] -
#apple
Most Complete Snow Leopard Compatibility List Yet
Apple recently published a small Mac OS X Snow Leopard application blacklist. Now, some users have set up wiki with an exhaustive directory of Mac OS X 10.6 software, each with their compatibility status. [Snow Leopard Compatibility—Thanks Traviscat] -
#questionoftheday
How's Your Battery Life and Hard Drive Space With Snow Leopard?
You've had the weekend to play with Snow Leopard and have stuff run faster, apps break and all the other glories of a new OS. But how much extra space did you get, and how's your battery life? More » -
#apple
The Real Reason You Got Back So Much Hard Drive Space With Snow Leopard
Sure, Apple carved out a lot extra code, like printer drivers you don't need. But you're also seeing additional space where you didn't used to, because Snow Leopard calculates disk capacity differently than Leopard (or Windows, for that matter). More »
