Send a Mac to Your Boy in College
Business Week columnist Stephen “Wild Thing” Wildstrom writes that kids going away to college should bring a tolerance for bad beer, a copy of Dave Matthews’ Under the Table and Dreaming and a Mac. While I have been a Mac fan for years, I have never felt strongly enough to make the Mac a default…
Front Row for Musicians: Remote Control Mac Music Sets
If you’re still trying to find something useful to do with that Apple Remote that’s bundled with new Macs, maybe you should duct-tape it to the neck of your guitar. plasq, the developers of Comic Life, have built a new music app called Rax 2 that acts a bit like Apple’s Front Row, only aimed…
Sony Vaio VGN-TX92S
This Vista-ready laptop has an 11.1″ screen and runs a Core Solo processor at up to 1.2-Ghz. It comes in Blue, Black, White, and Kappa (???????), these things are completely configurable and compatible with 1seg, a Japanese broadcast service that is unavailable here. Starting at $1,500, I’d be so very surprised if something this cool…
UMPCs Suck Hard
It’s becoming clearer and clearer that the UMPC is just a baby tablet and, like the tablet, will soon end up smeared in blood in an ER rather than smeared with peanut butter on your coffee table. The folks at the Inquirer headed out to Computex and tried out a few UMPCs and found that…
MacBooks Looking Skanky
You ran out as soon as the words MacBook slipped past Saint Jobs’ craggy lips and what do you get a few months later? A big skanky notebook covered in sweat stains. The symptoms of this problem first seem to after appear about 2-3 weeks of use of the Macbook. As you can see in…
Chrome Notebook Sleeve
Chrome has made a Padded Laptop Sleeve that fits just about any MacBook computers. It’s light and easy to carry. It costs $34.00 has an optional shoulder strap for an extra $9. They’re based in the UK, but it looks like they also ship on over to us, so that’s niceCali, which is also nice.…
Inside the OLPC Laptop
WorldChanging has an in-depth look at the One Laptop Per Child project and the associated cheap laptop that kind of looks like a cute orange bunny. These antenni create wireless mesh networks automatically and cover USB and power ports in nasty environments. It has a 7.5″, non-backlit screen and a tiny keyboard. The laptop can…
Mossberg Likes the MacBook
Like us over here at Macmodo, Mossberg loves him some Macs. We believe that his experience covering international affairs has turned him into a Machead, much like jobs at Applebee’s and too much acid in college turns some folks into Burning Man fans. We believe the complexity of continental inter-relations has fried his brain and…