Below are posts from December 2006

Scribbles 1.2 now available with great new features

Berkeley, California – Scribbles 1.2 is now available from atebits. Scribbles is a drawing tool designed for everyone. It throws away the rule book and offers a fresh approach to creative software for Mac. A revolutionary user interface allows artists of all ages to bring their imaginations to life.

With an intuitive 3D layers, scalable high-quality stroke rendering, fluid UI animations, and an infinite canvas, Scribbles is the missing drawing tool for Mac.

This versions adds many user-requested enhancements, including a visual eyedropper, the ability to translate, rotate and scale layers independently, automatic updating, and optional grid overlays….

iPod vending machine rakes in $55,000 in one month

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (subscription) and TUAW report that a single iPod vending machine sold a thousands of dollars worth of iPods in one month. A VP of Business Traveler Services is quoted as saying, “We’ve done about $55,000 in a month in gross sales just for the one on Concourse A. This is becoming the future for some high-end products in places like airports where space is at a premium.” If you’re willing to drop $349 plus tax, the iPod is yours. And it’s a change from all those salty treats you normally get at a vending machine.

Free audiobooks!

Looking for some good, free content to throw on your iPod? Check out this massive list from OpenCulture.

Also, check out their comment section for links to even more free content. Some of the linked content includes:

* A Christmas Tale, Charles Dickens (iTunes)
* A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (iTunes)
* Aesop’s Fables, Aesop (mp3 download)
* Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (mp3 download)
* Andersen’s Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen (mp3 download)
* Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche (mp3 download)
* Call of the Wild, Jack London (mp3 download)
* Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (mp3 download)

Boot OSX to a Firewire disk

Ever needed to boot your Mac to a firewire disk/drive, such as the Micromat Protege? Not a problem: hold down the ‘Option’ key while rebooting, and choose from the listed drives.
You can use the mouse to select the drive, then click the arrow pointing to the right to boot the system.

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