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Tuesday November 20, 2007

iPhone convergence continues - iLevel

Ok, NOW we’re getting somewhere!

Sure, the iPhone has a phone, iPod, camera, email, calendar, internet access, youtube, and a myriad of other things. But let’s be honest…sometimes you get tired of carrying around a damned level.

Well, thankfully, an enterprising young genius (the same guys that did the excellent iPhone ‘SysInfo‘) has come to your rescue. Enter iLevel.

Tuesday

FireFox beta 3 now available

A beta build of FireFox version 3 is now available for Mac (and other platforms) users.

Check it out here.

So far, so good. It seems stable and even a little faster. Of note are the new theme and new Preferences…and it appears to be Acid 2.0 compliant now (hooray!).

Sunday November 18, 2007

One Laptop per Child - ‘Give one, get one’ project

While not exactly a Mac topic, I wanted to pass along a link that is pretty important for those of us who love us some technology. http://laptopgiving.org/

Until November 26th, the Laptop.org Foundation is offering the XO laptop to members of the general public (in the US and Canada). When you purchase one of …

Saturday November 17, 2007

How to charge your iPod using…an onion.

The line between genius and insanity is a thin one, my friends.

How To Charge An IPod Using Electrolytes And An Onion - video powered by Metacafe- Original Story (yes, this is probably fake).

Thursday November 15, 2007

Paragon releases NTFS for OSX

Paragon Software has released NTFS for OSX, which allows Mac users to seamlessly write data to NTFS formatted drives, which can be of great use to BootCamp users with partitions in that format.

Primary advantage for most users: the ability to write files larger than 4gb to a Windows partition.

* Natively read and write your data to …

Wednesday November 14, 2007

Use a network mounted drive with Time Machine

Disappointed when Leopard arrived and you couldn’t back up to a shared network drive using Time Machine? Well put away that razor blade, Sally. We’ve got a trick for you.

Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities) and enter the following (on one line, as one command), then hit Enter:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

Open Time Machine preferences and enjoy the benefits of network storage….

Wednesday

Linked - November 14, 2007

Stories and links of interest for today:

MACOSXHINTS: Open multiple items in a Stack
After clicking on a stack so that it fans or grids out, hold the Option key down, and then click on as many items as you desire within the stack. As you click each, it will open and the stack will remain onscreen. Unfortunately (at …


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