Mac-on-Stick, load Mac OS Classic 7.0.1 onto a USB drive Mac-on-Stick is a project that explains how to load Mac OS Classic 7.0.1 onto a portable device using the minivmac emulator. It takes a few steps and is more appropriate for the technically-minded, but is quite an interesting experiment. (tags: software tools free mac fun [...]
TimeMachineEditor – Change the default Time Machine backup interval TimeMachineEditor is a software for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard that lets you change the default one-hour backup interval of Time Machine. You can change the interval or decide to make daily, weekly and monthly backups. This is useful if you don’t need to backup every [...]
SafariKeywords SafariKeywords teaches Safari a feature that's long been available in other browsers, such as Mozilla or OmniWeb and is known as "Mozilla Keywords". It basically lets you tell Safari where to search for the words you entered into the search bar, instead of always consulting good old Google. If the first word of what [...]
Word Clock Word Clock is a typographic screensaver for Mac OS X. It displays a fixed list of all numbers and words sufficient to express any possible date and time as a sentence. Word Clock displays time by highlighting appropriate words as each second passes. (tags: Heys Leopard MacOSX OSX SimonHeys application applications clock cool [...]
The Machine That Changed the World: The Paperback Computer The third episode of The Machine That Changed the World covers the development of the personal computer and the modern graphical user interface, which made computing easy to use for everyone. Highlights include interviews with Apple's Steve Jobs and Steve (tags: History computer computing documentary geek [...]
iJailBreak iJailBreak is an automated jailbreaker for your iPod Touch or iPhone licensed under the GNU General Public License v2, and written by 13-year-old AriX. (tags: MacOSX OSX apple application crack download free freeware geek hack iphone ipod itouch jailbreak mac macintosh mobile opensource software touch …)
Mac Mini Media Centre When it works, it’s great. The trouble is that 15% of the time something happens – EyeTV crashes, iTunes has been updated and won’t let you play anything until you’ve accepted terms and conditions, or another app is telling you that an update is a (tags: Home OSX apple geek hack [...]
Abusing Amazon images Amazon.com feeds out a lot of product images, putting out the same book cover (say) in a variety of sizes and formats. By experimentation, I found that they don't actually have all the sizes and formats stored. Instead, they have a system that generates e (tags: amazon art book code design fun [...]
Photoshop Disasters Truly awful pieces of Photoshop work (tags: Photos art blog creative fun funny gallery geek humor humour magazine photo photography photoshop pictures pub …)