The original Macintosh took the the world by storm with its small form factor, and above standard speeds. This project aims to show you how to upgrade your original 1984 macintosh to the specification of a modern day machine.

"The iPhone and iPod touch lack the ability older iPods had to run in Disk Mode. That's where iPhone Explorer steps in, allowing you manually manage files on your device, or just use it as a flash drive, without jailbreaking. iPhone browser is a lightweight application that has an easy drag-and-drop interface that lets you browse the contents on your iPhone. You can manually transfer your photos, music or movies from your device back to your computer, or just add files to the iPhone and fill up the unused space as extra storage."

A brand new way to look at your Mac desktop, BumpTop is a full 3D experience with smooth, realistic physics, making your Mac’s desktop act more like the real desktop it’s sitting on

NameChanger is designed for the sole purpose of renaming a list of files

Airlock allows your Mac to lock itself, plain and simple. Using your iPhone or iPod Touch, Bluetooth, and a smidgen of pixie dust, Airlock determines whether you're near your computer. When you leave the room – poof! – your Mac locks itself. “And when I come back?” You guessed it: your Mac unlocks.

A custom color picker designed specifically for developers. Makes getting colors out of Photoshop/Acorn mock-ups quick and easy. Currently supports NSColor, UIColor, CGColorRef, CSS and HTML styles.

Path Finder is an award-winning file browser and management application for Mac OS X. If you've ever wished Apple's Finder just did feature X or feature Y, Path Finder may be what you've been looking for.

Path Finder is a standalone application that leverages what you already know about working with your files. It takes the Finder's familiar interface and adds numerous powerful features and interface innovations to help anyone be more productive on Mac OS X.

A stunning compilation of some of Apple’s most notable advertisements from the 70s until the present day, including a few videos ads.

Download and print the template PDF to do it yourself

Jungle Disk lets you store files and automatically backup all of your data easily and securely to Rackspace Cloud Files and Amazon S3.

FanControl lets the user set the minimum speed of the build in fans. So you can increase your minimum fan speed to make your macbook run cooler. However in order not to damage your machine FanControl let's you not set minimum speed to a rate under Apple's defaults. To change fan-speeds you need to authenticate with valid credentials of an user-account with admin privileges.

VLC, the open source, cross-platform media layer for Windows, OS X, and Linux, finally hit version 1.0. VLC 1.0 includes a number of new features including new HD video codecs, finer speed controls, instant pausing, frame-by-frame playback, and a ton of bug fixes and minor GUI enhancements.

BootNeuter gives you total control of your first-gen iPhone's S-Gold bootloader and baseband.
It's an application you run right on your iPhone that lets you:
- Neuter your bootloader
- Unlock your baseband
- Reflash your bootloader to 3.9BL or 4.6BL no matter what version you're at now (even if you're at 3.8BL)
- Fakeblank your bootloader to let you run serial payloads directly on your S-Gold

Clone, synchronize, backup. Schedule and forget it. CCC 3 features an interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure very intuitive. In addition to general backup, CCC can also clone one hard drive to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source hard drive. CCC's block-level copy offers the absolute best fidelity in the industry!

First part of a series in which Christopher Breen explains how to turn a Mac mini into a media center.