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- Not quite 'The Brick,' but fun anyway
It's many bricks, technically: Lego Bricks. Students at the San Francisco Art Institute used 2,588 bricks to build an enormous Mac Pro case.
The design wasn't without its problems -- partway through the movie, three "Lego engineering catastrophes" forced the addition of a support beam under the middle of the case, presumably to support the weight of the hardware inside.
The exterior design isn't the only thing impressive about it: On the inside, it's a Mac Mini that's FireWire-linked to a PC Hackintosh. Nice.
The case was submitted for the 2008 MacMod Challenge.
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Переслать - Set your drink on some iPhone icons
Filed under: Accessories, Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touch
If you went to bed last night thinking, "heck, if only I had a set of coasters that were exactly like the icons on my iPhone," your prayers have been answered.
Meninos offers the set of 16 coasters for $60 (yeeouch). Each coaster is 85mm square. Shipping is $15.
The shop also offers other clever things like hard drive enclosures with something of a humorous slant.
[Via Coudal.]
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - VP: Apple would rather close iTunes Store than pay additional royalties
Filed under: Apple Corporate, iTS
If a ruling expected tomorrow by the Copyright Royalty Board raises royalties for online music sales by 9 to 15 cents per track, Apple would rather shut the iTunes store down than operate it at a loss.Them's fightin' words.
Eddy Cue, Apple's iTunes VP, wrote in a statement to the Times of London, "If [iTunes] was forced to absorb any increase in the ... royalty rate, the result would be to significantly increase the likelihood of the store operating at a financial loss -- which is no alternative at all. Apple has repeatedly made it clear that it is in this business to make money, and most likely would not continue to operate [iTunes] if it were no longer possible to do so profitably."
Of course, this is the "nuclear" option. Apple is most likely trying to gain aggressive leverage before the CRB decision is made. Apple is essentially asking music publishers, "do you want all the revenue you've earned through iTunes, or another measly 15 cents per track?" Shrewd, but is it shrewd enough?
Some analysts speculate that Apple is more likely to pass the additional cost on to the consumer, rather than demolish a key slice of their business. What that will do to sales in the U.S. is hard to say.
If the CRB raises royalties, what do you think will happen? Will you continue to buy music online? Sound off in comments.
[Via IGM.]
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - iPhone NDA dropped, developers rejoice
Filed under: Developer, iPhone, App Store, SDK
Apple has dropped the non-disclosure agreement ([effin'] NDA) for released iPhone software. In a statement to developers on its website, Apple said they put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes proprietary Apple software they wanted to protect.
"However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone's success, so we are dropping it for released software," the statement read.
Developers will receive a new agreement, sans-NDA, covering released software within a week or so. Unreleased software and features will remain under NDA until they are released, according to the statement.
Apple also thanked everyone who provided "constructive feedback" on the issue.
The full text, after the jump, and an update.
[Via @chockenberry.]
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Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Mac 101: Change fields for creating a new Mail message
Filed under: Mac 101
If you usually CC/BCC someone in Mail, then why not add it to the default Mail message window? Start by creating a new mail message and click the small box that appears next to the subject line. When you do this, a drop-down menu will appear. Click on the "Customize" button.
The window will morph into a full size window showing all the available options. Clicking the check boxes beside each item will allow them to appear each time you compose a new message. When you are done, click the "OK" button to save the changes.
Want more tips and tricks like this? Visit TUAW's Mac 101 section today!Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Terminal Tips: Play Tetris in Terminal
Filed under: Terminal Tips
Terminal boasts some cool, but hidden features that we like to call "Easter eggs." These "eggs" are hidden features that the developers build in (mostly for fun or laughs), that don't have anything to do with the functionality of the program.
One of these "eggs" is the ability to play Tetris in Terminal. Here's how to do it. First, open a new Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities) window and type "emacs," then hit enter. After the screen loads, press "escape," then "x." Type "tetris" (lower-case) and hit enter. There you have it, a fully playable game of Tetris. Use the arrow keys to control the blocks.
Want more tips and tricks like this? Visit TUAW's Mac 101 and Terminal Tips sections.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Flash on its way for the iPhone (again)?
Filed under: Multimedia, Internet Tools, iPhone, iPod touch
Stop me if you've heard this one before: Adobe has confirmed that it's developing a version of Flash for the iPhone, and it's "a certainty" that it will be included in MobileSafari, according to Paul Boutin of Valleywag. Color me skeptical.Paul Betlem (this story is replete with Pauls, it appears) from Adobe stopped short of saying it will be included on the iPhone, but instead said the ball was in Apple's court. If Apple approves, Adobe will have the player available shortly.
We knew Adobe was working hard on a version of Flash Player for the iPhone and iPod touch. The "closed system" of MobileSafari was making it difficult for them to build a plug-in for a browser that doesn't officially support plug-ins. Having Apple's buy-in on the project is an absolute requirement.
It remains to be seen how lean Flash Player will get in order to provide good video playback (for example) without draining the battery in 30 seconds flat. Will Adobe favor performance over economy? Or vice versa?
[Via Valleywag.]
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - AAPL shares close up 8 percent
Filed under: Apple Financial
If you bought Apple at its lowest low yesterday, for just over a hundred bucks a share, you'd have made $13 per share back today. That doesn't cover your loss, of course, if you bought at its 52-week highs of just over $200 per share, but if you were a smart shopper yesterday, you got a heck of a deal.
Goldman Sachs analyst David Bailey said that the yesterday's price drop was "overdone" and reiterated his "buy" rating and $200 price target. Citi analyst Richard Gardner also recommended buying, but cut his price target to $170 per share.
"The recent sell off creates an opportunity as we think Apple will outperform our group through the end of the year, driven by iPhone unit upside and a strong product pipeline," said Bailey.
AAPL closed today at 113.71, up 8.45 points, or eight percent from its close yesterday.
[Via BusinessWeek.]
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - "Official" geocaching app coming soon
Filed under: Software, iPhone, App Store
Long-time TUAW readers know that I'm a fan of geocaching, and that I wrote a post about using the iPhone 3G for geocaching back in July. At the time, there were no true geocaching apps available for the iPhone 3G, so I talked about how to use the software that comes on the phone to find hidden caches.
Since July, a number of apps have appeared (Geopher Lite and iGeocacher to name a couple), but I've been holding out for one from Groundspeak, the folks who first started up Geocaching.com back in 2000. While listening to my favorite podcast, Podcacher, this morning, I heard co-host Sonny talking about the upcoming release of the "official" geocaching iPhone app. When I returned home from a walk I was tracking with TrailGuru, I visited Geocaching.com and read the details in their online forums.
The app has been submitted to the App Store, will cost US$9.99, and will initially allow iPhone owners to find caches near them, look up trackable items like travel bugs, save cache information for use when outside of phone network range, and limit results to save bandwidth. The next version will provide the capability to log found caches while in the field.
Be sure to check out the Geocaching.com forums for more screenshots.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Flickr Find: TUAW is the word
Filed under: Humor, TUAW Business, Flickr Find
Rob H. was playing Wurdle on his iPhone when he came across what we'll appropriately call a bug -- apparently the program doesn't actually recognize us as a word (maybe it needs the accent mark over the U?). But we appreciate him trying anyway. Maybe we'll contact the SOWPODS people and see if we can't work this thing out.
And by the way, this is the perfect time to show you one of the new features here on TUAW -- over on the sidebar just above the Featured Galleries, you'll find our TUAW Flickr pool. This is a set of images on Flickr that you, our terrific readers, can add to: just put the "tuaw" tag on your Flickr photos or screenshots, and they'll be put right into the pool and appear here on the page.
So you can share great TUAW-related stuff like this, or anything else all the Mac folks reading the site might enjoy.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Mac Automation: Get to-dos sent to your mobile from iCal upon request
Filed under: Features, How-tos
Say you're out and about and realize that your iPhone doesn't display iCal to-dos. What do you do? You've got two options: (1) Panic, (2) Use this Automator workflow.
With this workflow, you will have access to all of your to-dos, even if you are not at your computer -- you just need access to your main email account. When you send an email to your email account, this script will run, sending you back your ToDo list from iCal.
Creating the Automator Workflow
To create the Automator workflow, you need to find the following Automator actions and drag them into the workflow area of Automator (in the same order):
- Find iCal Items
- New Mail Message
- Send Outgoing Messages
In the "Find iCal Items" action, select "To Dos" from the "Find" drop-down menu. In the "Whose" section, select "Due Date" from the "From" box and "Today" from the second box. You can deviate from the instructions on this step and use the settings that allow you get the most use out of this workflow (for instance, you can select any interval of time you want, etc.).
In the "New Mail Message" action, enter your email address in the "To" field -- this is the address that your ToDo list will be sent to. Fill in a descriptive subject line like "My ToDo Items for Today" or something similar. Be sure to select an email account that your remote Mac can utilize.
Continue reading to learn how to complete this workflow and create the Mail rules.
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- Life.Lab's Colony brings location-specific art controller to the iPhone
Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, Freeware, Developer, Graphic Design
Colony is a new free application that showed up on the iPhone App Store just recently, but it won't do much of anything if you download it -- unless you're hooked up to the WiFi at the Life.Lab building in Digital Harbour in Melbourne, Australia. The app is actually part of an art installation by an artist named Troy Innocent, and was developed by Stewart Haines specifically to control the setup there in Melbourne.
It's a very interesting project -- while it doesn't mean much to anyone not in Digital Harbour, the idea of bringing the iPhone into a location-specific setup is intriguing. Haines has a nice page on his site that details the process of creating the app, and you get to not only see the thought behind the process, but some of the concepts and tech behind the app as well. Very cool.
There are lots of location-specific applications that have yet to be explored on the iPhone, most of them commercial (putting your order in while waiting in line at Starbucks, for instance). But Colony looks like a really thoughtful take on the idea -- I would say that it's too bad you have to go all the way to Australia to use it, but then again that's kind of the point.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - New product announcement cancelled? (updated)
Filed under: Rumors
According to one of our tipsters, the "kickoff webcast" that Christina mentioned over the weekend has been either delayed or cancelled. A link distributed to webcast participants is, according to the tipster, no longer working. The webcast was scheduled for 10 a.m. Pacific time.
What does this mean for the rumored "Brick"? It's difficult to say. Apple does tend to make product announcements on Tuesdays, but I suppose there's no reason why Apple couldn't deliver the webcast anytime between today and the product's scheduled launch date.
Also, it could be that our tipster is just suffering network problems. If you know more about the webcast, please tip us! Your anonymity is our guarantee.
Thanks, Matt!
Update: Another anonymous tipster wrote in to tell us that the webcast did proceed as scheduled, but did not discuss new products (only things like metrics for the next quarter, and marketing strategies for Black Friday in the United States). The tipster said the password for the webcast was changed a day or two ago, which was probably why Tipster Matt couldn't connect.
Thanks, Apple Reseller!
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - iPhone in the Enterprise: Lotus iNotes Ultralite
Filed under: Enterprise, Software, Freeware, iPhone
Back in January, we reported that IBM had plans to bring the Lotus Notes groupware application to the iPhone platform. Well, it's happened!
Big Blue is announcing the availability of iNotes Ultralite, an iPhone portal to Lotus Notes that is available for free for anyone with a Lotus Notes license. In case you're wondering, there are currently about 140 million people worldwide who use Notes for their email, calendaring, and contacts.
IBM is always concerned about data security for its customers, and as such they decided to make iNotes Ultralite a web app rather than a native iPhone application. IBM felt it was important to customers to insure that all communications between the iPhone and Lotus Domino server be encrypted, and that no data remain on the device in case it was lost or stolen.
iNotes Ulitralite provides yet another foothold in the enterprise market for Apple.
[Via New York Times Technology blog]Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - iPod touch survives run-in with pickup truck
Filed under: Hardware, iPod touch
While the iPod nano is being called fragile, the iPod touch is ready to demonstrate its toughness.
A user at the iPod touch Fans forums posted pictures of his touch after being run over by a pickup truck. The glass screen is shattered but intact, and the back of the case is dented. However, it still works. "It worked perfectly, the touch screen, the music, the wifi..." writes forlorn owner spongyiq.
He claims that siding a finger across the busted display "...doesn't hurt," but we'll just take his word on it.
While we're on the subject, here's a few other pieces of Apple hardware that met a cruel fate:
- Nano meets highway traffic, fares poorly
- Great balls of PowerBook fire
- iPod sets man's pants on fire
- Shattered iPhone, still works
[Via Gizmodo]Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Leopard Tips and Tricks for client management will improve your admin life
Filed under: Enterprise, Apple Professional, Xserve
Keeping up with the Leopard-centric changes to managed preferences and mobile accounts is crucial if you're responsible for a labful or campus-ful of Macs, and you want to gracefully control what permissions or resources your wanton users have when they log in. One great resource for Mac admins diving into MCX (managed clients for OS X) for the first (or hundredth) time is Apple engineer John DeTroye's Tips & Tricks documentation.
We mentioned John's Tiger edition of the T&T docs last year, and now that he's updated the handbook for Mac OS X 10.5 and Server 10.5, you'll want to bring your library up to date. Gone is most of the material specific to machine imaging techniques (I strongly recommend NetInstall [PDF], which is working better under Leopard than it ever did before), making room for more discussion of MCX settings and portable home directories. Download your free copy of the T&T file today and it'll make your life easier tomorrow.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - First Looks: BeeJive for iPhone
Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
BeeJive has had an instant messenger application for the iPhone in the form of a Web App for quite some time -- in fact, it was one of the best! Recently, BeeJive has ventured into the world of native iPhone applications. I already mentioned most of the features of BeeJive in a previous post, so this time I'll examine the main features.
"Push" notifications of new IMs
The BeeJive developers are proud to offer 24/7 connectivity, meaning you can receive IMs even if the app is closed. They accomplish this feat by connecting you through their servers and sending you updates through email if you receive an IM while the application is closed. This works well, as long as you have a push email account.
Landscape view
You can send IMs in landscape mode using the larger iPhone keyboard, which is nice, but it would be nicer to initiate landscape mode from any tab, not just chat.
Bottom Line
BeeJive has created an application that is very polished and refined. You are able to customize almost every aspect in the iPhone's Settings (from background color, to turning on/off vibration). This kind of customization really allows the user to connect with the software -- it would be nice to see this amount of customization in other iPhone apps.
However, this application is a little pricey at $15.99 (US). You can download BeeJiveIM from the iTunes App Store [link]. Be sure to take a look at our gallery of screenshots.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Mac 101: Drag-n-Drop your way to a new Mail message
Filed under: Mac 101
Do you find yourself constantly copying/pasting text from other applications into a new Mail message? If you do, then you'll enjoy this tip.
Instead of copying and pasting, just highlight the next you want to appear in a new Mail message. Drag and drop the text on top of the Mail icon in the Dock. A new message will be created with the text you just dropped on it in the body. Just type in a subject and address and send it off ... easy as 1, 2, 3.
Want more tips and tricks like this? Visit TUAW's Mac 101 section today!Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Rolando's not dead after all
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Well color me surprised -- after almost a month with no activity, the handcircus blog has sprung back into action. I was getting worried that the great-looking iPhone game Rolando was on the brink of becoming vaporware, since we were expecting it back in August, and we hadn't heard a peep since then. But no, apparently the game (which looks like an intriguing mix of Loco Roco and Kirby's Canvas) is still being developed, and is still heading for the App Store. Which is great -- we'd rather have it "when it's ready" rather than not at all.
In the meantime, the developer's been getting some attention already, nabbing some facetime in Design Week and speaking at a conference, too. We'll stick with what we said before -- that we're ready to wait -- and refrain from telling you guys to get a move on, but trust us, those conference visitors and magazine editors don't want the game nearly as much as we do. Time to finish it!
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