Tag apple

iAlertU

Funny, yet useless application of the SMS (Sudden Motion Sensor) and Apple Remote as found on the new Macbook Pro.

Macbook Pro Revisions.

If you're getting a MacBook Pro, make sure its serial number begins with W8612 (Rev.E). If not, I hope you are not getting burnt among other things..

Textmate!

Ever since I moved to Mac OS X from linux as my main desktop platform a bit more than 4 years ago, I found the shortage of a decent (let alone good) dev. editor frustrating.

If only it were real…

Near the bottom of the MacRumors page you'll find three stunning pics. Are they very good mock images of how someone thinks the new video iPod should look or real leaked images of the device? If only...

New Intel Mac minis are cool.

And they'd be perfect without that damned 'Intel GMA950 graphics processor', or 'How Apple makes Intel happy by using their crappy graphics chips on Macs'. Sad thing is: They can and will get away with it.

Come on Stevey. Use some decent components, already!

As with the PowerMac G4 MDD (aka 'Leafblower'), the Powermac G5, the iBook G4 with the faulty motherboards, the Powerbook 'Alu' G4 15" Rev.A with the faulty screens, the last Powerbook G4 'Alu' 15" (discontinued today) having audio, screen, and other hardware issues as well as many other models I won't mention, the Macbook Pro seems to have its fair share of issues in its first revision. It's also getting hot, as many people report.

Hybrid TV interfaces for the Mac?

The hellenic government-owned TV broadcaster, ERT, recently announced their pilot DTT (Digital Terrestial Television) programme starting this spring. Having no TV interface on the Mac, I have started looking around for a Mac compatible hybrid analogue+DTT USB 2.0 interface. For Windows there’s Terratec’s Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS. For the Mac there’s nothing. Funny. Elgato […]

Pyxis.

I’ve been meaning to release Pyxis for a long time now. It’s a small GPS application for the Mac, ‘dripping with Aqua beauty’, [other apple-like marketing crap here], fully functioning and quite polished, but there are several things that keep me from releasing it.