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Archive for March, 2007

John C. Devorac sticks head up ass, rolls down street

Friday, March 30th, 2007

I know he’s trolling for hits again by pissing off Mac users, but some other twit may then take his demented ravings to heart and decide to wait for the ZunePhone. This could bring an end to civilization as we know it.
“Johnny C” - as he is known in the troll escort business - is […]

AppleTV Hack and Tamed

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

I haven’t been paying much attention to the Apple TV.Don’t get me wrong - it appears to be a cool product - but I just don’t ever watch television, so the whole idea goes right over my head which is usually pointed at a computer display or buried in a book.
But something very interesting has […]

MacHelp from Maui #90 The 10.4.9 Update - Viruses & Jawaiian Reggae

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Viruses & what’s in the Mac OS X.4.9 Update. Sahra Indio plays Sweet Reggae Music From Hawaii

Floridiots In Motion

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

No storms, no gator bait, just bumper cars with cripplesAnother exciting tale of reality being warped by sunshine and bad water. BTW: No tips for you!
Valet crashes amputee’s car - then hits him
Pensacola, Fla. (AP) — A valet accidentally drove an amputee’s specially equipped car through a Pensacola hospital’s front entrance, knocking the car’s owner […]

Flatter iMacs and Smaller Laptops>

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

The government should send AppleInsider to Iran or perhaps North Korea - they seem to be able to get the secret scoops on Apple’s weapons of mass construction better than most other rumor sites.
Their latest, to be found here, exposes plans to upgrade the venerable FlatMac iMac design and bring laptops to a new low […]

Awww!

Friday, March 16th, 2007

At YouTube a Mac PowerBook user closes his computer to show the baby squirrel that has cuddled up underneath. Too freakin’ cute.
Go see this! LINK

Force Quit Front App.

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

From MacOS Hints(I didn’t know this one!)
Here’s another way to Force Quit an application:

Click the Apple Menu
Hold Shift, and notice that the ‘Force Quit…’ menu item has changed to ‘Force Quit [frontmost app name].’
Select ‘Force Quit [frontmost app name]’ to force quit the Application.

This method allows you to Force Quit (Relaunch) the Finder without
opening the […]

MacHelp from Maui #89 Charley’s

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Live from Charley’s in Paia - Pekelo!
Get your headphones ready! After we slosh about in the rumor pool, you’ll hear a special binaural recording of Pekelo live at Maui’s best local bar. Almost like being there.
(picture of “Roy” the binaural head and Pekelo pretending this is normal)

Time to impeach and imprision them all!

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Sorry, this isn’t about Macs, but it pisses me off so much that I have to let everyone know about it.
The administration knows what would happen if the started up the draft again, so instead of doing what’s necessary at the cost of perhaps losing the next election, they are willing to risk the […]

Rumors of Better Macs

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

Heard about the web: From I, Cringely
The Great Apple Video Encoder Attack of 2007: Cupertino plans to add H.264 hardware support to its entire line.
Now comes the rumor I have heard, that I believe to be a fact, that has simply yet to be confirmed. I have heard that Apple plans to add hardware video […]

Changing the iPhoto External Editor

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

On Mar 8, 2007, at 12:22 AM, (lady in distress) wrote:
I am taking a Photoshop Elements class and bought the software
for Elements 4.0. Now when I open iphoto, and right click to open in
external editor, I want it to open in 4.0 but it still opens in 2.o.
Shouldn’t it have automatically transfered whatever was in […]

MacHelp from Maui #88 Iliili!

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

A little history - with no time left for the music of which we speak.
Our guest/victim this time is David Kapralik, a dear friend and inspiration who takes us back in time, then forward into our future.

FYI: LaCie updates firmware

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Since I’m always recommending LaCie drives for backups and production storage here’s an announcement of the software for your drive.
LaCie Update Tool v1.3.3 is now Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) compatible and adds the latest firmware support for d2 and Design by F.A. Porsche drives with FireWire 400 and 800 and/or USB 2.0 interface.
IMPORTANT: Updating […]

Floridiots Attack for March

Monday, March 5th, 2007

You thought we were safe, a new month, no analog logic bombs from the sunshine state… but this would underestimate the ability of Florida’s citizenry to jump in the deep end with both ends:
Miami developer arrested after using official funds to buy watermelon statue
Fri Mar 2, 5:16 PM ET
A prominent Miami developer was arrested Friday […]

You don’t hear this much any more

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

“He was also charged with damage to a mini-bar
in the room, but this charge was later dropped when the defendant said
that it was the donkey who caused that damage.”