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I'm a PC Ad Imagery Made on a Mac

ryan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:53:32 -0600

A savvy geek perusing Microsoft's website for its new "I'm a PC" ad campaign pulled down some JPGs and looked at their meta data. Turns out they were produced on a Mac:

This was discovered by Flickr user LuisDS.

I can only assume the videos themselves were produced with Final Cut on Macs as well.

Keyboards are so Lame

ryan — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:59:55 -0600

Keyboards are so Lame. I mean, how ridiculous is it for us to physically type each and every single letter in a sentence, including punctuation!? Hasn't technology improved a bit over the last 80 years? Why are we still using keyboards?

Mac Popularity Evidence: Virus!

ryan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:41:01 -0600

You know your platform is gaining popularity when the hackers finally start paying attention to it: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/06/new_trojan_leverages_...

8 Steps to a 10.5.3 Leo Hackintosh (badaxe2)

ryan — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:25:41 -0600

A while back I posted the recipe for my Leopard Hackintosh. I've re-done it now to work with OSX v10.5.3.

Components
- Intel D975BX2X2 (Bad Axe2) motherboard
- Nvidia 7800GTX 256MB PCI-E video card.
- 3GB RAM
- Intel Q6600 CPU
- WD Raptor 150GB 10K RPM HDD
- Pioneer IDE DVD/RW
- Apple Leopard (I purchased this so I wouldn't feel guilty and so I could put the Apple logo sticker on the chassis).

The Steps

1) Burn the Kalyway 10.5.2 ISO. This can be gotten from your favorite bittorrent tracker. I learned the hard way that it's important to A) burn the ISO at 4x and B) take care not to scratch it. Seems the installer isn't very robust when it comes to minor DVD defects. Or, perhaps I was using crappy blanks.

Leopard Hackintosh

ryan — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:21:56 -0700

Here's how I got OSX working with an Intel D975BX2X2 and Nvidia video card.

David Lynch on the iPhone

ryan — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:00:12 -0700

We all know David Lynch for his ground-breaking film-making and otherwise brilliance.

Leopard Getting Stacks Update

ryan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:07:29 -0700

In my assessment of Apple's Leopard operating system a few weeks ago ("Leopard Doesn't Quite Stack Up") I complained about the new Stacks feature. Namely that the icons are lame and the lack of a list view like there was in Tiger was anti-functional.

Apple Rumor: Tablet Mac?

ryan — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:38:53 -0700

It just makes so much sense. Crossing my fingers. http://www.macrumors.com/2007/11/06/apple-working-on-a-tablet-mac/

OSX 10.5 review, Leopard, doesn't quite Stack Up.

ryan — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:57:18 -0600

I must say I'm disappointed in Apple's latest major OS update, OSX version 10.5 "Leopard". Perhaps I haven't caught the correct vibe, or learned all the tricks yet, but it just seems like I'm paying the cost of having to spend more time getting to my files in exchange for some pretty bells. Considering the 2+ years of development time, I have to admit I expected more from Leopard.

official iphone tool

ryan — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:29:56 -0600

I can't decide if this is an example of how dumb Apple users are, or how dumb Apple thinks its users are: Official iPhone Tool.