MacMod.com has announced “The Great MacMod Challenge 2005 Sponsored by dealmac.com,” officially designating August as Mac Mod Month. The Challenge pits Mac users against one another in a battle of creative wits to modify (“mod”) their Apple Macintosh computers by improving performance, appearance, and functionality ? for example, painting the exterior, adding bright color LED […]
Month: July 2005
Apple recently released the details of their Employee Quarterly Promotion. The program offers a discount on hardware and software and is available to Apple employees and their friends. Sometimes the QPromo can be an indicator of items that are overstocked or in the process of being End-Of-Lifed (EOL) but this is not always the case. […]
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Think Secret: New iBooks Imminent
Think Secret is reporting that Apple is due to release an iBook update as soon as this week, perhaps even today: Details of the updated iBook are unknown, as is a firm release date, given the fickle nature of hardware updates. Apple last revised the iBook in October 2004. Since that time, the company bumped […]
AppleInsider is reporting on the potential of an upgraded PowerBook G4 announcement at Apple Expo in Paris on 20 September 2005. At the high-end, the new PowerBooks are expected to gain a mere 30MHz speed boost that would put the 15-inch and 17-inch models at 1.7GHz. Additionally, the new 15-inch PowerBook is expected to step […]
“Dora”, is the world’s first fully autonomous vehicle driven by Mac OS X. The entire development and race management efforts at Team Banzai is being done using Apple Mac OS X technology. According to the tech section of their site, “the car follows a series of GPS waypoints that define the course boundary and periodic […]