This is the hard drive that failed on me in the middle Zach Lieberman’s Open Frameworks “knitting circle” on Saturday at Eyebeam. I was typing away, minding my own business, when I got the Spinning Beach Ball of Doom…and then the Beach Ball froze. I powered down, got a grey screen [...]
The Finder’s Sidebar is a great place to put shortcuts to often-used folders, but it can get cluttered up pretty quickly. Some dividers would really help. A quick “how-to” on the flip…
Jeremy mentioned that the Bug is up for a “Best of CES” award in the emerging technology category. They’ve got a killer open hardware platform that’s going to make many geeks very happy. (Here’s a video explaining what the Bug is and what it can do).
Go vote now and help some hardware hackers out!
Inspired by Heather and Cory, I changed my Facebook picture:
I made my first instructable: Convert a Macbook to Dvorak
Reasonableagreement.org are fighting the good fight against restrictive, coercive, and legally non-binding “agreements” that our overly litigious society has seen fit to encourage.
READ CAREFULLY. By [accepting this material|accepting this payment|accepting this business-card|viewing this t-shirt|reading this sticker] you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any [...]
We can put a man on the moon but we can’t standardize web forms so that keying in a 5 digit zip code will autofill the state and city fields? C’mon, internets.
There’s been plenty of talk about Apple’s new iPhone, and no need to rehash most of the well-traveled ground. Yes, the hardware is unbelievably sexy. Yes, the UI is revolutionary, a game-changer, and so new and different (no hover state?) as to be a bit puzzling (e.g. lack of text-selecting and copy-and-paste). Yes, [...]
I read Cory’s post about the Google laptop theft on boingboing and I saw red. So I started an internet petition to scare the treeware vendors.
The petition is for anyone who’s boycotting MacMillan until the company, and Charkin, offer an official apology for equating a legitimate act of copying with the theft of physical [...]
