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Saw this on YouTube — not the Justin Long vs John Hodgman kind of Mac vs. PC. Acting is a bit below par, but CGI is good. Conclusion — PC still beats the cr@p out of a MacBook, but is only annihilated because a single Windoze laptop is no match of dozens of MacPro workstations.

Read this story on Slashdot. “Half the Mac OS X boxes in the world (confirmed on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard) can be rooted through AppleScript: osascript -e ‘tell app “ARDAgent” to do shell script “whoami”‘; Works for normal users and admins, provided the normal user wasn’t switched to via fast user [...]

Apple has Just unveiled the latest aluminum iMac. It is an all-in-one just like all the previous models, but thinner, faster and (more importantly) cheaper. Starting from AUD$1,698 for a 20 inch 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo, to top spec AUD$3,339 for a 24 inch with 2.8GHz Core 2 Extreme with 4 logical CPU cores. It [...]

Got this on our iBook which we bought more than 4 years ago. Basically when we boot it up, there is the familiar Mac boot up chime. Then the screen greys out for half a minute, and then the flashing question mark inside a folder appears. If you see a flashing question mark when you [...]

Am I the only one that found this year’s MWSF Keynote “boring”? Like Josh Jones of DreamHost, I think I am a bit disappointed. So what have we got here? A massive (in terms of both size and cost) phone that we are not going to see in Australia for quite a while, a media-streaming [...]

Saw this on Apple‘s homepage this morning: I think it is about the MWSF announcement tomorrow morning. Whatever tricks Steve Jobs is going to pull out from his magic hat, it’s better not disappointing. You will surely see another post about it here tomorrow morning, just like last year’s. Now, since Apple is merely 4 [...]

Apple has long been running their switch Get a Mac campaign, luring the PC users to abandon Windows to come to the paradise. Then we have geeks migrating from Mac to Ubuntu out of frustration from the built-in apps. Now, we have David Young, theJoyent CEO, is talking about his switch from Ubuntu to Windows [...]

Via TUAW, Jesus Saves T-shirt from MacMerc.com that has an [Apple]-S keystroke symbol. It’ll make a nice gift for Apple-loving Christians (or Christ-loving Apple zealots?) I might need one that says Jesus :w! :)

Everyone enjoyed Steve Jobs’ keynote at WWDC ’06 yesterday. Leopard got a great preview, and Windows Vista got bashed for trying to copy good features from Mac OS X. Mac fans everywhere enjoyed the humiliation of Microsoft, but at the same time others wondered whether Apple themselves are ripping other products off. … while Jobs [...]

It’s pretty much what everyone has expected, at WWDC 2006 early this morning, Steve Jobs released the worthy PowerMac replacement — MacPro. Together with also newly released Xserve, Apple has finally completed the transition from PowerPC to Intel x86 processors. Externally, there does not seem to have any major changes, i.e. the big jump between [...]

NeoOffice, the OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X with a UI developed in Java, has released the Aqua beta to their supporters. NeoOffice 2.0 Aqua Beta is our first full Aqua release and uses native Aqua menus, file open and save dialogs, print dialogs, buttons, scrollbars, and many other native Aqua user interface elements. What is [...]

Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing, a long time Mac user, is talking about switching to Ubuntu Linux for desktop, following the steps of Mark Pilgrim, who has also recently migrated to Ubuntu and suggested Linux equivalents to Mac essentials. And as Jason Kottke has said, “If I were Apple, I’d be worried about this… Nerds [...]

Via TUAW, where can I get a letter box with PowerPC G4 inside? We seriously need a new letter box, as someone has vandalised our a few months ago, to a point where it can’t open properly. After seeing something like this, I don’t think I will be interested in anything offered in Bunnings.

Apple Store was off-line when I was browsing it. Then it came back on-line. Wow! Apple MacBook Finally it is out. The replacement for the aging iBook G4. Here’s some highlights: Comes in both white and black. Is Black the new Apple White? 1.83Ghz or 2.0Ghz Intel Core Duo, i.e. fast. Up to 2x SO-DIMMs [...]

Apple introduced Boot Camp — software enables Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP. It is great to have the “official support” from the company who actually manufactored these beauties. It also makes the previous effort/context looks a bit, hmmm, wasted (except the one who won the 13 grand price). Of course you can argue that [...]