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Gaming Notebooks Get External Air Conditioning from Intel

September 20th, 2007

There is a new cooler that is in the works to help cool down laptops to prevent throttling while playing high-performance games. A prototype docking station has been developed to air condition your gaming notebook! My MacBook Pro 17″ CPU cores get up to about 190 degrees F during World of Warcraft, even with [...]

IRC on the iPhone! (kinda)

July 6th, 2007

Detailed instructions, with images, on how to set up your iPhone to log in to the Colloquy IRC client so you can chat directly from the phone itself! Yes, you’ll have to use a running Mac to proxy the connection, but it’s a start. Hopefully soon there will be a linux-type daemon that can accomplish [...]

iTunes WTF! – Think of the Children!

June 12th, 2007

“50 Cent’s masterwork “Candy Shop” is an eloquent and subtle meditation on the similarities between consuming candy and f**king. Classical composers Bach and Ligeti, on the other hand, took things a bit too far with their highly explicit, violin-only Chaconne (originally titled “****ing and ****ing in D Minor, 6th God**** Movement”).” Not sure if someone [...]

Apple adds Xvid to QuickTime components page

April 5th, 2007

Apple has added the open source Xvid codec to its list of QuickTime components on Apple.com… maybe now Xvid will finally make it into iTunes and the AppleTV.
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Google Desktop released for Mac

April 4th, 2007

There’s a bit of confusion out in the community since Google announced its popular Desktop application would be available to Mac users. Why so? Sure, it’s a hit on the Windows platform because it brings functionality that isn’t already built into the OS (surprise!) but on Mac OS X 10.4 we have Spotlight. With a [...]

 
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