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Convert Your Vinyl LP's to Digitals |
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Friday, 21 March 2008 |
 Ran across the Grace Audio Victoria Tunewriter and it reminded me of the SteamPunk Mac Mini. The Tunewriter is an all-in-one stereo system, playing vinyl LP's, casettes, CD's and radio. It also allows you to burn a CD of your casettes, LPs or auxillary audio. It cost about $300, but if you have a vinyl collection you've been thinking about digitizing it would be worth the money.
If you don't have the casettes to digitize though you could also look at the Grace Audio Classic. This is a 50's style LP/CD/Radio that allows you to write out the vinyl recording as MP3's to an USB Flash drive or SD card. The Classic is only $150.
Both of these look like pretty cool setups if you have some older media you want to digitize. Take a look, it could be the perfect Christmas gift this year.
Grace Audio Victoria Line via All About Jazz
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 |
 Aspyr announced yesterday that they have the latest installment of the Sims available for the Mac, Sims Castaway Stories. I love playing the Sims and the newest one boasts a completely new story line and claims to be laptop friendly. They have a basic storyline to follow, or you can create you own storyline.
Aspyr did a great job getting the Sims Castaway Stories out for the Mac quickly. The Windows release date was January 29th, and the Mac version came out less than 50 days after. If you like the Sims, take a look. If you play it please comment here so we can know how it is.
Make your own tropical island drama.
- Aspyr Website via MacDailyNews -
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Custom skins for your Mac |
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
 Found a cool site I wanted to pass on, skinit.com. SkinIt.com make full body decals for most of your tech gadgets, including the MacMini, iPod, iPhone, Power Book, iBook, MacBook & MacBook Pro. SkinIt has plenty of premade decals for you to choose from, but they also offer a Custom Skin option.
Custom Skin allows you to upload your own images or choose from their catalog of images. You choose the image, the rotation, the zoom of the image, and tell them what decal goes to which side. It is really a nice option for making your Mac your own. While this is only a light mod, it is a way to customize your Mac, and only cost roughly $15 to $30, depending on your model.
SkinIt with a MacMod logo.
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400 Mac Mini's in a desert |
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
 Ever wonder what 400 Mac Mini's would look like? Well, you can't see all of them, but over at MacMiniColo they have a snapshot of an example. MacMiniColo is basically a hosting company that you send your MacMini to. They are physically secure, environmentally (temperature, humidity) secure, and have multiple power supplies. Basically, your Mac Mini can run forever, and if it fails, it has another few hundred it's content can be copied to.
It seems to me to be an overkill, but if you are looking for a safe and secure housing for your web applciation, this looks pretty good. Out of my price range, but the picture and concept is cool.
MacMiniColo, the condiminium for your Mac Mini.
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Is that 500 Gigs or are you just happy to see me. |
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Tuesday, 11 March 2008 |
 Okay, really long title for this one, but I couldn't resist. Buffalo just released their latest pocket drive, and I'm amazed. A 500 GB USB 2 pocket drive. Plus is that you can have massive storage for your smaller devices (Mac Book Air, Mac Mini, Mac Nano??). Down side is that it is at 5400 RPM. However, it does use Buffalo's TurboUSB to increase data delivery by 30%.
Hey Buffalo, send one this way for a review would you?
Get a Big Buffalo in your pocket.
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PC Mag : Leopard is best OS |
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Tuesday, 11 March 2008 |
 Almost every Mac user thinks Leopard is better than Windows (XP or Vista). Now there is some interesting evidence to support it. No it's not Guy Kawasaki or Steve Jobs' reality distortion field (unless it's bigger than reported). It's PC Mag. Yes, PC Mag. Not MacWorld, not MacTech, a PC magazine has declared Leopard (10.5.1) to beat out Windows XP, Windows Vista and Ubuntu.
When judged on 8 criteria, with a possible total score of 40, Leopard (10.5.1) got 33.5, xP (SP2) got 28.5, Vista (pre-SP1) got 28.5, and Ubuntu (7.10) got 27. PC Mag then goes to say rag the Mac users slightly, saying that if you are an artist or musician and you use anything but a Mac you will be laughed at. They also don't suggest it for the average worker, web surfer or photographer.
So wait guys. The Mac OS wins under your "mythical" user, but in real life you say only Hollywood and Artist should use a Mac?
PC Mag's take on the Mac vs. Windows vs. Ubuntu
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Monday, 10 March 2008 |
 Looks like someone has beat Apple to the iMac touch. Troll Touch products has a full line of Apple computers that they have modded to be touch screen machines. From a few hundred to over one thousand dollars you can send them your current MacBook, iMac or even some of you legacy Mac products to get converted to touch screen machines. Or you can buy the complete package from them and have a new touch enabled iMac delivered to you. They also take Apple Cinema Displays and third party LCD's and convert them as well if you are running a Mac Mini.
The video on their website is pretty cool to see, kinda like a glimpse of the future if Apple pursues the touch features for the desktop models. Hopefully when the touch iMac comes out from Apple they will be a little less expensive than these. I was kinda surprised that they didn't offer a discount when you buy the package from them.
Keep your hands to yourself.
Demo video on a new iMac on YouTube.
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
 While we are all pretty handy with a screwdriver and a Dremel, I want to take my modding to the next level. The way I want to go is software, I want to build the software to run the way I want it to run. Often times I find a good app, but it does something I hate, does one thing shy of perfect, or cost to much money. No more.
With the help of an open-source book I will learn to write my own damn apps. Booya! Take a look at cocoalab.com. Offers a free open-source "How to be an XCoder". View it online or download as a PDF (only 2MB). Take a look, and as you are showing off your next cool hardware mod, show off your new app also.
Cocoa Lab's FREE book.
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