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Mac'in Some Money - 2008-0916 |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008 |
 This installment of Mac'in Some Money focuses on a new Mac based job board to check out, MacSupportJobs.com. The site launched late last week (Sept 12th), and already has a good number of listings. Only time will tell how well it is updated, but it looks promising.
One of the nice things about MacSupportJobs.com is that it is an international board, with a basic search returning back jobs from France, UK & the USA. If you are in Europe or want to get out of the US, take a look. This could be your ticket.
MacSupportJobs.com
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New Mac/Win games employ USB peripherals |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Monday, 15 September 2008 |
 While the next generation of video games is already being developed in secret labs by Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, there is a new niche of computer games coming out. Using specific USB devices to play games like skateboarding, baseball or golf, you will have to guide your first person sports hero to fame with your actual mini-sport skills. Having a hard time conceptualizing this? Think of desktop football, wired to a USB field goal.
The devices are coming from Aptus' Games and will play on internet browsers (probably flash or AIR or something cross-browser/OS capable). Originally marked for the third quarter of 2008, it may be more like a Christmas time gift. AptusGames.com is still talking about the product, but doesn't have any hard details yet about the release or how many games will be available. Keep an eye on these, as it would be a great gift for the gamer in your family.
AptusGames.com
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
 It looks like either EFI-X is shipping to America, or someone had one sent to them via a third party. Either way, the first look at EFI-X V1 is online at insanelymac.com. User qbattersby has the first unboxing pictures of the USB device that will allow installing OS X on non-Apple X86 machines, and so far it is looking promising.
EFIX originally (and still today) says they support specific Gigabyte motherboards, but another InsanelyMac user (np_) says that he was able to get the Asus motherboard to boot off his EFI-X V1 as well, though he post no pictures of it. Either way this opens up Mac Modding to a whole new level, and begs me to ask the question, what is a Mac?
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New Nano Take-A-Part reveals Built-In Bluetooth |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
 iFixit.com (sponsor of this year's Great MacMod Challenge ) has posted pictures of the 4G Nano disassembled step by step. It's a pretty interesting design this time for Apple, both inside and out. One of the highlights is the built-in BlueTooth in the Nano. Presumably for the Nike+ part of the iPod, but who is to say that this couldn't be hacked in the future for more functionality. Another interesting (and a little shocking) is the glass on the iPod Nano is held in place only by the components on the inside, no adhesive was used to keep it in place.
Head on over to iFixit.com to see the whole story.
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A Mostly Harmless Case Mod |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
 Here's a nice break from all the iTunes / iPod news flying around after Apple's latest product releases, a Mod for all Douglas Adams fans (myself included). The mod is Mostly Harmless, a pun on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's entry for Earth. The machine is a hefty AMD Athlon 3200 with 2Gigs of RAM and two 160GB hard drives. The mod took about 2 months to put together, but in the end I'd say that it represents HHGG pretty well.
The red button, "don't panic", "mostly harmless", and an actual guidebook on the side. If you like Douglas Adams, then you should take a look for a good chuckle.
Mostly Harmless case mod on MicroCenter's Random Access
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Apple case mod featured on Intel Mod Contest |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Monday, 08 September 2008 |
 Dell & Intel is hosting a gamer's case modding contest as part of the extreme gaming tour, and I was surprised to see the first entry, a G5 case mod. The guts of the G5 were removed and was almost completely replaced with a gamers rig including lights and an oversized liquid cooling system. Unfortunately right now the mod is in the negative points, but if you have a chance to vote (must be registered on extremegamingtour.com ), make sure you vote for hybridchemistry's G5 case mod. While it's not a Mac, it was in a past life.
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Sun fixes free Mac virtualization |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Sunday, 07 September 2008 |
 Sun has released the 2.0 version of their open source Virtual Box virtual machine application. The previous versions had some Mac bugs in it, but they have claimed to fix it. If it works as promised then the updated version will hopefully get some people to re-look at the the Mac as a viable alternative if they don't have to pay for the virtualization anymore.
Sun's Virtual Box change log
More info at virtualbox.org
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Microsoft launches Seinfeld Ads |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Sunday, 07 September 2008 |
 Microsoft launched their newest ad campaign, no not the Mojave Experiment. That would make too much sense to have an online ad campaign match the television campaign. Instead they launched it with Jerry Seinfeld. Now I've got some experience with advertising, and this just doesn't make sense.
We all know that Microsoft has a lot of money to spend, but this is a little much. They must have spent a lot of money to do all the research for the Mojave, then they throw more money to get Jerry in a commercial. So why don't they tie the two together? Apple has done a great job of this with the Mac vs. PC online and TV ads. This is truly a great example of the difference between the two companies. Throwing money at a problem does not fix it; you have to think it through.
Microsoft's Mojave Experiment
Micorsoft's Seinfeld Ad
Apple Mac vs. PC ads
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