Apple isn’t currently offering a USB or optical disc installer for Mountain Lion. The super simple “Lion Diskmaker” app has been updated to allow you to make a bootable USB or SD Card installer on a 8GB piece of media. The following steps will help you create your own Mountain Lion disk to use as [...]
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Kick Ass Halo Master Chief Cake
Now thats a cake! This amazing cake was created by Mike’s Amazing Cakes for the Halo Fest at Pax Prime 2011.
How to Force Your Mac to Update its Malware Definitions
Malware-fearing Mac users have been able to breathe easier since Apple released Security Update 2011-003 earlier this week. The key elements of the Security Update were that it successfully detected and removed a couple variants of the Mac Defender Trojan horse, and also added a daily check for new malware definitions. Not even 24 hours [...]
X-Muppets = Cool
deviantARTist ~Rahzzah created this awesome little digital delight… Wouldnt it be awesome to see X-Muppet Wolverine slice and dice Fozzie Bear! Nice work ~Rahzzah; I bet Jim Henson would love it!
Angry Birds – The Cake
Take a look at this awesome Angry Birds cake by “aspiring cake artist” Anya Richardson. Bravo!
Microsoft Gears Up For Head-To-Head Combat With Apple at the Mall of America
This is just downright cartoonish. In an attempt to stay relevant, Microsoft, as you’re probably already aware, has been at work opening a chain of retail stores to do battle in the IRL with Jobs and Friends. But this is perhaps no bigger a pissing contest than in the Mall of America, where Microsoft is [...]
How to Revert iTunes 10′s Crappy Visual Changes
I hate it when companies change a programs user interface (UI). I really hate it when companies change a single UI for a program in a collection or operating system. I don’t know what Apple was thinking when they went crazy re-designing the iTunes 10 UI. Perhaps it’s a glimpse into Apple’s future OS design [...]
H.264 Standardization, The Final Nail In Flash’s Coffin
The big news announcement of the day is that MPEG LA, license holder for a number of high profile video standards has declared all h.264 video will be royalty free, so long as the video is provided to the end user for free. The technical implications of this are lengthy, dull and tedious. The short [...]
Creepy (and pointless) Robot
Give a big freaky wave to the “Telenoid R1″ humanoid robot. WTF? The Telenoid R1 robot is designed to add an element of realism to long-distance communication by recreating the physical presence of the remote user. The robot’s actions mirror those of the remote user, whose movements are monitored by real-time face tracking software on [...]
Chewbacca Fights Nazis while Riding Mutant Squirrel
deviantart Artist “gamefan84” created this masterpiece after receiving the following request: “chewy riding a giant cute squirrel chasing down nazis. he needs long flowing fur and a giant roar.” I just love deviantart… http://www.deviantart.com/ Ziel für die Beine. Death to Chewy! I can say nothing more.
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