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Entries Tagged as 'Mac'

Noisy Typer

July 18th, 2012 · Comments Off · clever, Mac, tech, video

Noisy Typer is a free piece of software which plays typewriter sounds as you type. It runs in the background and works with all applications ( email, web, word etc ). Key sounds include, letter keys, spacebar, backspace, carriage return and scroll up and down. Oh yeah. I could absolutely see me using this at [...]

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The Apple Archives

January 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off · Apple, history, Mac, video

The Apple Archives, located on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California documents the company’s history and growth.

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Air flight

August 4th, 2011 · Comments Off · humor, Mac, tech, video

The Macbook Air is thin, sure. And very lightweight. It’s so light that, in some cases, it can fly.

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Classic: Mac “virus”

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off · clever, humor, Mac, tech, video

Spice up your colleagues’ day with our Newton Virus, the first virus to introduce gravity to your laptop, causing the desktop icons to fall down as if subject to the gravitational pull from the real world. Newton Virus comes on a USB key for manual infection. Simply plug the key into a computer and the [...]

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End of the Get a Mac campaign

June 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Apple, humor, Mac, tech, video

Last month, actor Justin Long revealed that Apple’s long-running Get a Mac ad campaign, in which he appeared as the “Mac” character, appeared to have been discontinued. The last set of Get a Mac commercials had been released in October 2009. An Apple fan has pieced together a nice tribute featuring some the best scenes [...]

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Super Bowl parody

March 1st, 2010 · Comments Off · humor, Mac, tech, video, Windows

Great fan-made parody of the Google spot that ran during the last Super Bowl. It’s more related to computers than the Internet.

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Mac or PC?

February 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Mac, PC

Can you tell the difference between a Mac and a PC? Mental Floss has a short little quiz to test your knowledge and powers of observation. See how well you can do here. Don’t forget, there are three possible answer choices.

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The rumored Mac Tablet

August 28th, 2009 · Comments Off · Apple, Mac, news, tech

Apple may or may not announce a revolutionary new device some have dubbed the “MacBook Touch” or the “iPad” or the “Mac Tablet”. Rumors about the machine have been circulating for months with the usual ups and downs of what it will and will not do. But judging by Apple’s track record over the past [...]

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Newton virus for Mac

July 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · clever, humor, Mac, tech

Play a trick on your coworker. Install a harmless “virus” that utilizes the Mac’s motion sensor for hilarious results. Great stuff from the boys in Russia. (Would you try it on your own Mac? Hmm.) More info here.

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Dock spelling

June 30th, 2009 · Comments Off · Mac, odd

Having visited every single website on the Internet, some users get bored easily and resort to passing time by arranging icons in the Macintosh dock. What fun. (Neatorama)

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Apple fires back

May 15th, 2009 · Comments Off · Apple, humor, Mac, Microsoft, news, PC

Microsoft has been trying to sell the public on the fact that Apple’s computer prices are a bit on the expensive side. They have consequently launched a few Laptop Hunter ads over the last few weeks. Finally, in reply to those ads, a tit for their tat, Apple released three new Get a Mac ads [...]

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MacBook Touch?

May 5th, 2009 · Comments Off · amazing, Apple, Mac, news, tech

Rumors have been flying around that Apple will soon enter the netbook niche of small computers. As usual, individuals with fertile imaginations fire up their Photoshops and render a drool-worthy depiction of what they think it would look like. One individual, Tommasso Gecchelin, recently came up with his idea of a Mac netbook he dubbed [...]

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