Forget Y2K or the 2007 Daylight Savings Time change, fire up an Apple Lisa, and experience life as it was meant to be lived between 1981 and 1995. Ted Hodges of Low End Mac has a complete writeup on the recently-released Lisa emulator: I had heard about the Lisa, but I had never had a […]
Chris writes – Ever thought to yourself, “Hey, I could probably build my own computer if I really tried.” Or maybe, “Man, I really need a laptop with an embarrassingly low-resolution display, a processor that goes at 256 Instructions/sec, and I’ve only got $50 to spend!” Well, that’s how I got here! It took me […]
With a combination of Automator actions, one line of Apple Script, and a Mail rule, you can make your Mac sleep by sending your account an email with “sleeper” in the subject line. Of course, you could use this same trick to do a number of things via email remote control. Sleep your mac by […]
Cory over at BoingBoing writes: The Mail.app fan-site Hawk Wings has a great tip for Mail.app users — a simple command that many are swearing by as a means of evincing a gigantic speedup in Mail.app’s performance. If you’re suffering through the same hell I lived with back in my PowerBook days, you might give […]
Make: is going to space! Have you ever wanted to go up into space? Well, you don’t have to win a golden ticket, be a millionaire, or an astronaut… you can send your own payload into space! We’re using weather balloons to go up to approximately 100k feet armed with 4 cameras… 20 megapixels of […]
Every once in a while, you’ll come across an image or video where sensitive information has been redacted using a blur or mosaic filter. Just take a look at license plates on COPS or do a search for “google check” and you’ll see a few common examples. Putting an image through a blur filter is […]
The DOSBox crew has released version 0.70, which includes a whole mess of improvements: Speed up the dynamic cpu core (certain games get much faster). Add a dynamic fpu on x86 hosts. Improve the cycle guessing code (and make it default). Better and more configurable joystick support. Improve the image and fat drives. Add nullmodem […]
