Archive for October 25th, 2009

My Christmas Gift List 1.0 Released for iPhone and iPod Touch

PRG Consulting announced the latest ultimate application called My Christmas Gift List 1.0, for iPhone and iPod Touch. My Christmas Gift List was specially designed to help you organize your Christmas shopping

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Found Footage: iPhone costumes are either genius or deeply misguided

Filed under: Humor , Cult of Mac , iPhone , Holidays You have to hand it to Reko and Bobby for their stick-to-it-iveness; they were behind a similar set of iPhone costumes in 2007 , but those didn’t have the fully-functional power of these new outfits . Yes, those are LCD TVs on the front (not touchable, sadly) showing content from the (almost certainly) jailbroken iPhones mounted on top; yes, each getup weighs 85 pounds because it includes a car battery to power the display. I can see how the illusion would be broken by a 500-foot charging cable trailing behind them as they trick-or-treat their way around the subdivision.

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How To: Moving from Aperture to Lightroom

Our recent preview of Lightroom 3 – Beta has generated a lot of buzz about the future of digital processing. One of the questions that keeps coming up is: how do I migrate from Aperture to Lightroom? Well, it’s not has hard as you think, as long as you’re willing to invest a bit of time

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Gallery: Are Apple Halloween Costumes Crapwear?

‘Tis the season for folks to bust out their best Home Ec skills (or their credit cards) in search of costumery to frighten and delight the young and old alike out trick or treating, or just looking for a few good laughs on Halloween. Back in 2007, when the iPhone had been out just a few

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Whirly Word

Whirly word is a fun and relaxing world puzzle app for the iPhone with a whirly twist. You get six letters in a circle, somewhat resembling of an old rotary phone dial, and you try to come up with as…

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Need to run Classic under Snow Leopard? SheepShaver can do that.

Filed under: OS , Retro Mac , Blogs , Apple History I’m beginning to think that some other writers on the Mac beat are reading my mind. About two weeks ago, one of my consulting clients was asking if there was any way that she’d be able to upgrade to Snow Leopard and still be able to run two legacy applications in Classic, one of which was HyperCard .

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