Apple drops MacBook price

This just in: Apple dropped the price of the base MacBook to $999 from $1099. A multitouch glass trackpad was introduced to the MacBook Pro all MacBooks (except air?). Cases are now being machined out of solid aluminum. Also, new very fast Nvidia 9400M graphics. Backlit LED displays for all. Solid state drives availble as upgrades.

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Hilarious System 7 Simulator

While looking into emulating Mac OS 7 in OS X, I came across this hilarious flash-based simulation of a Performa 6116CD running OS 7.5. Its amazingly detailed. You can even empty the trash, open folders, run the screen saver and change the desktop image. [click here!]

Dear Mac OS 7, Thanks For The Memories

I swear this does not count as procrastination, but my favorite mac OS 7 games are:

1. Civilization (the original)
2. Sim City 2000
3. Chuck Yeager's Air Combat

How to disable the flash in Photobooth

I read this on a forum somewhere, I think it was at macrumors. You can take an iSight picture in Photo Booth without the flash washing out your photo by inverting the screen colors. That way you screen flashes black instead of white. Inverting your screen colors is kind of scary if you have never done it before or if you accidently do it. Just strike your pose in front of your isight. Its better to pose before inverting your screen because its gets kind of hard to see what your taking once you invert (in my experience).

To invert (and to go back to normal when your done), hold down crtl+option+apple and hit 8.

Then take your picture and invert back.

Praise Be To Macintosh

This is why I really dig Macs the most. I screwed up some network permissions on my old G4, and when I went to turn it on, bad things were happening. I mean shit like I ain't never seen before in all my years of Mac ownership or my brief tenure at the Apple store. So why do I like Macs? Because when the user (me) presses buttons randomly and changes settings that they (I) have no idea what they do, messing their computer up so bad that they think they might as well bury it in the backyard and start anew (which so often happens with Windows), the savy Mac user can fix it. And I did. And you have no idea how relieving it is to be able to untinker what you tinkered wrong.

And now its time to back up the 150 gigs in my old G4 in case it ever really hits the fan.