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Archive | May 9, 2009
Transparent Mac SE/30
How do you make sure all the parts fit correctly in a new design? You test “shoot” the mold with clear plastic before the mold is textured.
At Apple, some of these test shots were built until finished and given to key team members as awards for a job well done.
You may still buy a nice poster.
After much research I have learned that no more than 10 of these clear Macs were ever built.
via Transparent Mac SE/30 – Boing Boing Gadgets.
Awesome. I like it – in my opinion, more things should be transparent. Us geeks like knowing what’s inside the box, you know?
MacBook Users: Turn off This Bluetooth Default Setting Now
In the Bluetooth preferences, it’s the box checkmarked “Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer.”
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Also, I say it’s unintelligent that this feature is turned on by default because for notebooks, it’s useless. Usually when we sleep our notebooks, we close the lid. On a MacBook, opening the lid wakes it back up automatically. There’s no need to use the Bluetooth mouse to wake up the notebook. This setting should certainly not be turned on by default.
MacBook users? If you own a Bluetooth mouse, disable this setting now.
via MacBook Users: Turn off This Bluetooth Default Setting Now | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.
Ahhhhh – so this is why my Macbook keeps waking up from sleep whenever my Logitech V470 bluetooth mouse goes to sleep (thus initiating the “lost connection” dialog, and waking up my Macbook).
Thanks, Wired!
Sponsors of Tomorrow – “Intel Stars”
YouTube – An “Intel Star” TV ad — Sponsors of Tomorrow.
Nice work, Intel. Love the ad. 🙂
This blog is under the protection of Chuck Norris.
A POSH bakery in Split, Croatia, has been broken into almost every week.
But not since the shop owners posted a life-sized photo of the toughest man in Hollywood Chuck Norris in the window.
The sign says: “This shop is under the protection of Chuck Norris.”
Coilgun, the DIY edition
The bad boy pictured above was put together by a Mr. Daniel Eindhoven for €100 (that’s about $133). A semiautomatic single stage gun that boasts a 14 shot capacity, the weapon’s capable of firing a 42 gram projectile at speeds up to 110km/h, with a charge time of 8 seconds when plugged into mains power (or if you’re on the go, the internal batteries will light up in about 90 seconds).
via DIY coilgun gives clever hobbyists the risk of permanent injury.