24 Hour Fitness will install Nike+ gym equipment
June 27, 2008
Last year, we wrote about Life Fitness’ plan to build exercise equipment with built-in iPod integration, allowing users do dock their iPod and control it from the machine itself.
This week, 24 Hour Fitness (the largest fitness club chain in the United States) announced their intention to inst…
Logitech releases Mac-only webcam; cats, dogs reported living together
June 24, 2008
Apologies to Dr. Peter Venkman, but it’s hard to believe that it’s taken that towering for a webcam vendor to encroach on the vacuum left by the discontinued iSight, even though we have hints that a new model of the Apple camera might be on the HD horizon. Logitech has now announced the QuickCam…
Psystar tests luck with OpenServ rackmount servers
June 23, 2008
Amazingly, the commercial hackintosh maker Psystar (whose efforts in building non-Apple machines running OS X we’ve covered at some length) still hasn’t been beat down by Apple Legal and now they’re back for more. They are releasing the OpenServ series of rackmount servers which they offer w…
Tracking the mysterious ‘black stick’
June 20, 2008
In its hardware repair directions and videos, Apple frequently mentions the “black stick,” a plastic tool that can be used to pry things apart without damaging our precious glossy exterior finishes (or the sensitive electronics inside). The problem I’ve found is that nobody seems to have these, …
Troll Touch your iMac screen
June 18, 2008
I occasionally work with clients who need to have Macs set up as kiosks. That means that anyone can walk up and use the Mac to watch a video or access data, but they usually can’t update anything on the Mac. Kiosks are particularly useful when the user interface consists of a finger touching the…
And the winner is…
June 17, 2008
We have a winner in our NEAT Receipts Advance Release giveaway!
Grant B. (full name withheld on request) from Colorado was the lucky TUAW reader chosen by NEAT Receipts to get his very own NEAT Receipts Advance Release package. Here is Grant’s winning comment:
“This is a great view for me….
Little Big Disk Quadra
June 16, 2008
Do you need a bus-powered 1 TB hard disk? You’re in luck - LaCie announced the Little Big Disk Quadra today.
Available in early July, the Little Big Disk Quadra uses a pair of drives in a RAID 0 configuration for speedy response. My personal concern is that whether one of the two RAID drives …
