Hack the Planet: karma rocket

The latest Flip4Mac includes Silverlight. Such bundling doesn\’t surprise me, but seeing that Flip4Mac itself is 1.5 MB and Silverlight is 23 MB gives me a something\’s-not-right-here feeling. via Hack the Planet: karma rocket.

How to find out what display is connected to your Mac…

How can you find out what display is connected to your macintosh?  Well, on the desktop\’s you can examine the monitor, probably…  But what about your laptop? Open a terminal window, and type this in: ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed \”/[^<]*</s///\” | xxd -p -r | strings -6 For example: [nerv:~] benjamin% ioreg […]

Birthday Reminders on the Birthday Calendar?

One issue that has plagued the Address Book & iCal combination, is that you are offered the option to automatically add birthday reminders to your calendar….  That\’s fantastic, and will help me prevent the possibility of missing a friends/relatives birthday. But then, how did I forget Aunt Flo\’s birthday, last week?  Click.  Why doesn\’t the […]

Dungeons and Dragons Online: behold the power of free

Evidently Dungeons & Dragons Online, has returned to being free.  There is no longer a monthly charge for the MMO.  But if you subscribe, you get additional perks which you can use to aid your character… Of course, there\’s no way a Macintosh user would ever want to play a MMO.  Those Macintosh users of […]

Apple indicates iTunes LP charges are fiction.

Brian McKinney, who runs Chicago’s Chocolate Lab Records, claimed at the weekend that iTunes charges a $10,000 production fee for iTunes LP, a new digital format that pairs additional content such as lyrics and videos with album downloads. In a follow up email, Mckinney adds, “I should note that it is currently possible to design an […]