More flares in space

June 9, 2009 @ 9:05 am

new-wallpaper-osx-snow-leopard

What was the most overlooked new development at yesterday’s WWDC official announcement of OS X Snow Leopard?

WHY, THE NEW DEFAULT WALLPAPER, OF COURSE! Now space is flaring from all directions rather than from one central point. Yah yah yah yah yah.

Mac OS X icon pillow collection

May 10, 2009 @ 8:34 am

throwboy-pillows

Throwboy has a fun little pillow set modeled after some of the default apps that come with Mac OS X. At the moment, the icon pillow set includes Finder, iTunes, Photo Booth, iChat, Dashboard, and iPhoto and can be purchased for $149. If you prefer just one, you can choose for $29 each. The pillows are hand crafted and made with 100% fleece and filled with polyester fibers.

Check out Throwboy’s Flickr for some images of the items and how they’re made.

The suck minimize effect in Mac OS X Leopard

March 4, 2009 @ 1:59 pm

I’ve been fooling around with MacPilot for the past couple of days and I’ve come to realize that Unix-based operating systems (like OS X) are incredibly powerful and customizable and that they’re dumbed down by default to accommodate the average user.

MacPilot is like Microsoft PowerToys for Mac OS X — but with steroids. I won’t go into all the fancy crap you can do with it but I do want to show you how awesome the hidden “suck” effect for minimizing windows is.

Why Apple doesn’t make this an option in their drop-down menu is lost on me, but it’s so much nicer than “Genie” and “Scale”.