Upgrade your 1984 Mac to run OS X Snow Leopard

Brandon Davenport Mar 11, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, Hacks, Hardware, How to

This is when two worlds collide - deep retro hardware, crisp modern software, and upgrades come together in a mash up that would make Steve Jobs wet and Apple fan boys bubble with excitement. This my friends is the original, 1984 Macintosh running OS X Snow Leopard, with the help of some special upgrades and a beautiful untouched case. Gmjhowe from Instructables crafted this masterpiece with 2 goals in mind: Do not change the look of the Mac at all, and don't skimp out on all the bells and whistles (cost was not an issue).

Best of all, he shows you how you can go about making your own 1984 Mac on steroids, and maybe impress some of your soon-to-be jealous designer friends. So dig in and enjoy the story of bringing this Macintosh back to life.

Motorola to use Microsoft's Bing and Maps on Chinese Android devices

Daniel Carey Mar 11, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Mobile Software

 

When Google threatened to pull out of China Motorola decided that they needed to look elsewhere, especially if they wished to continue bringing Android handsets to market. Partnering with Microsoft, Motorola announced today that Google maps and Search shall be no more (at least on their Chinese devices). As an ulterior means the company has opted to use Microsoft’s Bing and maps as the default aggregators. Starting in the first quarter of the year, Motorola described their partnership as “global” -- meaning there’s a potential that this could affect thousands, if not millions, of devices worldwide.

Could this partnership mean that a Windows Phone 7 Series device is in the works? Your guess is as good as mine.

Video - Live 3D concerts in Japan with Vocaloid's Hatsune Miku

Leave it to the Japanese to mix high tech transparent screens with live concerts and anime; Welcome to the world of Vocaloid and Miku Hatsune, who happens to be one of Japan’s fastest rising Jpop idols - oh, and did I mention she’s not even real? Miku first started out as the mascot for Yamaha’s voice synthesizing program, Vocaloid, back in 2007, but little did they know that their fictional singer would take on a world of her own. Striking a cord with otaku across Japan, she’s had her own comic series, video games, and now has taken physical form, holding international live shows: performing side by side with the rest of her fictional cast. This may remind you of the Gorillaz live concert back during the Grammy’s a few years back, and although that show was done using 3D hologram technology, the basic idea is the same. 

Videos after the break!

How to keep Flash video Full Screen on Dual monitors

Brandon Davenport Mar 11, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Hacks, How to

I was using dual monitors at one time, then I got a 22" and I don't have a need for them anymore, but some people like to have 4 feet of monitor real-estate and they have every right to - but do we really have to keep watching our flash videos in a little window? Now you can make your flash video go full screen on one monitor, and still be able to click on to the other one, without the flash video closing. Neat! -- Read more

Playstation Move - Third party Developers are supporting it!

Brandon Davenport Mar 11, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Gaming, News, Sony

There could in fact be a gold rush headed straight for developers - in the shape of a Wii Remote knock off with a glowing ping-pong ball on top of it. Part of the challenge for Sony is to get third party developers excited about the Move and thinking optimistically about the options they have to create content for users. There is a full list over at PS3 Node.

Google easter egg - Turn the Google Logo into ASCII Art

Brandon Davenport Mar 11, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Design, Exclusive, Google, Internet, Websites

Can you feel the aftermath of the nerdgasm which inspired the Google team to create this? It's awesome, we found it, it's in ASCII (plain Text), and even though it is another one of those random Google Eggs, it is here to stay! Remember the fireworks easter egg from New Years? It is one of many which are seasonal -- Google likes to hide surprises on their site sometimes, but most of them go away after a very short while. I have a feeling this one is here to stay.

How we found it - We searched the term "ascii art"

Here is the logo in Plain Text

  ___                _
 / __|___  ___  __ _| |___ 
| (_ / _ \/ _ \/ _` |   -_)
 \___\___/\___/\__, |_\___|
               |___/

Bill Gates no longer Richest Man on Earth

Ricardo Trejo Mar 11, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us World

Billy G. is a rich dude, so rich in fact that he usually wins the top spot for world's wealthiest person annually in a landslide victory. That is no longer so, not this year - there's a new champion of cash. Say hello to Mexican telecom tycoon, Carlo Slim Helu, the world's richest man - Read it HERE