I feel a little nostalgic today. Here’s the best Home Computer ever: The magnificent Commodore 64!
(and if you are an old fart like me you would probably smile when you see this one too. More info here.)
stitchrobot: the list
Your awesome tagline
The consumer we want to reach watches ‘Lost’ on a big TV screen, on a computer screen and on an iPhone,” he said. “They’re agnostic on format.
The Classic Rock Magazine Is Switching to a Smaller, Rack-Friendly Size
In retrospect I think Jann Wenner missed a very important point about physical objects.
Choosing between buying a book or an e-book is platform specific. Books are “fetish” objects. They evoke nostalgia, they give physicality to words and while I read a half dozen e-books a month. I will usually buy two or three of those as hard cover books.
I can similarly read every article Wired magazine published online if i wait long enough but month after month i buy the magazine. It’s a fetish object. Printed on heavy stock with a nice finish that makes me want to have them.
Rolling Stone Magazine used to be a fetish object. The larger format making it a visually pleasing object that sat on a coffee table or kitchen bar.
Now it’s just another magazine in an increasingly clutter and endangered field.
We surf the Internet. We swim in magazines.
Fucking What The Fuck is wrong with these companies? are you fucking joking with that. This is what your banking on to save print media.
Mags To Their Digital Units: Drop Dead | paidContent
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iPhone 3GS Wallpaper « iFixit Blog
Another Set of internal wallpapers from intrepid folks at ifixit.com
gives you iphone that see-through vibe
Daily Tech Tip: Forgot your Password? Create a new Admin
This tip is a little more hardcore.
If you’ve forgotten your password, or need to gain access to a mac which you don’t have the password for, you can use the following tip to gain full admin access to the mac.
just remember, with great power comes great responsibility.
also caveat emperor using terminal commands in single user mode can seriously fuck things up if you don’t follow intructions exactly.
in particular the rm command = delete
1) Boot your machine into Single user mode by holding down Command-S (apple-S).
2) Issue the following commands (without double quotes), followed by Enter:
“mount -uaw”
“cd /var/db”
“rm .applesetupdone”
3) This “hidden” file (.applesetupdone) we just deleted tells OSX that the initial setup has already been done. By deleting it, we are “forcing” OSX to do the initial setup process all over again. During this process we create a “dummy” user account. This dummy account will have admin privileges, so we can use it to RESET the password on the other account (the account you can’t remember the password for).
So Reboot the machine (using “reboot” command or “shutdown -h now”) and setup your dummy account, reset the “real” accounts password and optionally delete the dummy account once you get access to the “real” account.
