An interesting use of the MacBook Sudden Motion Sensor to switch desktops. (via TUAW)
Update: The Medallia Blog just released the source code, you can follow their instructions here.
Archive for the 'OS X' Category
It looks like with Boot Camp, Apple just jumped into the gaming market. The Unofficial Apple Weblog has a post about how the author installed World of Warcraft on his 17″ iMac Core Duo, and no surprises here, it runs better than on a normal PC. This brings up an interesting point, while we’ve heard that Apple’s hardware is clearly out-performing its counterparts designed to run Windows XP, are game enthusiasts going to make the leap to Apple’s hardware?
Mac users can now buy the “PC Only” titles that they couldn’t in the past, and more importantly, Apple can compete with other high-end PC makers, such as Alienware, which was recently snapped up by Dell, within the gaming market. The market is saturated with low cost PCs, but I believe there is some room for one more in the high-end market. Apple’s name is synomous with high-quality products, looks like the competition has someone else to worry about.
More on Intel-Mac/Windows XP game performance at TUAW.com
Apple officially announces a tool to dual boot Intel-based Macs with Windows XP.
All the hacking to run Windows XP on Macs is unnecessary now. Currently Boot Camp is available as free download and is still in beta.
Boot Camp will be a feature in “Leopard,” Apple’s next major release of Mac OS X that will be previewed at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in August.
You can download the beta of Boot Camp on the Apple site.
The availability of Boot Camp does not mean that Apple plans to support Windows. Apple says they just reacted to customer demand.
System Requirements for Boot Camp are an Intel-based Mac with a USB keyboard and mouse, or a built-in keyboard and TrackPad; Mac OS X version 10.4.6 or later; the latest firmware update; at least 10GB of free space on the startup disk; a blank recordable CD or DVD; and single-disc version of Windows XP Home Edition or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later.
More details in this Apple press-release.
A collection of beautiful Quartz Composer samples, it looks like you can make some pretty smooth animations with this. For those not familiar, Quartz Composer is new to OS X 10.4 and is what powers the RSS Visualizer that is a new screen saver in the operating system. The creator is also allowing users of OS X to download and install these as screen savers. Find out more here.
Creativebits has a long list of keyboard shortcuts for OS X, in case you forgot a couple. I’d say there are plenty that I never even knew about.
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