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Mobile Data – You Really Can Take it With You

My good friend from high school’s older brother walked by us one day while we were hacking away at an old Mac SE and smugly remarked, “My Visa card has more memory than that thing!” Although he was probably right at the time, we now carry much denser forms of data with us all the […]

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CherryOS Mac Emulator for PCs Now Available

If you are interested in running the Mac OS on a PC, check out www.CherryOS.com (US$49). It looks like they have updated their Web site and a “trial download” is now available. Read more about the not-so-cheery parts of Cherry…

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Bumptunes Controls iTunes with PB Motion Sensor

Bumptunes is script that allows you to control iTunes with the 2005 PowerBook G4’s motion sensor. Here’s more from Interconnected.org: After a few more minutes, we had the tilt sensor controlling Timo’s music. You rock the machine backwards for the next track, and rock it forwards for the previous track. Then we realised that you […]

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Bubblegym First Game for the PowerBook Motion Sensor

Bubblegym is a tilt-controlled computer game for the 2005 Apple PowerBook G4. As far as I know the very first computer game that reacts to how the machine is tilted. The 2005 Powerbooks have a chip on the logic board that is there to signal if the computer is dropped. Thanks to Amit Singh (kernelthread.com) […]