17 ways to survive a Mac Disaster.

By Jonathan

Mac Life has came up with 17 great ways for you to survive almost every Mac disaster.

Strategic Assault for the iPhone

By Jonathan at 6:51 PM

A new game by the name of Strategic Assault recently saw its iPhone debut. It may be the first real time strategy game published on the iPhone platform, but is it really all that great?

Strategic Assault has very similar feel to that of the Command & Conquer series. You can create a variety of little fighters like tanks, jeeps, and helicopters with which you capture resources.  As in most RTS games your ultimate goal is to hunt down the opposition with a squad of your finest men…or whatever troops you can afford anyways.

Those of you new to Strategic Assault may marvel over it, what with the four out of five star rating it holds, but it really is an antique. I first played Strategic Assault over five years ago on my Palm M100 which had a 16 MHz processor and 8MB of ram/storage.

PC to Mac the Easy Way

By Kris at 5:08 PM

There may be many ways to transfer your files from a PC to a Mac, but most can be pretty hard to do for the average person. Well not anymore, because Belkin has made a Switch-to-Mac Cable that allows you to move music, movies, photos, and Internet preferences to your new Mac with ease. All you have to do is plug one end of the USB into your Mac and the other end into your PC. After that it automatically takes your files and transfers them to your Mac. The Switch-to-Mac Cable will be out soon for around $50. A 2008 Needham report shows that Macintosh sales have tripled in the past 3 years and by 2017 Apple will sell 40 million Macs at the rate their going, so it would seem that Belkin has chosen a great time to unveil their cable.

MacBook Air going on a Diet

By Kris at 5:57 PM

AppleInsider has discovered that Apple is going to make their MacBook Air even lighter by replacing the bottom of the MacBook Air chassis with carbon fiber which is used in aircraft parts, bike frames, and high performance car bodies. But now recently computer vendors such as Sony and HP have used this material to construct lighter and thinner laptops. As of now the MacBook Air weights three pounds if Apple just replaces the bottom part of the case then the MacBook Air would lose 100 grams making it only 2.78 pounds. But knowing Apple they’ll most likely make it even lighter then 2.78 pounds. Comment.

“Although AppleInsider publishes the aforementioned information strictly as a rumor, it’s believed the shift to a carbon fiber bottom is far enough along in its development cycle that it could appear in a revision to the MacBook Air sometime next year.”

MAC MINI ROBOT

By Jonathan at 2:23 PM

OS X on a HP Touchsmart

By Kris at 6:00 PM

The HP Touchsmart with Vista

If you’ve seen the HP Touchsmart you were most likely amazed at the technology and also disappointed that it ran Vista. Well Aaron Nelson a hacker posted up an article how he installed OS X on a HP Touchsmart (Here is the article). Aaron Nelson said that the wireless card, audio, Bluetooth, video card, TV tuner don’t work with OS X but he is working on fixing these issues.

The Hologram comes to CNN

By Kris at 6:13 PM

CNN has always been known to be the first with the new toys before anyone else. But now CNN has gone overboard when Jessica Yellin couldn’t make it to New York. So they decided to show off by beaming her into the CNN studio in New York via hologram so much for the basic split screen. Wolf Blitzer also talked to special analyst during Election Day via hologram. So when will this technology be available to the average person, as of now no one knows but it looks like Star Wars one day might become reality.

Dell’s XPS All in One PC

By Kris at 12:48 PM

During this week there has been a lot of news from a new Eee PC to Windows 7. But many have skipped over Dell releasing a new XPS 24- inch all in one LCD PC. Well you might be thinking that Dell has released all in one PC’s in the past but let me tell you this one is different. To start with this is the first time Dell has released an All in One PC that’s 24- inches. The new XPS 24- inch all in one LCD PC comes in two different versions one starts at $1,699 and the other 24-inch starts at $1,999. There is also an upgrade to a Blu-Ray for $2,299. So let’s get to the specs.

The new MacBook and MacBook Pro

The new MacBook from Apple. Look familiar...?

By Max at 3:39 PM

Well, they’re here. The new MacBook and the new MacBook Pro. Possibly the most anticipated release since the first iBook, these two machines are a step foward in many ways, but a step backwards in others. In my opinion Apple wasn’t aiming at upgrading the current Mac users with this new model. I think they were aiming at making PC users switch. Let’s face it, Apple hit a home run design wise with the MacBook Air

Ever wanted to talk in Binary Code?

By Jonathan at 11:46 PM CST

Ever wanted to learn or communicate in Binary Code? Thanks to Roubaix Interactive, its easy!

Binary code is the system of representing text or computer processor instructions by the use of a two digit number system. This system is composed of only the number zero, representing the off state, and the number one, representing on state, combined in groups of 8. These groups of 8 bits can represent up to 256 different values and can correspond to a variety of different symbols, letters or instructions. An example of this is the uppercase A, which in ASCII binary is 01000001.