Feature: How-to: replace your MacBook Air SSD with OWC's Aura Pro Express

Ars Technica » Infinite Loop

Apple launched updated MacBook Air models in October of 2010, featuring new, compact, and (originally) proprietary form-factor solid state drives (SSDs). The SSDs have so far only been available to OEMs directly from Toshiba, despite the fact that the SSD…

4 May 2011

Searching again (400ms -> 2ms)

Planet KDE

The problem statement: you want to search for a file using any arbitrary substring contained in the file url. This is deceptively hard, if you think in a relational db way, you want something "like %foo%" where the leading percent will force indexes to…

3 May 2011

How to Make Any Video Work With iMovie for iPad

Wired Top Stories

IMovie is designed only to edit video shot with the iPad 2, iPhone or iPod Touch. To fix this, you need first to convert the footage into the right format, and then introduce it gently to iMovie in just the right way.

3 May 2011

TUAW's Daily Mac App: CalendarBar

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

For most office-bound people, checking their calendar is one of the biggest chores of the electronic world. On the Mac, we've got many great options for managing calendars, including iCal, but what about a fast way to check your schedule from your…

2 May 2011

[challenge] Build your infographics in HTML5 and CSS3

Planet Mozilla

I challenge you to create a beautiful CSS3/HTML5 infographic :) See at the end of the article for more infos. I see a lot of infographics around here, and most of them could be built only with web technologies (HTML5 + CSS3 + SVG). src: 1 2 3 4 5; …

29 April 2011

Miniguide to fixing Volume-Filesystem errors

MacOSXHints.com

There are many drive/filesystem errors that can occur on a Mac. Here are some common symptoms that are indicative of some of them: Not able to boot the system: You tried to boot. Apple logo appeared, and wheel spun for about 15-20 seconds, then machine…

29 April 2011

Panasonic app uses AR to place your new big screen dreams

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Just in time for the weekend, this is about the wackiest use of augmented reality that we've seen yet. The Panasonic Viera AR Setup Simulator is a brand new free app in the App Store that uses AR to put a virtual big screen television right in your living…

29 April 2011

Apple approves JavaScript iOS games that don't use a browser

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Look Ma, no WebKit! Your inner geek and nerd should give each other a little hug this morning as you read about the latest rather cool accomplishment of Dominic Szablewski, creator of the Impact JavaScript HTML 5 game engine. He's just released two free…

28 April 2011