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Jan 30 2008

MacBook Air shipping. That Apple TV update Jobs promised? Not quite yet.

I usually don’t bother reporting when products ship. I really don’t feel it’s all that interesting unless you actually pre-ordered that particular product and, in that case, you were probably already notified. This time, I decided I would write a little something because the press release announcing the shipping of Apple’s new MacBook Air came with a little unrelated bad news as counterbalance.

Good News: MacBook Air is shipping.

Bad News: The promised update for Apple TV isn’t… at least not yet.

The new Apple TV software will be available as a free automatic download to all Apple TV customers within two weeks.

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Apr 12 2007

Kernel Panic Screensaver… oh yeah, that’s all kinds of funny

Doomlaser’s Kernel Panic Screensaver simulates the Mac equivalent of the Windows Blue Screen of Death. A smoky black curtain descends upon your screen and a kind of Rosetta Stone of bad news pops in view to tell you that there is only one way out–force restart.

Now you can have that as your screen saver or, better yet, you can set it as the screen saver of a coworker without their knowledge. You are going to be oh so popular my friend.

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Mar 13 2007

Good news and bad news– Unsanity APE Haxies updated, Apple ”unsupportive”

Today Unsanity issued updates for FruitMenu 3.6.4 and WindowShade X 4.1.2. Both are haxies that use Unsanity’s Application Enhancer to enhance system functionality.

FruitMenu gives you the ability to customize the Apple Menu and contextual menus. Using a visual editor you can edit the contents of the menus to suit your needs and taste. FruitMenu sells for USD$10.

WindowShade X provides a way of organizing your work in Mac OS X by allowing you to assign various actions to the minimize button and to the action of double-clicking on the window title. WindowShade X sells for USD$10.

In a slightly related story that I found on John Gruber’s blog, Daring Fireball, an Apple Mailing List item confirms that Apple’s official policy on Application Enhancer modules is that they offer no support on “APE’d systems.”

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