Hijinks Inc.

Category: Apple

  • Out of Stock

    After spending yesterday afternoon digging spare change out of miscellaneous furniture, I went to Best Buy to buy myself a shiny new iPod touch. Yay! Only not yay… They were sold out, they’d even sold their display model… or it broke on account of people drooling on it and they took it down. Oh, the pain!

    Maybe it’s a sign that I shouldn’t buy one, what with those janky screens and some iPods shipping without OS X installed. But after finally deciding to buy one, it hurts that they were sold out. Honestly, I was surprised that they stayed in stock as long as they did, I’d been to Best Buy a few days earlier and they had quite a few in stock at that time.

    What about you? Are you planning on getting one? Are the issues the iPod touch having enough to keep you from buying it, or are you just holding out for the Zune 2?

  • Oww… poor you

    Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg and Pownce broke his iPhone *tear* That’s what you get for owning a $700 cell phone. Maybe he should try and sell it on eBay “Own a piece of internet history, bid on Kevin Rose’s broken iPhone”… oh wait, he’s not that famous.

    Kevin Rose

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  • Excuse me while I whip this out.

    My Macbook that is.

    Yep, it finally came. After three days staring at the Fedex tracking page, hoping that it just might come a day early, I spent the day of it’s arrival staring hopefully down the lane waiting for that big van of Macbook goodness to drive up. I found out the hard way that Fedex drivers usually leave the rural neighborhoods last on their schedule. But arrive it did, in all it’s glossy white, shiny glory.
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  • Best Free Mac Software

    Seeing as my fellow blogger Fred just made the switch to OS X, I thought I’d help him and other switchers out by posting a quick list of must have applications for OS X.

    [ Internet ]
    Firefox – Need I say anything else? My browser of choice no matter what OS you’re running.
    Aduim – A feature rich Instant Messaging client, with a broad range of supported clients makes this a must have.
    Tomato – A simple, easy to use BitTorrent client. I’m using it until the OS X version of uTorrent comes out
    Cyberduck – A departure from the normal two paned view you might be used to in FTP programs, but still a robust program with support for FTP (File Transfer Protocol), FTP/TLS (FTP secured over SSL/TLS) and SFTP

    [ Multimedia ]
    VLC Player – Fast, stable and wide ranging codec support makes VLC a fantastic all around media player
    Flip4Mac – Adds support for playing WMV files in QuickTime
    LiquidCD – Excellent alternative to the native disc burning in OS X
    Handbrake – It may not offer the widest range of options when ripping a DVD, but it’s straight forward and produces high quality rips with no hassle.

    [ Misc ]
    smcFanControl 2.1 – A must have for managing the fan speeds on your Macbook / Macbook Pro
    Cashbox – Simple and easy to use software to keep track of your finances
    Growl – Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications.

  • WoW on the iPhone?

    I’m crossing into Fred’s territory with this post. After all he is the resident World of Warcraft fanboy, but according to Macenstein, Apple’s latest press conference is going to announce WoW for both the iPhone and iPod touch.

    How did he come to this conclusion you might ask? Well, you can read the full story here. But the short and sweet version is that the little slogan Apple sent out as part of the invitation “Mum is no longer the word” is actually an anagram for “Lord, now the Grum is on me”.

    WoW

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