Take a look at this picture and decide if  it is a real Polaroid picture. Think it over before you scroll down.

My Mac Classic

For those who thought this was real… it’s not. I used the app Poladroid from http://www.poladroid.net/ to add the Polaroid effect to it. That picture was taken mid June 2009

For the fun of it can anyone name the icon I got selected

Tags: Classic, fake, Mac, photo, Poladroid, Polaroid, real

At WWDC 2009 Apple announced the release of Safari 4.0 final with a same day release.

Here are some of the basic features

• Top Sites
  See your favorite websites at a glance. Open one with a single click.
• Cover Flow
  Flip through your site history or bookmarks like you flip through albums in iTunes.
• Full History Search
  Easily retrieve sites you’ve seen before. Spot the one you want in Cover Flow.
• Nitro Engine
  Wait less. Browse more. Surf the web with the world’s fastest browser.
• Windows Native Look and Feel
  Vista and XP users: feel right at home in Safari for Windows.
• Developer Tools
  Access the best suite of development tools ever included in a browser.
  (more…)

Tags: 4, Aero, Apple, basic, Classic, Glass, Luna, Mac, OS X, Royale, Safari, WIndows

Well it is that time again Apple has relased the Safari 4 beta For Mac OS X 10.4/10.5 and Windows XP/Vista (I’m sure it will work in Windows 7 Beta). This time around it brings a new javascript engine called Nitro that claims to be the fastest. Som more of the new features include: Coverflow in bookmarks manager, 3d style top sites view that shows sites that you view often, top title bar style tabs, and the most important of the features is os native themes (It now looks proper on windows). Yes all of that does sound much like Google Chrome (Except the coverflow bookmarks) but it is done its own style.

The bookmark manager stil exibits the same issues as the prvious versions… the issue is where sometimes titles are not imported right from firefox exported bookmarks.html. Bookmarks access is a pain for those who choose to hide the bookmarks bar due to the auto hide menu bar (Which you can set to always show). And if you hide the bookmarks bar you loose access to the Bookmarks and Top Sites buttons.

Over all it is a good browser but is not enough to get me to switch from my Chrome knock off Firefox setup. For those looking to try another browser you can check it out at apples site (http://www.apple.com/safari/).

Tags: 10.5, 4, Aero, Apple, Beta, Classic, Glass, Leopard, Luna, Royale, Safari, WIndows

Here are the links for: Sunday, February 1st 2009…

Digital distribution not expected to rule packaged media anytime soon
Hulu’s Super Bowl Ad Comes With An Ad (US Only)
Circuit City drops prices again
Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension
Twitter improves service, base; next, revenue
Google: Mysteries Of The Seafloor Mapped For The First Time
Eurocom lays claim to Core i7-equipped Clevo D900F
Virtualization of Desktops, Thin Clients and a Revolution Realized: When Old News is New News
Study: iPhone leading the pack in mobile phone gaming
Apple Needs a 15″ Version Of The 17″ MacBook Pro
Is Apple about to release a new iPhone?
Can you explain to me again why I should trust Google?
A Brief History of Twitter
By 2012 Koreans Will Get 1Gbps Broadband Connections
iBleed for iLife
Human error caused Google search bug
Google Chrome Not Cool Enough For Google Docs, Facebook (If You’re Browsing Incognito)
More Indications Windows 7 Is Coming In 2009
Dell’s Mini 12 netbook dissected for your viewing pleasure
Economic analysis based on actual data!
Why the IFPI/Eircom Anti-Piracy Deal Sucks
So Bad It Hurts: Classic Hits By Microsoft Songsmith
Flash coming to the iPhone after all?

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For the fun of it I ported my dos simulation basic program from applesoft basic to Microsoft Quickbasic for Mac… There are quite a few differences to get over. The result of this was far more clean and tidy code too… feel free to port it back to applesoft for the fun of it. Even tho it looks less impressive/not good enough to fool anyone im releasing it anyway

For those with old macs you can download a copy of QuickBasic For Mac here…

Video

Source

10 clear
20 print “APPLE IO.SYS for MS-DOS (R) Version 5.0 for Macintosh”
30 print “Copyright (C) 1981 Apple Computer”
40 print “Copyright (C) 1981-1991 Microsoft Corporation”
50 print “”
60 print “Current Date is Fri 1-30-2009″
61 input “Enter new date (MM-dd-yy):”; d1$
62 if d1$ = ” then got 70
70 print “Current Time is 0:33:26.26″
71 input “Enter new time:”; d2$
72 if d2$ = then got 80
80 print “”
90 print “Microsoft (R) MS-DOS (R) Version 5.0 for Macintosh”
100 print “(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1991″
110 print “”
120 input “C:\>”; prompt$
121 if prompt$ = “exit” then end
122 if prompt$ = “ver” then goto 230
123 if prompt$ = “restart” then goto 200
124 if prompt$ = “cls then goto 210
125 if prompt$ = “” then goto 120
126 if prompt$ = “dir” then goto 220
127 goto 120

200 cls
201 goto 10
210 cls
211 goto 120
220 print “30/10/1991 12:00 PM autoexec.bat”
221 print “30/10/1991 12:00 PM config.sys”
222 print “30/10/1991 12:00 PM <DIR> Dos”
123 print ” 3 File(s) 41 bytes”
124 print ” 1 dir(s) 45,939 bytes free”
125 goto 120
230 print “Microsot(R) MS-DOS (R) Version 5.0 for Machintosh”
231 goto 120

Tags: Apple, basic, Classic, Macintosh, Microsoft, Quick