Dan Kurtz of San Francisco has etched Rene Magritte’s “The Son of Man” onto the cover of his 15″ PowerBook.

This new speciman of laptop creativity was done via a Squid Labs epilog laser and the open-source program Inkscape to craft the duo-tone rendering, according to Kurtz’ post on Skid Labs’ Instructables community Web site. The [...]

John Deere vs. iPod nano …. fight!

BlackBerry Internet Service version 2.0 (BIS v2.0) is NOW available!
There are several new improvements and changes with BIS v2.0. You do have the ability to opt-out of BIS v2.0 though you would be crazy to do so.
Previously, your BlackBerry Internet Service v1.8 account features push email from up to 10 Internet email accounts. If migrate [...]

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.
Google Browser Sync is completely automated. The settings you select at startup are [...]

The “AppleBerry” would actually be the fruit of a partnership between Research in Motion and Apple Computer to develop an Apple-style version of the BlackBerry, according to an analyst report.
Peter Misek of Canaccord Capital issued a research note on Friday musing that Apple and RIM might be working on a product together based on the [...]

Although it’s still considered a work in progress, Google’s online spreadsheet will offer consumers and businesses a free alternative to Microsoft’s Excel application. Google’s spreadsheet isn’t as sophisticated as Excel. For instance, the Google spreadsheet won’t create charts or provide a menu of controls that can be summoned by clicking on a computer mouse’s right-hand [...]

Some breaking news on TPB ordeal going on. As I type this it is being announced here at Reboot 8 in Copenhangen, Denmark the news about the resurrection of TPB as a result of the raid from authorities in Sweden.
So the news is as follows:
* It will be back up and operational within the [...]

Umm…. w00t
Much more useful than the MacSabre app. but not funnier than the Star Wars Kid MacBook.

This is a demo of a brand new Apple MacBook (black) with 2GB of RAM running Virtual Machine from Parallels (beta 6) and Virtue desktop emulator.
In the video the user switches from Mac OS X to Windows XP (Media Center themed) to Ubuntu using the native Mac OS X “Fast User Switching” mechanism. This is [...]

The fine people over at iFixit have added the newly released Apple MacBook guide to their list of detailed how-to guides. The guide includes a how-to remove the following:

Battery
RAM
Hard Drive
Upper Case
Optical Drive
Airport Card
Fan
Heat Sink
Fan Housing
Logic Board
Display

Complete with pictures at every step, this guide is a must see and will surely come in handy too many [...]