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Give Your iPhone Some Retro Mac Style With Throwback Cases

by Eric Limer | 10:30 am, February 8th

Sure, plenty of you out there got the iPhone because it’s the hippest little device around, but I’m sure there are plenty of you devotees who have been with Apple way longer, maybe even from the start. If you’re one of the latter, there’s a righteous line of retro-Mac computer iPhone cases from Schreer Delights that you can pick up if you want flaunt that you loved Apple before it was cool.

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Was Apple’s Finder Icon Inspired by a Picasso Painting?

by Robert Quigley | 2:22 pm, January 5th

From the start, Apple has been a company focused on design to a greater extent than most tech companies: While Steve Wozniak‘s groundbreaking architecture for the Apple II gave it an advantage over the other personal computers of the day, industrial designer Jerry Mannock‘s iconic beige case designs helped it and subsequent early Apple computers bridge the gap from hacker favorite to mass-market hit. And so it wouldn’t be surprising, as Cattani Simone proposes, if Apple’s Finder icon was influenced by Picasso’s 1934 painting “Two Characters”:

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Mac OS X 10.6.3 Is Here: Third Update to Snow Leopard

by Robert Quigley | 12:56 pm, March 29th

Windows users, UbuntuHeads — feel free to skip this post. But our internal stats suggest that a fair number of our readers are Mac users, and you all may be interested to know that Apple has just released Mac OS X 10.6.3, the third update to their Snow Leopard operating system.

Installation info and upgrade details after the jump:

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Rumor: New, Six-Core Mac Pro Coming Tuesday

by Robert Quigley | 10:33 am, March 11th

Apple loves making its buzzy tech announcements on Tuesday, and the latest round of rumors has it that this coming Tuesday is going to be a biggie for the desktop computing set: a new, revamped Mac Pro “hexacore” with six cores and a 3.33 GHz processor that can TurboBoost to 3.6 GHz.

The current Mac Pro is a beastly powerful computer, and the rumored specs for the rumored new Mac Pro, which may or may not be announced on Tuesday, March 16, are more of the same.

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Is Steam Coming to Mac?

by Robert Quigley | 10:17 am, February 26th

For some time now, Mac users — while secure in the knowledge that they clearly have the best OS — have looked on jealously as their PC-running counterparts took advantage of Valve Software’s Steam, a content delivery system best known for games that has a huge library and regularly posts jaw-dropping deals. And Steam is no niche thing: Gamasutra reports that it had 25 million active members in 2009.

But based on new, though not entirely bulletproof evidence — some hidden icons on Steam downloads with “osx” in their name — Steam just may be coming to Mac.

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14 of the Best Geekiest Beers

Given beer's pervasive place in human history, it's not surprising that the geeky pastimes of drinkers would eventually rub off on the beers themselves. The result is a veritable cornucopia of nerdy beers, 14 of which are right here.

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Eric Limer I'm trying to come up with a control scheme where I can use my xbox 360 controller for leisurely web surfing. It's....interesting.
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James Plafke For a show about a sport I don't really dig, Friday Night Lights is an alright show.
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Eric Limer Just spent a few hours playing Kyntt. Stunning, cute little game. Highly recommended.
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Max Wanna create work flows, wanna make it all work work work.
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James Plafke I am jealous Elmo got to make out with Kristin Chenoweth.
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Eric Limer I swear under my breath A LOT. This must make people near by me very uncomfortable. That being said, I have no intentions of stopping.
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Max Court is now in session at the Burp Castle.
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Eric Limer I don't look at my finances as often as I should which is the main reason why I don't often want to look at my finances.
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Max Desert PolyBus: The game where you drive to Reno and then die.
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Eric Limer If I wrote a webcomic, every strip would be titled "Get it? GET IT?!"
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Max Got chili oil on my hands and face. It hurts. A lot.
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Eric Limer Suddenly I remember what I hate about PC gaming. Mainly never having a computer that can actually do it.
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James Plafke The halftime show taught me that football-watching men drinking beer who love seeing muscular men beat each other up really like to vogue.
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Max Pestering your friends at 8am is how you show you care, right? #hopeso
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Eric Limer Twitter is like RiffTrax for EVERYTHING.
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James Plafke I know global warming is scary, but not having a winter was pretty cool. I didn't have to spend money on shoes for the snow.
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Eric Limer I hereby apologize to all persons --past, present and future-- who have the misfortune of hearing me "sing" dubstep songs.
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Max Even Facebook's Timeline thinks I could have done more with my life.
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Max I did that thing where Facebook turns your Timeline into a movie. Mine had pictures of ducks and foliage set to really dramatic music.
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Max "But I don't wanna go to the dog show!"
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