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Mac App: Transmission

Bittorrent.  I have found what I consider to  be the holy grail of bittorrent clients for the Mac, Transmission.  Transmission is simply a front-end to a historic backend bittorrent engine and has been built to be (according to developer’s site), “Easy, Lean, Native, Powerful, Free” which I have interpreted as a very cutdown interface (especially [...]

Firefox Extension: Googlepedia

I have to draw notice to this AMAZING Firefox addon, Googlepedia, this gives the user ~80% more Wikipedia-age per search (as we know, the top results to Googles searches are frequently Wikipedia links) by transforming the normally useless right half of the Google search result page into a Wikipedia viewer. This is part of [...]

Youtube: The Macintosh Story

Note how young Bill Atkinson and Andy Hartzfeld look!!
This is part one.

From the video description:
Back in 1983 Apple made a video on VHS tape. The Mac 512 cannot let this early (1983) video fall into the ether any longer. For Macintosh’s 25th Birthday, The Mac 512 is resurrecting this video. Happy 25th Birthday Macintosh! part [...]

Audiobook: Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael Hiltzik

This book is great! I just finished this audiobook (~6 hours abridged) and it was great. As opposed to my regular listens such as ‘The Ethical Brain’ (my current) or ‘Predictably Irrational’ (my prior) I chose a book which was about the history of everything we know today (namely, the GUI, ethernet, printing, [...]

New Xserve Announced Yesterday

Until yesterday when Apple announced a new Xserve I had both forgot Apple made the Xserve and that they’re still being produced.

But, these new Xserves do have amazing specs:

1 or 2 2.26GHz+ Nahalem processors (the newest generation, also in the Mac Pro)

with:

8 MB L3 cache per processor
tri-channel memory controller (on-die)
Hyper-threading te4chnology (that means up-to 16 [...]

where do I put hte maple sirop, eh?