Entries from SFist tagged with 'macos'
October 27, 2007
-- March, rally, die. [Bluoz, SFGate] -- Zombie, thrill(er), dance. [SFWeekly] -- Mac OS X Leopard...on your PC! [Laughing Squid] -- San Francisco's Visitacion Valley Middle School's principal to receive highest honor available for principals. Okay then. [CBS5] -- Half Moon Bay gang rape sentencing delayed. (Karma's a bitch, boys. Well, for you all it sure will be.) [Examiner] -- 32 Heron Street. Mmm, bricky SOMA goodness. [Curbed SF] -- Plane high dives into the......
Continue Reading "Day Around the Bay"April 21, 2006
The fallout from Apple's Boot Camp continues, and we in the labs are struggling to keep up. For the record, we've now got our shiny new MacBook Pro dual-booting into OS X and Windows XP, and the process worked without a hitch. Once we bought another copy of XP, that is — they're really not kidding when they say you can't grab just any old installation disc. As soon as it was all up......
Continue Reading "SFist Tech Roundup: Drop and Give Me $2500!"May 4, 2005
In the forest of last night, we got an email from SFist's main man in Texas, Austinist Ben. Seems he's ginned up a widget! And not just any widget, but (after a few of our own modifications) an SFist headlines dashboard widget for the new Mac OS 10.4, codenamed "Tiger", which was released to much nerdy fanfare just last week. Check out Niall Kennedy's coverage of the madness at the San Francisco Apple Store......
Continue Reading "Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright!"March 28, 2005
Arguments begin tomorrow in the MGM v. Grokster case being heard by the Supremes. BoingBoing is all over the story -- pointing out that even the relatively conservative Economist has come down on the side of P2P apps, links to another piece which flays the music industry for misrepresenting the actual costs of swapping songs, and notes that Mark Cuban has even stepped in to fund Grokster's defense. The EFF's Fred van Lohmann will......
Continue Reading "Get Ur Geek On"January 26, 2005
Looking for an uber-cheap way to protect your smallish digital devices (oh, we're sure your digital devices are huge, don't worry)? Try a condom! Pictured here protecting an iRiver from an unexpected splash of, uh, liquid, we're sure it could make your iPod safe from all sorts of effluvia, too. Photo from Gizmodo (the permalink isn't working for some reason), idea via MisticRiver. Apple bowed to complaints that their Mac Mini add-ons were overpriced,......
Continue Reading "Get Ur Geek On"October 27, 2004
We'd like to point out that we here at SFist, as well as our sister sites across the country, are working double-time to bring you the latest in election coverage - by getting in touch with the players involved, analyzing the issues on the ballot and otherwise doing our best to get behind the scenes for our readers. Check out DCist's special election coverage for the inside scoop from the capitol. Hopefully you've had......
Continue Reading "SFist Gets Anxious as Election Day Draws Near"