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The Best Mac News and Reviews from Fall 2009

In case you didn't notice, the aesthetite-favorite Apple company announced a few new products this week. They've updated the MacBook, iMac and Mac Mini and released the laptop-pad inspired multi-touch...

How Soon is Too Soon To Buy Up the Next Big Gadget?

You know the feeling of gadget envy. When you finally get the cash together to buy the flat-screened TV that your home theater has been waiting for, just in time to have the next big thing come out to...

BookArc Stand Converts Your MacBook Into a Desktop

Many of us laptop users use our portable companions equally as desktops while at home, hooking them up to external monitors and extra drives. Here's a space saving solution which reduces the desktop...

Make a MacBook Stand From Its Packaging

We love it when we can save stuff from a life in a landfill and use it to make our lives better, more beautiful or more efficient. Apple knows this better than anyone and consistently puts out great l...

A DIY Sleek Desk that Hides All Your Goodies

We have to say—nothing makes our day more than spotting an easy and cheap solution to our everyday home tech woes. Case in point: Unsightly peripherals and tangles of cord are given the "Out of...

Colorware: The Way to Make Your Gadgets Unique

If you are looking for a distinctive way of decoration your new gadget, look no further. Colorware will customize your new toy and make it look extraordinary. It will be unique. We doubt that anyone n...

Tilly Moss Laptop Sleeves

Most laptop sleeves tend to skew toward the sleek and modern. But what if your own tastes are for cute, vintage and colourful? Well if you're partial to the textile designs of Amy Butler or Japanese...

Inspiration: Lego Desktop Wallpapers

Ah, Legos. They took over our parents' living rooms when we were young, and they're still at large even today. Grab some cute lookin' Lego wallpapers by Mick or Mike Stimpson and spruce up your deskto...

The X-Base by Balmuda

You might remember Balmuda as the company who brought us the Floater Macbook Dock or the iPhone Keypad App. Now that Macbook Pros are sporting those beautiful LED-backlit glossy widescreen displays,...

News: Apple Unleashes a Flurry of Updates at WWDC '09

Ah, Apple press conferences. It's always fun to watch the masses willing to come together and sacrifice their lunch hour following Tweets and live blogs, just to catch the latest glimpse of what Jobs'...

Flickr Finds: iTunes Boombox

Ah, finally someone has found a good use for those LaCie ship-vent speakers we were so bonkers about last year. We had our doubts about its portability due to the flat-based design, but this setup by ...

Do Your Gadgets Keep You From Sleep in Total Darkness?

Are you afraid of the dark? Didn't you love that show? Ok, so we digress. The real point of discussion here is whether or not you're the kind of sleeper that hits the pillow with nothing less than com...

Flickr Finds: The Refined Way to Sticker Your Laptop

Did you see the post yesterday on whether or not you plaster your machine with stickers? Some of you said the style was right up your alley, but some thought that stickers make your laptop look messy....

Look! Save Your MacBook's Life!

When your MacBook is running out of space, you need to save it's life, thanks to Dr. Hard Drive. It's either that, or your Mac is being overrun by a virus. No need to get all crazy, Dr. Hard Drive wil...

A Laptop Sleeve That Unfolds Into Mini-Workstation

Imagine you're about to meet up with some colleagues, classmates or friends at the local bookstore/coffee shop/place with free wi-fi. Wouldn't it be great to show up with this unfolding laptop sleeve ...

What Does a Unibody iPod Mean For Us?

Remember when Apple took the leap to stop producing those black and white plastic MacBooks and start producing aluminum unibody starter laptops? Well it looks like they might be taking the same path w...

This Custom Wooden Desk is Really Customized

Necessity is the mother of invention, right? The subliminal message that shouts in every hacker's ear as he crafts some custom solution to a common problem has struck again as a Lifehacker reader buil...

Final Frame: Take a Byte

Flickr user LübeckerJung's MacBook cover art is making the rounds online and has to be one of the best laptop art ideas we've seen...even though we're more of a Mulan fan....

MacBook Mini: Perfect Looking, But Fake or Leak?

Let's be honest. A lot of us want to get Apple computers, but in the end, they are quite expensive compared to similarly specced PCs. We call it the Apple tax. Then again, Apple users and fan boys wil...

Inspiration: Sesame Streets' Bert-Inspired Home Tech

Sesame Street comes as a strange place to find ideas for your home, but strangely enough, blogger Sims found Bert as his main source of inspiration to model his home into an optimal space designed to ...

Apple Notebook Logo Running as a Second Screen

That glowing Apple logo that's been a part of Apple's line of notebooks since the late 1990s has become the object of modders' affections. Whether it's using an old iBook and the glimmering logo as a ...

Design Flaws that Ruined Great Gadgets

Popular Mechanics published an article featuring five smart gadgets that were ruined—ruined!—by stupid design flaws. Clearly, this was a link we had to post and share. We went inside expec...

New Mac Products: Underperforming Minis But Good iMacs and Mac Pros

After having released new MacBook Pros, the tech world was buzzing with the latest products from Apple which have just been released through the Mac Store. The desktop Mac Pro receives an update, as w...

The MacBook Air by Asus

Everyone loved the MacBook Air when it came out. So thin that it could fit inside an envelope. Now, the only problem I found with that laptop was that it didn't have enough ports and upgrading it woul...

What Do You Do When Coffee Meets Computer Keyboard?

An article on MakeUseOf.com by Jackson Chung details his experience with spilling an entire cup of coffee on his MacBook. Sounds like bad news, right? But there was some good news, too: He got it back...