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Let me give you a little history lesson: When Steve Jobs left Apple, he went and created the company NeXT. The developed NeXT Step, later changed the name to OpenStep. During this time, the Sculley era, Apple had dug itself a deep hole. The went from dominating the PC industry to a failure, almost having to declare bankruptcy. Then Apple bought NeXT and therefore Steve Jobs, and the NeXT code became part of OS X. So, in a sense, OpenStep is OS X version 10.-3.

So, I have gotten my hands on a copy of OpenStep and was able to get it running in Parallels. Here's some screenshots of it. Be sure to follow the links on the pictures to their Flickr pages to see some notes on the pics.

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Posted by Justin at 8:54 PM 0 Comments

Tags: Apple, NeXT, OpenStep, OS X

The new update to the Macintosh Bit Torrent client Transmission got an update that fixes the announce issue that had it banned from many private trackers. Now I finally have a light-weight client to use on my Mac. I had been previously using Azureus 2.5. It has a lot of features, but it is just very heavy ,so to speak, as an Apple app.

Posted by Justin at 8:07 PM 0 Comments

Tags: Apple, Bit Torrent, OS X

Well, Apple announced that Mac OS 10.5 is delayed until October due to the shifting of resources to the iPhone development. Personally, I would rather have a new OS than a $600 phone with only 8GB of flash memory. And I can't even have the iPhone due to the fact that it is locked down to AT&T, and I have Verizon.

So, to me Apple is screwing their loyal fan base and putting a lot of risk on a phone that is an overpriced hunk of metal and plastic, though very cool, it is way to overpriced.

On the plus side, I now have more time to sell my MacBook.

Posted by Justin at 4:08 PM 0 Comments

Tags: Apple, iPhone, Leopard, OS X

Over at the #awkwardtv IRC channel, poster "Beyond" just announced that he's gotten Gentoo installed and running on his Apple TV. He used the mach_linux_kernel maker from mactel_linux (aka Gimli's loader). The OS (2.6.20.6 with the AppleTV patch) seems to be up and working after a few initial problems (now solved) with repeating characters.

I personally think that is pretty cool. I sure wish I had $300 lying around for an AppleTV. Those things sure seem to be hacktastic!



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Posted by Justin at 7:38 PM 0 Comments

Tags: Apple, AppleTV, Hack, Linux

Have you ever wondered whether there was a command line way to check iTunes and determine which song is currently playing. With this short how to on TUAW you can create a simple script that will display in Terminal what song is currently playing in iTunes when you type ./nowplaying.



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Posted by Justin at 12:35 PM 0 Comments

Tags: Apple, Blogged from Digg, iTunes, Terminal

Best Buy is selling Macs now, or at least mine is.

I was looking through their add this morning and I saw an Incase 13" notebook case on sale for $40, and I'm like, "Cool. That would fit my MacBook." Then I glanced to the left of the page and I see a Bluetooth Mighty Mouse, and I'm like, "Wow, since when does Best Buy sell those?" Then I look at the top of the page and right in front of me is a 24" iMac, a MacBook and a MacBook Pro. I'm like "Cool, Best Buy is finally selling Macs again!"

I had heard about Best Buy starting to sell the again about 3 months ago, and that they were testing their selling status in their So, Cal. stores. I guess things worked out and now Best Buy is selling Macs. Now I won't have to beg my parents to take me all the way to CompUSA.

EDIT: Link to a MacBook on BestBuy.com

Posted by Justin at 12:00 PM 0 Comments

Tags: Apple, Best Buy, mac