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leopard

Apple and Google Combine Forces to Explode Your Address Book


The ability to sync your Address Book contacts with Gmail—one of 10.5.3’s most useful new features—could have used a bit more real-world testing. Rather than just syncing your beautiful, groomed, deliberately added contacts like any reasonable person would expect, Address Book downloads all of your Gmail account’s automatically collected addresses as well, which is to say pretty much everyone you’ve ever emailed, ever. More »

8:50 PM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By John Herrman
7,424 views, 26 comments

Latest by n/a: I wish Apple would have engineered Leopard against this problem of adding all those useless "loose" email addresses that Gmail stores. I'll bet the next Leopard release addresses it, but I'm currently using a paid third party solution. I've more »

portable media

Hardbox External Hard Drive Hides Your Illiteracy With a Book Called Hardbox

This Hardbox enclosure from Korean company Sarotech looks even more book-like than the Western Digital MyBook drives that have been around for a few years. There are two status indicator lights on the front, behind which sits 3.5-inch SATA drives that connect to your PC via USB. It's great for hiding the fact that you don't have any books but have loads of external hard drives. That is, until someone looks closer and realizes you've read a book called Hardbox. Maybe Hardbox means something different in Korean. [Sarotech via AVING via Oh Gizmo]

6:10 PM on Mon May 12 2008
By Jason Chen
2,959 views, 20 comments

Latest by 2-7offsuit: @shamoononon: Dude, it's called coprophagia and it's hilarious. more »

apple

Close Call: Apple's OS X Almost Looked Exactly Like OS 8 (From the Book Inside Steve's Brain)

There's a gem of a story—one of many—in Leander Kahney's new book, Inside Steve's Brain, about the biggest OS X mistake Apple never made: The original plan UI was to take the old crusty crap interface from Mac OS Classic and drop it on top of the core. Thankfully Steve Jobs called the entire UI team a "bunch of idiots" and they used the beautiful tech demo mockups as the basis for what you see on leopard's OS today. Close call, eh? More »

8:02 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Brian Lam
96,645 views, 58 comments

Latest by Pender: Hahaha, I love what an asshole Steve Jobs is. The man totally marches to his own beat, and is consistently proved right. I think the real driver of Apple's success is that it gave absolute corporate control to someone who sees more »

architecture

Build Your Own Bookcase Fort: Settle in for a Nerdy Siege

The stairs bookcase was cool, but this is an entire igloo-like bookcase structure that you can actually use as a miniature dwelling. In fact, this "Uroko House" is built around a bed, which makes it one hell of a place to sleep for any kid—whether they like to read or not. There are no written instructions on how to make your own, but the images in the gallery help illustrate the process. [Flickr via Freshome]

8:55 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Sean Fallon
12,219 views, 21 comments

Latest by Gizmog: That. Is. Awesome. Seriously, I love unique bookcases (curved ones, crooked ones, ones that fit the books so perfectly that it looks like the books were there first, and the bookcase grew around them, etc.), so this is right up my alley. more »

Invisible Book Shelf Gets Cheaper We wrote about this a long, long time ago, but the invisible bookshelf that magically props up your reading material is now available from ThinkGeek at $12.99—ten bucks cheaper than it was before. [ThinkGeek]

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Smelly E-Books for College Students Apparently 43% of college students identify smell as the thing they most love about books. CaféScribe have taken this odd statistic and run with it, creating the world's first smelly e-book.

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lego madness ii

Build a Candy Catapult with LEGO


We just found one more video of one of the projects from that new book, Forbidden LEGO by Ulrik Pilegaard and Mike Dooley, and this one's the Candy Catapult. The book with all the particulars about how to build this mini trebuchet for sweets will retail for $24.95. [No Starch Press]

3:30 PM on Wed Aug 22 2007
By Charlie White
7,774 views, 11 comments

Latest by robman84: Awesome. My son (ok, me really) needs this book. Interestingly on the "Legos/Lego" issue that always raises its head, it seems (from the official Lego book we (I mean, my son) got this week) that the correct term for individual more »

a good read

Possessed Book Trick Scares People, Ghosts

This toy is shaped like a row of books, and includes a sensor that triggers spooky noises and pushes out one of the books when someone walks past. It might fool someone, although I think that old-style binding may scream in-between all those O'Reilly books on programming. [UberGizmo]

5:07 AM on Mon Jul 30 2007
By msparkes
2,907 views, 9 comments

hard drives

Western Digital My Books Go to 2TB

A scant five months since the My Book external hard drives hit 1TB, Western Digital upped their game and doubled the storage to 2TB. The My Book World Edition 2 has remote access, UPnP support, Gigabit Ethernet support and RAID 1 capabilities. There's actually no mention at all of USB 2.0 support, so this is an Ethernet-only NAS affair. Keep this in mind as you slam down $799 for one of these. [Western Digital via Crunchgear]

1:01 PM on Tue Jul 24 2007
By Jason Chen
6,170 views, 11 comments

Latest by plee9: I bought a WD My Book Premium 500gb ext. hard drive. After a month of usage, it now does not show up on my computer's drive list. I put all my multimedia files on that single drive, which adds up more »

cellphones

The Best iPhone Guide Ever Now Available for Pre-order

Did you guys see that iPhone for Dummies book cover floating around the blogs today? That's a weird cover, isn't it? The girl's holding an iPod up to her ear. I mean, aren't these guys supposed to know the difference between and iPod and and iPhone? Plus, you guys aren't dummies, so why would you want that book? You guys are as smart as slashdot readers, but much more well rounded (you actually touched a girl in high school). More »

3:30 AM on Fri Apr 6 2007
By Jason Chen
3,691 views, 21 comments

Latest by edmicman: So you've already got the iPhone in order to figure out how to do everything on it? Or is it just going to be a compilation of web/Gizmodo blog posts? more »

gadgets

It's Not a Book, It's a Pillow

If you've ever awakened with the imprint of a book on your face, you probably wish you'd fallen asleep on one of these pillows that looks exactly like a way-thick textbook. Put one of these pillow/books on your desk and the boss might just think you're bookish enough to forgive you for sleeping on the job. You'd better be well-heeled for this pillow, though, it'll set you back $102. – Charlie White More »

2:15 PM on Tue Mar 27 2007
By Charlie White
4,416 views, 13 comments

cellphones

CUin5 Cellphone: Design Fiction by branko Lukic


The design of your phone is the result of countless business plans, TCO and ROI analyses. The CUin5 is the bizarro world version of that business plan. Every face includes a keypad, microphone and speaker.
Imagine grabbing it quickly - from inside your bag, from off a shelf, from under a car seat - and freely interacting with it without needing to turn it over or align it right side up?
The "super-practical" interface is also one of several sci-fi design hybrids— or Design Fictions—that will be included in branko Lukic's upcoming book titled non.object. Lukic knows what he's talking about: he spent 5 years at frog Design and then moved to IDEO where he designed products like the TaylorMade r500 golf club and Zyliss salad spinner. The book won't be published until later this year, but a sampling of his absurd concepts will be debuting here in the coming months. –Noah Robischon More »

4:30 PM on Thu Feb 22 2007
By Noah Robischon
3,825 views, 15 comments

Latest by time4change: yeah, concepts are meant to open your mind, not close them off. Please divorce yourself from T3 magazine, Best Buy, and any other place where you find mass produced garbage and try to think a little differently - this, I more »

gadgets

101 Gadgets for the Evil Genius

Established Evil Geniuses, look away. This is for the novice Evil Genius. The Evil Kinda-Smart-Guy, if you will. 101 Spy Gadgets for the Evil Genius isn't 101 spy gadgets neatly boxed for your use, it's a book that teaches you how to make your own gadgets to spy on your neighbors. More »

4:10 PM on Thu Feb 1 2007
By Jason Chen
1,186 views, 7 comments

portable media

Carry Your iPod in a Book

Commute? Want to pretend you're learned? Carry your iPod in a book. A Flickr usr came up with a nice DIY to mask your illiteracy. More »

8:12 PM on Mon Nov 20 2006
By Jason Chen
549 views, 26 comments