In a stunning feat of hackery, Federico Viticci of MacStories removed the screen from a MacBook Air and replaced it with a detachable iPad for the best of both worlds… and a better Mac Virtual Display for the Vision Pro.
Do you have anything—valuables, medicines, alcohol, guns—for which you’d like to monitor access? The Kini motion detection device notices when it moves and alerts you by text message within seconds. No apps, no subscription, no privacy issues.
After a 30-year run, IDG World Expo has put Macworld Expo on hiatus, and while that doesn’t sound entirely final, we don’t expect it to return. Adam shares some thoughts about what caused IDG’s decision, and what we can expect to take Macworld Expo’s place.
The recently demonstrated Thunderstrike proof-of-concept attack could infiltrate a Mac at the hardware level, but few users need to worry about it given its need for physical access.
Adam Engst enjoys most conferences, but last week’s MacTech Conference 2012 was superlative, combining useful sessions, interesting discussions, and delightful evening entertainment in a way that left his mind pondering all sorts of new possibilities.
MacTech Conference 2011 has made public the list of speakers and sessions, and if you’re interested in attending, the early-bird pricing remains available through 8 August 2011.
Psst! Wanna buy a PowerBook 100 cheap? Read on. We also have a report on the 1992 MacHack Conference – including notes on the winning hacks, two articles describing how Apple is racing to save…
Worried about the major new security problem with Microsoft Office 98? Guess what – it’s neither new nor limited to Office. Geoff Duncan explores this long-standing security issue and explains how to work around it.
Conferences tend to blur into one another, but after a timeless few days, Adam concludes that MacHack takes the prize for the ultimate Macintosh geek event. Also this week, Geoff Duncan reports on how to…
Think you can hack it? If so, check out Adam’s article on the results of the annual Hack Contest at MacHack and how these software zealots continue to push the boundaries of what Macs can…
The Macintosh received an unexpected supporter last week in the form of the U.S. Army, which has switched its home page Web server from Windows NT to the Mac OS running WebSTAR. Also, Jerry Kindall…
We wanted to do something a bit out of the ordinary as a celebration for our 300th issue. Eventually, we decided the best way to celebrate TidBITS would be to celebrate the machine that has given us our inspiration for the last five and a half years - the Macintosh.
With the help of some friends, we came up with 300 reasons why the Mac has made it to where it is today
Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is an odd beast with the head of a developer, the torso of a product marketing manager, and the hindquarters of a PR flack
I've just returned from this year's MacHack developers conference, where talk of open source was the rule thanks mostly to a challenging keynote from Eric Raymond, open source proponent and the president of the Open Source Initiative
Although MacHack features sessions and papers and a variety of other events, much of the emphasis is placed on the annual MacHax Best Hack Contest, organized by the MacHax Group
