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Have new meme generator app… nothing to say.

Neato.

Thanks to Dashboard’s Web clipping feature, you can turn almost anything you see on a webpage into a widget. Hints readerFreethought realized that you can use that capability to grab your very own Mickey Mouse clock for your desktop. The key: Mickey is one of the numerous clock faces Apple now offers on the iPod nano, and Apple shows a full working, ticking preview of the clock on its website. Here’s how to grab it for your Mac.

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(via Mashable “Apple Product Design: 35 Years of Consumer Electronics” [INFOGRAPHIC])

(via Air Display extends your Mac display across devices - Apps)

Only one word can describe the euphoria in AppleLand today:

Nerdvana!

OS X Lion is our best OS yet. Not just because it’s packed with all these new features. But because of what those features add up to: one amazing Mac experience.

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marco:

In 2008, Steve Jobs was asked¹ if and when Macs would play Blu-ray movies. He responded candidly:

Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It’s great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we’re waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace.

The implication is that Apple doesn’t believe that Blu-ray will

(Source: marco)

Just downloaded the new Twitter client in the new Mac App Store. Ice hot!

My new/old MacBook is finally up and running to my satisfaction, and printing to a new printer to boot. My old Epson failed to respond to cleaning cycles, and I had enough of these troubleshooting steps. For half the cost of the cartridges necessary to take me further into a possibly still nonworking printer, I bought a new one, this time with a scanner I’m always looking to use. But I had difficulty getting this machine to print. Jobs stayed stuck in the queue. I had wanted to buy Snow Leopard on Sunday, but was holding off. I broke down today, and now I can print. In Snow Leopard, Apple even provides the end user with a scanner interface, so I don’t have to use something kludgy and un-Mac-like.

So I’m right where I wanted to be. Was it judicious but unrelenting effort? Was it relenting and taking the plunge into the new OS? Was it putting Ganesh on my desktop? Or was it some combination of the above?

With the upgrade, though, I can now run FourSquare X and Facetime (pictured). I’m suddenly mobile.

Most importantly, I have an upgrade to my system which meets the demands of today’s software, my jobs’ demands for mobility, and the budget of a contingent, itinerant, and sometimes mendicant college professor. It is sometimes possible to get along in the interstices of this society.