The new headless Mac, which isn't a Mac?

I think I found my new Mac.  Ok, so it's not really a Mac but it's close enough.  A company by the name of Psystar has released a "PC" built with parts known to work with Leopard, advertised as such, and even available with it pre-installed.  This does however completely goes against the End User License Agreement.  I'm planning on snatching one up before they are gone forever, thrown into the fiery pits of hell by the Apple god himself.  I sacrifice this Apple clone in the name of Mr. Jobs.  Steve.  Can I call you Steve?

Update:  Already noticing the site is unreachable.  

Simple Finder Tip

We haven't been around for a while, but just wanted to drop in and say hello. As an apology here is a very simple, yet very helpful Leopard tip.

"About this Mac" is something I use very frequently, generally as a means to look at System Profiler. Well in Leopard if you click on the Apple icon in the tool bar, then press option, "About this Mac" turns into "System Profile," cutting out a step. Hey it's all about effeciency.

GoDaddy and .Mac

So most of us are familier with GoDaddy and their easy to use domain and web hosting. Well what if you still want to use your .mac web hosting with a domain registered with GoDaddy. Well with .mac's recently upgraded ability to add personal domain's this is very possible. Possible, albeit rather complicated. Here at Eplesauce we believe everything should be easy (that's why we use mac's) so we are going to help you out with this task. It has been discussed many a time so instead of going through the dirty work we will let you just visit another site for help. newmacuser.com gives an excellent tutorial on this process, very simple and easy to use. Good luck and enjoy.

iPhone/Touch SDK info coming Thursday March, 6th

Apple isn't slowing down anytime soon.  After announcing something every Tuesday since Macworld, including yesterday's announcement of the very impressive Macbook and Macbook Pro updates, Apple announced today that next Thursday, March 6th they will hold a special event shedding some light on the delayed SDK.  Exciting news for all iPhone and Touch owners. 

In addition to the SDK info, Apple is holding a "Key Customer Briefing" which will give an overview of some of the new hardware and software realesed over the past couple of month's.  Newton 3.0 and myself were privileged enough to sit through one of these briefings in January, although interesting, no information was given that any self proclaimed Apple geek wouldn't already know.

Coolest Mac hac of the week

So I found this over the weekend and found it too cool to keep to myself. Found on 9to5mac, and originally posted by Macworld, this little hack makes the screen sharing function in Leopard 10 times more useful.

First go into System>Library>CoreServices>Screen Sharing and put it someplace easily accessible, say the dock or Applications folder.

Next type this into terminal, no need to Sudo:

defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ShowBonjourBrowser_Debug 1

Now open Screen Sharing again and make sure the Bonjour list is available.

Next type this command in terminal, all one line:

defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing \

'NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar' -dict-add 'TB Item Identifiers' \

'(Scale,Control,Share,Curtain,Capture,FullScreen,

GetClipboard,SendClipboard,Quality)'

Now you have a fully functional Screen Sharing program very comparable to Apple Remote Desktop, confirming this bloggers suspicion that Screen Sharing is using ARD's code.

This February, get an iLife.

When buying a Mac at the Apple store there is a little known term for the items those Mac Specialists try to sell you. They try to get every customer a Mac with all the trimmings, by selling you what they call in the store the "Tri-Fecta." It usually consisted of Applecare for the respective Mac, One-to-One training and a reduced price on Apple's .Mac subscription. Now .Mac was never the most popular item that walked out the doors of every Apple store, but for those who use it, they tend to love it. 

Today, we are seeing something different though, for the first time .Mac is offering a discount on a suite of software, that it itself almost depends on to use the features of .Mac. On the homepage of .Mac an ad was placed giving the details on a $30 discount of iLife '08 for all .Mac members. So if you didn't rush and get it on it's release day, you didn't get a new Mac with it or you just haven't got around to iLife, nows the time. 

Go get an iLife.

10.5.2!!!

Just a quick note to spread the news.  I haven't had a chance to test it yet but wanted to let everyone know the much anticipated 10.5.2 is out.  Get your Apple Software Update clickers ready.