the mini Blog

First of all I’m going to say I do not condone hacking nor piracy. What I have done is purely for educational purposes only. So please don’t sue me Apple, I don’t have any money. Because of the nature of this ‘experiment’ I cannot provide links from where I got the files. All I can [...]

Genre: Horror / Drama / Thriller / Mystery
Rating: 18
This Ride Will Be The Death Of You.
Watch Trailer (HD)

Genre: Drama / Thriller
Rating: 18
Between the worlds of the living and the dead there is a place you’re not supposed to stay.
It looks really exciting.
Watch the Film Trailer

Zeno, a reader of The Unofficial Apple Weblog, has managed to get Front Row working on a Mac Mini, through some ‘tweaks’ as Front Row is only supported on new iMacs. To prove the legitimacy he recorded a video of it. I was not able to play the video, as it is in an MP4 [...]

Steve Jobs showed off their latest iPod ’silhouette’ advert at the ‘Special Event’ in San Jose. I say ’silhouette’ because it is multi coloured and Eminem has shades so you can make out who he, otherwise you would think that the person is your average John Doe. Although I don’t like Eminem or his music [...]

I was really hyped up about iTunes 6 and I really couldn’t wait any longer. So I headed to the US site and download iTunes 6 for Mac. After downloading 80MB(!!) I installed it and off I went. You can see the screenshot above. I had already told iTunes where my music was being kept [...]

Interestingly, although iTunes 6 was announced and you can see the ads places on Apple’s page above, if you click the link for iTunes it just shows the page for iTunes 5. This only seems to be happening for the UK site, which was updated later when iTunes 5 was released.
What do they cost? $1.99 [...]

Podcasts, Photos, Music and now videos. Home videos and TV shows. It has a 320 x 240 pixel 2.5-inch display with 260,000 colours, 20 hours of battery life, and supports playback of H.264 and MPEG4 at 30 fps. Has TV out and will come in both 30GB and 60GB versions, with the 30GB version being [...]

As a part of my subscription with Apple, they send me weekly newsletters and the above screenshot shows the latest one for October 7. It reads “Find it. Hear it. Buy it. Mix it. Watch it. Right from your desktop with iTunes.” By watch it, it could mean that there will be something interesting to [...]

This is really cool, using a special dual coloured origami paper you can create a Yoda. The image above shows the Yoda created by Fumiaki Kawahata. It looks like it will take ages and you need to have skill and accuracy but it is worth while. You will end up with a really cool Master [...]