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I’ve decided to have an “online garage sale”. Everything is local pickup only. Most everything is too awkward to ship… Computer stuff: Apple Grape iMac – OS9 – $25 Apple Ruby iMac – OSX, 512MB RAM, 20GB HD – $50 4″ rackmount server case – $50 17″ CRT monitor – $20 Trailers: 3/4 ton pickup […]

You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend’s faces. You can even make use of the phone’s sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone. But […]

If you’re on Windows, need to use OS X, but don’t want to buy or build a new computer, reader Bobby Patton shows us how to run Snow Leopard in a virtual machine on Windows with just a few tweaks. We’ve shown you how to install Snow Leopard in VMWare, but if you haven’t purchased […]

Lipstick in School Youve got to love this principalAccording to a news report, a certain private school in Brisbane was recently faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they […]

Windows Mobile: If youre interested in trying out Android but youre locked into your current contract with a Windows Mobile phone dont despair. Quite a few Windows Mobile phones have the right hardware to support Android booting—without erasing Windows Mobile.Most of the time when you want to do something wild and new with your phone […]

Happy Thursday Fixers! Phew, what with all the war talk these last couple weeks, on top of the nigh improbable inevitable doomsday glinting at us from 2012, I thought today we might take a look at how one Canadian by the name of Bruce Beach is making sure humanity survives the nuclear holocaust. Take a […]

If live sound isn’t in your heart, get some cheap cabs and be done with it, but if you’re passionate about music and holding events, spend a lot of money, you’ll never regret it. Your girlfriend might but hey, thats girls, its all shoes, bags and god damn make up with them, i’m a man, and […]

Just six weeks after launch, Microsoft’s Kin, the social phone we wanted to love, is dead. Microsoft is ending its short life, sources close to Microsoft tell us. There won’t be a separate Kin product anymore. Effective immediately, Andy Lees is shoving the entire Kin team into the core Windows Phone 7 team, so there […]

This 1977 novel by Walker Percy (The Moviegoer) is a bleak psychological investigation of a Southern gentleman gone toxic and mad from his wife’s betrayal, his own violence, and various other sad things — including, it seems, America itself. It was one of many books read by good ol’ boy Sawyer on the beach during […]