TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Webloghttp://www.tuaw.comTUAW - The Unofficial Apple Webloghttp://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/feedlogo.gifTUAW - The Unofficial Apple Webloghttp://www.tuaw.comen-usCopyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only.Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/Flickr Find: Transferring games from iPad to Apple IIhttp://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/08/flickr-find-transferring-games-from-ipad-to-apple-ii/http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/08/flickr-find-transferring-games-from-ipad-to-apple-ii/http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/08/flickr-find-transferring-games-from-ipad-to-apple-ii/#comments Flickr Find Transferring games from iPad to Apple II


This is a little on the old side, circa late 2011, but it's still incredibly cool. Reader Ken Fager posted a photo of an iPad being used to download games from the Apple Game Server Online onto an Apple //e. Fager explains what's happening in the photo above by saying, "The iPad is connected to the audio input of the Apple //e. Turn the Apple //e on and press CONTROL+RESET. At the prompt type LOAD and press Return. On the iPad select the game audio file and press play. The game will automatically transfer and start on the Apple II."

There are a ton of games available for the vintage Apple computers on Apple Game Server Online, including such classics as Choplifter, Centipede, Defender, Galaxian, Mario Bros. and the ever-popular Ms. Pac-Man. Using an iPad to serve up those games to the Apple //e ties the current generation of Apple chic with the classic computer of the past.

Photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenfagerdotcom/, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Flickr Find: Transferring games from iPad to Apple II originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>apple game server onlineapple iieAppleGameServerOnlineAppleIieflickr findFlickrFindiPadretroSteven SandeMon, 08 Apr 2013 17:00:00 ESTFlickr Find: iPad on a G4 iMac basehttp://www.tuaw.com/2013/03/11/flickr-find-ipad-on-a-g4-imac-base/http://www.tuaw.com/2013/03/11/flickr-find-ipad-on-a-g4-imac-base/http://www.tuaw.com/2013/03/11/flickr-find-ipad-on-a-g4-imac-base/#comments

Remember the G4 iMac, lovingly called the iLamp because of its unique design that resembled Luxor Jr. of Pixar fame? Spotted on Flickr is this clever iPad stand that uses the base of the G4 as its centerpiece. It was created a few years ago by Flickr member Jamie37211, who documented the process of creating it in a 16-picture photo set. It's a great piece; I wonder if he still uses it?

Flickr Find: iPad on a G4 iMac base originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>Accessoryflickrflickr findFlickrFindimac g4ImacG4iPadstandKelly HodgkinsMon, 11 Mar 2013 16:00:00 ESTFlickr find: GorillaPod plus Apple eMate equals nightmarehttp://www.tuaw.com/2013/02/11/flickr-find-gorillapod-plus-apple-emate-equals-nightmare/http://www.tuaw.com/2013/02/11/flickr-find-gorillapod-plus-apple-emate-equals-nightmare/http://www.tuaw.com/2013/02/11/flickr-find-gorillapod-plus-apple-emate-equals-nightmare/#comments Flickr find GorillaPod plus Apple eMate

Apple's eMate 300 -- a short-lived educational "laptop" based on Newton technology -- was an odd-looking, curvy device encased in translucent green plastic. While the eMate is a sidenote to Apple history, you can still find the rare devices occasionally at garage sales and on eBay. Matthew Pearce of Matt's Macintosh YouTube channel fame owns an eMate, and we chanced upon this Flickr photo of the device taking advantage of a little known feature -- a tripod mount built into the bottom of the unit.

To film the eMate for one of his YouTube productions, Pearce mounted it atop a Joby GorillaPod, inadvertently creating something that looks like it came out of a fever dream or a Tim Burton movie. I'm personally hoping that Pearce decides to make a stop-action animation of the eMate-GorillaPod hybrid chasing after and attacking someone ... but that's just my warped imagination at work.

Photo by MattsMacintosh / Flickr CC

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]]>emate 300Emate300flickr findFlickrFindJoby GorillapodJobyGorillapodSteven SandeMon, 11 Feb 2013 14:00:00 ESTCaturday pic: Stop working naohttp://www.tuaw.com/2012/08/25/caturday-pic-stop-working-nao/http://www.tuaw.com/2012/08/25/caturday-pic-stop-working-nao/http://www.tuaw.com/2012/08/25/caturday-pic-stop-working-nao/#comments Guard Cat

Kitty is obviously thinking, "get off the computer and pet me."

photo by kwalk628

Caturday pic: Stop working nao originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>catcaturdayflickr findFlickrFindfunVictor Agreda, Jr.Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:00:00 ESTFlickr Find: Caturday editionhttp://www.tuaw.com/2012/08/18/flickr-find-caturday-edition/http://www.tuaw.com/2012/08/18/flickr-find-caturday-edition/http://www.tuaw.com/2012/08/18/flickr-find-caturday-edition/#comments

Next time you wonder where the kitten has gone, check the warm parts of your Mac's power cord.

photo by MorrowLess - Alex Nelson

Flickr Find: Caturday edition originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>caturdaycuteflickr findFlickrFindfunkittenphotophotosVictor Agreda, Jr.Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:00:00 ESTFlickr Find: Say hello to the Mac-in-crafthttp://www.tuaw.com/2010/11/22/say-hello-to-the-mac-in-craft/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/11/22/say-hello-to-the-mac-in-craft/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/11/22/say-hello-to-the-mac-in-craft/#comments
You can make a lot of things in the gigantic sandbox game Minecraft, including a gigantic floating Macintosh computer. Flickr user Caius Durling put together this floating replica on his own Minecraft world, assembled pixelbrick by pixelbrick, along with a floating "Hi" to match.

It's pretty impressive. The "resolution" on the Minecraft materials isn't quite good enough to show the Mac OS running on the machine, but he got the dimensions right, and he even got the handle built into the back. All it needs now is a one-button mouse, right?

Flickr Find: Say hello to the Mac-in-craft originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>3dcreateeditorFlickr findFlickrFindmacmacintoshminecraftmodelpixelssandboxMike SchrammMon, 22 Nov 2010 07:00:00 ESTFlickr Find: Grampa Mac Portable, meet the baby MacBook Airhttp://www.tuaw.com/2010/11/01/flickr-find-grampa-mac-portable-meet-the-baby-macbook-air/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/11/01/flickr-find-grampa-mac-portable-meet-the-baby-macbook-air/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/11/01/flickr-find-grampa-mac-portable-meet-the-baby-macbook-air/#comments

It's hard to look at Patrick McCarron's snapshot of -- how many generations? Hard to count -- many generations of mobile computing development and 22 years of Macintoshes on the move without being a little bit awed. The Mac Portable, 1989's answer to getting things done on the go, seems simultaneously quaint and grotesque next to the sleek and dramatically faster MacBook Air. A trackball! That keyboard, that screen! And the floppy drive -- while the newest member of the family doesn't even sport a built-in optical drive. I don't even want to think about how many iPads would fit inside that case.

You've come a long way, baby. Here's to another 21 years of portable computing, Apple style.

Photo by Patrick McCarron, all rights reserved. Used with permission. Hat tip to Michael Gartenberg.

Flickr Find: Grampa Mac Portable, meet the baby MacBook Air originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>flickr findFlickrFindMacmacbook airMacbookAirmacintosh portableMacintoshPortablevintageMichael RoseMon, 01 Nov 2010 22:00:00 ESTRolling shutter effect can make stunning iPhone photoshttp://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/26/rolling-shutter-effect-can-make-stunning-iphone-photos/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/26/rolling-shutter-effect-can-make-stunning-iphone-photos/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/26/rolling-shutter-effect-can-make-stunning-iphone-photos/#comments

The image above was shot by Jason Mullins with his iPhone 4 on a flight from London to Guernsey. The weird black lines you can see are actually distorted, disconnected copies of the propeller blades, but this isn't a Photoshop hack; this was how the image came out of the phone.

Virtually all consumer grade digital cameras, including cell phones, do not take the picture instantly when you push the shutter button. Instead, they quickly scan over the CCD CMOS sensor from the top left to the bottom right, like the electron beam in an old CRT television. This is called rolling shutter capture. This scanning process is fast, but sometimes it's not fast enough. If you angle the device just right and take pictures of fast moving or rotating objects, you can create all sorts of weird and funky distortion effects. You can see more like this in the rolling shutter Flickr group.

(Thanks to Jason for letting us reproduce his shot; he's put a few more pictures on Flickr from the same flight.)

[Post updated to correct CCD vs. CMOS sensor used in the iPhone.]

Rolling shutter effect can make stunning iPhone photos originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>flickriphonephotographyrolling shutterRollingShutterRichard GaywoodThu, 26 Aug 2010 12:00:00 ESTFlickr find: Creative Griffin case mod nets owner a family of caseshttp://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/04/flickr-find-creative-griffin-case-mod-nets-owner-a-family-of-ca/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/04/flickr-find-creative-griffin-case-mod-nets-owner-a-family-of-ca/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/04/flickr-find-creative-griffin-case-mod-nets-owner-a-family-of-ca/#commentsIf there's anything we love to hear about here at TUAW, it's great customer service. Reader Cristina made our morning with a story of how the team at Griffin Technology went out of their way to turn a bad situation into a happy one for everybody involved.

Cristina had purchased a standard Griffin Reveal case with white sides to protect her iPhone 4. After a few weeks, she noticed that the "sides got really nasty," so she decided to bring it up to Griffin. She contacted customer service at the company through their website, talking to a customer service agent named Curt.

The two talked for a bit about the issue. Curt wanted to see the case to view the damage and also asked why Cristina couldn't just return the Reveal to Best Buy. Well, a quick glance at the case shown that she had modified the case into "Lester," who you can see at right. Yes, a pair of stick-on googly eyes and a red smear of paint had given the plain case a personality and a name.

Curt was in awe of the case mod, and mentioned that it would look good on his desk. Curt offered to send Cristina two new Reveals (one black, one white) if she'd send Lester back to the company. Cristina agreed, but only with the guarantee that Curt would take good care of Lester.

A few days later, Cristina received the black Reveal case. Yesterday, she received a much larger box containing what she thought would be the white case. Much to her surprise, inside were six Griffin Reveal cases, all with names and faces except for one labeled "Design your own."

You can view Cristina's new family of cases in her Flickr gallery.

Flickr find: Creative Griffin case mod nets owner a family of cases originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>casegriffin reveal iphone casegriffin technologyGriffinRevealIphoneCaseGriffinTechnologyiphoneiphone 4Iphone4Steven SandeWed, 04 Aug 2010 11:30:00 ESTFlickr Find: Fan-made imaginary covers for Steve Jobs' biographyhttp://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/20/flickr-find-fan-made-imaginary-covers-for-steve-jobs-biograp/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/20/flickr-find-fan-made-imaginary-covers-for-steve-jobs-biograp/http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/20/flickr-find-fan-made-imaginary-covers-for-steve-jobs-biograp/#commentsConnecting The Dots. It uses a photograph by Diana Walker called STEVE JOBS AT HOME IN 1982. Steve Jobs said of the photo: "This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had." I love the layout of the title and the fact that flypigs took the title from Steve Jobs' 2005 Commencement address at Stanford University.

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Flickr Find: Fan-made imaginary covers for Steve Jobs' biography originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>biographyfan madeFanMadeflickr findFlickrFindsteve jobsSteveJobsMichael GrothausSat, 20 Feb 2010 18:00:00 ESTFlickr Find: Apple Store Carosello opening in Milan, Italyhttp://www.tuaw.com/2009/09/05/flickr-find-apple-store-carosello-opening-in-milan-italy/http://www.tuaw.com/2009/09/05/flickr-find-apple-store-carosello-opening-in-milan-italy/http://www.tuaw.com/2009/09/05/flickr-find-apple-store-carosello-opening-in-milan-italy/#commentsAhhhh, Milano! The name makes me think about the Milan Cathedral, La Scala, fashion models, and the aggressive drivers in that city. And now, when I think of Milan, I can also fondly think of the new Apple Store Carosello.

TUAW reader Filippo sent us a link to his Flickr gallery of the opening earlier today, which appears to have attracted a huge crowd of Apple fans. PhilApple, as he is known on Flickr, also captured the traditional "running of the geeks" in a short video upload. This is the well-known phenomenon in which the first customers are greeted by the applause, cheers, and general silliness of the Apple Store employees and other customers.

While I wish Apple had chosen to place the store in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in the Piazza Duomo, reputed to be the world's oldest shopping mall, I'm happy for the Milanese to now have their very own Apple Store. Grazie, Filippo, for this set of photos!

Flickr Find: Apple Store Carosello opening in Milan, Italy originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>apple storeAppleStoreflickrgrand openingGrandOpeningitalymilanSteven SandeSat, 05 Sep 2009 16:00:00 ESTTwitPic Find: Snow Leopard on a hackint0shhttp://www.tuaw.com/2009/08/16/twitpic-find-snow-leopard-on-a-hackint0sh/http://www.tuaw.com/2009/08/16/twitpic-find-snow-leopard-on-a-hackint0sh/http://www.tuaw.com/2009/08/16/twitpic-find-snow-leopard-on-a-hackint0sh/#commentsWhat's better than pictures of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard in the wild? How about a snapshot of Snow Leopard running on a hackint0sh? While this could be a doctored photo, it does show a Eee PC 901 netbook with several windows open on the screen. In the About This Mac window are the magic characters "Build 10A432", which all good TUAW readers should recognize as the build number for the Golden Master of Snow Leopard. Click the Read More link to see the picture.

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TwitPic Find: Snow Leopard on a hackint0sh originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>eee pc 901EeePc901hackintoshsnow leopardSnowLeopardtwitpictwitterSteven SandeSun, 16 Aug 2009 18:00:00 ESTiPhones pass the fireworks test: best of the reader-submitted 4th photoshttp://www.tuaw.com/2009/07/05/iphones-pass-the-fireworks-test/http://www.tuaw.com/2009/07/05/iphones-pass-the-fireworks-test/http://www.tuaw.com/2009/07/05/iphones-pass-the-fireworks-test/#commentsShooting photographs of fireworks can be a real challenge. The good shots happen quickly, cameras don't always get the focus right, and there is a lot of movement that can make for blurry pictures. The iPhone is not the best camera in the world for demanding photo jobs -- that's true for all cell phone cams, with the possible exception of digital cameras that happen to include phones as a bonus feature.

Nevertheless, we asked our readers around the U.S. to send us their fireworks images, and that they did. Actually, the iPhone acquitted itself pretty well, both with still images and in movies done with the new 3G (plus one movie done with a jailbroken 2G and Cycorder).

Look below for a gallery of some of my favorite stills. Many were sent anonymously, so we can't always credit the photographer. Some were uploaded directly from their phones to MobileMe and YouTube.

Thanks to all who participated and made our 4th of July sparking and colorful. Visit this link to see the full collection of entries, check out comments in our request for pictures article yesterday for more YouTube links, and view the gallery below for our selection of some great images from around the country.

Gallery: 4th of July iPhone images

iPhones pass the fireworks test: best of the reader-submitted 4th photos originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>4th of JulyfireworksimagesiPhoneiPhone 3GSMobileMemoviesphotographyphotosYouTubeMel MartinSun, 05 Jul 2009 16:30:00 ESTFlickr Find: A familiar logohttp://www.tuaw.com/2009/03/10/flickr-find-a-familiar-logo/http://www.tuaw.com/2009/03/10/flickr-find-a-familiar-logo/http://www.tuaw.com/2009/03/10/flickr-find-a-familiar-logo/#comments
You can call Steve Jobs a visionary if you want, but the Vanzettis are the real visionaries -- who would have ever thought of using a computer company's logo to sell fruit?! Though it's a little bit squished and the colors are different than we've ever seen (a red apple and a green leaf? why didn't they ever use that on the old IIe's?), the old bite-out-of-the-apple logo is definitely very familiar.

We doubt Apple will take any legal action here -- the Mac makers having a problem with a fruit company would be like a record company having a problem with Apple (oh wait). As long as Vanzetti never tries to release an iOrange, they'll probably be fine.

Thanks, Lucky!

Flickr Find: A familiar logo originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>applebite-out-of-the-appleflickr-findfruitfruit-from-italylogovanzetiisvisionaryMike SchrammTue, 10 Mar 2009 11:30:00 ESTThey grow up so fast!http://www.tuaw.com/2009/02/12/they-grow-up-so-fast/http://www.tuaw.com/2009/02/12/they-grow-up-so-fast/http://www.tuaw.com/2009/02/12/they-grow-up-so-fast/#comments

Solely for your lunchtime amusement, we bring you this classic, heartwarming picture of a young family celebrating their new addition around the holidays.

Mac is now 25, and had his first TV appearance last year after a short career as a young actor appearing on TV's Seinfeld. Tom and Beth just finished remodeling their kitchen.

[Via BuzzFeed and EatLiver.com.]

They grow up so fast! originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>babybethholidayhumormacpicturetomRobert PalmerThu, 12 Feb 2009 11:30:00 ESTFlickr Find: Unusual Apple designs from the early 90shttp://www.tuaw.com/2009/01/28/flickr-find-unusual-apple-designs-from-the-early-90s/http://www.tuaw.com/2009/01/28/flickr-find-unusual-apple-designs-from-the-early-90s/http://www.tuaw.com/2009/01/28/flickr-find-unusual-apple-designs-from-the-early-90s/#commentsTUAW reader Mike turned us on to a Flickr photo set and a related post on Aussie Mac site MacTalk.

MacTalk forum regular Donnie Darko was visiting a used book store in the Sydney suburb of Newtown when he came upon a rare find -- a 1991 copy of a Japanese design magazine called Axis featuring concepts that Apple was working on at the time.

In this jewel are a number of concept computers:
  • The bike computer on the front cover (see photo at right)
  • A wrist-mounted Mac called the TimeBand
  • A device called the Exchanger that shows an American dollar being inserted and another currency coming out of a slot
  • Several server concepts that look similar to Apple servers of the early 90s
  • A very cool flat-panel TV that looks cutting-edge even in 2009
  • Several tablet Macs
  • A device that looks like a hybrid Mac / digitizer tablet
A sidebar in the article shows stills from Apple's classic Knowledge Navigator concept video. It's a fascinating look at what products might have come out of Cupertino in an alternate universe.

Flickr Find: Unusual Apple designs from the early 90s originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>conceptdesignflickr-findflickrfindmacSteven SandeWed, 28 Jan 2009 11:00:00 ESTFlickr Find: You've been Steve'd!http://www.tuaw.com/2009/01/19/flickr-find-youve-been-steved/http://www.tuaw.com/2009/01/19/flickr-find-youve-been-steved/http://www.tuaw.com/2009/01/19/flickr-find-youve-been-steved/#comments

When Flickr user jpegsrock returned from a few days out of the office, he discovered that someone else had taken over his desk while he was gone -- Steve Jobs.

It's an unwritten rule among his co-workers that something is done to their cubes if they're going to be out of the office for awhile, and the prank they settled on for jpegsrock was hanging up portraits of Steve on every available surface. Why? Jpegsrock told me that he is the unofficial Apple spokesperson for his office and his colleagues figured this would be an appropriate homage. As another TUAW writer who saw the gallery commented, it's fantastic, but a bit creepy. And yes, it even got a little creepy for jpegsrock as people from around the company dropped by his cube to check out the display.

Flickr Find: You've been Steve'd! originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>flickr findFlickrFindparodyMegan Lavey-HeatonMon, 19 Jan 2009 15:30:00 ESTThe sun-stamped Apple doesn't fall far from the iTreehttp://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/22/the-sun-stamped-apple-doesnt-fall-far-from-the-itree/http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/22/the-sun-stamped-apple-doesnt-fall-far-from-the-itree/http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/22/the-sun-stamped-apple-doesnt-fall-far-from-the-itree/#commentsSome forms of Apple fandom are quick and simple -- the button, the tote bag, the temporary tattoo (not to be confused with the more permanent variety). Some forms, however, require commitment and patience. I don't speak the predominant language over at useloos.com, but I can guess that the translated caption for this photo gallery might be "How do you like them apples?"

Update: Per Cult of Mac, It looks like the source for the tattooed apples is this Japanese site -- translations welcome.

Yes, one very patient apple tree owner applied icon stencils for the Apple & iPod logos to a treeful of apples, and then let the sunshine do the work. The results can be seen to the right and at the gallery -- a bushelful of neatly logofied fruit, ripe for the munching. Talk about living your brand.

Thanks Tim!

The sun-stamped Apple doesn't fall far from the iTree originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>applesflickrfruitfunnyipodlogophotosMichael RoseSat, 22 Nov 2008 22:00:00 ESTFlickr Find: Close, but not quitehttp://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/20/flickr-find-close-but-not-quite/http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/20/flickr-find-close-but-not-quite/http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/20/flickr-find-close-but-not-quite/#comments

For your evening amusement (and nothing more), Flickr user elbewerk has found a creative way to try and convince people that, no, he's not actually using a PC.

Persuasive? Perhaps not. But at least it's marginally more honest about being a PC compared to, say, an MSI Wind.

[Via Digg.]

Flickr Find: Close, but not quite originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple WeblogFlickr Find: Close, but not quite originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>elbewerkfakebookflickrmacbookRobert PalmerThu, 20 Nov 2008 21:20:00 ESTFlickr Find: An Apple Store in Lego landhttp://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/17/flickr-find-an-apple-store-in-lego-land/http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/17/flickr-find-an-apple-store-in-lego-land/http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/17/flickr-find-an-apple-store-in-lego-land/#comments

At the Austin Maker Faire last month, careful observers noted a small addition to a miniature main street created by the Texas LEGO User Group: An Apple retail store, complete with products inside.

TexLUG created a town and space-themed layout that included working trains and motors. Other photos of their impressive handiwork are available on Flickr. You might also enjoy this attempt at a Lego Apple Store, accessories sold separately.

Flickr Find: An Apple Store in Lego land originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple WeblogFlickr Find: An Apple Store in Lego land originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]>legoretailstoretexlugRobert PalmerMon, 17 Nov 2008 14:07:00 EST