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Case Study: Standing at your Mac to save your back

by TJ Luoma (May 9th, 2010)

BusinessWeek is worried that Your Office Chair Is Killing You. "Short of sitting on a spike, you can't do much worse than a standard office chair," says Galen Cranz, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. This article caught my ...

Count The Beats: Interview with a film & TV composer

by Matt Tinsley (Oct 13th, 2009)

If you've ever played Gears of War 2 (who hasn't), or watched Desperate Housewives (we know you secretly love Mrs Van De Kamp), then chances are you've heard music composed by Pieter A. Schlosser from PaaxMusic in Los Angeles. Pieter's been in ...

Need a few petabytes of Mac storage? Build your own BackBlaze Storage Pod

by Steven Sande (Sep 1st, 2009)

One of the largest personal iTunes libraries I've ever seen belongs to a client of mine. This client, who was a DJ in the 50's and 60's, has a huge collection of vinyl albums and singles that he painstakingly digitized, cleaned up, and catalogued in ...

Flickr Find: The Cocoon

by Robert Palmer (Sep 19th, 2008)

Mitch Haile shared this set with our Flickr Pool to show us the ridiculously awesome setup he has in his office. From what we can tell, he has: a 24-inch Intel iMac a 15-inch MacBook Pro a Mac Pro with six (!) monitors several PCs a ...

Rig of the Week: PowerBook with USB cooling fan

by Dave Caolo (Sep 23rd, 2007)

TUAW reader and Flickr user sninesix posted this snapshot of the USB CPU fan he rigged up to cool his PowerBook. When the original fan died, sninesix found an old fan he had lying around, removed the wires and hacked a USB cable onto it. He then ...

Rig of the Week: Mac mini at sea

by Mat Lu (Sep 13th, 2007)

We've seen lots of Mac mini based carputers, but now reader Matt sends us a link to this excellent Mac mini "boatputer" setup. Running MacENC navigation software, this Mac mini is hooked up to a GPS reciever, waterproof display and waterproof ...

Rig of the Week: Newsstand Mac mini

by Mat Lu (Jul 22nd, 2007)

Scott Walker sends in his seriously cool Mac mini mod which, after careful deliberation, we declare our Rig of the Week. Scott is the assistant managing editor at The Birmingham News (Alabama), and decided to build a Mac project around an old ...

Rig of the Week: Cube all-in-one

by Dave Caolo (Jul 15th, 2007)

This week's rig is another Cube mod. Reader bigtimeproducer has posted a picture of an Apple Cube case that has been stripped clean and retro-fitted with a Mac mini, external hard drive and an Airport Extreme. It looks cool, and probably gets a good ...

Rig of the Week: Cool Cube mod

by Dave Caolo (Jul 8th, 2007)

This week's rig comes from reader nash_h, who modded a Cube to look like a tiny Mac Pro. First of all, we love Cubes and secondly, this is one sweet mod. Nice job, nash_h. "new mac pro" posted by nash_h. If you'd like to see your own rig featured ...

Rig of the Week: The ModBook

by Dave Caolo (Jul 2nd, 2007)

Silly us. In our iPhone excitement, we forgot to post a Rig of the Week. Bad bloggers! This week's rig comes from tnkgrl, who has a ModBook of her own (or at least had a chance to visit with one). They were announced at Macworld in January, and were ...

Rig of the Week

by Dave Caolo (Jun 25th, 2007)

TUAW reader omdot has posted a sweet shot of his Mac mini raid - artfully arranged, we might add - to our Flickr pool. He uses it as a backup of his main Linux system, and it updates itself hourly. Pretty cool. "mini RAID no. 2" posted by omdot. If ...

Rig of the Week: The ATX G4

by Dave Caolo (Jun 10th, 2007)

This week's rig features one of the best-looking G4s you'll ever see. Enterprising reader :: Jonathan transplanted the guts from his destroyed G4 into an ATX case he had lying around. Sure, the power buttons didn't line up and the had to do some ...

Rig of the Week: The "Boogie Hustler" sessions

by Dave Caolo (Jun 3rd, 2007)

This week's rig - and we're only guessing here - is owned by a musician. Here we see a Power Mac G5, Cinema Display, LaCie external HD, speakers and a slew of recording equipment. Looks cool, ryan.gilligan, though the stickers on that beautiful Mac ...

Rig of the Week: Al Gore's setup

by Dave Caolo (May 20th, 2007)

We're going to break from tradition this week and highlight a rig that is not a part of our flickr pool. At right we see former Vice President (and Apple Board member) Al Gore flanked by three huge Apple displays. We can only imagine where the ...

Rig of the Week: Concert setup

by Dave Caolo (May 13th, 2007)

This week's rig comes from kekiahij005, who shares a sweet concert setup, writing: "...iMac is Hooked up to a Mackie 1604VLZ that is running alongside an Alesis Effects Processor, through a Behringer Compressor, then through a 2 Channel EQ." Um, ...

Rig of the Week: We're late again

by Dave Caolo (May 8th, 2007)

Yes, Rig of the Week is late again. You still love us, right? This week's entry is a sweet home/office server. A Mac mini, two 500GB external drives (one for backup, one for media), two 250GB FW drives (set up as a RAID), a D-Link Wireless G Gaming ...