Mod Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Found Footage: Bose headphones grafted onto Apple inline remote

by Steven Sande (Jan 6th, 2010)

Our buddies over at Engadget turned us on to this short video, in which modder Freddy Deeble created a sonic hybrid -- a pair of Bose headphones using an Apple inline remote. If you're handy with a pair of wire cutters, a small screwdriver, and a soldering iron, then you can mimic how Mr. ...

Power Mac G5 turned time-teller

by Mike Schramm (Dec 31st, 2009)

This is great, and highly appropriate for the tick-tocking away of the year -- Japanese modder Nobon had an old Power Mac G5 (case, it looks like, though this would be cool on a working Mac as well) sitting around, and he wanted to know what time it was, so he installed a little clock in there. As ...

Combination Mac mini, coffeemaker and subwoofer stuck in an iMac

by Mike Schramm (Dec 23rd, 2009)

That's why, we're guessing, tinkerer Klaus Diebel put together this incredibly useful device that will make your coffee, play some thumping tunes, and do your computing tasks as well. He tells us it was something like that -- he really enjoyed the look of the gumdrop iMac, and has experimented with ...

Cool tool: Change your Mac's boot image with BootXChanger

by Steven Sande (Jul 27th, 2009)

Every once in a while, I get reminded about a cool tool that I've used and then totally forgotten about. In today's example, the reminder came in the form of a post on UNEASYsilence about how to change your Mac's boot image. The boot image, in case you're new to the Mac world, is that gray Apple ...

The greenest iPod yet: made of real wood

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 7th, 2009)

Well, mostly. It's an iPod mini dressed up in wood, and the clickwheel happens to be wood as well -- check out this gallery at the Sydney Morning Herald. Australian modder Josh Darrah whipped up this crazy wooden skin for his mini, and a wood dock to boot after calling the metal and plastic case ...

Found Footage: More new Stack features for jailbreak iPhones

by Erica Sadun (Jun 29th, 2009)

Looks like Stack for Jailbreak has some new improvements. For those of you unfamiliar with the application, Stack adds a quick-launch menu directly to your iPhone dock, letting you expand your dock space to hold all your favorite apps. With it you can add 16 items (using grid view) or 5 items (in ...

eeeMac creator tells you how to do it yourself

by Mike Schramm (Jan 7th, 2009)

A little while ago, we posted about Gregory Cohen's eeeMac -- he modded an eeePC into an OS X-running ultraportable, including adding a little Apple icon on the back. And now, he's posted how he did it all on a blog, so that if you've got a few Saturday afternoons, an eeePC to destroy, and a big ...

Found Footage: 1942 Philco radio / Mac mini mod

by Steven Sande (Oct 14th, 2008)

TUAW reader Sandy Winkelman (AKA Winkstink) sent us a tip the other day about an amazing mod he's done. Sandy took a 1942 Philco radio, gutted it, added a Mac mini and 17" Sony monitor with touchscreen, and turned it into a classy networked digital media center. The sound system consists of a Sony ...

Glowing Apple logo mod for your iPhone?

by Robert Palmer (Aug 18th, 2008)

iPhones.ru posted a video (with dialogue in Russian, I think) showing a first-generation iPhone that's been modified to light up the Apple logo on the back of the device when it's turned on. Sadly, it doesn't show how exactly the modification was made, though I conjecture it uses light from the ...

Mod your dock to work with iPhone 3G

by Robert Palmer (Jul 21st, 2008)

Two intrepid users have found a simple way to mod their old iPhone docks to work with iPhone 3G: a rotary tool. All it takes, apparently, is grinding away about a millimeter of the plastic where the back of the iPhone 3G rests against the dock. A rotary tool with a tapered grinding bit appears to ...

iPhone case mod with LED logo

by Dave Caolo (Apr 30th, 2008)

Back in February, we posted a link to a beautiful iPhone case mod that used a matte black TiAIN finish. iPhoneclub community member Jo Croiman has gone in the opposite direction, creating a polished metal beauty complete with LED logo. The Psycho iPhone Mod, as he calls it, is the result of ...

iPhone macro lens hack

by Dave Caolo (Feb 25th, 2008)

This isn't the first time we've seen someone take macro photographs with an iPhone, but it is the most involved. Last time, someone just held a pocket magnifying glass against the lens. This time, blogger Colin Devroe attached the lens from a dead digital camera to the back of his iPhone ...

Slick iPhone mod

by Dave Caolo (Feb 24th, 2008)

We all know that the iPhone is beautiful (OK, not all of us). The only thing I dislike about its appearance is the chrome band that separates the top and bottom halves. The iPod touch is much more attractive without it. General [M]ayhem forum user KnightKrew felt the same way, and did something ...

iChat Pro makes iChat look like Adium

by Mike Schramm (Feb 13th, 2008)

Personally, I'm an Adium user at heart -- iChat is super nice (especially for a built-in chat program), but it just doesn't have the features and customizability that that Adium does. But if you have to use iChat for whatever reason (easy video conferencing comes to mind) despite your love for ...

Behold the 24th Anniversary Mac

by Dave Caolo (Jan 21st, 2008)

Forget the TAM. I want this thing. David Clausen decided to celebrate the Mac's longevity by making something special. So, he gutted the case of a 512K Mac (the case is in great shape, by the way), then inserted the workings of a Mac mini and a grayscale monitor. Add to that a LS-120 floppy disk ...