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Filed under: Humor, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends

Stink Different with an Apple toilet

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (RSS feed) on Nov 14th, 2009

We've long heard jokes of the iCar, the iToilet, and other iCrap, but until now we'd never seen a real, working example of one of these things. Well, here's your iToilet, gang. It doesn't connect to the internet in less than three steps, but it does connect to a series of tubes.

Tipster Mike Jones actually had this made for himself, but through Rival Toilets, makers of custom, printed potties. Yep, the owner of Rival, Fred, has figured out a way to get decals under a coat of specially-formulated finish (a trade secret), resulting in some glorious toilets you see in the gallery. They last, they are custom and they are really quite something to see.

Rival's specialty? Sports team toilets with rival team logos in a "special" place on the bowl. I'm told the Apple version seen here has a similar "rival" logo in the bottom of the bowl. I'll leave the specifics to the reader's imagination. I don't think it's IBM, however.

Gallery: Custom toilets by Rival

Tags: apple toilet, AppleToilet, cult of mac, CultOfMac, custom, fanboy, itoilet, rival, think different, ThinkDifferent

Filed under: Software

Diamond, the rich text editor that thinks different

by Giles Turnbull (RSS feed) on Aug 4th, 2008

Diamond is a free rich text editor with a difference. Lots of differences, actually, which combine to make it quite appealing. Developer Geoffrey Alexander has recently released Diamond 3, which makes this an excellent time for you to download and give it a try.

How is Diamond different? Diamond windows look different. Sometimes they're hardly there. They may or may not have title bars. They may or may not hover above a background (flat color, or photographic, it's up to you) that in turn hovers over everything else on your desktop.

Text inside Diamond documents flows in columns. Word and character counts float unobtrusively below the windows, as if hanging in space. If you want them to. Aspects of Diamond's differentness are yours to tweak in the prefs, of course, so you can de-weird things if you feel the need. But that takes all the fun out of it.

If I'm not making much sense here, I encourage you to take a look at the Diamond gallery or download the app to try it for yourselves. As Geoffrey himself once said: "Diamond isn't for everyone, and may not even be for anyone." But I rather like it, if only because it takes the mundanity of editing text and adds a bit of life that you don't find in other rich text editors.

Tags: diamond, different, document editor, DocumentEditor, free, freeware, rich text, RichText, text editor, TextEditor, think different, ThinkDifferent

Filed under: Humor, Cult of Mac, Apple

Apple Tattoo: Now that's a fan girl

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on Apr 18th, 2007

In my time I've been accused of being an Apple fanboy, but this girl takes it to the next level. On celebritytattoos.org we find this lovely collection of the 32 geekiest tattoos, with our favorite company logo clearly taking pride of place. I can't say I approve, but you've got to respect the Apple devotion! You just have wonder how she's going to feel about it in a few years.

[Via Digg]

Tags: logo, tattoo, think different, ThinkDifferent

Filed under: Apple Corporate, Cult of Mac, Apple

10 years of thinking different

by Dave Caolo (RSS feed) on Apr 9th, 2007

When Apple's Think Different television campaign first aired in September of 1997, the company was in dire straights (or, as we call it, "The Sculley Years"). To make a long and well-known story short, Steve came back, the company launched the enormously popular "Think Different" campaign with Chiat/Day, and that, true believers, was how Apple got its groove back.

LowEndMac takes a very interesting look at the development of that campaign, from the initial concept to the first broadcast commercial in '97. Some interesting facts include that Chiat/Day was given just 17 days to complete the project, and that Steve himself courted some of the people whose images were used.

Well done, Apple and Chiat/Day. We still love those ads.

Tags: ad, campaign, think different, ThinkDifferent

Filed under: Desktops

TUAW Desktop of the Week for 3/04 - 3/10/07

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Mar 4th, 2007

Our TUAW Desktop of the Week didn't make the cut because of some wild assortment of applications or montage of interestingness. No, this week we decided to keep it simple and old school with think different from Flickr user 1000things (though the roaming ladybug is a nice, yet weird, touch). The old-school Apple logo is keeping it real front and center, while the 'think different' writing actually belongs to 1000things herself. Don't adjust your ColorSync settings, however - the black appearance of the menubar and iTunes are courtesy of Unsanity's Shapeshifter, an app that can skin Mac OS X with new colors, icons and styles.

If you'd like to see your unique, functional or otherwise interesting desktop featured in our TUAW Desktops of the Week series, check out past featured desktops as well as the original post for the rules and to get an idea of what we're looking for. Then, upload your desktop screenshot to our TUAW Desktops Flickr group. We'll feature one or more desktops each weekend, giving credit to the desktop owner, wallpaper creator and any apps featured in the screenshot (if available). Keep those desktops rolling in!

Tags: desktop, flickr, shapeshifter, think different, ThinkDifferent, tuaw desktops, TuawDesktops

Filed under: Apple Corporate, Video

macTV posts unaired Think Different ad

by Dave Caolo (RSS feed) on Mar 23rd, 2006

Now this is pretty cool. macTV has posted an unaired ad from Apple's Think Different campaign featuring the great Muhammad Ali. I've seen this footage many times before, but I never knew it had (nearly) been used in a Think Different ad. That was a great campaign.

Many years ago, I worked for a school. Midway through my first year, I learned that a stack of "Think Different" posters had been tossed just before I arrived. Ugh.

Tags: ad, ali, commercial, think different, ThinkDifferent

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