Pair Puts Apple Gear to Siberian Trek Test

March 16th, 2010 admin

When a pair of rugged adventurists decides to trek 700km across a frozen lake in Siberia, chronicle the expedition in a daily blog complete with photos and videos — and share it all on the Internet — it should come as no surprise when Apple hardware and software features prominently among their gear. Vašek Sůra and


Originally posted on CultOfMac

 
  Related Posts
John Martellaro’s Blog: Particle Debris (wk. ending 8/13) Star Trek’s iPad & iPhone Hidden Features
John Martellaro’s Blog: Particle Debris (wk. ending 8/13) Star Trek’s iPad & iPhone Hidden Features
This week, John’s technical news debris includes articles on how Star Trek’s property masters may have influenced our culture and the iPad design, some very cool flight apps for the iPad, Mark Papermaster’s departure from Apple, why Apple won’t pay dividends, hidden features of the iPhone, and how Steve Jobs gets away without having a CA... 
Star Trek Online Captain’s Log #1: A Trek Fan’s Dream
Star Trek Online Captain’s Log #1: A Trek Fan’s Dream
Like many of you, many of us are huge Star Trek fans. It not only shaped everyone’s view of technology from a young age, it’s arguably one of the driving forces of technology today. And now you can live it. (more…)  Read More →
Run Star Trek Online without resorting to Boot Camp
Run Star Trek Online without resorting to Boot Camp
Frustrated that the Star Trek Online MMO game left out support for Macs? If you have an Intel Mac, you can get around that problem, even though the game has no official support for OS X. Of course, you can install it using Windows in a Boot Camp partition. But if you don’t like leaving the safety of Mac space, you can run it in OS X using... 
Jibbigo: Your Star Trek Universal Translator For iPhone
Jibbigo: Your Star Trek Universal Translator For iPhone
Calling all Star Trek fans out there: The iPhone 3Gs has a universal translator — Jibbigo. Speak into your iPhone in any of the five supported languages, and the iPhone speaks the translation back. Jibbigo, by Mobile Technologies, is a bilingual translation app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that translates your speech directly into several... 
Scanning, Captain: Star Trek Tricorder App for iPhone and iPod Touch
Scanning, Captain: Star Trek Tricorder App for iPhone and iPod Touch
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9oNDbm9GXo What good is an iPhone if you can’t run a tricorder on it?  Hiding out in the app store is this little gem called Tricorder TR-580, with realistic sound effects and a hidden trove of data.  Somewhat of a cross-series hybrid, it’s not an official Star Trek studio release but definitely worth 99... 
Someone Had To Do It: The Star Trek IPADD
Someone Had To Do It: The Star Trek IPADD
A tipster says, “The first thing that came to mind when I gazed onto the ‘magical’ iPad was how much it reminded me of the Star Trek PADD .” Thing is, said tipster also develops apps. And so this happened. (more…)  Read More →
News: Apple to Live Stream Sept 1 Media Event
News: Apple to Live Stream Sept 1 Media Event
Apple dropped a surprise Tuesday afternoon with an announcement that it plans to live broadcast its Wednesday morning media event over the Internet. Apple typically records its media events and posts the videos later for public viewing. Apple – Media event – Macintosh – Companies – Apple II  Read More →
Some sites still selling third-party Apple accessories
Some sites still selling third-party Apple accessories
Ok, ok, it’s not exactly news that there is Apple gear being sold on the Internet. But given that popular electronic accessory retailer Monoprice recently decided to stop selling Apple accessories , you might be looking for a new place to buy your cords and hookups. That’s right — TUAW contacted Monoprice the other day after... 
Import full-size pictures from Picasa Web Albums into iPhoto
Google’s Picasa is a popular way for people to organize, upload, and share their photos. Once they’re all uploaded into a Web Album, though, it can be a challenge to get them into Apple’s iPhoto software. Let’s say you just came back from a group vacation and one of your buddies uploaded all of his pictures from the trip to... 
Brabus’s iBusiness is a Mercedes-Benz S600 tricked out Apple style
Brabus’s iBusiness is a Mercedes-Benz S600 tricked out Apple style
We’ve seen the iPad implemented both at school and at work , but in your car? That’s the idea behind the iBusiness, a Mercedes-Benz S600 that’s been tricked out with Apple gear aplenty by Brabus . Get this — you can see the two iPads and keyboards in the back seats, but there’s also a Mac mini in the back and a 64gb... 
  Related Tweets from Twitter
TanGalyini (Hattan Al Ghalayini)  : RT @macTweeter: Apple Provides Details On Game Centre Compatibility & Resets App Ready For Tomorrow?s Launch http://bit.ly/byj2zY #apple..
Updated : 2010-09-08T04:11:20Z   |  Reply  |  View Tweet
thesporkwithin (thesporkwithin)  : RT @guidedways: 2Do might be the best task manager, ever! http://bit.ly/d3Uen0..
Updated : 2010-09-08T03:51:57Z   |  Reply  |  View Tweet
JetsAway (Alex)  : #iPhone apps have saved UK city #governments $350 million -- forecasted to be more than $500 million by 2014. http://bit.ly/bz8QOj...
Updated : 2010-09-08T03:43:21Z   |  Reply  |  View Tweet
gadgetero (Guillermo)  : RT @guidedways: 2Do might be the best task manager, ever! http://bit.ly/d3Uen0..
Updated : 2010-09-08T03:33:27Z   |  Reply  |  View Tweet
mike3210 (Mike)  : RT @guidedways: 2Do might be the best task manager, ever! http://bit.ly/d3Uen0..
Updated : 2010-09-08T03:32:05Z   |  Reply  |  View Tweet
  Related News from Digg
No comments yet.

Spam Protection by WP-SpamFree

TOP