Not really news, but I haven’t yet seen such a simple description.

This story isnt new, but we havent published it yet, so here it is: Google intends to scan every book ever published, and to make the full texts searchable, in the same way that Web sites can be searched on the company’s engine at google.com.
Google’s library program, despite myriad potential benefits, has also wrought confusion, [...]

Mac only: Here is a nice tutorial series of how mighty quicksilver is. The creator of this neat tool gave a talk at google, which is a nice introduction and general overview of the capabilities of quicksilver. My new personal favorite is the Abracadabra Plugin (see below at the bottom).

This sounds to good to be true: Just plug in th EFI-X usb dongle into your motherboard and you are good to go installing Mac OS X Leopard on your PC to turn it into a Mac Pro.
Hot Link.

Bonus: The new Macbook Touch on the Oct. 14th Apple event.
Update: Here is the cheap alternative a [...]

Then head to http://stackoverflow.com. It’s intended to be a high-quality source of answers to software questions. Post a software question and watch the answers flow in. Popularity voting is very much woven into the site, where both questions and answers can be edited for clarity and voted up or down for correctness. Correctly posed questions [...]

Recently I upgraded my MBP with a larger hard disk. While the data migration from my old hard disk went nearly seamlessly (thanks to CarbonCopyCloner) and took me about 4 h (1h tinkering, 3h copying data), the BootCamp/Windows migration kept me busy for another day and nearly failed in the end.
First I tried to make [...]

TimesOnline wrote an article about a device with which you will be able to control your computer, especially games, by thinking. While there have been many efforts in exploring the field of mind controlling technically devices, this is the first time a company announces a “ready-to-buy” product. According to emotiv it will be available by [...]

“This experiment focuses mainly on Aperture and what tools, if any, exist for Ubuntu to replace my Aperture workflow with something cross-platform and open-source that I can use on Mac OS X and Ubuntu.”

Switchers form Windows to OS X get often frustrated by the lack of the delete key (forward delete) on the macbook/ macbook pro keyboard.
But hey, there it is!
You can’t see it? Well, there are a lot of glyphs that aren’t printed on the keyboard…
But this one is even not documented.
It’s: fn + backspace
tested only [...]

I thought about buying an external drive…
“Promising super-high density and excellent media flaw resistance, holographic storage has been an ever-receeding technology for years. You can buy nifty 3D skull and crossbones holograms – technically a form of storage – but no one had figured out how to turn a lab project into a product. Until [...]