Well, Apple is going to pull the plug on lala. (For those of you who don’t know, lala let you stream your music library anywhere on the internet, along with buying $.10 “web songs” that had unlimited online plays.) On May 31st, Lala will cease to exist. Whether or not Apple merges lala’s services in with iTunes is yet to be seen, but for those of you who don’t care or don’t want to wait, I present to you an alternative. Grooveshark (http://grooveshark.com). Grooveshark lets you upload your MP3 library, or stream any song just by searching. And the good news is that (if you don’t mind the not-so-intrusive ad) it’s free! So go and check it out! Also, they offer a $3/month ($30/yr) VIP subscription that offers, among other things, streaming to your phone (Jailbroken iPod OS, Blackberry [excluding storm], Android, and Palm OS) and last.fm scrobbing.

(And no, I didn’t get paid for this post!)

So, I installed Windows 7 x64, figuring that Apple would allow me to install the 64 bit drivers on my Macbook. I was wrong.

When you insert the (snow) Leopard DVD, it gives you a message along the lines of “you don’t own an expensive enough Mac to use 64 bit Windows”. So, with a little fancy Googling, I found a workaround.

It is confirmed working with the Snow Leopard DVD also.

Open the start menu and type in “cmd”. Right click on the result and select run as administrator.

Then type in:

D:

cd “Boot Camp\Drivers\Apple”

msiexec /i BootCamp64.msi

There! If you have done everything correctly, you should be on your way to installing the 64 bit drivers!

Hello, fellow old-computerians! I am here today to bring you another iPhone/iPod Touch App Store review. This time I’ll be reviewing Jurassic 3D Rollercoaster Rush, brought to you by Digital Chocolate! This app retails for $4.99, and is rated 4+ by the App Store Elves.

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Hey everyone. It’s been a while since my last post, but I’m back to bore you with my ramblings again. This time, I’m reviewing a game from the Apple App Store for the iPhone/iPod Touch, called Minigore. Minigore was created by Chillingo Ltd, and costs $.99. The game is rated 9+ by Apple.

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Well, today when I was using my mac, I needed a good utility to Un-RAR some files that I downloaded. Here, I have listed my 5 most favorite un-rarers. To test the power of these programs, I timed the extraction of a 545.5MB Windows XP installation image, which was placed in a RAR. All tests were done on my 2.0GHz Aluminum Unibody Macbook.

5. Jomic

Test Time: 0:37

Jomic is a comic book reader. However, it allows you to extract files from an RAR, and it is quite speedy at it for something it wasn’t designed to do.

4. The Unarchiver

Test Time: 0:30

This program offers a simple interface and a wide range of compatibility, but sometimes fails to do the job correctly.

3. Stuffit Expander

Test Time: 0:34

This program is simple to use and is compatible with several formats, however once in a while it won’t extract a file that one of the apps below will.

2. UnRarX

Test Time: 0:34

This is my 2nd choice, as it is simple, has a good interface, and gets the job done.

1. SimplyRAR (v 1.09 w/ rar v 3.90 beta 2)

Test Time: 0:33

SimplyRAR is my personal favorite extraction program. It resembles WinRAR very closely, and works very well at extracting and building RAR files. The time with the readily available version, 1.09, was significantly slower than any of the other programs, but when I upgraded the rar version inside of the .app package, it sped up to 2nd place.

Today, January 24th, 2009, the Apple Macintosh turns 25 years old.

Watch Steve Jobs introducing it back then here.

I had the opportuinity to play around with a PowerBook G4 17″ laptop today, so I figured I’d snap a few pics.

As some of you may know, I purchased an Aluminum Apple MacBook around 1 month ago. Before the purchase of my MacBook, I was solely a Windows guy. However, after a month with my Mac, I’ve found OS X 10.5 (Leopard) to be superior to Windows in almost every aspect. Along with the software, things are greatly improved when Apple designs a computer, as it “just works,” and the industrial design is beautiful.

Jump the break to read my full review.

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A MacRumors forum membor, Brett33, bought a Prototype MacBook Air on eBay. Now, he’s selling it again on ebay. The Prototype itself has several differences, like an old style keyboard, black aluminum bottom, and slightly different trackpad, along with no official “Air” branding.

MacRumors Post: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=601953

Ebay Link (currently going for $1700): http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200278121944

So, I figured I’d merge the files stored on my flash drive with the ones in my documents folder on my mac. So, I copy them over. OSX prompts me to replace, and I thought it would just replace the files that were already there, not the whole folder. Now, I’m out probably 4 hours of work, and there’s no way to get it back (I’ve already tried all of those recovery programs. I’m enabling time machine right this minute, and I’m backing up to my windows drive (on my server), using this nifty command in terminal:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

Also, following the steps in this guide can greatly enhance your chances of success.