Miss the meaty mechanical kerchunk of slapping down your old Macintosh Plus Keyboard? Feel as if the Apple Wireless Keyboard’s soft and barely yielding keys barely convey the shaking gravity of your prose? Instructables has you covered, with an excellent guide on how to convert an old typewriter into a USB keyboard capable of being

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Turn An Old Typewriter Into An Awesome Mechanical Mac Keyboard

At tomorrow’s iPod Event, many of us are expecting some sort of announcement about iTunes entering the cloud by offering media streaming functionality, but CNet is reporting a much more mundane development in iTunes’ likely streaming capabilities: they expect song preview samples to double in length come Wednesday. The move is seen as an attempt

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Report: iTunes in the Cloud Still A No-Go, But Preview Song Lengths Will Double

Doornail dead on the Mac for almost twenty years, Autodesk has just announced that they will finally be bringing their multi-dimension engineering and architectural design software AutoCAD back to Apple customers through a native OS X port. Starting in October, Mac owners will again get to design their minds-eye mansions and skyscrapers without ever dropping

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After 20 Year Absence, AutoCAD Comes Back To The Mac

Open source devotees, iPhone users and hedonists unite! News today that low cost, OpenBTS GSM cell phone service is being tested at Burning Man in a true trial-by-fire fashion: Today I bring you a story that has it all: a solar-powered, low-cost, open source cellular network that’s revolutionizing coverage in underprivileged and off-grid spots. It uses

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Open Source, Low Cost GSM Cell Service Offered at Burning Man

Blamed on everything from a software bug to greasy ear canals, the iPhone 4′s overly sensitive proximity sensor was supposed to get fixed with the release of iOS 4.1. Don’t hold your breath, though, says Apple’s Australian mouthpiece Fiona Martin. According to Martin, the company has yet to fix the proximity sensor issue, with no

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Apple Spokesperson Says iOS 4.1 Won’t Solve iPhone 4 Proximity Sensor Problems

Apple has called a press conference on Wednesday, September 1st in San Francisco 10:00 AM PST. Yeah, we know, it’s not that far away, but here at CoM we had a spirited discussion over the weekend about just what they’ll be introducing. Let us know in the comments what you think.

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Reader Poll: What Will Apple Unveil Sept. 1?

Sony’s attractive new line of speakers might look like some strange hybrid between a thermos and an iPod dock, but there’s no madness behind the weird engineering of the Sony SRS-V500IP… just smart, practical design. You see, the thermos or travel-mug-like pod you see above is actually a removable speaker, inside of which is Sony’s

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Sony’s New iPod Dock Features Detachable 360-Degree Speaker

My dad was a magician at sniffing out great places to eat. We’d drive by some hole-in-the-wall we’d never seen before, and he’d point and say, “that’s where we’ll  eat, it’s good.” Then I’d scramble to check out the hole-in-the-wall’s rating using the Yelp app on my iPhone, to see if he was right. The

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Essential App #9: Yelp Will Find Anything, Anywhere, Anytime

When we reviewed ID8-Mobile’s sneaky little MoGo Talk XD a month ago, we mentioned that it was only available for the 3G/s, but ID8-Mobile said they had an iPhone 4 version in the works. Turns out they weren’t kidding. The iPhone 4 MoGo Talk — which hides a thin Bluetooth headset in a sleek case —

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MoGo Talk XD Now Available For iPhone 4

The iPad is definitely making an impact on people’s lives and as a result there are numerous examples of the device being used in new and innovative ways every day. iPads are cropping up everywhere — inside of old Macs, inside of cars and just about everywhere in this unique video about iPads and velcro.

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iPort: In-wall Home Automation for iPad