The BBC has an article on how Lego blocks brought a dead PowerBook 603e back to life. “Daniele Procida could not bear to see a dead Mac thrown away — so he reconstructed it using Lego bricks pinched from his sons. Rather than bin the Powerbook laptop, he refurbished it using hundreds of colourful pieces, set on mottled artificial green grass.
Read MoreMacMinute reader Daniel Atteberry attended today’s grand opening of the new Honolulu, Hawaii Apple Store. He was kind enough to provide us with a report and several pictures from the event. “What seemed to be a slow turnout with only 6 of us there by 6:30 AM, turned into well over 1000 that lined up to witness and participate in the opening of Hawaii’s first Apple Store at the Ala Moana Shopping Center in Honolulu.
Read MoreMozilla.org has released Firebird 0.6 (formerly Phoenix), a redesign of Mozilla’s Web browser, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. This release offers preliminary Mac OS X support, a new look designed by Arvid Axelsson, a redesigned preferences window, and much more. See the release notes for the complete list of changes.
Read MoreBlue World has announced that it is now shipping FMP2MySQL, a free kit that includes tools and tutorials for converting FileMaker Pro solutions to MySQL. The kit is designed to make it “extremely easy” for novice users to migrate Web-bound FileMaker Pro solutions to MySQL. It is immediately available for download on Mac OS X, Windows 2000/XP, and Red Hat Linux.
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