A man smashed his car into  Greensboro, North Carolina’s Apple store in the morning last week. The driver didn’t steal anything and ran away. Well, this story doesn’t end here as FOX8 reports: Police described the suspect as a white male wearing a white shirt and hooded mask. According to 107.5 KZL, a security guard said the suspect was wearing ...
Read More »Stephen Colbert Wants an iPad 3 [video]
Comedian Stephen Colbert didn’t get to enjoy his brand new iPad 2, now he wants an iPad 3. Enjoy the video (Flash required, sorry): Direct link: Stephen Shows Off the iPad 2. Here’s last year’s Stephen Colbert iPad 1 video. And finally: Stephen wants an iPad 2: Direct link: Stephen Wants an iPad 2. You can find the author of ...
Read More »Funny BBC Skit About Apple and Blackberry [video]
This BBC comedy skit plays on the words Apple, Blackberry and others. It is performed by comedians Harry Enfield and Ronnie Corbett. On this funny note we celebrate SaudiMac English Edition’s 1000th post. Last week we had the Arabic Edition’s 1000th post as well. I’d like to take this quick moment to thank you all for your support. Here’s the ...
Read More »MacBook Air and Explosives, not a good combination [video]
What do you do with an old MacBook Air now that Apple released a new one? Blowing it up using explosives is probably not the first thing you would think of. These guys from Crazy Cow Productions did just that in a crazy experiment using Chinese M-1000 explosives. Enjoy the video: Via: Things to do with an old MacBook Air: ...
Read More »Father and son send an iPhone to space [video]
In the following video, a father and his son managed to send an iPhone into space where this image was taken: They took a weather balloon up to 100,000 feet (30km) where the balloon bursts due to low pressure and land using a parachute. The location of the camera would be found using the iPhone GPS and data connectivity to ...
Read More »iPhone Proximity Sensor Problems on Live TV [video]
In the following video from Al-Arabiya channel during a football segment the guest had proximity sensor problems with his brand new iPhone 4. Proximity Sensor is an iPhone feature that turns off the screen when it detects the person’s face during a call to save battery and prevent accidental presses. Image source: phonedog. Arabic version of this post on SaudiMac ...
Read More »Free Arabic Information Security eBooks
The Saudi Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (COEIA – King Saud University) has released a couple of Arabic electronic books for the iPhone and iPad. The books are (loosely translated): Information Security simply explained and Phishing methods and prevention. The books can be downloaded either as an Adobe PDF or ePub file and then added to the iBooks app ...
Read More »MacBook Pro Cutting Board
Here’s a cutting board designed to look like an Apple MacBook Pro. It’s made of apple tree wood and cost 43 EUR). You can order it from this website: Das ApfelBrett. Via Holycool and Design Milk. Arabic version of this post on SaudiMac Arabic Edition. Please follow SaudiMac on Twitter and add SaudiMac on Facebook.
Read More »Apple TV Unboxing Video
Here’s an Apple TV unboxing video made by Adam Christianson of the MacCast podcast. The video is high definition (720p HD): Via: The Mac Observer. Arabic version of this post on SaudiMac Arabic Edition. Please follow SaudiMac on Twitter and add SaudiMac on Facebook.
Read More »Apple TV (second gen) Teardown
iFixit did what they do best and offered a complete teardown of the new second generation Apple TV.
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