DIAF ADC Upload page.

Posted on April 18th, 2008 by phiber811, under John, Modding News, main.

I built a dashboard widget this morning. Its good, its clean, and I’m pleased with it. What is it? a countdown for the release of GTA4. I then decided to upload it to Apple’s widget download page. Arent I nice for sharing? Yeah. Screw it. You can all download it from my site. Why? Let me tell you why. Apple’s widget submission page is completely tarded. After filling out all the boxes, and including screenshots and the whole nine yards, the submission form kept finding errors. And of course, then I had to change the urls for everything, because I’d already submitted those urls. And then, my upload and download packages were different sizes. and on, and on. Finally, I said, “fuck you” and clicked the cancel button. I’m all about making something and sharing it, but when it takes longer to upload it than it does to build it, I’m done.

If you want the widget, click on the page in the menu bar.

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MacWorld SF

Posted on January 5th, 2007 by phiber811, under John, Modding News, New Mods, Publicity, main.

Tuesday is the official kick off of MacWorld San Francisco. With Keynote A La Steve Jobs, it should be exciting. But this year, I’m excited about things other than the keynote. In particular, MacMod.com will have a booth there. Yes, I’m amazed too. Something thats been talked about for ages, and now its happening. With SF only a ten hour drive away (yes, only ten!) I’m totally making the trip.

At the MacMod booth, you’ll be afforded the opportunity to see both NecroMac’s, my custom painted Mac Mini, the handy-work I applied to a set of Speck Products’ MacBook Pro shells, a custom flamed Powerbook lid, and maybe a set of iMac G5 shells. At least, thats what I plan to bring. If all goes according to plan, you’ll get to see all the current episodes of the Pimp My Mac podcast, in rotation throughout the week. Class, can we say awesome?

I’ll be there through wednesday, so if you wanna say hi, look for the MacMod booth next to the gaming pavilion. We’ll be hard to miss, I’m sure. We’ll be the morons hawking MacMod.com, and the website in general. I may also hand out business cards from my shop, if I can get away with it. (they gave me time off, c’mon.)

There’s also this rumor about a silent auction for the Necro 2, so if you’re hot to trot to own a NecroMac, it’ll be there, and no, it wont be cheap. That level of customization is never cheap.

So, with that in mind, come to MacWorld SF! If you can make it, do so! If not, come here for the pictures. I plan to take my camera, and some of my collected mac shwag. I’m hoping to get Leander Khaney to sign my copy of Cult of Mac, if woz shows, I want him to sign my Lego PodBrix, and if the Jobs wanders by, I’m hoping to con him into signing my Jobs podbrix. Total nerd hero worship kinda stuff. Course, if I can get Jobs to wander by and start twitching violently when he sees what I do to his stuff, I’ll take that as a victory as well. I’m sure that all our customization, on a certain level, totally chaps his ass.

So yes, come to MacWorld! Then come to MYM for photos! I’ll be trying to post interesting updates while I’m there, but I dont know what the internet scene will be like. We’ll see. Vive Le San Francisco!

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Macworld San Francisco.

Posted on December 28th, 2006 by phiber811, under John, Modding News, Publicity, main.

Its getting to be that time of year again. Macworld time. However, unlike many years past (pretty much all of them), I now live on the west coast. This means that I’m driving to MacWorld. Now, why did I rarely make the trip to NYC for MW there? 1. it was summer. 2. it was NYC. 3. I lived in Richmond VA, was poor, and couldnt afford the 5 hour drive. Now, I live in Portland, and am not poor. I’m gonna drive ten hours, from PDX, to San Francisco, attend macworld, and rock it. If you’re a MYM fan or a MacMod fan, you should keep an eye out while you’re there!

If you know me, or know of me, live in the PDX area, and want to go to MWSF, I’ll be driving down on the 7th, and coming back on the 10th. If you want a ride, you can email me at jhart (@) modyourmac dot com and let me know. I could use the company for sure. However, any passengers would be expected to cover their own expenses. Duh.

With that in mind, we’ve got ten days till said road trip. WOOO!

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Updating, cause I havent.

Posted on December 19th, 2006 by phiber811, under John, Modding News, New Mods, main.

Its been a while since I updated with some real meat and potatoes kinda stuff. Mostly I’ve been babbling about this or that, without any real substance to show for it. Well, that changes today. I’ve got a few minutes over lunch, and I’m going to put up some recent work I’ve done. Lets have a look.

Blue Purple Fade.

This imac G5 was painted for the daughter of my employer. She wanted blue and purple, she got blue and purple. I used the Auto Air Nightmare Blue, and Cheap Wine purple. Its a pretty simple fade, but it looks damn good.

Black Flame iMac.
I painted this one for the son of my employer. The boss asked for pearl black with flames, and thats what he got. Its a simple flash flame job, but I really like how the pattern came out.

The Copper Fade Project.
Since my shop is offering mods as an option now, they felt that we needed a display. Well, they got one. One of the guys at our design firm came up with a reference for what he was thinking, and the powers that be selected a color range. The boss and I picked the final colors, and I got to work. This masking job and the flame imac are where my giant roll of masking tape came in so handy. Anyway, the shells are a pearl copper and a pearl russet.

LimeBurst iBook.
Before my buddy Jim moved to Las Vegas, I built him an iBook, and painted it as a surprise. He was definitely surprised. I shot it with the sparkle toxic green, and detail black around the apple logo and the edges. It’s gorgeous in sunlight!

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Get You Some Custom!

Posted on November 30th, 2006 by phiber811, under John, Modding News, Publicity, main.

I’m proud to say that if you live in the pacific northwest, you have the opportunity to own a ModYourMac original! My shop, MacForce is now offering the option to have plastic housed machines painted. The options are for solid or two color jobs. No flames or complex stuff yet, but we’ll get there. So, get into MacForce, and either buy a machine, or bring yours in, and get it custom painted!

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