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Helmet Paint Job iBook Mod
joesao writes "Remember that beautiful red iBook from a while back? So Pbsource has a post about a guy who hired a French helmet painter to scrape the lid of his iBook and turn into this. I wish somebody would start doing art replicas. Van Gogh, anyone?"
Now that somebody figured out how to paint the lid of an iBook, we're going to be assulted with Slashdot stories on all types of Lidart:
Including Pinup/Nose Art, Graffiti-inspired Art, and even 70s Van Airbrush-inspired art.
Here's a thought... Somebody draw the daVinci of the naked guy and put the apple over the naughty bits.
Ulp. I guess the same thing could be done with Mr. Goatse.
Idea withdrawn...
My father is a blogger.
Apple should consider making the iBook case easier to remove and offer a variety of high quality skins. i.e. have some artists design say 10 different designs and offer them installed at the apple store.
Then again, they just patented some funky light based color scheme, theme that can change. So it's possible that the exterior of an iBook in the future could change colors on it's own. Hummm a retro 60's tie-dye in motion like the iTunes Visualizer reflecting on the exterior case would be awesome!
It was covered at /. so long ago, it's probably a rerun instead of a dupe.
Umm, is something lost in the translation or is 'Helmet Painter' really a profession in France?
Most requested Helmet themes:
Welcome Germans!
I *heart* cheese [or mimes or Jerry Lewis]
Does this scarf make me look gay? good.
.sig Karma out the wazoo, better to spend points elsewhere if this is above 2 or below 0
too much LSD?
For sweet case mods chack out www.applefritter.com
Help I'm a rock.
Does anyone think this looks like some sort of flat imac swirl cake? A kind of compu-dessert?
"Moderate drinking can help prevent amputated limbs" -- Abigail Zuger, NYTimes, 12/31/02
Its also one of the nicest designed and filled sites I think I have ever seen...
I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.
with much gayness,
Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day, S.J.
Apple should consider making the iBook case easier to remove and offer a variety of high quality skins. i.e. have some artists design say 10 different designs and offer them installed at the apple store.
They did something similar with the PowerBook 1400 - there was what they called a "bookcover" system where you could change the cosmetics of the lid with a paper insert.
As far as I know, nobody ever really took advantage of it. Then again, now that people are putting neon lights and exhaust tips and shit on their computers, silly cosmetic features like that might do a little better in the marketplace. Who knows.
--saint
I can't believe no PC people want to mod their laptops like this. Where's the sites?
Greeny
That's one of the few computer mods I've ever seen that didn't look like a pathetic attempt to merge the aesthetical sense of vacuum cleaner design with 1970s Chevy Van rehabs.
Apple laptops are effectively unusable for unix users.
I am a long-time Unix user. That means I need to have the Ctrl key to the left of the A key. This is a genuine need, not merely a want; it is based upon ergonomics. The Ctrl key is heavily used in unix, and it must be easily accessable. It cannot be off in the lower left corner of the keyboard where it is difficult to get at, and where it distorts the position of your left hand such that you can't easily type other keys while holding the Ctrl key down.
Apple desktop keyboards are now all USB. They are all OK. The CapsLock key can be re-mapped into a Ctrl key.
Unfortunately, even in this modern age, all Apple laptops have built-in ADB keyboards. The ADB keyboard is broken-by-design. It is, in general, not possible to remap the CapsLock key into a Ctrl key.
There are some exceptions, but they are horrible kludges. They are horrible kludges because the original design of the ADB keyboard was a horrible kludge. The correct solution would be for Apple to re-design their laptop motherboards to use built-in USB keyboards. This hasn't happened yet. If you run Linux, use Debian's solution. For Mac OS X users, uControl works. There are no solutions (that I know of) for either NetBSD or OpenBSD. Please note once again that the "solutions" above are in fact kludges, because of the original bad design of the ADB keyboard.
Apple provides a technical note on how to remap the keyboard, but provides no solution to the hardware problems caused by the design of the ADB keyboard. This tech note helps foreign language users, but does nothing for the CapsLock/Ctrl problem.
Apple is (currently) ignoring Unix users! This is not merely speculation on my part. In an on-going email exchange I am having with an Apple employee (whom I won't name) in their marketing department, the Apple marketing person directly stated to me that Apple was catering to their historic Mac customers, and is purposely ignoring the Unix market. He also claimed that Apple would soon start paying more attention to the Unix market. I won't hold my breath. Apple has been ignoring Unix users for more than 12 years. I expect that trend to continue.
Apple has now lost two opportunities to sell me hardware. I really wanted an Apple laptop for their superior battery life, and for the PowerPC with Altivec CPU. (The Altivec is vastly superior to the x86 line for DSP.) Because I can't live with the broken-by-design built-in ADB keyboard in all Apple laptops, Sony and IBM sold me laptops instead. If Apple fixes this problem, they will sell me a PowerBook next year; if they don't, I'll still be running OpenBSD on x86 hardware, and wishing I could use a Mac.
Battle of the morons!
Apple is to stupid to adapt to UNIX users needs... adn you are to stupid to adapt to Apple's hardware "design" thinking.
This is such a tired troll. Put it to bed already!
Not that you would actualy care because that would shoot your entire troll to all hell, but there is a wonderful utility out there called uControl
Availible right here it will allow you to MAP THE CONTROL KEY TO THE CAPSLOCK KEY or any other god damned key you choose. So now that your problem is solved, go buy a mac and stop posting this over and over.
T Money
World Domination with a plastic spoon since 1984
just follow the guy's link (notice mine is related to my name).
Hmmm... didn't Apple patent 'devices capable of dynamically changing their ornamental or decorative appearance' recently??
;)
Maybe we can expect such things from Apple soon (maybe even on the fly
Remember folks, if your girlfriend smokes after sex, slow down or use a lubricant.
Actually a cursory glance at his post shows that he did mention uControl and stated it was available for MacOS X. His problem, however, seems to be that there is no solution for some of the other Unix varieties which he uses.
What's this guy running, NetBSD?
I have a positive modifier on Troll. When I mod someone Troll their karma should go UP!
Cool. A chance to show off my new mod. Still a work in progress, I've only done the lid so far... http://www.geocities.com/derenthal/
Where could I buy an iBook lid to try my own art? I'd hate to try it on mine and ruin it.
when i saw the picture i thought it looked more like a bowling ball;-)