A link to a website concept I recently found on reddit really blew my mind.
It’s a concept for General Electric’s campaign Ecomagination.
To get a grasp, watch this video:

You can try out the actual application on ecomagination.com.

Update: The concept of using Augmented Reality in advertising has also been used in this ad for the Mini Cabrio.
Update 2: The microsite has apparently been created by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in cooperation with North Kingdom (Source).

In OS X Tiger, network shares provided with Samba (SMB) shares from my local NAS showed up in the Finder sidebar automagically.

However, since I switched to Leopard, available SMB shares did not appear before they weren’t connected (except the host was an active windows machine). I always had to manually connect to servers with Cmd+K — A step back compared to the ease of the one click it needed before.

Various researches throughout the MacRumors forums at least pointed out the fact that the SMB workgroup has to be set correctly under the WINS-tab in the OS X network settings, but this alone didn’t to the trick.

In order to make it work as expected you have to activate file sharing with SMB on the Mac side, even though you don’t have to share any folders on your OS X machine.

To activate SMB sharing under OS X Leopard, follow these simple steps:

1. Open System Preferences > Sharing.
2. Activate the checkbox for File Sharing.
3. Click the Options button in the File Sharing panel.
4. Make sure the checkbox Share files and folders using SMB is ticked.
5. Then restart your Mac or put it to sleep for a short time to make the changes take effect.
6. All your Samba shares should finally appear in the Finder again.

Marking the checkbox for a specific account is not necessary unless you want to connect to shares located on the OS X machine from a Windows client. This option apparently activates Microsoft-specific network services so the NetBIOS names of SMB shares are resolved.

What I’m still wondering is why the SMB shares generally show in lowercase.

Because Versions officially released it’s Beta today, I dug out this draft that had been unpublished for a long time (It was intended to be published in addition to the Versions Beta announcement one year ago):

This list represents three very popular graphical user interfaces for the Subversion client svn. The applications help developers to manage their repositories without being a bash or shell champion. Feel free to leave a comment in case I forgot an essential tool.

Read the full entry "Subversion Interfaces on Mac OS X"

Alekc provides a simple but stunningly fast Last.fm wallpaper generator that fetches your favourite album covers and stitches them to an impressive wallpaper.

After choosing a resolution of your choice it could look something like the following image – a collage of my favorite albums for the last 3 months:

Similar to the LargeType enhancement for OS X, this JavaScript tool enables a large type display of content-elements on your website. Simply add class="LargeType"> to a <span> or <p>.

Read the full entry "LargeType JS"

While cleaning out some folders in my harddrive this night I found some screenshots back from October 2007 I didn’t want to keep back.

The 2 following images show an occurence at Amazon.de, the german pendant homepage of the most famous allround-webshop. I’ve taken those while I was peeking around Amazon to see whether Leopard was ready for pre-order and if Tiger would be pricedropped. But they still only had Tiger in their assortement.

Except for…

Huh? Is that a sneaker? I want to see that in detail!

I swear that I didn’t touch those pictures to apply a cheap retouch or anything. It’s the actual webshop I was presented when browsing a category “Max OS X Tiger”.

Probably some product-to-image ID-interference thing occured there. No big thing of course…I’m sure Amazon fixed it the very same day.