Remains of the Day: Half-caf soy venti iMac

05.11.2010
Dan Moren's away, and Jason Snell outranks me, so I'm tackling the remainders for Friday, November 5, 2010.

(Kiwidee)

Old, forgotten iMacs never die. They just become caffeine dispensers. The crazy people at Kiwidee have come up with a way to turn your old candy iMac into a coffee dispenser. If you thought your Mac ran hot before, just wait till it's making scalding tasty beverages.

(Boy Genius Report)

If you think your old iMac is forgotten, just think of poor Ping. Ping, you likely don't recall, is Apple's iTunes-based social network that proves just calling your network "social" doesn't make it so. Boy Genius Reports, erm, reports... that Apple sent e-mails to iTunes users who haven't started Pinging, urging them to instead get their Ping thing on. Whether Apple's pinging non-Pingers will get Ping's bell dinging remains to be seen. (Perhaps, for Ping to truly sing, Apple will need to ring non-Pingers up and urge them to Ping.)

(Bloomberg)