Archive | January, 2009
Latest iPhone Ad features new applications
Apple’s latest iPhone ad features applications that can help you find a cab in any city in the world, figure out how to divy up a check, and even use your iPhone as a level to help you balance a bookshelf. While these apps aren’t new to the app store, they’re the latest in a […]
Continue reading...Apple awarded multi-touch patent
27. January 2009
Apple was recently awarded a patent on its application for a “Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics.” The patent application, as a whole, stretches back to 2006 and covers a wide variety of multi-touch implementations on the iPhone. With the granting of this patent, which comes in […]
Continue reading...Funny comment spam
26. January 2009
I got some amusing comment spam earlier today. It reads, “I think your blog need a new wordpress template. Downalod it from http://genericwpthemes.com. The site has nice and unique wordpress templates” Aside from the obvious misspelling of the word ‘Download’, how stupid do you have to be to advertise “nice and unique” wordpress templates with […]
Continue reading...Interviews with Andy Hertzfeld and Steve Wozniak [Video]
26. January 2009
Check out this video interview with one of the key software developers of the original Macintosh, Andy Hertzfeld. Part of that spirit of.. the original Macintosh was the open ended nature, it was not a finished product, but a vehicle to put your own creativity to… More than any specific design element, it’s the spirit […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs demos the first Macintosh [video]
25. January 2009
Check out this clip of Steve Jobs, sporting an interesting bowtie, demoing the first Mac back in 1984. Note the humor in the presentation, the jab at IBM, and the audience reaction to Jobs’ showmanship and the Mac itself. It’s extremely reminiscent of when Steve Jobs first introduced and demoed the iPhone in 2007. If […]
Continue reading...Flashback: Steve Jobs writes on the original Mac
25. January 2009
25 years ago, Apple introduced the Macintosh computer to the world. 25 years ago, Steve Jobs wrote a brief essay in Macworld about the work done on and the significance of the Macintosh. The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for […]
Continue reading...A different point of view – Maybe Apple wasn’t threatening Palm after all
24. January 2009
Daniel Eran Dilger of RoughlyDrafted has an interesting article up arguing that Tim Cook did not, in fact, make a thinly veiled threat against Palm. While most other tech sites are already up in arms predicting litigation between the two tech companies (and showing no knowledge of the patent system in the process), Dilger takes […]
Continue reading...Zune sales drop by 54%, down $100 million from last year
24. January 2009
All is not well over in Redmond. Fresh off the news that Microsoft would be laying off 5,000 employees, Engadget dug up an interesting tidbit in Microsofts quarterly filing that sheds some light on everyone’s favorite brown MP3 player. According to figures released by Microsoft, revenue from Zune sales decreased by $100 million from the […]
Continue reading...Obama team used to working on Macs are shocked to find antiquated Windows systems in the White House
24. January 2009
The Washington Post had an interesting article earlier this week highlighting some of the technological hurdles the Obama team is encountering as it begins to set up shop in the White House. One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it […]
Continue reading...Clarence Thomas sleeping during the inauguration?
24. January 2009
Not on topic, but this was too funny to pass up.
Continue reading...“The Day Steve Jobs Showed Me the First Mac”
23. January 2009
Michael J. Miller has an interesting piece over at PC Mag describing the first time he laid eyes upon a Macintosh Computer. In the fall of 1983, I was working on the west coast for Popular Computing , and my editor asked me to go down to Cupertino to see the work Apple was doing […]
Continue reading...Apple settles ‘scratched iPod Nano’ class action suit for $22.5 million
23. January 2009
Apple today agreed to a $22.5 million settlement in a class-action suit alleging that the first generation iPod Nano contained a manufacturing or design defect which caused the display to scratch up too easily. The suit alleges that Apple was aware of the defect but purposefully misled consumers by not disclosing this to potential purchasers. […]
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27. January 2009
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