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Guy Kawasaki on Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak [Video]
Check out this video clip of former Mac evangelist Guy Kawasaki talking about the varying personalities of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, and how they complemented each other to form a “potent package.” On Jobs, Kawasaki notes: He has a very interesting leadership style.. he’s very demanding, he’s often, shall I say, excessively truthful, and […]
Continue reading...Vintage Apple ad – Family Style [Photo]
16. September 2009
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And who says families into computers are dorky?
Continue reading...Steve Jobs on the birth of the iPhone
11. August 2009
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Steve Jobs on how the idea of the iPhone came to be. “We all had cellphones. We just hated them, they were so awful to use. The software was terrible. The hardware wasn’t very good. We talked to our friends, and they all hated their cellphones too. Everybody seemed to hate their phones. And we […]
Continue reading...A little bit of NeXt history fused into OS X
9. August 2009
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Check out this little bit of NeXt history fused into OS X. To take a snapshot of your entire computer screen, Mac users can press command-shift-3. And if users want to select a specific part of the screen to take a picture of, they can press command-shift-4. But, if you happen to be a fan […]
Continue reading...12 years ago today, Apple and Microsoft made amends, sort of [Video]
6. August 2009
12 years ago today, Steve Jobs delivered a keynote in Boston where he announced a number of new initiatives with its ole’ rival Microsoft and an end to the legal battle over Apple’s allegations that Microsoft illegally copied the “look and feel” of the Mac OS. In the video below, a non-turtleneck clad Jobs announced […]
Continue reading...“Hi, I’m Steve Jobs, and I have a present for you”
4. August 2009
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An Apple II? You shouldn’t have.
Continue reading...Evolution of Apple’s icons
3. August 2009
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The Apple Blog takes an interesting look at the evolution of Apple’s icons over the past few years. As someone who spent an inordinate amount of time using iMovie before it took a turn for the worse, I’ll always miss the old blue icon!
Continue reading...A look back at un-released Apple prototypes [Photo]
29. July 2009
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A new book from designer Harmut Esslinger of Frog Design gives us a small glimpse into Apple’s design process via photos and stories of Apple prototypes that never made it to market. Frog Design, in case you’re unaware, is a design company that was instrumental in churning out designs for number of popular Apple products […]
Continue reading...A look back at Steve Jobs’ history of saying “One more thing” [Video]
27. July 2009
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When Palm announced last week that their latest webOS update would re-enable syncing with iTunes, it took an overt jab at Apple CEO Steve Jobs when it made sure to reference the phrase “one more thing” in its blogpost. Jobs, of course, is well-known for using the phrase to build up suspense before making the […]
Continue reading...Apple’s 1987 promo video for “Knowledge Navigator”
20. July 2009
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Below is an Apple produced film from 1987 which takes a look at what the personal computer of the future might look like. The software here is called “Knowledge Navigator.” While some of the features are a bit silly, the video does showcase some technologies that are pretty similar to features available today, such as […]
Continue reading...Apple I Schematic [Photo]
19. July 2009
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Ever wonder what the Apple I schematic looks like? Well wonder no more.. Click below to enlarge the picture.
Continue reading...Steve Jobs on the meaning and importance of Computers [Video]
18. July 2009
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This is an old but timeless clip of a young Steve Jobs, who was then the CEO of NeXT, talking about how computing is a “bicycle for our minds.”
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16. September 2009
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