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Watch MacHeads documentary for free online
MacHeads is an entertaining and engrossing documentary about Apple’s loyal and rabid fanbase. The film’s producers summarize the project thusly: In 1985, Apple aired the commercial Macintosh the Computer for the Rest of Us offering the general public the possibility of using computers in their homes for the first time. MacHEADS follows the story of […]
Continue reading...How Steve Wozniak invented the Personal Computer [Video]
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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Check out this extremely enthusiastic and informative video of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak discussing how he developed the Apple I and the Apple II. Woz goes into interesting detail regarding his thought process at the time and how he and Steve Jobs up and decided to create Apple Computer. What’s also interesting is that the […]
Continue reading...Photo Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak circa 1979
Friday, November 27, 2009
A throwback photo from 1979 featuring a mustachioed Steve Jobs with a clean-cut and beardless Steve Wozniak on an Apple II. If there were ever a photo that highlighted the difference in personality, at least bac then, between Jobs and Woz, then this is it. Jobs is casually hovering around with shaggy hair, a mustache, […]
Continue reading...The first Apple Tablet… from 1979
Monday, November 23, 2009
Way back before programs like Photoshop roamed the earth, creating pictures on computers was far from a straightforward process. To make things a little bit easier, Apple released a Graphics Tablet in 1979 which enabled users to draw on the tablet with a wired stylus pen and transfer those creations over to their computer. The […]
Continue reading...Original Apple I is up for sale on eBay for $50,000!
Friday, November 20, 2009
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Apple fans tend to get nostalgic at the sight of any old Mac from the mid-80’s and early 90’s. But if you really want to go back in time, take a look at this eBay auction for an original motherboard from the Apple I – which was released all the way back in 1976 for […]
Continue reading...From the Vault: Promo video of the Twentieth Anniversary Mac
Thursday, November 12, 2009
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In 1997, Apple released a limited edition Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh. Sales of the machine were pretty sluggish, in large part due to its exorbitant $7,499 price tag. When Apple discontinued production about a year later, the asking price had dropped all the way down to $1,995. You might also remember that the twentieth anniversary mac […]
Continue reading...Rare photo of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
Friday, November 6, 2009
Check out this rare photo of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates discussing god knows what at Jobs’ Palo Alto home in 1991. Both Jobs and Gates were 36 at the time the photo was taken. Jobs, at the time, had already been forced out of Apple years earlier and was currently working at NeXT, which […]
Continue reading...How the iMac moniker and “Think Different” ad campaign came to be
Thursday, November 5, 2009
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CultofMac has a fascinating interview up with TBWA executive Ken Segall, the man partially responsible for the Think Different campaign in addition to starting the whole “i” trend that took over Apple’s product line going all the way back to the original Bondi Blue iMac. Segall describes that when Jobs returned to the helm of […]
Continue reading...From the iMac to the iPhone – video footage from every single one of Steve Jobs’ product introductions
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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MacLife put together this entertaining video montage of Steve Jobs announcing every single new Apple product since the original iMac all the way up to the iPhone 3GS and the recently refreshed iPod Nano.. And for you Apple nerds out there, yes, there is footage of Phil Schiller included as well. It’s interesting to take […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs return to Apple, and how Apple can survive against a swarm of Android devices
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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Jean-Louis Gassee has an interesting piece up analyzing the current battle for smartphone supremacy. Gassee, in case you’re unfamiliar, Gasse was a former Apple executive who occupied a number of high profile positions within the company during the 80’s. Before he was ousted by the Apple board in 1990, he was in charge of Apple’s […]
Continue reading...Lee Clow, mastermind behind Apple’s “Think Different” ad campaign steps down
Friday, October 30, 2009
One of the first orders of business at Apple when Steve Jobs returned was re-hiring the famed ad agency TBWA/Chiat/Day to handle Apple’s advertising. Lee Clow, who headed up the TBWA Media Arts Lab (which served as a special division within the company that focused on all things Apple) eventually helped create the award winning “Think Different” campaign that […]
Continue reading...A 1979 profile of Steve Jobs and Apple from Time Magazine
Friday, October 30, 2009
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In 1979, Time Magazine profiled a then young Apple Computer, along with its hotshot young co-founder, Steve Jobs. It’s always interesting to take a look back at where Apple came from, especially when you can gauge what the pulse on Apple was from within the pertinent time period itself. The funny thing is, in the […]
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
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