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The Apple tablet that never was
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has the inside scoop on a little-known Apple project called the Apple Pen Mac, an Apple tablet project whose humble beginnings stretch back all the way to 1990. The Pen Mac, Arrington writes, “was a fully functional Mac computer with a pen based touch screen.” It’s described as being smaller than […]
Continue reading...10 years ago today, Apple released OS 9
Friday, October 23, 2009
On October 23, 1999, Apple released OS 9 (codename: Sonata), and I have fond memories (well, memories) of trucking over to my college bookstore and picking up a copy. I even remember that the cover of the box was green. Some of the new features introduced in OS 9 included the introduction of automatic system […]
Continue reading...Original Apple I signed by Woz fetches $18,000 on eBay
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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Talk about shelling out some serious cash for a piece of nostalgia, someone on eBay just purchased an original Apple I signed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak for a whopping 18 grand. And according to the seller, he’s not even sure that it still works! The eBay product description notes: I do not know if […]
Continue reading...Guy Kawasaki on Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak [Video]
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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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]
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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And who says families into computers are dorky?
Continue reading...Steve Jobs on the birth of the iPhone
Tuesday, August 11, 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
Sunday, August 9, 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]
Thursday, August 6, 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”
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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An Apple II? You shouldn’t have.
Continue reading...Evolution of Apple’s icons
Monday, August 3, 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]
Wednesday, July 29, 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]
Monday, July 27, 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 […]
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
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