Stories of Apple – The Apple III, Steve Jobs and Jerry Manock
Apple’s first computer designed for the enterprise market, the first not engineered by Steve Wozniak. And Infinite Loop’s first major failure
Apple’s first computer designed for the enterprise market, the first not engineered by Steve Wozniak. And Infinite Loop’s first major failure
An ironic and engrossing contemporary revisitation of the myth of Heracles, the prototype of the hero, and of his bloody struggle against fate >> Leggi il resto “The Hero: Heracles according to David Rubìn”
After five years Cameron Kaiser and his acclaimed port of the industry-leading Firefox web browser are “still out there keeping your Power Mac relevant in an Intel world”.
On the importance of the Lisa/Mac XL during the early years of the Macintosh’s life.
How to be even smarter when using the online service Buffer to share stuff on social networks and media, in five easy steps. >> Leggi il resto “A few Buffer hacks”
(Yes, there’s actually nothing in the image / No, non c’è nulla di intellegibile nell’immagine)
40 years ago, on July 29th, 1975, Steve Wozniak booted up for the first time the computer he designed and built on his own.
The secret history of the project to build a modular and easily expandible computer system capable of running Apple II, Mac, UNIX and DOS software
An incredibly useful tool for historians, collectors, hobbbyists, resellers, service providers, IT support professionals and just plain users
A book about finding and fostering creativity and innovation written by Nolan Bushnell, “the first and only boss Steve Jobs ever had”
The story of the abandoned mascot of the Macintosh, drawn by belgian artist Folon
How Susan Kare created Chicago and other historic Apple digital typefaces
Did you know that… in issue 18 of Marvel‘s comicbook Secret Avengers the writer, Warren Ellis, makes a bit of fun of mobile computing and Apple software?
How the second generation of PowerPC CPUs first stumbled and then successfully jumped aboard Macintosh laptops, satellites and many other devices.
A list of Apple products appearing in the “Death Note” manga, chapter by chapter, with technical notes and pictures.
Despite an official sendoff, the “old” OS has refused to rest “in the great bit bucket in the sky” where Apple and its iCEO so hastily tried to put it.
The iMac G5, launched ten years ago, was not only a masterpiece of technological miniaturization but also a statement in design simplicity, the latest step in a path started in 1984.
A video from the EG Conference starring the artist who, in the early 80s, conceived and drew much of the initial iconography for the “computer for the rest of us”.
From 1988 a computer-animated funny short created by Apple (and Pixar people) to show off the graphics prowess of their Macintosh II line of computers.
Another tongue-in-cheek translation from PR-talk, by yours truly. >> Leggi il resto “What does “We’re retiring your current LinkedIn iPad app” really mean”