Notwithstanding Apple ’s long and heterogeneous output there is a constant in its promotional iconography: the use of hands. Here are some examples taken from a very wide spectrum of Apple products, strategies and eras.
A chat with with John T. Draper, better known as Captain Crunch, a man whose work and life are deeply intertwined with the history of hacking, phreaking and the personal computer industry.
He's one of the many important and talented developers in Apple history and also a key to its prominent position in the music business. Let's take a look why.
On the 30th of November 2003 Apple opened its first retail store outside the United States, in Tokyo's Ginza district.
If you take a look at Apple’s output of information and promotional material there is one thing that stands out: the prominent use of hands.
A list of awkward, risky or just puzzling statements to press and online media from musicians, authors and music business people.
Here’s a short visual guide (with links) to some audio and music software available for free on the iPhone and iPod touch:
>> Leggi il resto “A guide to iTouch audio apps”
Here’s the translation in english of my presentation at the microcamp 2008 which took place in Milan last saturday.
Altough the most of my background material (here on nezmar.com) is in Italian I tought I could at the least make the effort to publish an english version of the slideshow I did on how to use del.icio.us’ bookmarking to manage, share and easily publish you (micro)content.
Here it is:
Feel free to use (and inspect the HTML code in the linked webpages)
For me it all began last year with ydn-delicious {at} yahoogroups(.)com/msg03572.html">a message on the Yahoo! Developer Network del.icio.us mailing list. 
In the message, thefangmonster[0] was introducing a a bookmarklet to make easier the saving of a particular tag when adding bookmarks on del.icious.
This particular tag is the “via:” one which is “intended to be a corollary to the for: tag, albeit an unofficial one”. It is in fact a totally unofficial tag[1], which nonetheless may help immensely in giving credit (whereand if credit is due) and keeping track of who your links are coming from.
How does it work?
As you can see it’s a small addition that can be very useful if you’re a writer (like me) or researcher, if you are interested in the inherent “social” features of bookmarking or simply if you like to think credits (and thanks) should have their a place on del.icio.us
Notes:
[0] who I’d like to thank for the epiphany
[1] although ydn-delicious {at} yahoogroups(.)com/msg00799.html">mentioned in summer 2005 in an offhand remark by del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter.
[2] who also has a del.icio.us account.
[3] which after all should be expected since it looks like he got the original idea to use via: tags at the beginning of 2005
Best known for a series of posts on Sun’s ZFS filesystems, Drew Thaler has worked on many projects at Infinite Loop in the last decade. Now at Sony, he tells us a bit about what he did at Apple, its technologies and inner workings.
A timeline of artists or band that recently left major music labels to start releasing or distributing in first person or chose to give away their work or just to side with new industry players. >> Leggi il resto “MusicBlob – 2007: escape from (music) majors”
Short Q&A with Adrian Ulrich, the new maintainer of a Linux distro based on Slackware but for PowerPC hardware (Apple but not just Apple).
Adrian Ulrich has restarted the Slackintosh project and is again providing (together with Marco Bonetti) a Slackware distribution for Apple (and non-Apple) RISC-powered hardware. We contacted him for a short interview to ask him what happened, what is his role and what is the distribution’s status.
It took me almost two months but I more or less managed to read Kurt Vonnegut‘s novel Galapagos. >> Leggi il resto “Kurt Vonnegut’s Galapagos”
Listed in a Monkey Bites piece there are some ways to implement under Mac OS X a well-known* function of Windows: i.e. create new empty files in the OS (filesystem), not through the applications.
I’d like to add that there are other ways to do it:
a) Install OnMyCommand and then download one of the scripts, among which there is one to make new (empty) files
b) follow this “New Empty File Tutorial” hosted on the OnMyCommand web site to build a contextual plugin.
* Frankly I have many doubts on the real usefulness and usability of it, nonetheless, it can be done even on a Macintosh, as you can see.
I. e. there's no need to use the inbox or external services and tools to aggregate more tags: del.icio.us does it all with "+" between the words. >> Leggi il resto “.nezmar. » delicious aggregation”
I got an email from Yahoo! Looks like I was right and the strange problem which affects del.icio.us, mixed case user names and the “for:” tags is a bug, after all.
"[…] when the user name isn’t written exactly (ie using the exact and same upper and lower case(s)) as the name in the network the for: tag fails to work."