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January 28, 2010
A functioning prototype of Apple’s larger, tablet-style Newton — code named “Cadillac”. This device is part of a collection I obtained from Russ Uzes several years ago. Russ originally purchased it on eBay from a company called Mac-Pro Systems. When asked about the device’s history, they told him … “We just found the Cadillac in … Read the rest of this item
January 15, 2007
You have to admire Leander Kahney. He has a nose for news, especially when it relates to anything ‘of the cult’, as it were. Case in point, who would be the first group you’d survey for a reaction to the iPhone announcement? Why a bunch of Newton users, of course. What demographic would embody the … Read the rest of this item
January 9, 2007
After the ground-shaking, bladder-emptying, adrenaline rush of this morning’s rather interesting announcement, Mr Haughey makes an astute observation. Why is something as mundane as a product announcement so exciting and important to us? Because Apple is the new NASA, that’s why. Matt, thank you from one Apple fanboy to another. Thank you for putting into … Read the rest of this item
October 26, 2006
Apple unveiled a revamped .Mac webmail today. As expected, it’s chock full of delicious Ajaxy goodness and mimics quite a bit of the functionality of their desktop Mail application. The .Mac Address Book gets a swift kick in the interface as well. I’ve documented some of the major changes in this Flickr photoset. The best … Read the rest of this item
August 9, 2006
They have some nerve scheduling the WWDC the exact same week as TypeCon this year. What were they thinking down in Cupertino? Don’t they realize that some of us folks love hobnobbing with the geekerati about upcoming operating systems and new Mac hardware just as much as rubbing elbows with the typographic cognoscenti? Apparently not. … Read the rest of this item
March 31, 2006
Do you know that feeling you get when some Crazy Apple Rumors Site quotes you so far out of context, that your head spins around on your shoulders and you end up thinking you actually may have said something like that to someone? Well, now I do too. And although they may have been uttered … Read the rest of this item
March 23, 2001
In the earlier releases of Mac OS X, there was a curious little fellow that lived in the Fonts panel called the “Buy Fonts” button. A few eyebrows were raised and collective mumblings were shared between onlookers of the typographic variety, and then the “Buy Fonts” button quietly slid out of view and out of … Read the rest of this item
March 6, 2001
Building fonts for dead computing platforms. That’s what I think I should dedicate more of my waking hours to. And to start it off this evening, I installed Apple’s Newton Toolkit (NTK). Along with a plethora of standard programming environment goodliness, NTK allows you to take existing Mac OS bitmap typefaces and turn them into … Read the rest of this item
September 5, 2000
If you’re anything like me (and I pity your loved ones if you are), you’re the type of person that just can’t seem to stuff enough ephemeral Macintosh knowledge into your limited cranial cavity. Well, now is the time to start up the trash compactor because we’ve got to make room for the historical background … Read the rest of this item
April 6, 2000
And like all good open source projects, Darwin has a to do list. Support for older Macs you say? My Quadra 950 is just shimmying with anticipation.