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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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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. … More
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 … More
January 10, 2006
Enough about the keynote already. Ok, maybe not quite yet. I have to get this out of my system… MacBook Pro? What kind of lame-butt, patronizing brandsludge is that? Feh. I guess Jonathan Ive doesn’t sit in on the product branding meetings. If somebody nonmenclated one of my hardware designs like that, I’d have to … More
June 5, 2003
Just like me, you were right ripped that Apple’s ‘improvements’ to iTunes disabled internet music sharing. Part of the wonderfulness of music sharing was being able to listen to your home-based library at work, and now that flexibility was gone. Well, it really didn’t take very long for James Speth (of iCommune fame) to slap … More
April 2, 2003
John Siracusa has written numerous enlightening articles about OS X going back to the early developer previews. This week he specifically takes the OS X Finder to task for not being a successful spatial user environment. About the Finder… isn’t so much about slamming the obvious problems and interface widgets that everyone loves to hate, … More
February 27, 2003
… please turn off the backlight? The title of this post refers to a popular email signature that floats around on the NewtonTalk mailing list. I mention it not only because it’s oddly appropriate given what day it is, but it’s somewhat ironic as well. Today marks the fifth anniversary of Steve Jobs’ questionable decision … More