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Must-have apps: Mactracker

Are you looking for the best resource for technical data on both historic and new Apple products? The free Mactracker software for Mac and iOS is the answer…

“Finding The Next Steve Jobs”

“Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent” Author: Nolan Bushnell and Gene Stone Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ohter info: 256 pages; also available…

Mister Macintosh

In the Eighties a stylized little man with an overcoat and hat was etched on some early Macintosh motherboards and also appeared on some rare merchandising items. Known…

The first fonts of the Macintosh

During the summer of 1983, after spending more than six months creating symbols and icons for Macintosh files and menus, designer Susan Kare‘s attention turned to an issue…

Marvel Villains and Apple Technology

In issue 18 of Marvel‘s comicbook Secret Avengers the writer, Warren Ellis, makes a bit of fun of mobile computing and Apple software. The story, wonderfully illustrated by…

The PPC 603e: from Macs to outer space

The second generation of PowerPC processors made its debut in april 1995 with the launch of the all-in-one Power Macintosh 5200 LC (also known under the Performa moniker)….

The Macs of “Death Note”

Published by Shueisha in Japan (and by Viz Media in the US) “Death Note” is a thriller manga about a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook…

Mac OS 9: still alive and kicking after 15 years

Apple introduced Mac OS 9, the last edition of the “classic” Mac OS line, in 1999 and buried it less than three years after in May 2002, at…

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so su mi

In 1990, during the development of the new Macintosh operating system software, System 7, Apple Computers was being sued by Beatles’ Apple Corps. The two Apples had an…

“Where did the computer go?”

When, at the end of August 2004, Apple introduced the new iMac G5, Philip Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, stated that “A lot of people…

Stories of Apple is on Tumblr

If you love Apple’s history and want more there’s another resource: the brand new and official account of Stories of Apple on Tumblr. As stated in the description,…

Susan Kare, Iconographer

I seldom post videos, but yesterday I had the pleasure to view a presentation that anyone using Macintoshes (or digital devices) simply has to see. It’s called Susan…

A Pencil Test for the Macintosh II

Introduced in March 1987, the Macintosh II was the ultimate Mac for professionals. Based on the new 68020 processor, it was the first 32-bit Mac (although it was…

Two great Apple-retro-styled items: the Disk II SD Card Reader and the Classic Macintosh iPod Nano Dock

The world of retrocomputing (or computing history, if you wish) and modern tech products seldom meet. I have been asked a few times to haw^^advertise new products for…

The birth of Photoshop

At the end of 1988 Steve Schaffran, founder and Chief Operating Officer of Barneyscan, a California start-up that had just introduced one of the first high-quality 24-bit color film…

At Apple, The Times They Are a-Changin’

“We’re starting to do some things differently”. That’s what Phil Schiller supposedly said in February 2012 to blogger John Gruber at a one-to-one media briefing for the upcoming…

The Apple iPod by HP

On January 8, 2004, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina brandished a blue device and proudly announced a deal with Apple. The…