Links tagged with “apple”
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It’s Lowtime — Observations on Apple’s September event | Riccardo Mori
“My impression that Apple is severely removed from how actual people use their phones is reinforced every time they show a short video to illustrate how certain features work.” (via Michael Tsai)
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Apple Fitness+ Studios Behind the Scenes: From Start to Finish | DC Rainmaker
Lots of info about how all the workouts are planned, rehearsed, filmed, and edited. Fascinating.
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Montaigne
Turns a folder in your Apple Notes into a website (with RSS feed). (via @gilest@mastodon.me.uk)
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Infinite Mac
A working System 7 Mac (and macos8.app too) in my browser. With games. Amazing. (via @benbrown)
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LEM Swap UK | Low End Mac
Maybe this is a good place to find a home for some of those old OS/application CDs I still have… (via Ask MetaFilter)
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Graphing Calculator Story
I don’t think I knew this before, and it’s much better than I expected “How the Mac’s graphing calculator was made” to be.
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General Magic: Oral History of the Influential Tech Company
“Oral history” seems to mean “interviews broken into tiny snippets to give the impression of a conversation” but this excerpt of a book is still good. I remember that interface from an early Wired article.
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An oral history of ‘Get a Mac,’ Part 1 | Campaign US
A good read, that mainly reminds me I need some more John Hodgeman in my life. (via @antimega)
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Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple - The New Yorker
Long profile and interview with Ive from around the launch of the Apple Watch.
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ITUNES TERMS AND CONDITIONS: The Graphic Novel
Very good. And even only recognising a handful of the comic artists copied, it’s great just as an example of how many different ways you can draw a black-and-white comic. (via @yoz)
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How Apple Makes the Watch — Atomic Delights
An explanation of the shots in Apple’s video about making their Watch, for those of us who know little about manufacturing or how impressive the processes might be. (via Tom Taylor)
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Mini vMac - early Macintosh emulator
Haven’t tried it, but looks good/handy/fun. (via One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age)
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[Updated] The rise and fall of personal computing | asymco
Just spent a while trying to find these graphs, having seen them once before. So now they’re here. Really interesting, market share of computing platforms since 1975.
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Apple’s design problems aren’t skeuomorphic « counternotions
A really good look at the more fundamental problems with iOS and OS X, how that compares with the old days when the Human Interface Guidelines were the law, and whether one person, Ive, can really keep on top of such a wide range of potential problems. (via Daring Fireball)
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Apple’s 1980s clothing catalogue in pictures - Telegraph
I expect everyone has or will link to this, but I bet I’ll want to look at it again at some point. Also, supports my idea that anything from, say, 15+ years ago that appears online looks *very* old.
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Building and dismantling the Windows advantage | asymco
Blimey, those are quite some graphs, showing ratio of Windows:Mac, and Windows:Apple sales over time. (via Daring Fireball)
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Apple Map Tiles
A viewer for Apple’s new map tiles, as used in iPhoto on iOS. I quite like some of it - a nice change from the norm - but if I could change only one thing… those italicised place names are *hideous*.
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“Secret” Firmware lets Late ‘08 MacBooks use 8GB. | Other World Computing Blog
Ooh, blimey, looks like I could double the RAM in my three-year-old MacBook. (via Tom Taylor)
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Are you listening, Steve Jobs? « BirdAbroad
Wow - almost entirely convincing fake Apple Stores in China. So convincing (unless you’re a bit too obsessed with Apple’s typography etc) even the employees think they work for Apple. (via Haddock)
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You Can’t Innovate Like Apple — Pragmatic Marketing
About how Apple designs products, but particularly for the bit about designing 10 very finished designs, and the brainstorm/production meetings. (via @paulpod)
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Daring Fireball: Yet Another in the Ongoing Series Wherein I Examine a Piece of Supposedly Serious Apple Analysis From a Major Media Outlet and Dissect Its Inaccuracies, Fabrications, and Exaggerations Point-by-Point, Despite the Fact That No Matter How E
Are there sites that pick apart UK press stories with the same rigour and humour that Gruber uses when filleting Appple-oriented nonsense? I want to read them if so.
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Orbicule | Undercover | F.A.Q.
Fascinating software and service to help trace your Mac if it’s stolen. Even sounds vaguely feasible. (via Daring Fireball)
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Doonesbury (db930827.gif)
“Egg freckles?” To save me finding it again.
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Apple - Pro - Tips - Become the Ultimate Menu Master
I never knew that. If only I could get a Control key working on my non-Apple external keyboard.
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Hawk Wings
Apple Mail blog. I was thinking of switching to Apple Mail from Eudora when I saved this link, but probably won’t now. But just in case…
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While Supplies Last
RSS feeds for the refurbished items available at US, UK and Canadian online Apple Stores.
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Michael Tsai - Blog - My New Backup Strategy
I’m always intrigued by other people’s Mac backup strategies.
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FixIt Guide - FixIt Guide Series
Very clear step-by-step guides to replacing various parts of your PowerBook or iBook.
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NewtVNC: VNC for the Newton
Been meaning to get round to trying this for ages now.
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HOW-TO: Turn your Mac mini into a media center - Engadget - www.engadget.com
As the comments say: pointless, bandwagon-jumping use of a Mac Mini that will be hidden in another room.
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PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column - Dethroning King Gillette
Robert X. Cringely (and correspondents) on the Mac Mini and where it could lead.
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ifo Apple Store - Regent Street Grand Opening!
I despair of humanity. Idiots fly around the world to sleep on the street for the opening of a shop.
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NeXT Screenshot
Steve Jobs introduces you to
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Panic - Extras - The True Story of Audion
Cabel Sasser on the story of developing Audion and the emergence of iTunes. A long but great read.
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Matt’s PowerBook problems
I love using Macs, mostly. But Apple’s customer service is atrocious. Good luck Matt.
