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Apple hands over MacPaint source code to the Computer History Museum
Apple has handed over the source code to MacPaint, the first drawing program for the Mac, over to the Computer History Museum. Released in 1984 and coded by Bill Atkinson, MacPaint pioneered many features that would eventually become standard on nearly every graphics editor. Some of these features include the lasso tool for selecting irregular shaped areas and [...]
Continue reading...“I lovingly leave Apple in your care. Good luck, I’ll be cheering from the sidelines.”
Sunday, July 11, 2010
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So said former Apple CEO Gil Amelio in his resignation letter sent to Apple employees on July 9, 1997. Since moving on from Apple 13 years ago, Amelio now works as a venture capitalist at Sienna Ventures. To Apple employees everywhere, Today, Apple announced my resignation as chairman and CEO of Apple Computer, effective immediately. I will [...]
Continue reading...Ron Wayne, the third and forgotten co-founder of Apple
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
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Contrary to popular belief, there were actually three Apple co-founders of Apple Computer. While everyone’s heard of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, not everyone is familiar with Ron Wayne. Wayne, who is now 76, initially met Steve Jobs while they were both employed by Atari. When Jobs and Wozniak up and decided to create Apple (though [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs explains that the iPhone actually began as a tablet project
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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As expected, Steve Jobs’ interview at Tuesday’s All Things D conference was an in-depth and rich affair that touched on a number of interesting topics. While we’ll have more in-depth coverage later on, one particularly interesting exchange centered on how the iPhone came to be, and how it actually sprung up from work on developing [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs to take the stage at D8 Conference tomorrow night with Kara Swisher
Monday, May 31, 2010
Forget WWDC for a moment, because Steve Jobs is set to appear onstage at the D8 conference tomorrow night for an interview with Kara Swisher of All Things D. At previous All Things Digital conferences attended by Jobs, Apple’s stalwart leader talked openly about almost anything asked by Walt Mossberg, who curiously won’t be part of the [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs, a Powermac G5, and “Premature Specification”
Friday, May 28, 2010
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In late June of 2003, Apple goofed when it posted the specs for its upcoming Powermac G5 up on its website a few days ahead of schedule. So when WWDC finally rolled around a few days later, Steve Jobs had a little bit of fun with the “leak” and noted that, inside Apple, they were now referring [...]
Continue reading...When Adobe refused to develop video software for the Mac
Monday, May 17, 2010
From a 2005 Fortune piece on Apple and the impetus for its development of Final Cut Pro and iMovie: But a 1998 meeting in which Jobs asked Adobe Systems executives to develop a Mac version of their consumer video-editing program changed his mind. “They said flat-out no,” Jobs recalls. “We were shocked, because they had been [...]
Continue reading...Photos: Historic Apple prototypes
Saturday, May 15, 2010
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MacRumors points us to these historic Apple prototypes from back in the day. Up first, a clear cased Apple mouse reportedly given to a few Apple employees.
Continue reading...Rare video of Steve Jobs with Walt Mossberg from D1 and D2 conferences
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
With Steve Jobs scheduled to take the stage at this years All Things D Conference in June, the publication has released somewhat rare videos of Jobs’ conversations with Walt Mossberg from the D1 and D2 conferences in 2003 and 2004 respectively. The last times Jobs appeared on stage with Mossberg and co. was in 2007 [...]
Continue reading...Why Apple prefers to control its own destiny
Monday, May 3, 2010
Apple’s been on the receiving end of a lot of criticism in light of its updated developer agreement which prohibits the use of cross platform compilers such as the Flash-to-iPhone compiler found in the recently released CS 5. Apple’s actions have been labeled anti-competitive, with some calling Apple downright evil, and their latest moves have [...]
Continue reading...Old Apple Ad - The Internet
Sunday, May 2, 2010
An old Apple ad about changing the world that has the 1990’s written all over it. Back then, it was still called the “Macintosh.”
Continue reading...From Alan Kay’s Dynabook to the Apple iPad
Friday, April 30, 2010
What you’re looking at above might seem like an early to mid-90’s predecessor to the iPad, but you might be surprised to learn that the device, called the Dynabook, was conceptualized in 1968 by famed computer scientist Alan Kay. The device was envisioned as an educational tool and was naturally geared towards children, as evidenced [...]
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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