Posted in Apple, Audio, iPad, Video on Apr 12th, 2012 1 Comment »
Rob Schmitz does a Marketplace story Foxconn and how they assemble Apple products. Marketplace is a radio show so many of Rob’s pieces are audio only with image slide shows to go with them. Here’s one on the workers who make iPads: The people behind your iPad: The workers. Note: Rob is the person who [...]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, Process, Tech Stuff on Apr 3rd, 2012 3 Comments »
I’ve been using an Apple Magic Mouse for a while and it works quite well for me, until, it doesn’t. Let me explain. Bluetooth connection The Magic Mouse connects to one’s Macintosh computer via Bluetooth, a short range wireless protocol. I routinely carry my MacBook Pro to other places in my house leaving my Magic [...]
Posted in Apple, NPR, Opinion, People on Mar 16th, 2012 7 Comments »
A while ago the outstanding NPR radio show This American Life ran an excerpt of Mike Daisey’s one man show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs in which Daisey talks about a trip he made to China where he stood outside the Foxconn factory where Apple, Dell, and other companies have their devices [...]
Posted in Apple, Audio, iPad on Mar 8th, 2012 6 Comments »
Fat Wireless: iPad 3rd Generation Dan Benjamin is joined by Marco Arment of Instapaper.com and Horace Dediu of Asymco.com to discuss the just-announced Apple iPad 3rd Generation. Anyone considering a new iPad should listen to this. It’s long (1 hour, 14 minutes) but well worth it.
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Video on Feb 16th, 2012 12 Comments »
I’m using the beta of Messages (demoed in the video) and its great. Looks like the rest of it is great too. The new Notes app looks like it might be the end of Simplenote…. not sure yet but it looks likely.
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, Social Software, Texting on Feb 16th, 2012 4 Comments »
Apple has finally started to unify their instant messaging universe. Many of us have been using iChatAV for years and have come to depend on it. Not everyone signed up and had an AIM account in the early days (AOL was and remains disdained by the power user types) although in time Apple allowed the [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, Opinion on Feb 9th, 2012 2 Comments »
Youths Are Watching, but Less Often on TV Just ask Jay Rishel, a system administrator in York, Pa., whose son Cory, 4, has become accustomed to watching television via Roku, a small box that streams shows through the Internet. On Tuesday night, Cory asked his dad if he had watched television via Roku growing up. [...]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, People, Stories on Feb 8th, 2012 2 Comments »
iWitness Jerry Manock is the industrial designer who designed the Apple II, Apple III and first Macintosh. This is a wonderful piece that’s no doubt come out because of Walter Isaacson’s book: Steve Jobs. Manock is a great guy, very humble yet he was in the middle of the push to ship the first Macintosh [...]
Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Video on Jan 20th, 2012 No Comments »
Marshall Soulful Jones, part of Team Nuyorican 2011, 2nd place finishers at the National Poetry Slam in Boston, perform “Touchscreen”. The Bowery Poetry Club NY. Brilliant, down to the head movement. [via wimp.com]
Posted in Apple, Art and Design, Cartoons, Humor on Jan 12th, 2012 2 Comments »
From: MastersInIt.org I wonder if tongue in cheek infographics like this reinforce and amplify stereotypes. Either way, it’s fun to read down the list. Guess I’m geek. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Apple, Gadgets, Tech Stuff, Video on Jan 11th, 2012 4 Comments »
Google TV product manager Rishi Chandra: ‘Android is going to be a successful operating system on TVs’ Watch the video. Nilay Patel interviews Rishi Chandra on GoogleTV, Android’s future as an OS for televisions, cable boxes, DVRs, and other TV add-ons. Not a single mention of AppleTV, iOS, or any of Apple’s work in this [...]
Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jan 9th, 2012 4 Comments »
Guy English: How I’d Build an Apple Television Set The piece of Guy’s essay that appeals to me most is this: So if you’re in an Apple based household the odds are good that your new Apple TV will be able to talk to one of your other devices and get the required network info [...]
Posted in Apple, Ideas, iPhone, Tech Stuff on Dec 19th, 2011 4 Comments »
Apple’s Work on Wearable Computer Concepts Includes Wrist-Wrapping iPod with Siri Imagine an iPod Nano wristwatch that’s also a bluetooth-connected communicator. Makes perfect sense, the question isn’t if Apple will make this, more like when. Not sure I want to have even a short phone conversation talking to my wrist but for some things I [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Process on Dec 16th, 2011 1 Comment »
Samsung’s New Texas Factory for A5 Chip Production Now Fully Operational If you don’t think Apple is making a lot of iOS devices, read the numbers on this: Samsung built a 1.6 million square foot, $3.6 billion plant in Austin, Texas to build Apple A5 processor chips for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 devices. Since [...]
Posted in Apple, Macintosh, People, Video on Dec 15th, 2011 No Comments »
This is by far the best of the documentaries on Jobs and early Apple. It’s an hour long, make the time to see it, it’s well worth it. [via Kottke.org]
Posted in Apple, iPhone on Dec 6th, 2011 3 Comments »
Apple’s Retail Self-Checkout Doing Well, Strong Promotion Coming at Grand Central Apple has an iPhone app called Apple Store that’s grown to not only help you locate the nearest Apple store and schedule a genius appointment but it also allows iPhone 4 and 4S users to easily buy things in any Apple store using “Easy [...]
Posted in Apple, Opinion, People, Video on Dec 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
Steve Jobs talking about how he sees the world and the amazing thing is, his life and accomplishments are a testament to what he says here. He really did it. [via PetaPixel]
Posted in Apple, Art and Design, Macintosh, People on Nov 25th, 2011 No Comments »
The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face I first posted about Susan Kare here: Making the Macintosh Project but I’ve known about her since the mid-1980′s because both her icon and font designs were the “face” of the original Macintosh and stayed with us for close to ten years. [...]
Posted in Apple, Opinion, People, Video on Nov 12th, 2011 No Comments »
Fascinating panel discussion at The Churchill Club with Bill Atkinson, Jean-Louis Gassée, Andy Hertzfeld, Regis McKenna, Deborah Stapleton, and Larry Tesler moderated by Paul Freiberger. Jean-Louis is incredible (as always). [via Richard Koch]
Posted in Apple, iPad, Politics, Process on Nov 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Voting by iPad in Oregon on Tuesday Election workers are taking the iPads to disabled voters who might otherwise have difficulties marking their ballots, the AP wrote. These voters are able to pull up the ballot on the iPad and tap the screen to mark the candidate of their choice before printing out their completed [...]
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