so inspiring. I specifically love #9.
“Jobs’s genius is in managing the creative process. Here’s his playbook”
Source: Steve Jobs: His 10 Commandments - The Daily Beast by Leander Kahney
Posted August 31, 2011 at 1:32pm in apple mac steve jobs creative process 10 commandments creativity work inspiring
American as Apple π: Defragging the First 35 Years of Personal Computing
On this, the occasion of the 35th birthday of personal computing — or rather — the 35th anniversary of the birth of the Apple I computer, I bugged my friend Craig of @S33Light to recount some of his personal computing history for my hinternetz. I often enjoy these anecdotes from him, but I thought others could too & his story is as American as (techy) Apple Pie.
Below, I’ve edited his piece freely, bolding my favorite parts, placing some content into footnotes & adding pics and my commentary as I pleased. Hope you enjoy! //
I had been exposed to computers before anyone else I knew. The first time was in the mid 70s when my friend’s dad had brought home a briefcase with an acoustic coupler modem and a printer in it. He showed us how to put the phone receiver in the rubber cradle and dial the 800 number for it to connect. You knew it was connected when the printer began spewing type out on a roll of paper. I grew up with an electric typewriter in the house so the keyboard was familiar, but it was interesting to me that this one provided only plastic to tap rather than a small steel hammer snapping down with a life of it’s own. I don’t remember a screen, but I remember playing ELIZA and Lunar Lander on it for several hours on a couple of occasions.
In 1977, I had never heard of ‘Silicon Valley’ or Apple computers. I recall watching the premiere of Star Wars at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood [1] that summer.Had I known that somewhere in Northern California, the real science fiction future had been born in the form of 200 brand new Apple 1 computers 18 months earlier (on April 11, 1976), I would probably have run away from home to see what those guys were up to — that real life Star Wars adventure they were beginning.
Posted April 11, 2011 at 11:33pm in Apple Apple II Apple II series Hollywood Macintosh Northern California Silicon Valley Star Wars Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak computing geek tech technology TRS-80 Hardware Personal computer
Posted March 16, 2011 at 3:00pm in hacking times square art geek TS2AS hack iphone tech mobile hacker advertising mod video apple
PARALLELS? PARA LULZ!!
Former Microsoft exec to run co that gets people to shift to Mac!!! Hilariously bad Photoshop Cyborg hand ahoy!!! ( dedicated to @saracera)
Full story via Venturebeat
Posted February 23, 2011 at 5:08pm in Microsoft PC Photoshop apple computers funny geeks mac parallels Adobe Photoshop Macintosh Business Microsoft Windows
Mobile App Market Will Continue To Be Where It’$ @!
The total mobile app market anticipated to be worth $25 Bil by 2015!
Details:
A new report from MarketsandMarkets indicates that the total global mobile applications market is expected to be worth $25 billion by 2015, up from about $6.8 billion in 2010, with a compound annual growth rate of 29.6 percent from 2009 to 2014. Apple’s App Store is projected to hold nearly 20.5 percent of the global market by 2015. Though Asia is the largest market in terms of mobile app downloads with 36 percent, North America led the market since 2009 with a 41.6 percent revenue share. The European mobile applications market stood at $1.2 billion in 2009, but is expected to become the largest market by 2015 at $8.4 billion and growing at a CAGR of 33.6 percent from 2010 to 2015.
(Source: TechCrunch, 1/18/2011)
Or in other words:
if this is news to you, you might be living under a rock! still, nice benchmark #s. now the question is, what phone will you have in 2015?
Posted January 18, 2011 at 2:07pm in Apple App Store Android Mobile application development MarketsandMarkets Market research mobile wireless cell phone technology prediction forecast
yes, i’ll have the awesomest app for iPad (or for 2010 for that matter) with some updatey awesomesauce please?
From its launch a number of folks screamed loudly that they wanted Flipboard to do the same thing with RSS feeds. Well this new update brings that functionality as well as new ways to share information that you discover. It ties into your Google Reader account and brings RSS feeds you follow there. Most of the functionality (sharing, starring for later reading, etc.. is there.)
In addition, support is now included for Flickr and other venues too. also it now loads full stories and pulls you through to the destination when you click for more.
The forecast: this could pose major threat for Seesmic, Tweetdeck, Google Reader and the like — with the exception that Flipboard 2.0 still lacks multiple twitter account support (why?!!?!)
The lesson here: Listening to your enthusiasts works! Let that be a lesson to all ye bossy app dev hauses not really doing what the people want. Flipboard could have (and still can for that matter) keep going in a variety of directions, but i think this shows a lot of wisdom and a lot of restraint.
Full feature enhancement by my techcrush MG @ Techcrunch over here.
well played!
It is now legal to jailbreak an iPhone. Yes, it voids warranty, but at least it’s allowed! i cant even describe how happy this makes me!!! Yesterday lots of tweets were shooting around after I posted the Wired story of the legal news & everyone was all proud of the USA. It was so sweet to see pride and even patriotism from so many geeks who rarely feel heard/ understood by govt.
This will open up so much for developers — and it deregulates a lot of app dev that Apple was otherwise holding tight reins on for their own profitability. Understandably. But now that cannot happen anymore. That said, I agree with Tarah:
if you’re going to jailbreak your iPhone, you have to respect the hardware that you’ve been given, but it’s up to you to figure out how to create a positive user experience on your own (or with the developer community), because, in my opinion, it comes with a pretty superb user experience upon purchase. Ethically, though, I agree with this decision - if you buy a machine, you should be able to do whatever you want with it, as long as it’s not endangering anyone.
-Tarah (more @ his post: BIG digital rights changes yesterday )
How might this change things immediately for you? theoretically, any phone can now be sold and unlocked on any carrier (if supported)! That means when you travel you can hook up a world phone without contract (sometimes) & a host of other small awesomenesses that should have ALWAYS existed.
Additional Links:
*more formal info on this ruling over @ EFF
*some interesting comments on the Magnussen-Moss Warranty Act @ SlashDot
*Apple’s PR on warranty void etc @ Cult of Mac
Posted July 27, 2010 at 12:10pm in USA apple copyright developer dvd iphone jailbreak law legal tarah wired tech slashdot cultofmac mac eff
Posted June 12, 2010 at 10:25pm in funny iphone ipod apple nerd dork geek technology modernity the past retro film digital
Aw I love that Steve Wozniak has Apple engineer Gray Powell’s back. Geeks unite against the Apple firing team!
from Gizmodo
(via reblololo, wordofcommand)
thankfully i have never been THIS bored
this is either super zen digital transcendence or extreme boredom?
