Apple Is the King of AI and Nobody Knows It
https://limitededitionjonathan.substack.com/p/apple-is-the-king-of-ai-and-nobody
But here’s my favorite piece of evidence, the tell I’d point to if I could only pick one: watch what NVIDIA sells now. The DGX Spark — Jensen’s new “personal AI supercomputer” for your desk — is a small quiet box with 128GB of unified memory shared between CPU and GPU. Sound familiar? It’s a Mac Studio. NVIDIA, the company whose entire empire is built on discrete GPUs with discrete VRAM in centralized racks, is now shipping Apple’s architecture, at Apple’s form factor, aimed at Apple’s use case — and even Jensen has started musing that “an AI supercomputer could become common in the home,” name-checking Apple’s M-series as laying the groundwork. The king of the datacenter is hedging into my thesis with his own product line. When your opponent starts copying your homework mid-argument, the argument is over.
2411887 – Slitherer segfaults on hardware with with nvidia card
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2411887
Probably the same issue using Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Live-43-1.6.x86_64.iso , using a nvidia card too (not sure if related).
slitherer is crashing.
I edited /usr/libexec/anaconda/webui-desktop: line 172: to DEFAULT_BROWSER_CMD=firefox
and I was able to complete the installation.
If there is interest in solving the bug, I can run the installer again to get the exact hardware info and stack/core dump for slitherer.
Installer crashes in storage editor in all Live environments except Workstation - Fedora Discussion
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/installer-crashes-in-storage-editor-in-all-live-environments-except-workstation/192590
Workarounds
Don’t start the installer (or quit it if you started it already). Start terminal (Konsole in KDE) and edit a config file:
sudo nano /etc/anaconda/profile.d/fedora.conf
Find this part:
# The default browser for the Web UI.
webui_web_engine = slitherer
and change it to:
# The default browser for the Web UI.
webui_web_engine = firefox
Close the editor (Ctrl+X → Y → Enter), and run the installer, either from a desktop launcher, or from a terminal:
liveinst
The installer should no longer crash when using drop-down lists.
KDE liveinst crash - Fedora Discussion
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/kde-liveinst-crash/177548/11
I had this exact issue attempting to install Fedora 44 KDE live ISO on an older laptop with a GeForce GTX 970 GPU. I resolved it by forcing Anaconda to use Firefox instead of Slitherer.
I can confirm that Firefox was the selected default browser, but for some reason the indicated variable doesn’t seem to work
Instead of editing /usr/libexec/anaconda/webui-desktop I changed the following line inside /etc/anaconda/profile.d/fedora.conf:
webui_web_engine = slitherer
to
webui_web_engine = firefox
this allowed me to start Anaconda GUI normally and proceed with installing Fedora 44.
Hiltzik: When Steve Jobs got a show-and-tell at Xerox - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-03-24/inside-the-1979-silicon-valley-demo-that-made-apple-what-it-is-today?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fapple
Gates responded, “Steve, I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
A few notes about the MacBook Neo | Riccardo Mori
https://morrick.me/archives/10286
I don’t care if the Neo lacks an ambient light sensor or if the webcam isn’t cutting-edge — It does not feature a notch on the top of the display and this is so huge for me. I thought Apple forgot that displays are supposed to be plain, uninterrupted, unblemished rectangles. Design-wise, this is currently the only Apple laptop I can look at and can think of purchasing after the 2020 M1 MacBook Air.
Your Phone is an Entire Computer
https://medhir.com/blog/your-phone-is-an-entire-computer
Now that I know my iPhone has the capacity to run MacOS, I would very much like to do so. I’d love to consider the possibility of switching to a less intrusive phone and repurposing this iPhone into a web server. Perhaps that seems silly, but it’s really not. I’ve already paid for the device, it's clearly a full blown computer, and why should I not be able to modify it as I see fit?
A right to root access would make all of this possible. And I really want to run MacOS on my iPhone now, damn it.
“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold
https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
This computer is not for the people writing those reviews — people who already have the MacBook Pro, who have the professional context, who are optimizing at the margin. This computer is for the kid who doesn’t have a margin to optimize. Who can’t wait for the right tool to materialize. Who is going to take what’s available and push it until it breaks and learn something permanent from the breaking.
The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – no.heger
https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
So in the end, the most reliable way to resize a window in Tahoe is to grab it outside the corner – a gesture that feels unnatural and unintuitive, and is therefore inevitably error-prone.
Mass quitting Apple
https://bastiangruber.ca/posts/mass-quitting-apple/
The biggest win? I own my identity now. My email address is on my domain. My files are on my server. My passwords are in my vault. If any single service disappears tomorrow, I can move. That's the freedom I was looking for.
OBS Studio Gets A New Renderer: How OBS Adopted Metal | OBS
https://obsproject.com/blog/obs-studio-gets-a-new-renderer
Starting with OBS Studio 32.0.0 a new renderer backend based on Apple's Metal graphics API is available for users to test as an experimental alternative to the existing OpenGL backend on macOS. This marks an important step in OBS Studio's development to adapt one of the modern APIs that deliberately broke with the past to unlock better performance and efficiency gains for end users, but also require fundamental changes to how an application interacts with a GPU.
And Stay Out
https://lmnt.me/blog/and-stay-out.html
There’s no doubt Jony has good taste, by the way. He and his team designed great products during the first half of his tenure at Apple. But as he became wealthier, he started to conflate good taste with luxury. Jony often described Apple products with words about craft, material, and precision, all things that appeal to a luxury market. Apple shifted away from making products “for the rest of us” and started making products that appealed specifically to rich people
The invalid 68030 instruction that accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to successfully boot Up
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/01/the-invalid-68030-instruction-that-accidentally-allowed-the-mac-classic-ii-to-successfully-boot-up/
This is the story of how Apple made a mistake in the ROM of the Macintosh Classic II that probably should have prevented it from booting, but instead, miraculously, its Motorola MC68030 CPU accidentally prevented a crash and saved the day by executing an undefined instruction.
What Happened to Apple's Legendary Attention to Detail? - Fragments & Reflections
https://blog.johnozbay.com/what-happened-to-apples-attention-to-detail.html
In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.
How to Undo Your iPhone's New Look After iOS 26
https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-undo-iphone-ios-26-liquid-glass
Called Reduce Transparency, this control has been around for years, and was originally intended as a way to add a solid background to any pre-Liquid Glass elements that already had transparent or blurred backgrounds, like the Passcode entry screen. Now, though, it turns out it also affects Liquid Glass as a whole.
Michael Tsai - Blog - Our Changing Relationship With Apple
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/02/27/our-changing-relationship-with-apple/?__readwiseLocation=
Safari is holding the web back | Go Make Things
https://gomakethings.com/safari-is-holding-the-web-back/
Michael Tsai - Blog - The Tim Cook Era
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/09/01/the-tim-cook-era/
Run Your Own AI – AnthonyLewis.com
https://anthonylewis.com/2025/06/01/run-your-own-ai/
Here are some instructions that I shared with my co-workers. These are specifically for Macs with an M-series processor. On a PC, skip the steps about MLX and use Ollama to download a model. Then install the llm-llama plugin instead of llm-mlx.
A2Pico - Multi-Function Card - Joe's Computer Museum
https://jcm-1.com/product/a2pico/
A2Pico is, essentially, a universal peripheral card for your Apple ][ Computer. Want a Z80 CPM Card? Maybe you need inexpensive mass storage. Need to add SmartPort support to your machine? Or, maybe you’re a hacker and want to design your own function. A2Pico lets you do just that!
Run LLMs on macOS using llm-mlx and Apple’s MLX framework
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/15/llm-mlx/
llm-mlx is a brand new plugin for my LLM Python Library and CLI utility which builds on top of Apple’s excellent MLX array framework library and mlx-lm package. If you’re a terminal user or Python developer with a Mac this may be the new easiest way to start exploring local Large Language Models.
How to Increase the VRAM of Your Mac with Apple Silicone for LLMs? | Hardware Corner
https://www.hardware-corner.net/increase-mac-vram/
It is surprisingly straightforward to increase the VRAM of your Mac (Apple Silicone M1/M2/M3 chips) computer and use it to load large language models. Here’s the rundown of my experiments. ... I found a way to bypass this limitation. To allocate more of your Mac’s system RAM to VRAM – in this case, up to 28 GB – the following command can be used in the terminal window:
sudo sysctl iogpu.wired_limit_mb=27536
luchina-gabriel/OSX-PROXMOX: Voilà, install macOS on ANY Computer! This is really and magic easiest way!
https://github.com/luchina-gabriel/OSX-PROXMOX
Voilà, install macOS on ANY Computer! This is really and magic easiest way!
I Built Apple’s 1980s iPad Concept! - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grd_a4oi7qU
This project has been a dream come true! As a designer, I've always been inspired by groundbreaking concepts, and this time, I challenged myself to recreate one of the most iconic and unrealized prototypes: Hartmut Esslinger’s Apple FlatMac.
persistent.info: Infinite Mac: Macintosh Garden Library
https://blog.persistent.info/2024/11/infinite-mac-macintosh-garden-library.html
Inspired by the CD-ROM library feature, I decided to investigate what it would take to add a “Macintosh Garden” drawer to the site. The goal was to allow any item in the Garden’s catalog to be loaded into the emulated Mac with one click (at least for the versions that support “The Outside World”, which is most from System 7 to Mac OS 9). I reached out to the Garden’s maintainer, who was on board with the project and even provided a JSON dump of the site’s catalog of 20,000 applications and games. Building the UI was a fun exercise in making the CD-ROM drawer into a reusable component - another contribution to my collection of Classic- and Platinum-themed UI controls.
Anyone with 14.7.1. Does it have the equivalent Sequoia non-developer app lockout? | MacRumors Forums
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/anyone-with-14-7-1-does-it-have-the-equivalent-sequoia-non-developer-app-lockout.2441433/
Sequoia 15.1 now hard-locks out any app that is not approved by Apple, including a bunch of my old and well used utilities. They can be made to run by hacking underneath in BSD, but the situation is unsatisfactory for a computer that I consider is MINE.
Apple Forces The Signing Of Applications In MacOS Sequoia 15.1 | Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/01/apple-forces-the-signing-of-applications-in-macos-sequoia-15-1/
Many MacOS users are probably used by now to the annoyance that comes with unsigned applications, as they require a few extra steps to launch them. This feature is called Gatekeeper and checks for an Apple Developer ID certificate. Starting with MacOS Sequoia 15, the easy bypassing of this feature with e.g. holding Control when clicking the application icon is now no longer an option, with version 15.1 disabling ways to bypass this completely. Not unsurprisingly, this change has caught especially users of open source software like OpenSCAD by surprise, as evidenced by a range of forum posts and GitHub tickets.
Infinite Mac
https://infinitemac.org/
Infinite Mac is a collection of classic Macintosh and NeXT system releases and software, all easily accessible from the comfort of a (modern) web browser.
How Apple Shaped Podcasting | On the Media | WNYC Studios
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/how-apple-shaped-podcasting
Highlight:A recent update to the Apple podcast app also included a tweak to how podcast downloads work. As a podcast user you’re free to shrug and move on. But for podcast creators this could be a big deal. According to data from Podtrac, overall downloads across the industry were down 15 percent as of February. This American Life lost 20 percent of their downloads. Some shows at NPR saw a 30 percent dip. In this week's midweek podcast, OTM producer Molly Rosen looks at how Apple has shaped the podcast industry.
A recent update to the Apple podcast app also included a tweak to how podcast downloads work. As a podcast user you’re free to shrug and move on. But for podcast creators this could b...
FloppyEMU HD20: Using a FloppyEMU emulated HD20 with my Macintosh Plus – David and Steve's Blog
https://www.savagetaylor.com/2020/03/29/booting-a-macintosh-plus-with-floppyemus-hd20-support/
Recently I pickup a few Macintosh Plus systems, so I’ve decided to play around with the FloppyEMU’s HD20 support with the hopes of writing some future blog posts for maxing out a Macintosh Plus. This guide will also work for the SE, Classic, Classic II, Portable, IIci, IIsi, or LC.
FloppyEMU HD20: Using a FloppyEMU emulated HD20 with my Macintosh Plus – David and Steve's Blog
https://www.savagetaylor.com/2020/03/29/booting-a-macintosh-plus-with-floppyemus-hd20-support
Recently I pickup a few Macintosh Plus systems, so I’ve decided to play around with the FloppyEMU’s HD20 support with the hopes of writing some future blog posts for maxing out a Macintosh Plus. This guide will also work for the SE, Classic, Classic II, Portable, IIci, IIsi, or LC.
What does it look like for the web to lose? - Chris Coyier
https://chriscoyier.net/2023/01/04/what-does-it-look-like-for-the-web-to-lose/
Better yet, let’s ditch the idea of native apps. All web! All web! All web!
What does it look like for the web to lose? - Chris Coyier
https://chriscoyier.net/2023/01/04/what-does-it-look-like-for-the-web-to-lose
Better yet, let’s ditch the idea of native apps. All web! All web! All web!
Insentricity :: A Multi-Format Cross-Platform Floppy for 5.25" Floppy Day ::
https://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/284
Something I’ve wanted to do for several years is to create a cross-platform 5.25” floppy, one that could be used on two different incompatible computer systems.
a one paragraph macbook review — stating the obvious — Medium
https://medium.com/stating-the-obvious/the-new-macbook-is-an-absolutely-beautiful-computer-unbelievably-thin-ridiculously-light-amazing-f4dc0aee0302
It truly is a laptop from the future, and I highly recommend it if you don’t type very much. Because if you type on it for any length of time, your fingers will start to ache. Returned.
Thunderstrike - Trammell Hudson's Projects
https://trmm.net/EFI
Thunderstrike is the name for the Apple EFI firmware security vulnerability that allows a malicious Thunderbolt device to flash untrusted code to the boot ROM
From the Archives: frog’s Early Apple Tablet | Blog | design mind
http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/from-the-archives-frog-s-early-apple-tablet.html
The “Bashful” — named after the story-book dwarf in Snow White — was created alongside the Apple II computer series as an extension of the Snow White design language that frog Founder Hartmut Essligner helped create for the company in 1983. Concepts for this early pre-touch tablet included one with an attached keyboard and one with a floppy disk drive and convenient handle for maximum portability.
App Store Year Zero: How unsweetened web apps and unsigned code drove the iPhone to an SDK | iMore
http://www.imore.com/history-app-store-year-zero
Apple introduced the App Store on July 10, 2008. Over the course of the next week we're going to take a look back at the origins and development of App Store, and forward towards its potential future. To do that properly, however, we have to start at the beginning, with the original iPhone in 2007. And with the original iPhone, there was no App Store, and no third party apps. At least not at first...
enoughalready » San Francisco Is Eating Itself
http://alexcastle.net/2014/01/17/san-francisco-is-eating-itself/#comment-432
It’s just such a bummer to see a place that I remember as openminded, laid back, creative, nonjudgmental erupting with all this anger, everyone pointing fingers, blaming people that really aren’t to blame. Come on, guys. You’re better than this.
enoughalready » San Francisco Is Eating Itself
http://alexcastle.net/2014/01/17/san-francisco-is-eating-itself#comment-432
It’s just such a bummer to see a place that I remember as openminded, laid back, creative, nonjudgmental erupting with all this anger, everyone pointing fingers, blaming people that really aren’t to blame. Come on, guys. You’re better than this.
Loper OS » How to Run HyperCard Under Emulation
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=658
If you want to try HyperCard yourself, you can download an archive containing a hard disk image with Mac OS 8 and HyperCard installed, plus the ROM image file needed for most emulators, here.
Loper OS » Why Hypercard Had to Die
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568
Update: Click here if you would like to try HyperCard yourself. Our seventh-grade class was led into a room full of brand-new Macintosh Performas. The day’s lesson was a crash course in the use of an uncomplicated yet marvelous program. via Pocket
Ken Shirriff's blog: Tiny, cheap, and dangerous: Inside a (fake) iPhone charger
http://www.righto.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and-why-you.html
Stay away from super-cheap AC adapters built by mystery manufacturers. Spend the extra few dollars to get a brand-name AC adapter. It will be safer, produce less interference, and your device's touchscreen will perform better.
Matt Parkinson » Blog Archive ReadyNAS TimeMachine Verification Issues » Matt Parkinson - It always seems impossible until it's done
https://www.mattparkinson.eu/readynas-timemachine-issues/
Every so often, when my laptop runs out of battery during a backup, I receive the following: “Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.”
Matt Parkinson » Blog Archive ReadyNAS TimeMachine Verification Issues » Matt Parkinson - It always seems impossible until it's done
https://www.mattparkinson.eu/readynas-timemachine-issues
Every so often, when my laptop runs out of battery during a backup, I receive the following: “Time Machine completed a verification of your backups. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.”
Make a plug hub for your Macbook - the future needs fixing - sugru
http://sugru.com/us/gallery/make-a-plug-hub-for-your-macbook
I love my Macbook, but I hate connecting and disconnecting 5 cables over and over again when I need to leave my desk. sugru to the rescue!
Time Machine and npm - Wanderview
http://blog.wanderview.com/blog/2013/01/15/time-machine-and-npm/
Unfortunately, it appears that Time Machine will sometimes get upset if you backup a symlink to a directory, convert the symlink back to a real directory, and then try to backup again.
Time Machine and npm - Wanderview
http://blog.wanderview.com/blog/2013/01/15/time-machine-and-npm
Unfortunately, it appears that Time Machine will sometimes get upset if you backup a symlink to a directory, convert the symlink back to a real directory, and then try to backup again.
Surface Pro versus MacBook Air: Who's being dishonest with storage space? | ZDNet
http://www.zdnet.com/surface-pro-versus-macbook-air-whos-being-dishonest-with-storage-space-7000011009/
Here’s the tl;dr version. The MacBook Air 128 gives you 77.3 percent of the advertised storage space for user data. The Surface Pro 128 gives you 75.2 percent of its advertised capacity for storing data. And with one minor tweak that doesn’t affect the system’s capabilities in any way, you can increase the amount of data storage space on the Surface Pro to 81.8% of the advertised capacity.
Surface Pro versus MacBook Air: Who's being dishonest with storage space? | ZDNet
http://www.zdnet.com/surface-pro-versus-macbook-air-whos-being-dishonest-with-storage-space-7000011009
Here’s the tl;dr version. The MacBook Air 128 gives you 77.3 percent of the advertised storage space for user data. The Surface Pro 128 gives you 75.2 percent of its advertised capacity for storing data. And with one minor tweak that doesn’t affect the system’s capabilities in any way, you can increase the amount of data storage space on the Surface Pro to 81.8% of the advertised capacity.
[HOWTO] Apple Magic Mouse on 10.10 Maverick Meerkat - Ubuntu Forums
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1612843
$ xinput set-float-prop "Apple Magic Mouse" "Device Accel Velocity Scaling" 2.0
I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem by Terence Eden has a Blog
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/11/i-dont-want-to-be-part-of-your-fucking-ecosystem/
I just want us all to get along. I want my disparate equipment to talk to each other. I don't want to live in a house where ever component has to be made by the same company otherwise nothing works correctly. I don't want to be stuck using a crappy product because they're the only ones offering service X.
I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem by Terence Eden has a Blog
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/11/i-dont-want-to-be-part-of-your-fucking-ecosystem
I just want us all to get along. I want my disparate equipment to talk to each other. I don't want to live in a house where ever component has to be made by the same company otherwise nothing works correctly. I don't want to be stuck using a crappy product because they're the only ones offering service X.
Apple’s .mobi insanity - QuirksBlog
http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2012/09/apples_mobi_ins.html
OK, so what’s going on? This morning a follower pointed out an article that describes how Safari iOS makes a total fucking mess of the meta viewport when the site is hosted on a .mobi domain.
IBM Outlaws Siri, Worried She Has Loose Lips | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/ibm-bans-siri/
The reason? Siri ships everything you say to her to a big data center in Maiden, North Carolina. And the story of what really happens to all of your Siri-launched searches, e-mail messages and inappropriate jokes is a bit of a black box.
IBM Outlaws Siri, Worried She Has Loose Lips | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/ibm-bans-siri
The reason? Siri ships everything you say to her to a big data center in Maiden, North Carolina. And the story of what really happens to all of your Siri-launched searches, e-mail messages and inappropriate jokes is a bit of a black box.
Can We Please Move Past Apple's Silly, Faux-Real UIs? | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669879/can-we-please-move-past-apples-silly-faux-real-uis
At the end of the day, there’s always a temptation to go with the familiar, but the real value is going to be found elsewhere.
Wozniak calls for open Apple - Strategy - Business - News - iTnews.com.au
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/300704,wozniak-calls-for-open-apple.aspx
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has voiced a renewed desire to see the consumer electronics giant open its architecture to the masses, allowing savvy users to expand and add to their products at will.
Why the iPad Has to be Made in China | iFixit
http://ifixit.org/1856/why-the-ipad-has-to-be-made-in-china/
Today, an American electronics company can only be exempt from China’s rare earth export quotas by manufacturing within China. So that’s what most companies, including Apple, are doing. The only other solution is for us to stop consuming so much—an option that people rarely find appealing. Not as appealing as a retina display, at least.
Why the iPad Has to be Made in China | iFixit
http://ifixit.org/1856/why-the-ipad-has-to-be-made-in-china
Today, an American electronics company can only be exempt from China’s rare earth export quotas by manufacturing within China. So that’s what most companies, including Apple, are doing. The only other solution is for us to stop consuming so much—an option that people rarely find appealing. Not as appealing as a retina display, at least.
The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persia's Source Code From Digital Death | Game|Life | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/04/prince-of-persia-source-code/?pid=2480&viewall=true
He saved all the videotape he took in October 1985 of his brother running and jumping around their old neighborhood, footage that he rotoscoped into the animations for his Apple II game Prince of Persia. He saved all of the meticulous journals he kept of the production process, documenting each tiny step of the creation of the landmark hit game.
The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persia's Source Code From Digital Death | Game|Life | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/04/prince-of-persia-source-code?pid=2480&viewall=true
He saved all the videotape he took in October 1985 of his brother running and jumping around their old neighborhood, footage that he rotoscoped into the animations for his Apple II game Prince of Persia. He saved all of the meticulous journals he kept of the production process, documenting each tiny step of the creation of the landmark hit game.
Apple Game Server Online!
http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver
Connect your tablet/computer headphone jack to your Apple II cassette input (next to joystick port), remove any diskettes, power on, CTRL-RESET, if you have a "]" prompt then type "LOAD", if you have a "*" prompt then type "800.A00R 800G", press RETURN, then press play.
Apple II drum sequencer surfaces for chiptune composers -- Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/30/apple-ii-drum-sequencer-surfaces-for-chiptune-composers
No, this isn't a recycled news item from the 1980s -- it's 2011, and MJ Mahon and 8 Bit Weapon have just announced the release of the Apple II DMS Drummer, a wavetable-based drum sequencer for Apple II-era machines. The monophonic synth reproduces eight drum sounds like bass, snare, rim shot, hand clap, tom, hat open, hat closed and "lazer," along with a sequencer that lets you plug in up to 16 drum patterns across 256 slots. Seems like just the thing for chiptune composers hankering for a way to make authentic eight-bit drum tracks using vintage Apple hardware. System requirements call for an Apple IIe, IIc, IIc+ or IIgs with 80-column capability and a 5.25-inch floppy drive -- you know, pretty modern stuff. A limited demo version is available, but if that doesn't satisfy, you can either buy it on a floppy for $14.95 or download a .dsk disk image for $9.95. Oh, and neither require a time-traveling DeLorean to go back to 1985.
10 things the iPhone Siri will help you get instead of an abortion | The Raw Story
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/29/10-things-the-iphone-siri-will-help-you-get-instead-of-an-abortion
It’s an experience that’s being replicated by women around the country: despite plentiful online information about actual places to get an abortion, Siri doesn’t seem to provide it. It’s a similar experience for women seeking emergency contraception: in New York City, Siri doesn’t know what Plan B is and, asked for emergency contraception, offers up a Google results page of definitions.
Didn't we learn from HAL 9000 that it doesn't really pay to give your tools their own opinionated personalities?
It's Apple's Sandbox, Developers Just Play In It
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/11/its-apples-sandbox-developers.php
Despite a number of cogent arguments against it, Apple is going through with the requirement for apps in the Mac App Store to be sandboxed. A number of Mac developers have already spoken up about the policy, but Apple's going through with it anyway. Initially set to go into effect this month, A...
“I finally cracked it” – Marco.org
http://www.marco.org/2011/10/23/the-apple-tv-set
If all they do is make a really nice TV set like everyone else’s, it’ll probably be as interesting as the Airport Extreme: a nice product in its category, but not exciting or scaring the crap out of anyone.
But if they’ve managed to pull off something more interesting, I’d hate to be in the TV business when it’s released.
Apple's sometimes-screwball design aesthetic
http://kottke.org/11/10/apples-sometimes-screwball-design-aesthetic
Steve Jobs was initially opposed to apps, new biography reveals
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/21/steve-jobs-was-initially-opposed-to-apps-new-biography-reveals
Woz on Apple: 'I'm a little afraid'
http://keithdevens.com/weblog/archive/2011/Oct/15/Woz.afraid
R.I.P. Steve
http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2011/10/rip_steve.html
Exclusive: Sprint Confirms It Will Offer Unlimited Data Plan for iPhone (Ina Fried/AllThingsD)
http://www.techmeme.com/111005/p43#a111005p43
As iPhone mojo fades, Android continues to grow, satisfy | ZDNet
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/as-iphone-mojo-fades-android-continues-to-grow-satisfy/3380
Apple iPhone 4S: Siri? It Should Have Been Swype!
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/apple_iphone_4s_siri_it_should_have_been_swype.php
Apple TV owners lost legal movie playback this weekend
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.com/2011/10/03/apple_tv_owners_lose_legal_movie_playback
Imagine where Apple would have been if Xerox had patented the ideas they developed for the Alto...
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/kwss0/imagine_where_apple_would_have_been_if_xerox_had
Daring Fireball: The Future of NetNewsWire: An Interview With Brent Simmons and Black Pixel's Daniel Pasco
http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/netnewswire_black_pixel
This is hawt
Daring Fireball Linked List: How Bin Laden Emailed Without Being Detected
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/12/bin-laden-email
Guessing Bin Laden never heard of QWK Packets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWK_%28file_format%29
★ Bull’s-Eyes and Crosshairs
http://daringfireball.net/2011/01/bullseyes_and_crosshairs
iPhone alarms still not working, worlds crashing left and right
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/03/iphone-alarms-still-not-working-worlds-crashing-left-and-right
iPhone 4 handsets not wake us as promised (on non-recurring alarms), so who knows when Apple will step up to the plate and address the issue. In the meantime, go ahead and set up a recurring alarm while gently crossing your fingers and toes. Or, you know, buy a battery-powered alarm clock off of your grandmother.
Settings.bundle doesn’t appear in iPhone Settings « A Different Projection
http://www.mercatorgeosystems.com/blog?p=70
"Settings bundles are only added to the phone the first time the application is installed. If you’ve worked on an application and deployed it to your development device or simulator before adding the settings.bundle to your XCode project then subsequent build and runs won’t add the settings unless you remove the app from the device or simulator in the usual way. i.e by pressing and holding the app icon and removing it when it starts shaking."
How to Jailbreak Your iPod Touch 2G Using RedSn0w | jailbreak
http://www.ihackintosh.com/2010/06/how-to-jailbreak-your-ipod-touch-2g-using-redsn0w
Java Now Running on Apple IIc
http://www.desnoix.com/apple2
"I strongly believe in WORA. Java is able to run on a lot of devices, from the credit card to the server. Today I'm pleased to announce the availability of Java(tm) [1] on the Apple II family [2]. This runtime is a partial port of Kaffe 1.1.4 (only the interpreter) and Classpath 0.08. Curently only a subset is available but the goal is to be fully compliant with the JRE 1.4."
Why Apple Could Sue Gawker Over 'Lost' iPhone Story - DailyFinance
http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/why-apple-could-sue-gawker-over-lost-iphone-story/19447570
"What he never did, however, was notify anyone who worked at the bar, according to its owner, Volcker Staudt. That would have been the simplest way to get the phone back to the Apple employee who lost it, who "called constantly trying to retrieve it" in the days afterward, recalls Volcker. "The guy was pretty hectic about it."
Nor did the finder report it to the Redwood City Police Department, says Sgt. Dan Mulholland."
Robert Love: Why the iPad and iPhone don’t Support Multitasking
http://blog.rlove.org/2010/04/why-ipad-and-iphone-dont-support.html
"So how is Apple going to enable support for multitasking? Likely similar to how Android allows it. The Android platform was designed from the ground up for use on phones and other embedded devices. Consequently, we built in a mechanism whereby applications can save their state, including their current view, with the system. In fact, through this state saving mechanism, which we call Bundles, Android applications can operate as if they are stateless."
iProcessing
http://luckybite.com/iprocessing
"iProcessing is an open programming framework to help people develop native iPhone applications using the Processing language. It is an integration of the Processing.js library and a Javascript application framework for iPhone. The iProcessing download consists of a set of example XCode projects that demonstrate many of the Basic Examples from the Processing web site (originally written by Casey Reas and Ben Fry unless otherwise stated) as well a number that demonstrate the use of various iPhone features such as multitouch, accelerometer, orientation, location, sound play/record, app state saving and so on"
Hackers Don’t Tinker Because They Got Invited | Smarterware
http://smarterware.org/4941/hackers-dont-tinker-because-they-got-invited
"Because while we're all ranting about how closed the iPad will be, the jailbreak community is planning competitions to see who can crack it first. The sun isn't setting on tinkerers; their desire to crack things open intensifies when faced with something that's closed by design. The challenge is part of the appeal."
Hivelogic - System-On-A-Chip: Why Apple’s new CPU Is So Important
http://hivelogic.com/articles/system-on-a-chip-why-apples-new-cpu-is-so-important
"Apple’s subtle mention that the iPad features a CPU of their own making, the A4, was actually the most exciting part of the whole announcement. It’s pretty important."
This is why it's worth learning about advertising, by Rory Marinich
http://www.rinich.com/post/357307070/this-is-why-its-worth-learning-about-advertising
"The product is, simply put, a magical screen that can do anything you ever want it to, no matter what that is.
Here you go. It’s five hundred dollars. If you pay me that, I will give you this magical thing that can do anything. You don’t have to read a manual. It will do anything, and it will do it right now, out of the box.
Other companies are selling computers. Apple’s selling magic. Which one would you rather have?"
MCLIDE - Lisp IDE for Macintosh
http://mclide.in-progress.com
"MCLIDE is a double-clickable, stand-alone development environment that connects to a Lisp either locally or through the network. It's like a combination of Slime with a modern GUI based IDE."
Juiced.GS -- A quarterly Apple II journal
http://juiced.gs
A2Central.com - Your total source for Apple II computing.
http://a2central.com
New iTunes LP and Extras built using TuneKit Framework, aimed at Apple TV — RoughlyDrafted Magazine
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/09/14/new-itunes-lp-and-extras-built-using-tunekit-framework-aimed-at-apple-tv
"Now look at how iTunes Extras are built: while distributed as a single file, the item is really a bundle (a folder that Mac OS X treats as a file) that amounts to a self-contained web site. It acts as a container for folders of standard PNG and JPEG graphics, AAC audio, and H.264 video content together with HTML and CSS presentation and JavaScript code.The index.html page contained in iTunes Extra bundles references TuneKit Core, a JavaScripts framework that presents a foundation for working with basic TuneKit objects. TuneKit Views present additional code for building a user interface and event handling, such as keyboard navigation and mouse input. Controllers define what is displayed in the user interface and how. The whole ball of wax is built within the TK namespace."
My first experience using an accessible touch screen device « Marco’s accessibility blog
http://www.marcozehe.de/2009/06/22/my-first-experience-using-an-accessible-touch-screen-device
"Yes, you read correctly: An accessible touch screen device! This morning, I went to a retail store carrying mostly Apple products and had a look at the new iPhone 3G S that was released in Germany on Friday. "
BootXChanger
http://namedfork.net/bootxchanger#downloads
"BootXChanger will allow you to change the boot image (the gray Apple) on Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5"
Meet iFixit: Mitra’s Upgrade Success Story « iFixit Blog
http://www.ifixit.com/blog?p=627
User serviceable parts inside depend on the user. Also, nice: "I used a cupcake baking pan to organize the screws as I took the laptop apart."
MacBinaries – Tribler
http://www.tribler.org/trac/wiki/MacBinaries
Mac OS X Manual Page For hdiutil(1)
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man1/hdiutil.1.html
"Device Not Configured ... DO doesn't work under dead mach bootstrap contexts such as exist in a reattached screen(1) session." So... don't try to run scripts that use hdiutil to mount DMGs from a reattached screen session. Doh.
Internet Archive: Free Download: Apple II Forever
http://www.archive.org/details/CC605_apple_ii_forever
"Today they're called "mac heads", but way back in the 1980's, Apple users were in love with the Apple II. Despite the introduction of the Mac in 1984, the Apple II continued to have its devoted fans. This program looks at the Apple II culture during the early Mac era. Included are the Apple IIc+, the Apple II-GS, and a rare Apple I. Guests include John Sculley and Gary Kildall. Software demonstrations are of Math Blaster, Paintworks Gold, and Microsoft Bookshelf. Also a look at the newest Macintosh at the time, the Mac IIx. Originally broadcast in 1988."
Does A Private Company Own Your Muni Arrival Times?: News: SFAppeal
http://sfappeal.com/news/2009/06/who-owns-sfmta-arrival-data.php
"When Steven Peterson created Routesy, an iPhone app that lets riders see Muni arrival times, the last thing he expected was to hear was that Muni's real-time arrival times were actually the property of a private company located in the East Bay. But that's exactly what happened, when Alex Orloff, COO of a company calling itself NextBus Information Systems, contacted him in August, 2008, demanding a "straight revenue split" or a "data licensing agreement" from Peterson. "
Full Commodore 64 Emulator Rejected from App Store | Touch Arcade
http://toucharcade.com/2009/06/20/full-commodore-64-emulator-rejected-from-app-store
"iPhone developer Manomio has been secretly working on a major App Store project for the past year that has just been completed, but may never see the light of day in its current form.What Manomio has done is to create a fully licensed Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone that can play classic games and even run Commodore 64 BASIC.Did I mention it was legally licensed?"
Mac OS X Manual Page For pubsub(1)
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pubsub.1.html
"Utility for managing RSS/Atom subscriptions via the PubSub framework"
Apple’s Cool Matrix-Style App Wall
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/08/apples-cool-matrix-style-app-wall
"Check out the pictures below and watch the video. It reminded me a bit of the lines of code falling down that the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar would see when trying to look into the The Matrix — only with fart apps."
Backup Brain
http://www.backupbrain.com/2009_05_31_archive.html#a005218
Apple Rejects EFF Updates App, Claims Parody Content Is Objectionable | Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/06/oh-come-apple-reject
"Let's be clear: we are not saying that Apple has to carry apps it doesn't like in its App Store. But iPhone owners who don't want Apple playing the role of language police for their software should have the freedom to go elsewhere. This is precisely why EFF has asked the Copyright Office to grant an exemption to the DMCA for jailbreaking iPhones. It's none of Apple's business if I want an app on my phone that lets me read EFF's RSS feed, use Sling Player over 3G, or read the Kama Sutra."
App For That
http://appft.com
"If your name is Indigo Montoya, and he killed your father, there’s an app for that."
Whither Eucalyptus? - Jamie’s Web Log
http://www.blog.montgomerie.net/whither-eucalyptus
"If you’re wondering why Eucalyptus is not yet available, it’s currently in the state of being ‘rejected’ for distribution on the iPhone App Store. This is due to the fact that it’s possible, after explicitly searching for them, to find, download from the Internet, and then read texts that Apple deems ‘objectionable’. The example they have given me is a Victorian text-only translation of the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana. "
About the Apple //c - a set on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81178619@N00/sets/72157617408576399
"I just found this in a box. Dated February 7, 1985, this is a hand-made, hand-written book I wrote for an elementary school project. I was barely 11 years old and was clearly obsessed with the Apple //c -- my first computer. I still have that computer, btw. Apple // Forever."
Porticus
http://porticus.alittledrop.com/index.html
"Porticus is a Cocoa GUI for the MacPorts package manager. MacPorts provides ready to build open-source software packages modified to compile and run on Mac OS X. The MacPorts project provides a TCL command line tool to manage installation, update and activation of the port packages. Porticus provides a GUI front-end to this tool."
James Tauber : Reading Apple ][ DOS 3.3 Disk Images with Python
http://jtauber.com/blog/2009/02/15/reading_apple2_dos_3.3_disk_images_with_python
imacg3.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024x739 pixels)
http://www.dataswamp.net/colin/imacg3.jpg
"THE DOT COM ERA IS OVER. GET OFF MY SHELF, HIPPIE FREAK!"
iPhone & iPod Touch Now Uses Wi-Fi to Find Location - Cell Phone Digest
http://www.cellphonedigest.net/news/2008/01/iphone_ipod_touch_now_uses_wif.php
"Skyhook Wireless, provider of the Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), recently announced that Apple is using its technology for the new Wi-Fi location positioning feature in its Maps application on both iPhone and iPod touch. Using WPS, iPhone and iPod touch users can now locate themselves in the popular Maps application with the tap of one button. (See Skyhook Wireless featured in the Macworld Keynote.)"
iTunes music: The cost of removing Apple’s copy protection - Apple 2.0
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/01/07/itunes-music-the-cost-of-removing-apples-copy-protection
"Leave it to Apple (AAPL) to turn the lifting of restrictions into a profit center. If users convert every one of the 9 billion songs purchased from the iTunes Store over the past six years, a rich new revenue stream will flow toward Cupertino. Techcrunch’s Erick Schonfeld calls it Apple’s “$1.8 billion music tax.”"
Obscured Clarity: 500GB MacBook Harddrive Upgrade for Under $100
http://obscuredclarity.blogspot.com/2008/10/500gb-macbook-harddrive-upgrade-for.html
De-Scribed: The upgrade treadmill is wearing us out
http://describe.blogspot.com/2008/10/upgrade-treadmill-is-wearing-us-out.html
Cherish The AIR? Just because you can doesn't mean you should
http://greenmonk.net/?p=111
"the core idea that should be upheld by companies like Apple should be about making things better and less often. Making things that will be able to evolve, be upgraded, be adaptable, hackable and more fun to use for longer so that as a customer I don’t think that I’m buying version 3.4 of something that will only be as good as it’s last press release. I want to buy “the” quintessential Apple product and cherish it for years, like people would cherish a vintage car."
Hi, I'm a Mac… Beep, beep! - The Fishbowl
http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/09/06/hi_im_a_mac_beep_beep
Frotz Review for iPhone | Touch Arcade
http://toucharcade.com/2008/08/13/frotz-interactive-fiction-comes-to-the-iphone
"Interactive Fiction (IF) fans will be pleased to hear that Craig Smith has released Frotz [App Store] for the iPhone through the iTunes App Store as a free download."
Technical Support - Mac: StarCraft and Diablo 2 fail to load
http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx?FN=support&P=1&T=535843
"We've received a handful of reports from users with the newest (2-26-08) revision of the MacBook Pros and an inability to start up Diablo 2 and StarCraft. ... The StarCraft Startup Options and the Diablo 2 Options screens will appear, but after pressing Ok, the games close and do not load." Apparently, this is because a recent Leopard update removed 256 color display support from graphics drivers. Later in the thread, it seems that a patch is in the works by the heroic Mac team. Alternatives are Boot Camp or a dicey selective downgrade in graphics drivers from an earlier update.
The Chemistry Set » How I Lost My S#?! at the Apple Store
http://www.chemsetcomics.com/vulture-gulch-other-stories/other-stories/how-i-lost-my-s-at-the-apple-store
Guy can't read a manual; can't find a Torx driver; can't Google for it; freaks when the Apple Genius Bar charges a $30 stupidity tax; and is amazed that things come from Taiwan. It's somehow Apple's fault, and worth drawing a comic to bitch about it.
snellspace.com » Blog Archive » Atom Testing
http://www.snellspace.com/wp?p=254
"iTunes 6.0 supports Atom 1.0 based Podcasts! Without using any of their iTunes extensions! Excellent! "
Red Sweater Blog - Apple’s Script
http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/502/apples-script
"Apple is leading the pack in the development of an interpreted scripting language: JavaScript. It’s time to move on. Adieu, AppleScript."
InformIT: Interview with Aaron Hillegass Interview with Aaron Hillegass
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1220319
"Scott Stevenson interviews Aaron Hillegass about the new edition of Aaron's book, programmers' fear of the NIB file, and why there aren't more Macs in corporate America."
tms [fernLightning]
http://fernlightning.com/doku.php?id=software:misc:tms
"As someone who is often in a Terminal environment I become frustrated with the Time Machine GUI and found it totally inadequate for when I needed to quickly determine what had been backed up and what had changed. "