◄ On the pace of innovation
Marco Arment sees that the progress of computing hardware is slowing down. So, too, is software innovation: I use desktop computers for many hours every day. They are my profession, my hobby, and my...
View Article◄ NYT: original Newton MessagePad review
From the New York Times’s original review of the Newton MessagePad: The bottom line on the Newton Message Pad is that Apple promised too much and failed to deliver a useful device for everyday...
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◄ One Thing Today, DIY style
The idea behind One Thing Today (or the Touch version, above) is great: focus on completing one task every day. You get that done, you feel successful. I’ve operated this way for years. “Tonight I’ll...
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◄ Shiny, iPod-like Newton: iNewt
It’s about time: Charles Mangin has plans to modify a Newton MessagePad into an iPhone case. But before that, he’s modded a MessagePad to look like a slick modern-Apple machine called the iNewt. Very...
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◄ Everything new is old again
Andy Ihnatko’s original iPhone. An oldie but goodie. [Via Daring Fireball.]
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◄ New iPhone wallpapers posted
Just for fun, I posted a few new iPhone wallpapers that might interest Apple fans: four wrinkled-paper versions, like the Newton one above.
View Article◄ Navigating the filesystem
Thomas Brand over at Egg Freckles: Yesterday’s Mac trained users on how to navigate the filesystem, while modern operating system like Mac OS X discourage its use. The gap between the abstraction of...
View Article◄ Going full time on TouchArcade
Blake Patterson at Byte Cellar: Once the App Store went live, TouchArcade quickly became a large and active community for iOS gamers, and it’s done nothing but grow ever since. It’s wonderful to...
View Article◄ iTunes Match: for me, a solution in need of a problem
Thomas Brand at Egg Freckles: For normal people iTunes Match will solve the problem of getting the music they have on one computer to all of their computers and Apple devices without networking,...
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