: Does anyone else remembers the release of Mac OS X James P. “Sulley” Sullivan?
: Flavor Flav taking procession of his new Humane AI Pin
: Do you think the new Mac mini Pro will be available in Titanium?
: Should I upgrade now, or wait until the Mac mini Pro ships in November?
: iTunes for Newton OS left a lot to be desired.
: Apple has always been serious about Newton gaming.
: The Nugget MessagePad was Apple’s first pen-based computer shaped like a chicken nugget. Its …
: Has anyone else tried porting the Einstein Newton OS emulator to the Apple Vision OS simulator?
: I know I was surprised when I heard it too, but Apple Vision Pro will support dual-booting with …
: “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” Tiger electronic game
: The two-headed 15-inch iMac G4 “Hydra” was a special software development kit released …
: We have come so far, and yet Apple’s older laptop designs still feel so familiar.
: Dual-booting between Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X used to be very different.
: Early examples of the Notch in Spring 2003
: I can’t believe we have been staring at the Notch now for over 20 years…
: Is anyone else waiting for the Apple Vision Pro with Pride headband?
: Who can forget the Apple iNug, the best McDonald’s Happy Meal toy ever released.
: The Power Macintosh Portable with amber gas-plasma display running System Software 6.
: Does anyone know why the Power Mac G5 Cube wasn’t released?
: The only wooden block I have ever wanted to play with.
: Why stop at 15 inches? MacBook Air 22-inch
: What if the iMac came with Trapper Keeper style?
: Despite having an integrated liquid cooling system with external radiator, the Mac mini G5 was not a …
: Move over Flower Power BIC made the most colorful iPods.
: The only iPod powered by butane, the iPod + BIC could play approximately 45 minutes of music between …
: I finally got around to upgrading my Macintosh SE to a G5.
: Don’t ask me how, but the eMac nano’s killer app was iDVD.
: eMac nano: Finally a way to take the classic iTunes visualizer with you on the go.
: Stephen Hackett is looking forward to the next release of AirPods 512pixels.net/2023/04/d…
: Reality Distortion Field Magic Card (Photo by James Duncan Davidson …
: Games for HomePod: Crosswords
: It is a little known fact the original iPhone U2 Special Edition only shipped with The Edge. Later …
: From Yum to Dumb. What if the eMachines eOne came in colors?
: With rumors of upcoming Apple AR Glasses running wild and an Apple Silicon Mac Pro long overdue, no …
: In July 2004, long before the introduction of the HomePod, Apple released the AirPod Express. With …
: Who else remembers the StyleWriter 2500 (PRODUCT)RED?
: Did you know the first iPod wasn’t portable?
: Introduced in October 1991, the Macintosh Classical took the 16 MHz Motorola 68030 of the base …
: Listening to Apple Music Classical from my Motorola ROCKR E1
: The Workstation Server 7250/120L was designed by Apple Fellow Dana Sibera to accommodate …
: MessagePad Time: A Newton on Your Wrist (Hermès stainless steel double tour leather watch band, …
: New iPhone 15 Mute Switch Revealed!
: What if Apple had taken early iPhone development in a “sidetalkin” direction?
: I am running the 127th Boston Marathon on April 17th, 2023.
: I just got my hands on an early release of the next version of macOS
: Microsoft BOB for the Nintendo Game Boy
: The Hunt for Red October Tiger Electronic Game
: Ted Lasso Tiger Electronic Game
: Boogie Nights was an unconventional choice for a Tiger Electronics handheld game for kids.
: To celebrate their founder’s “magnetic personality,” Amazon Basics released the …
: The Tiger Electronics handheld LCD game version of Stranger Things 2
: Flower Power was my favorite OG iPad
: The Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar promotional iPad
: Early example of an iPad prototype.
: Remember when Apple StyleWriters had style?
: The “Shoebox” was a compact Power Macintosh designed for home server duties that was …
: The Hipster file server came in two separate drawer sizes and various wood finishes to appease the …
: Released in October 1996, the PowerBook 720c was a cut-down version of the PowerBook 1440c. It …
: Installing Mac OS 9 from the original 45 on a wood panel Power Mac G4 Cube.
: The Casey Neistat iPod “Special Edition” was Apple’s response to Casey’s …
: I just connected my Newton MessagePad 2000 to the Internet for the first time and U2’s Songs …
: Apple eMate 300 Yum poster with colored keyboards
: Who can forget this classic Apple Network Server 700 ad from the late 1950s
: What if the Apple eMate 300 hadn’t been discontinued in February 1998?
: Vinyl sales have exceeded CD sales for the first time since the 1980s and Sony is taking notice with …
: The Apple Macintosh Pro+ (predecessor to the iMac Pro), was based on the Alchemy+ architecture. It …
: Just one option for reusing your first generation HomePod now that the new models are out.
: Apple introduces HomePod mini in bold and expressive new faces.
: Apple’s AR Goggles Revealed!
: Released November 19th, 2005 on SNL, the iPod Pequeño was the “smallest iPod yet.” It …
: HomePod Shuffle (because Siri sucks)
: On February 28th, 2006, the iPod Hi-Fi was released. The rackmount model, although rarely seen …
: What if the 2023 Mac Pro is just seven M2 Mac minis stacked in a 2019 Mac Pro case?
: The Pumpkin Spice Power Macintosh G3 was smaller than the standard Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and …
: Faster and more maneuverable than a standard TIE fighter, HomePod interceptor is also better armed …
: The Power Mac G5 (Triple Threat) was a stop gap model released in between the Power Mac G5 (Early …
: Does anyone else remember when Apple was serious about Mac gaming?
: The 2002 release of iTunes for the Nintendo GameCube was not a success. The GameCube’s …
: Netscape Navigator for the Nintendo DS
: In a rare collaboration with Nintendo, Apple released Final Cut Express for the Nintendo DS in late …
: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
: The Tiger Electronics handheld LCD game version of The Secret of Monkey Island
: Designed to be a promotional tie-in for the 1993 MS-DOS release of Day of the Tentacle, the Tiger …
: You’ve heard of the Apple iPod+HP line of Hewlett-Packard-branded iPods, but have you heard of …
: HomePod G4 (Bring back the classic visualizer you cowards.)
: I don’t know about you, but I don’t think Horizon Worlds for the Nintendo Virtual Boy is …
: True story, Mark Zuckerberg once played the Nintendo Virtual Boy too long.
: Move over Siri, HAL 9000 is coming to a HomePod near you. “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m …
: Released on October 12, 2011 iMessage for BlackBerry was quickly discontinued after Apple found …
: Move over Macquarium it is now time for the iMac Ant Farm!
: Who else wanted to keep editing their Macintosh resource forks while on the go?
: Released in May 2000, Napster for the Game Boy Color allowed user’s to playback up to 100 MIDI …
: The 1995 release of GeoCities for the Nintendo GameBoy allowed users to create and browse websites …
: Mastodon.mit.edu is flooded! My volunteer, student run Mastodon instance is down due to flooding. SIPB Services down due to W20 …
: The iPod Shuffle SE 2021 was a reintroduction of the iPod Shuffle’s original 2005 …
: Despite its attractive yellow cartridge and smart portrait of Jeff Bezos, Amazon Web Services for …
: NeXTSTEP 3.3 for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer was a short lived project to expand the reach of …
: Microsoft Windows ME Upgrade for the Sega Dreamcast
: The July 25, 2008 promotional release of Mac OS X “Fox Mulder” was part of a short-lived …
: The Sonic & Tails version of Mac OS 8 was released exclusively for the Sega Genesis.
: I always wanted to see About By PCalc for the Nintendo DS.
: Released on June 19, 1995, Macintosh System 7.5 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System included …
: Released in 2001 for the Nintendo Game Boy, Mac OS X Server 1.0 not include the Aqua user interface …
: Sitting down to listen to a podcast like it is 2012.
: Mac OS X Tiger for GameCube Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger was the only version of Mac OS released for the PowerPC-based CPU, codenamed …
: I am still waiting for Quake 3 to be released for the NES.
: The last version of Mac OS X released on vinyl was Leopard. It came on 20 LPs (not pictured).
: Mac OS 9 was only released on Mini Disc in Japan. Here is an example of a rare English language …
: The limited edition Welcome to Mac OS X intro music LP is a rare find for Macintosh collectors.
: Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar was the first version of Mac OS to be released on two double-sided LP records.
: Mac OS 9 sounds so much warmer when you install from the original vinyl.
: Stage Manager is destined to become this decade’s Dashboard of Apple user interfaces.
: HalfBook Pro Ars Technica reports the new M2 MacBook Pro’s 256GB SSD is only about half as fast as the M1’s …
: iPad Display Support One of the most exciting features announced at this year’s WWDC, external display support is …
: M2 Display Support Back in the day of translucent plastics and PowerPC processors, Apple used to differentiate its pro …
: 2022 MacBook Air Apple just announced the “all-new 2022 MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip.” …
: Paul C. Pratt is Missing Last week Richard Moss, author of The Secret History of Mac Gaming, tweeted: Mini vMac author Paul …
: Swinsian Swinsian1 is a native music jukebox app for the Mac. It displays songs in customizable columns with …
: Ripping My Music During the pandemic I realized I am never going to subscribe to a streaming music service. At 38 I …
: My First iPod I got my first iPod in 2003. It was the second generation model; the first iPod to include a …
: Mac Source Ports Video games were a big part of my adolescence. And although my memories of playing these games as a …
: Apple Store Pickup I went to the Apple Store today to pick up a MacBook Air I had repaired under warranty. Apple …
: Universal Charging Mark Gurman writing for Bloomberg: A major change to the new computers will be how they charge. …
: AirMessage I made the switch from an iPhone 7 to Android last month. Not for a particular handset, but features …
: OutRun I first heard about OutRun from Bradley Chambers, writing for 9to5Mac. OutRun is exactly what you’d …
: 2020 MacBook Air Last week Apple announced a new MacBook Air and not only is it good — for most people it’s the Mac …
: Sideload to Castro I have been a regular podcast listener since at least April 17, 2005. Over the last 14 years I have …
: 2018 MacBook Air I did not consider an iPad. The only aspects of an iPad that interest me are its integrated LTE, and …
: YouTube RSS Watching Stupid Have you ever visited YouTube in a new browser without logging into Google first? If …
: App Store Editorial It is a shame that some of the best and brightest technology journalists to ever cover the Apple …
: Pizza Box Mac Pro Does anyone remember a story from the early 2000’s where a guy was trying to make a business of …
: The Fate of the Internet Suite With the SeaMonkey 2.49.5 release the 2.49.x line comes to an end. Unless a catastrophic bug is …
: Choosing an 13 inch MacBook Stephen Hackett, writing for 512 Pixels, outlines some of the differences between the entry level …
: Immutable Design After reading about some of the new features available in macOS Catalina it became clear to me Apple …
: New Materials Last week Apple announced the 2019 MacBook Pro, and the word keyboard did not appear in the press …
: Why Vim Seven years ago this blog post by Mark O’Connor changed my life. On September 19th, I said goodbye …
: Three Hour Marathon I ran my first marathon in 3:34:31 (Boston Marathon 2009), my second marathon in 3:24:34 ( Boston …
: Infinite Loop As an Apple fan growing up in the 90’s, Apple’s Infinite Loop headquarters has always been a special …
: Goodbye iPhone SE Harry McCracken “making sense of the most confusing new iPhone lineup ever“: As the iPhone lineup …
: Micro.blog is a Community of Creators Manton Reece explains how Micro.blog is serious about preventing abuse and harassment: the platform …
: Farewell Fail Whale I have been failing at social networks since the early 2000’s. I rode the MySpace wave in 2005. …
: NoScript I read this post on Daring Fireball last year and I wanted to comment on it: Charlie: I simply hate …
: Legacy Apple Products If like me, you follow Stephen Hackett’s 512 Pixels, then you know that every couple of months …
: Mojave Dark Mode During this year’s “Introducing Dark Mode” session at WWDC Apple gave us three reasons why they were …
: Mojave System Requirements The system requirements for each new Macintosh operating system are rarely out-of-step with Apple’s …
: Apple's Third Era Jason Snell on May 23, 2018: Here’s a bit of numerology for you. Today marks 17 years, one month, …
: New Mac Pro Delayed Until 2019 This week we learned a new Mac Pro isn’t coming until 2019. Clearly this revelation is a Apple …
: Repairability Vs. Sturdiness David Sparks: Over the years, Apple Products have become increasingly less repairable. The latest …
: TweetDelete My Ephemeral nature does not stop at blogging. I delete my old tweets automatically using a service …
: Ephemeral Blog I am not a good writer. Words rarely flow for me. Compared to other people it takes me a lot longer …
: LTE Apple Watch The Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE Cellular promises to free Apple Watch owners from the shackles of …
: Prepare for High Sierra September is a busy time of year. Summer vacations are ending. Back-to-school season has begun, …
: iFixit's MacBook Pro Battery Kit If two things are glued together using “industrial adhesive” they were not meant to be pulled apart. …
: iPhone Turns Ten Only once in my life have I owned the undisputed best of anything. That was the original iPgone on …
: WWDC 2017 Keynote I skipped WWDC again this year. Apple’s emphasis on iOS over the last three years removed the …
: Panic Pwned Steve Frank of Panic fame admits to having his company’s source code stolen: Last week, for about …
: Free iApps Yesterday Apple updated several of its Mac and iOS apps, making them available for free on Mac OS …
: New Pascal Drivers for Mac OS Yesterday NVIDIA revealed they would be releasing Mac OS drivers for their Pascal microarchitecture …
: Modular Mac John Gruber broke the news, the next Mac Pro will be a modular system. Apple is currently hard at …
: Internet Recovery Since the release of Mac OS X Lion: Holding down Command + R at startup told your Mac to boot from …
: FreeHand for Free I became a FreeHand fan during the Macromedia era after the release Freehand 5.5. Despite its …
: Genius Training Leaves Cupertino Joe Rossignol writing for MacRumors: For years, Apple has sent new Genius hires to its Infinite …
: Mac Pack When I was a Mac Genius in 2003, Apple retail charged $30 for the installation of extra RAM, Airport …
: The Back Looks Better Than the Front It is almost Spring and Stephen Hackett is back with a new nerdy t-shirt to celebrate the iMac G3 …
: iPad as a Platform Dr. Drang makes the argument that software not hardware is holding the iPad back from becoming an …
: Right to Repair Ben Lovejoy writing for 9to5Mac: Apple is fighting ‘right to repair’ legislation which would give …
: Swiss Army Knife I agree with Rob Griffiths when he says: “limited ports limit my interest in new Mac laptops.” …
: iOS Drops Support for 32-bit Andrew Cunningham writing for ArsTechnica: Beta builds of iOS 10.3, the first of which was issued …
: Safari Should Support VP9 Mike Wuerthele writing for Apple Insider. The shift appears to have taken place on Dec. 6, …
: Einstein Lives! Steve Frank has brought the Einstein Newton Emulator back to life: On behalf of the Einstein team, …
: Fedora Wesley Moore: I deeply value the consistency, versatility, reliability and integration of Mac OS X …
: Farewell Fever Shaun Inman: As of today I’m officially suspending sales and support of Mint and Fever. But! As …
: Apple Abandons Airport Mark Gurman writing for Bloomberg: Apple Inc. has disbanded its division that develops wireless …
: Apple's Support Gap Nick Heer: I’ve been trying to book some time at my local Apple Store to get my iPhone’s battery …
: Default Apps in iOS Kirk McElhearn, writing for Macworld, is frusterated he can’t choose his default apps in iOS. But …
: Workouts++ Workouts++ is a new app for your Apple Watch from David Smith. It allows you to customize your …
: Gimmick Strip Last weekend I had the chance to visit my local Apple Store and check out the new MacBook Pro with …
: Good, Better, Best Take a moment to look over Apple’s product line. Pay special attention to the Macintosh. On the …
: The Last Mac Pro The 2013 Mac Pro has been a disaster. After 1,056 days since its last update, Apple has proven they …
: Amazon Premium Headphones If you can wear Apple Earpods, you can wear Amazon Premium Headphones. If you think Apple Earpods …
: Apple Watch Series 2 I skipped the first Apple Watch. I missed the benefits of customizable watch faces, the importance …
: Ceramic Last April I was worried the $10,000+ Apple Watch Edition would alienate Apple’s core customers. …
: Courage I have been waiting all Summer for the introduction of the iPhone 7. Not because I plan on buying an …
: Photive HF1 Bluetooh Headphones I do not own a wireless keyboard. I do not own a wireless mouse. Because when it comes to wireless, …
: New Apple Ii his article ‘New Apple,’ Stephen Hackett tells us what makes the Apple of today different from …
: Why Lightning? The Apple en.wikipedia.orgwikiLightning_(connector text: Lightning connector) was introduced on …
: Return to First Boot I repair people’s Macs for a living. Often the task requires reinstalling the operating system, and …
: Fire Phone For the past month I have been the owner of an Amazon Fire Phone. The mythical device whose name is …
: EasyFind Before Spotlight there was Sherlock.nAnd before Sherlock there was the Find.nWe have come a long way …
: Unverified Install Have you ever tried to install OS X from a USB Flash Drive and received this error message? This …
: Soldered to the Board Apple’s trend of replacing user-upgradable parts with components soldered to the logic board has …
: Blixt I met Bryan Clark and Jesse Herlitz during last year’s WWDC. Under the cover of darkness, in the …
: ADB, the Epitome of Early Apple Lightning, the Epitome of Apple is one of the best things John Gruber has written all year. The …
: Killing the Xserve On November 5th, 2010 Apple killed the Xserve. At the time I thought killing the Xserve was a …
: The Price of Windows Ben Brooks brought this post by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes to my attention. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is a …
: Repair Disk Permissions Readers ask me when is a good time to Repair Disk Permissions? My answer, “when is the last time you …
: Coffee Break Apple has a long history of including Java in its desktop operating systems. The Macintosh Runtime …
: Fast Times & Short Life of Fusion Drive Fusion Drive, we barely knew you. Announced as part of an Apple event held on October 23rd, 2012, …
: DEFCON DEFCON is a real-time strategy game created by independent British game developer Introversion …
: Apple's First Digital Camera During the holidays many of us gave and received the gift of photography.nDigital cameras, family …
: Bond Phone In the late 2000’s the original iPhone was the best phones money could buy, but it wasn’t …
: Bond Watch When you think of a Bond Watch, what comes to mind? Style, luxury, sophistication? Perhaps the actor …
: Das Keyboard I am spending more time on the PC these days; running Windows 10 and dialing into MIT’s Linux …
: Abandoned PowerBook G4 When I worked behind the Genius Bar in 2003 there was no Concierge, no booking system, no …
: Apple's History of Skeuomorphism A lot of people have been displeased by the skeuomorphic design elements appearing in Apple’s latest …
: What Mountain Lion Left Behind For those of us already running Mac OS X Lion, Mountain Lion will be a minor update. Continuing the …
: Pretty Eight Machine I missed out on the original release of Pretty Hate Machine in October of 1989. I was only six years …
: Path Finder 6 As a long time Mac user I was born into the desktop metaphor of files, folders, drag, and drop. It …
: Why Steve Jobs Killed the Newton Steve Jobs came back to Apple to save the company, not to kill the Newton. Killing the Newton was a …
: Feed a Fever Google Reader is dead. NetNewWire is a shadow of its former self. For the last couple of years I …
: Apple's Greatest Keyboard You have heard it on The Talk Show. The loud clickity-clack of John Gruber’s Apple Extended Keyboard …
: How I Met John Gruber While attending Macworld 2012, I met John Gruber. I was waiting outside the men’s room in an upscale …
: Bringing iCloud to Snow Leopard If like me, you are still using a Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and want to continue …
: My Favorite Tech Support Story When I was a Mac Genius, and the Genius Bar was new, a red phone with a direct line to Cupertino …
: Trine 2 Trine 2 takes place in the same fantasy world as the original, and once again our three heroes, Zoya …
: Limbo Limbo is a puzzle-platform game that was released for the Xbox 360 in July 2010. It has only …
: Trine Trine. is a side-scrolling platform adventure.nThe game follows the adventures of three heroes bound …
: The Life and Death of Camino By July 2002 Mac OS X was just over one year old, Safari was still several months away, and very few …
: Today’s Mac Genius Even at training (Early 2009) our instructor warned us about ‘Old School vs. New School’ Geniuses. …
: Zapping the PRAM If you have ever encountered a problem with your Macintosh you might have been advised to zapreset …
: Apple’s Greatest Year Now that 2011 has come to a close, we are able to look back at Apple’s greatest year. Not only did …
: NetNewsWire Lite NetNewsWire Lite is an almost perfect app. It does one thing, and one thing well, deliver RSS. …
: Should You Buy AppleCare? Should you buy AppleCare? Every Apple product comes with 90 days of complimentary telephone …
: Why I Bought MobileMe I have had a Mac.com email address ever since I had a Mac that could send email. iTools, the …
: What Lion Left Behind Apple may be adding 250+ new features to Mac OS X Lion, but just like Snow Leopard before it some …
: Burn a Lion Boot Disk With the absence of easily obtainable installation media Mac OS X Lion looks like it might make for …
: The Best Mac OS With the unveiling of Lion just days away it is easy to look back at past releases of Mac OS and see …
: Stacey CMS Stacey is a framework for building simple websites. The project is based around two core ideals: …
: Choosing a Newton Apple released four distinct Newton form factors containing eight different models between August …
: Why I Carry a Newton A Newton MessagePad, the grandfather of all PDAs, is a funny thing to carry around with you when …
: How I Sync My iPod iTunes can tell you a lot about a song. It can tell you the title, the artist, the album, and the …
: My Backup Strategy My backup strategy is simple. I have two computers, in two different locations, synchronized in real …