This is a little old, but here’s why Daring Fireball doesn’t have comments: I wanted to write a site for someone it’s meant for. That reader I write for is a second version of me. I’m writing for him. He’s interested in the exact same things I’m interested in; he reads the exact same websites [...]
The MacOS iPhone Project is (according to their site) an attempt to get Mac System 7 running on an iPhone. Details are sketchy, but they do have photos. Here’s a blurb: This is where we ran into one of our biggest issues, the cursor, it sound simple, but Apple didnt make it easy for us. I have [...]
Wired: But here’s the catch: Most of the time, we do almost nothing. Our most common tasks—email, Web surfing, watching streamed videos—require very little processing power. Only a few people, like graphic designers and hardcore gamers, actually need heavy-duty hardware. For years now, without anyone really noticing, the PC industry has functioned like a car company [...]
Gizmodo spent some time with Apple’s new 17-inch MacBook Pro and has posted a nice review of the machine: Apple will tell you that the MBP17 is the thinnest, lightest 17-inch notebook in the world. We’ll tell you that for a monster of a laptop, it manages to not be too monstrous. The 17-inch (1920×1200) [...]
The Rocky Mountain News, a E.W. Scripps newspaper, is closing this week, just shy of its 150th anniversary. Here’s a bit from the paper’s own coverage: Rich Boehne, chief executive officer of Scripps, broke the news to the Rocky staff at noon today, ending nearly three months of speculation over the paper’s future. He called the paper [...]
From Engadget’s lengthy review of Amazon’s revamped Kindle e-book reader: All in all, the hardware has been seriously streamlined, and the result is nothing short of gorgeous. Besides being evened out and pulled in, the Kindle 2 is also astonishingly thin — just 0.36-inches — which makes it a pleasure to carry, though we miss some of the [...]
The Washington Post: NASA and climate researchers are weighing their options after yesterday’s crash of a new satellite designed to monitor atmospheric carbon dioxide with unprecedented accuracy. A malfunction during the rocket ride toward space sent the Orbiting Carbon Observatory plummeting into the Indian Ocean near Antarctica. “To say that it’s extremely disappointing would be [...]
Macworld, on Apple’s annual shareholder meeting today: With Jobs currently on medical leave until the end of June, the health of Apple’s CEO was very much on the minds of attendees at the shareholders’ meeting. In fact, it was the subject of the first thing asked when company executives opened the floor to shareholder questions. A [...]
I stumbled across this Time article from 1983, about Steve Jobs and his young company, Apple Computer. Here’s a bit about the origins of the Apple // computer: “Steve didn’t do one circuit, design or piece of code,” says Wozniak, who was widely regarded as the true technological wizard in Jobs’ corporate Oz. “He’s not [...]
I’ve been a notebook user ever since my first Mac – a 1GHz Titanium PowerBook G4, until about 18 months ago, when I bought a 20-inch aluminum iMac as my main machine. It’s a beast of a computer, but I still need to be portable from time to time. I’ve also always been a fan [...]
