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Brain Matter(s) - Impossible Happens
A nice summary of a couple lessons to take from Steve Jobs. When his back was against the wall and he had to save the company he had just returned to he called "the enemy", Bill Gates to arrange a deal. Always look at the bigger picture.
billgates  stevejobs  apple  inspiration 
february 2012 by amdavidson
Robservatory » Blog Archive » A useless analysis of OS X release dates
A release history of every dot update to OS X since the public betas.
apple  history  mac  osx 
february 2012 by amdavidson
Apple's Supply-Chain Secret? Hoard Lasers - BusinessWeek
A look into the way that Apple wields its supply chain as a strategic weapon.
apple  timcook  supplychain 
november 2011 by amdavidson
A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com
Mona Simpson's eulogy at Steve Jobs's funeral.
funeral  apple  stevejobs  monasimpson  eulogy 
october 2011 by amdavidson
Make An OS X Lion Boot Disc - MacRumors.com
How to make a Lion boot disc from the App Store download so that clean installs can be done.
apple  howto  mac  osx  lion  appstore 
july 2011 by amdavidson
Thinking About Macs as Cars and Trying to Figure Out What the Hell You Should Buy — The Brooks Review
An interesting look at the mac lineup and how it compares to modes of transportation.

It seems pretty close, the ipad : motorcycle analogy is fairly good, but I'm not sure how I feel about the 13" MacBook Air and MacBook Pro analogies.
macbook  macbookair  macbookpro  apple  analogy  automotive 
june 2011 by amdavidson
Some Clouds Have a Golden Lining
A graphic that shows the use of the golden ratio in Apple's iCloud logo. Its the details that make it great.
apple  design  details  goldenratio 
june 2011 by amdavidson
iMessage, Skype, Google Voice, and the death of the phone number | This is my next...
Which company will be the one to eliminate the phone number from our lexicon?
microsoft  apple  skype  google  phone  number  technology  prediction 
june 2011 by amdavidson
Nilay Patel explains Apple’s suit against Samsung
A great, plain English explanation of exactly what Apple is suing Samsung over.
apple  Samsung  iOS  copyright  patent  touchwiz  from instapaper
april 2011 by amdavidson
Employee No. 8
an amusing recollection of seniority at apple from the lomgest continually employed person there on their 34 year anniversary.
apple  business  seniority  mikeespinosa  stevejobs 
march 2011 by amdavidson
How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail | The Invisible
A wonderful example of how Apple has designed the iPhone to be the most wonderful device on the planet.
apple  design  ios  iphone  mail 
january 2011 by amdavidson
gfxCardStatus: menu bar gpu status monitor for os x / cody krieger - mobile, desktop & web developer
apple  application  computers  download  graphic  graphics  hardware  mac  macbook  macbookpro  macosx  opensource  osx  software  tool  tools  utilities  video  freeware  gfx  gpu  nvidia  switch  utility  from delicious
november 2010 by amdavidson
The Man Who Makes Your iPhone - BusinessWeek
An interesting profile of Terry Gou, the Founder, CEO, and majority share holder of Foxconn / Hon Hai Precision / all the other companies in the group.
biography  terry  gou  terrygou  foxconn  honhai  apple  manufacturing  businessweek  business  china  hardware  globalization  interview  iphone  from delicious
september 2010 by amdavidson
My First Week with the iPhoneBehind the Curtain | Behind the Curtain
An iPhone review, one week in. Would be standard fare except that this review is written by a blind person.
blog  apple  design  inspiration  iphone  technology  voiceover  mobile  colour  blind  accessibility  from delicious
september 2010 by amdavidson
From the Archives: A Revealing Interview With Steve Jobs : Rolling Stone
An interesting interview with Steve Jobs by Rolling Stone. Shows his mindset at the time and is a bit predictive of the future we are now in.
steve  jobs  stevejobs  apple  rolling  stone  rollingstone  interview  biography  foreboding  revealing  from delicious
september 2010 by amdavidson
Frank Chimero - There is a Horse in the Apple Store
An amusing story of Frank Chimero's sighting of a tiny pony in an Apple Store.
apple  funny  frankchimero  horse  pony  humor  humour  technology  tinypony  from delicious
september 2010 by amdavidson
Improve Mac OS X performance under load by disabling spindump.
A quick howto to disable the spindump crash logger on OSX. Greatly improves the hang after the crash of an app.
apple  crash  disable  hack  itunes  leopard  load  mac  macosx  osx  performance  tips  launchctl  spindump  from delicious
september 2010 by amdavidson
Regarding Apple’s patent filing and Where To, Marco makes...
interesting article about the legitimacy of Apple's use of non-apple app imagery in their patent applications
apple  patent  softwarepatent  application  plagairism  ethics  from delicious
august 2010 by amdavidson
venomous porridge - “MOM! BETHANY WON’T LET ME PLAY DOODLE JUMP!” ...
fantastic short story based on an actual iphone app review
fiction  humor  iphone  apple  review  appstore  from delicious
july 2010 by amdavidson
Core77 speaks with Jonathan Ive on the design of the iPhone 4: Material Matters - Core77
Interesting article that really brings to light what I'm doing for Apple and how it enables the beautiful products that we produce.
apple  article  design  development  interview  iphone  materials  process  core77  industrial  industrialdesign  iphone4  jonathan_ive  hardware  jonyive  ive  jony  from delicious
june 2010 by amdavidson
Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: Busy Being Born
a photographic history of the development of the Lisa interface... the first GUI based computer.
apple  article  design  history  interesting  mac  interface  macintosh  gui  ui  lisa  from delicious
june 2010 by amdavidson
The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash - Charlie's Diary
a discussion of the adobe flash / apple debate and reasons that steve jobs may have something against flash
steve  jobs  stevejobs  apple  adobe  flash  strategy  iphone  sdk  from delicious
june 2010 by amdavidson
Mark Bernstein: Platform Control
a description of apple's reasoning for disliking flash and the changing of the 3.3.1 iphone SDK regulations
iphone  flash  apple  regulations  software  adobe  control  platform  from delicious
june 2010 by amdavidson
Dilbert's Scott Adams on Betting on the Bad Guys in Investing - WSJ.com
hilarious article describing scott adams' suggestion that you invest in companies you hate, BP and Apple are specifically mentioned
bp  apple  humor  investing  money  scottadams  dilbert  from delicious
june 2010 by amdavidson
Before Jailbreaking, Extract iPhone’s SHSH Blobs Using Umbrella [How To] | Cult of Mac
A utility for saving the SHSH files when you jailbreak an iPhone.
iphone  jailbreak  shsh  apple  from delicious
may 2010 by amdavidson
Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod
In printed books, the two-page spread was our canvas. It's easy to think similarly about the iPad. Let's not. The canvas of the iPad must be considered in a way that acknowledge the physical boundaries of the device, while also embracing the effective limitlessness of space just beyond those edges.
Apple  iPad  content  design  books  framework  display  ebook  kindle  nook  from delicious
april 2010 by amdavidson
Apple’s iPad, General Motors, and the shrinking middle of the consumer market : The New Yorker
The new yorker's take on Apple's strategy with the pricing of the iPad and trying to hit a higher end of the market than most of its competitors (specifically asus).
Apple  iPad  newyorker  strategy  business  luxury  asus  net  book  market  from delicious
april 2010 by amdavidson
TidBITS iPhone iPad iPod: Why the iPad Is a Blank Slate, and Why That's Important
an interesting review on the iPad and how the fact that it only presents a single app at a time is the true key to the "iPad experience"
apple  ipad  design  reference  tablet  analysis  technology  trends  review  from delicious
april 2010 by amdavidson
Finger Painting : The New Yorker
awesome finger paintings done on an iPhone using the Brushes application
iphone  art  magazine  animation  inspiration  video  newyorker  finger  painting  fingerpainting  apps  appstore  apple  jorge  colombo  jorgecolombo  from delicious
march 2010 by amdavidson
aaron.harnly.net » letterbox
A plugin that enables 3 pane view for Apple's Mail.app
mac  mail  email  osx  plugin  software  apple  mailapp  mail.app  customization  from delicious
march 2010 by amdavidson
Blue Marble - iPhone J.D.
The story behind the Blue Marble photograph and the Blue Marble 2002 version that is included as the default iPhone wallpaper.
space  iphone  apple  wallpaper  image  photograph  photo  from delicious
march 2010 by amdavidson
apple-history.com :: Compare :: MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2009) :: PowerBook G3 (FireWire)
my progression from my first mac (7/2004) to my current one (as of 3/2010)
mac  apple  powerbook  macbook  macbookpro  comparison  computers  from delicious
march 2010 by amdavidson
northtemple - On iPads, Grandmas and Game-changing
The views of three members of the general public, specifically *not* the technophiles, on the iPad.
ipad  apple  technology  future  iphone  computing  computers  from delicious
march 2010 by amdavidson
So Just Where Does All That iPhone Money Go? - Apple - Gizmodo
iphone  apple  revenue  business  att 
december 2009 by amdavidson
So Just Where Does All That iPhone Money Go? - Apple - Gizmodo
pinboard  iphone  apple  revenue  business  att  from delicious
december 2009 by amdavidson
Marco.org - The more I think and learn about the curious...
A standalone monitor with the new iMac’s panel would be perfectly reasonably priced at about $1500. From Dell. Apple’s only charging $200 more than that for theirs, and there’s an entire high-end computer stuck to the back of it.
apple  imac  27  pricing  cost  profit  margin  k23  monitor  screen  ips  panel  lg  pinboard 
october 2009 by amdavidson
/dev/why!?!: The loss of ZFS
an interesting article on the use (or more accurately non-use) of ZFS in Apple and other desktop systems.
apple  zfs  file  systems  fs  engineering  computer  science  technology  windows  osx  hfs  hfs+  fat  pinboard 
october 2009 by amdavidson
Positioning Apple - holman runs the voodoo down
interesting article on the way apple manages expectations.
apple  iphone  nano  itunes  genius  features  expectations  bullshit  blog  pinboard 
october 2009 by amdavidson
Fixing Ruby Gems, MySQL and Passenger Phusion on Snow Leopard 10.6 | Greg Benedict
Install all the requires stuff for snow leopard.
howto  tips  apple  osx  mac  apache  rails  rubyonrails  snow  gem  leopard  ruby  snowleopard  mysql  passenger  fix  imagemagick  install  installation 
september 2009 by amdavidson
 TwistedMac - Mac OS X Over The Years
A look back at each verson of Mac OS X since its release as a public beta in Fall 2000.
design  apple  mac  osx  history  macosx  pictures  operatingsystem  interface  screenshots  software  cheetah  puma  jaguar  leopard  snow  beta  public  operating  system 
august 2009 by amdavidson
How Good is the New iPhone 3GS Camera - Ummm, It’s Really Great! | greyscalegorilla/blog
Really cool info, especially that the tap-to-focus also is a spot metering feature. Definitely makes me want to upgrade from my 3G.
photography  apple  iphone  photo  3gs  3g  2g  camera  phone  cameraphone  low  light  back  backlit  tutorial  focus  shake  it  thegorilla  gorilla  greyscalegorilla 
july 2009 by amdavidson
HowTo: Make Ubuntu A Perfect Mac File Server And Time Machine Volume [Update6] › Blog › kremalicious.com » Matthias Kretschmann | Photography & Design
Use your ubuntu machine as an AFP server. Also has instructions for setting up Time Machine on your Mac to support it.
howto  tutorial  ubuntu  mac  apple  linux  time  osx  tips  machine  timemachine  networking  afp  netatalk  server  backup  macosx 
june 2009 by amdavidson
Gizmodo - A Brief Note About Beavers' Testicles - Apple Dictionary
"a seventeenth-century antidote to idiocy was to rub the forehead with beaver testicles".... If you have a Mac open the dictionary app, and look up idiocy in the thesaurus.... Hilarity ensues.
funny  humor  gizmodo  beaver  testicles  thesaurus  mac  osx  apple  dictionary  easter  egg  easteregg 
june 2009 by amdavidson
Luxury vs. premium
Cool article on luxury vs premium. Doesn't reference Microsoft's recent ad campaigns indicating that apple is a luxury brand, but its definitely interesting with those ads in mind.
luxury  premium  goods  apple  microsoft 
may 2009 by amdavidson
How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong
Funny (to me) article on the rise of apple with some insight into life at apple.
process  apple  mac  design  technology  management  wired  jobs  steve  opacity  transparency  secrecy 
may 2009 by amdavidson
blah, and other stuff: Disable "Front Row" keyboard shortcut
how to disable the STUPID front row keyboard shortcut in mac os x.
apple  howto  osx  mac  tips  front  row  keyboard  shortcut  disable 
april 2009 by amdavidson
Xpro in Aperture
Cross Processing in Aperture tutorial.
tutorial  aperture  crossprocess  cross  process  cross-processing  xpro  apple  photography  photo 
march 2009 by amdavidson

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