Sandwich Video‘s Adam Lisagor introduces eBay’s new My Gadgets product — and the video features a Newton ($210!) among other classic gadgets.
Seems like a good option for those of us who used to (or still do) buy a lot of classic Apple gear on eBay.
What’s an extension? An extension conflict? The command key?
A fantastic little site called The Essential Mac has all these keywords listed and defined — great if you’re new to the classic Mac operating system.
It’s also a great primer for everything from Control Panels to those pesky extensions in pre-OS X Macintoshes. And since time on this site seemed to stop in 1997, you have a classic reference piece. The Essential Mac comes courtesy of the South Shore Mac Users Group in Long Island, NY.
(via System Folder)
You want to know what true innovation is? Doing what the heck you want and not giving two rats about other people’s expectations and priorities.
Here, here.
Big, blockbuster innovations take time, timing, and a need. Be patient everyone. Jeez.
In retrospect, it’s easy to see just how important the PowerBook G3s were to Apple. The machines bridged the gap between old-school and modern Macs, and each generation included significant progress in Apple’s mobile technology.
The photos are great, as is the analysis. Having never owned a PowerBook G3, I often find it hard to get the naming system just right.
Nick Bilton at the New York Times Bits blog:
A focus on the iPad could be a boon for [Flickr]. Although a lot of people don’t take photos on their iPad, they sure do like to look at images on it. Could Flickr create a beautiful magazinelike iPad application that allows people to skim through high-resolution images on the service?
As a still-dedicated Flickr user (along with other Newton users out there), it’s nice to hear things are maybe…kind of…hopefully picking up at Flickr.
And Bilton’s idea is great: a way to browse stuff that’s somewhere, quality-wise, between Instagram and 500px. My friends and acquaintances still use Flickr for their good stuff. It’d be nice for this hypothetical iPad treatment to be a nicer version of the Contacts tab on Flickr.com. The problem is that, at least for my contacts, the quantity of stuff has decreased over the years. That’s a shame.
But I still use the hell out of Flickr, and plan to for as long as its around in something like its current form.
Improvements, though, are always welcome.
UPDATE: Good thoughts from Zach Inglis as well, especially on the Flickr-as-a-gallery ranking in the photo app wars.
Maybe the beige model is next?
Nice work over at HairyDalek.
Page 2 of a 1998 Italian Apple brochure introducing the iMac G3, the PowerBook G3, Mac OS 8 and related software.
Good “vintage” stuff from Riccardo Mori over at System Folder. Love the lady’s shirt.
Funny what you find in a top-rated, university-backed medical research facility.
Man, those eMacs. Still plugging along.
