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.
Jonathan Coulton makes geeky music for geeks. That’s why this video from YouTube user KonogoRaiana, featuring Coulton’s “Still Alive,” the ending theme from Portal, makes so much sense.
The text file to get this to work, using MacInTalk text to speech code, is gibberish — but the Newton understands it just fine.
Get this.
Musician Ethan Tufts of State Shirt created a song on an Apple IIc — part chiptune, part drum-and-guitar pop song — and recorded the whole process in the video above.
Tufts offers State Shirt songs as “open source” — so feel free to download the tracks, but try to support his good work (and nerdery) if you can.
Golly. I’ve really done it now.
This little project started last fall, after the “Back to the Mac” Apple event. I collected a few Apple product videos, scoured YouTube for the highest quality PowerPC-era Mac commercials I could find – even asked Twitter where to find good, high-res files.
But I made do. And so here it is: a goofy, super geeky take on “Return of the Mack” – dropping the “k” of course.
What I like is that Apple videos make their machines fly – lots of swooping and dramatic angles and shadows. Tons of product rotations. All (except for the PowerMac G5 vid) against a brilliant white background.
For variety, I threw in some random stuff like the chip manufacturing shots. And some Apple reps doing some bad lip syncing.
Anyway. Glad to be done with it. It’s nothing like a pro job: there are still little hints of YouTubeness and window frames in there. But it’s just a fun little music video for us Macintosh geeks.
Matt Pearce, the guy behind Matt’s Macintosh, takes a look back at the revolutionary iMac G4 design.
I like that his YouTube videos are both well-made and show an appreciation for all the old Mac and Apple hardware. He’s got a lot of great new and older stuff to show off.
Matt also took my retro Apple.com idea and ran with it, mocking up five designs ranging from the original Apple, complete with the old Newton-under-a-tree icon, to the QuickTake camera.
Besides reinforcing tons of fun stereotypes about French dudes, this is a neat little intro video for the Newton.
I haven’t spoken Français since college, so I didn’t catch a lot of it – but the gist is there.
Ne problème pas!
[Par l’intermédiaire de Wired Re-Read.]
This time, Jon Rettinger promises more reviews of the actual Newton OS features, which should be fun.
A great find from the Apple marketing archives, showing the target market for the eMate: education.
The video may have been produced before the eMate name was finalized, because you never heard it called an eMate through the whole thing. One teacher keeps calling it “the machine,” but no one comes out and says it’s a Newton product.
“It’s definitely ageless,” one of the teacher says.
Ruggedness, flexibility, tons of uses, usability – these were the eMate’s strengths, especially as it was carried around by fifth graders. Apple had that in mind, at least, when they put together the commercial.
Fancy leather satchel? Check. Gun? Check.
Newton MessagePad? Check!
Here’s a scene from Under Siege 2, starring the acting superstar Steve Seagal, where the Newton helps to save the day.
Shucks, it’s virtually a commercial for the little gadget.
I just hope it doesn’t reveal too many of those top-secret recipes.
PowerbookMedic takes apart a Newton MessagePad:
If the iPhone 3GS had parents, its father would be the iPhone 3G, and its mother would be the 1st Gen iPhone. If it had a Grandma, that would unequivocally have to be the Apple Newton. We’ve done teardown videos on all of the iPhone models, and so it seemed only logical (and respectful) to give the Newton the same honor.
A few things struck me about this video: the infomercial music, the rate of unscrewing screws (what, no fast forward?), and the brave use of a soldering iron. Maybe it’s early, but taking a red-hot poker to my Newton is a bit too advanced for me.
Anyway, a good how-to if you feel like getting your hands dirty.