Rising from the dead like a Newton running Mac OS 9, a new form of Mac Zombie is evolving in the wilds of Apple Geekdom: recycled old Macs being used as iPad stands. One way for old computers to beat mortality is emulation: early Macs had Apple II emulators, PowerPC Macs running Mac OS X [...]



Written by Adam Rosen on August 13th, 2010 with no comments.
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Guy Kawasaki’s seminal book The Macintosh Way is a classic for technology marketers (“evangelists”) and Apple geeks alike.  It is fondly remembered from the Golden 68k Macintosh Era, and is used to this day as reference material for startup businesses and college courses. The book went out of print several years ago, and Guy has been [...]



Written by Adam Rosen on August 2nd, 2010 with no comments.
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Harking back to a time when Lost’s mysteries had not been explained away with the MacGuffin of a stupid magic light, the original Dharma Initiative Apple II Plus computer used in the Pearl Station to release electromagnetic radiation every 108 minutes way back in Season Two is soon to go on sale.
If you’re interested [...]



Written by John Brownlee on July 26th, 2010 with no comments.
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Where would the Macintosh (and Computing) World be without Bill Atkinson? Â MacPaint, QuickDraw, HyperCard – Atkinson stands with the Giants. Â In homage of his recent donation of the MacPaint source code to the Computer History Museum, flickr artist anoved offers this portrait of Bill Atkinson created entirely in MacPaint. Â With tools like these, who needs [...]



Written by Adam Rosen on July 23rd, 2010 with no comments.
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Still haven’t gotten that geeky dad of yours anything for Father’s Day? Here’s a late last-minute suggestion: Run out to your local bookshop and grab a copy of 62 Projects To Make With A Dead Computer. It’s a sort of $15 Maker Faire for dummies that’ll keep him busy for months, get rid of some [...]



Written by Eli Milchman on June 19th, 2010 with no comments.
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