Apple SuperBowl Commercials
February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Today being Superbowl Sunday, here is a look down memory lane at three Apple commercials from past Superbowls.
Here a three great commercials that Apple aired during past games:
1984 – “1984″
1985 – “Lemmings”
1999 – “HAL2000″
Vintage Apple Computer Auctions
April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Happy 32nd Birthday Apple. Apple Computers was born April 1st 1976. Although it is probably nearly impossible to own an Apple I here is your chance to own a bit of Apple computers history up for sale on eBay.
Apple 20th Anniversary Macintosh
Apple II with Dual Disk Drives and Panasonic Monitor
Apple Macintosh Plus
Vintage Apple Logo Stickers
Apple Superbowl Commercials
February 3, 2008 | 1 Comment
Today being Superbowl Sunday, here is a look down memory lane at three Apple commercials from past Superbowls.
Do you think Apple will show the MacBook Air commercial during this years Superbowl? Or perhaps something new we haven’t seen before?
Nevertheless here a three great commercials that Apple aired during past games:
1984 – “1984″
1985 – “Lemmings”
1999 – “HAL2000″
The ABC’s of Being a Mac Geek
December 12, 2007 | 2 Comments
A: Apple Inc. The company that started it all.
B: Bill Gates: Bill has been stealing ideas from Steve since way back.
C: Cupertino: While visiting the Mothership be sure to go to the Company Store.
D: Developers: Without developers sticking behind Apple all these years we wouldn’t be where we are today.
E: Education: Most of us remember using an Apple when we were in school.
F: Firewire: Pioneered by Apple, FireWire is one of the fastest peripheral standards ever developed, which makes it great for use with multimedia peripherals such as digital video cameras and other high-speed devices like the latest hard disk drives and printers.
G: GUI: Another Apple first was the GUI which came with the introduction of the Lisa.
H: Hertzfeld, Andy: A key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team during the 1980s.
I: i anything. iPod, iMac, iLife, iPhone and iCEO Apple invented the “i” prefix.
J: Jonathan Ive: Senior Vice President of Industrial Design
K: Keynote: Every Mac users dream is to attend a MacWorld Keynote featuring Steve Jobs.
L: Lisa: The Lisa was the first commercial computer with a GUI.
M: Macintosh: A computer that needs no introduction now.
N: Nineteen Eighty-Four: The year the Macintosh was born.
O: Open Source: If you like open source development, you’ll love Mac OS X.
P: Phil Shiller is Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing and also Steve’s sidekick during MacWorld Keynotes.
Q: Quicktime: Apple released the first version of QuickTime on December 2, 1991 as a multimedia add-on for System Software 6 and later. Video for Windows — did not appear until November 1992.
R: Retail Stores: Analysts said they would fail. Now there are over 200 worldwide.
S: Steve Jobs, Co-founded Apple Computers in 1976
T: Target Disk Mode: Makes setting up a new Mac easy.
U: USB: The original iMac was the first Macintosh computer to include a USB port.
V: Volkswagen: Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus to fund Apple.
W: Woz, Co-founded Apple Computers with Steve Jobs.
X: OS X: The Apple desktop version of Mac OS X debuted in March 2001
Y: Yikes: Twice the performance of the G3 and three times the power of a Pentium III at the same clock speed, the G4 400 was Apple’s first serious pro computer.
Z: Zero: The number of viruses that affect Mac OS X.
Bye Bye Sherlock
December 8, 2007 | 3 Comments
With the release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple has officially announced the discontinuation of Sherlock. Apples file and web searching program that was introduced in Mac OS 8.5 as an extension of the Mac OS Finder’s file searching capabilities.
Sherlocks main features were replaced by Spotlight for hard drive searches and Dashboard in subsequent Mac OS X releases, but has continued to be bundled with default Mac OS X installations up until the release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
A support document regarding Sherlock notes, features formerly provided by Sherlock can now be found in Dashboard and Sherlock itself does not work with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Also manually copying a version of Sherlock from a OS X installation prior to Leopard is not supported and you should manually remove Sherlock from your system if you are running Leopard.
Here’s to the crazy ones
November 25, 2007 | 5 Comments
Looking around the applications folder in CoverFlow I came across the icon from the application TextEdit.
When you enlarge the icon in CoverFlow view you can see a letter from John Appleseed quoting the text from Apple’s famous “Think Different” advertising campaign.
Has anyone else found any hidden easter eggs in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard?
Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones,
We see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world,
Are the ones who do.
Happy Birthday iPod
October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
October 23rd marks iPods 6th Birthday. Just 6 years ago today Steve Jobs introduced the iPod to the world at a small press conference at Apples Cupertino campus.
Below is the introduction by Steve Jobs:
Happy 6th Birthday iPod! You have come a long way baby.
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