These Stickers Are Very Good

For each of the Apple History Calendars, my pal Jelly has created a set of fun, unique stickers. This year’s project is no different:

2024 Stickers

Here’s my headcanon for each sticker:

  • The blue iPod mini is trying to win back your love as you unbox a new iPod nano.
  • The G4 Cube has no idea what’s coming for him, and is just loving life as Steve Jobs’ favorite Mac.
  • The iPhone 4 is mocking Antennagate to her friends, years later.
  • Flower Power is enjoying retirement like few older Macs can: hanging out at Bondi Beach.

These stickers are available to backers at the “Get It All” level on this year’s Kickstarter.

Introducing the 2024 Apple History Calendar →

2024 Apple History Calendar

For the last two years, I’ve successfully created beautiful wall calendars focusing on parts of Apple’s business. For 2022 I did hardware, and for 2023, software.

The 2024 Apple History Calendar will complete the trilogy, focusing on Apple retail and the company’s services business.

These dates cover everything from Apple’s earliest ideas about the Internet to the latest in it’s growing collection of services, complete with key dates in the history of the Apple Store as well.

The calendar features a custom design and measures 20×13, and comes with a pre-punched hole to hang it on your wall. Each month highlights a bunch of these important dates, paired with photographs taken by me of items in my Apple collection, a custom illustration for the cover and more.

The calendars will be printed here in Memphis, TN. Campaign orders will fulfilled by me and a small team of family and friends, and shipping will begin in October, in plenty of time for the new year, with digital downloads will go out in November.

If you are one of the 1200 people backed my campaign last year, I hope you’ll enjoy this calendar just as much as you did the previous one. If you’re new to this project, then welcome!

All of the information can be found on the campaign page. Go check it out!

The Apple History Digital Calendar & Wallpapers Now For Sale →

In 2021, I launched my first Kickstarter campaign, for a wall calendar celebrating dates in Apple’s hardware history. The next year, I followed it up with a project focused on Apple’s software history. I’ve got something cooking for the third installment, but that’s a story for a different time.

Each project was more than just a beautiful wall calendar, however. Each campaign included digital goodies: wallpapers made of the images in the calendars and digital versions and .ics files for each project’s dates.

Each of these is for sale for just $5 each over on Gumroad:

Announcing the Rogue Amoeba Historic Screenshot Archive →

For the past several months, I’ve been working on a secret project with my friends over at Rogue Amoeba:

20 years ago today, on March 3, 2003, Rogue Amoeba released Audio Hijack Pro 1.0. This was a crucial event in the company’s history, as sales grew a much higher level, taking Rogue Amoeba from a hobby to a viable business.

On this anniversary, it seems fitting for us to unveil something else special: the Rogue Amoeba Historic Screenshot Archive. It’s an in-depth collection of images and information about key versions from our 20+ years in business, and we think it’s well worth a look.

Audio Hijack Pro 1.0

Over on his blog, Paul Kafasis wrote a bit more about the project:

It’s quite gratifying to be able to look back on our work, which now spans more than two decades.

It can also be humbling and amusing, and thus worth writing about on this mildly-popular humor site.

It was a ton of fun to spend time with twenty years worth of indie Mac development history. I think you’re going to love scrolling through the archive on Rogue Amoeba’s website.

Twitter Replacing Free API With Unknown ‘Paid Basic Tier’ Next Week →

Jess Weatherbed, writing at The Verge:

Twitter will no longer provide free access to the Twitter API from February 9th. As announced by the official Twitter Developer account late Wednesday night, Elon Musk’s social media hobby will stop supporting free access to the Twitter API and will instead provide a “paid basic tier.” Twitter hasn’t provided any information regarding pricing, but said that it will provide “more details on what you can expect next week.”

“Over the years, hundreds of millions of people have sent over a trillion Tweets, with billions more every week,” said the Twitter Developer account. “Twitter data are among the world’s most powerful data sets. We’re committed to enabling fast & comprehensive access so you can continue to build with us.”

This probably means the end of this site auto-posting things to Twitter, so now is probably good time to get subscribed in other ways:

Kickstarter Progress Report: November 19

I just packed and labeled the final orders for the Kickstarter! The last set of packages will be taken to the post office Monday morning. It feels great to have reached this point the weekend before Thanksgiving.

(To be fair, there are still 23 of you who have not filled out a shipping survey! If you log in to Kickstarter, you will find a direct message from me with your survey URL!)

I have loved seeing the notes from those of you who have already received yours in the mail. Keep sending them my way!

2023 Apple History Calendar: November 11 Progress Report →

It’s finally starting to feel like autumn here in Memphis. Leaves are falling, as is the temperature. In the PodCabin, I’ve been hard at work packing and shipping calendars. Yesterday, I hosted a live stream doing just that:

As of this writing, I have about 300 packages left to pack and send out! All in all, this year’s fulfillment has gone much smoother than last time. I learned a lot about the process last time around that is really paying off this year.

I am still missing surveys from about two dozen of you! If you haven’t filled out a survey on BackerKit, please check your private messages on Kickstarter — there, you will find a link to your survey to confirm your address.

If you didn’t back this project, but want a calendar, stickers or other goodies, I have pre-orders open for another couple of weeks.