Mike Snider, USA TODAY:
Nearly one-third (32%) of the heaviest adopters of social networks — those ages 18 to 24— connect with sites such as Facebook and Twitter in the bathroom. The new data, from NM Incite, offer a glimpse into the growing devotion that Americans have to social networks.
Time spent on social networks increased 37% over 12 months ago, according to the new report out today.
To be honest, I really miss having an iPhone when I go to the bathroom.
At Macworld San Francisco in January of 1997, Apple announced the 20th Anniversary Macintosh. Built to celebrate the company’s birthday which had occurred the previous year, the machine was constructed with gold-colored plastics, fabric and leather. It shipped on March 20, 1997 and a retail price of US$7,499.
(Don’t miss the company’s product video for the machine.)
Apple manufactured only 12,000 TAMs, with a release run of 11,601. The remaining 399 were kept by Apple for use as spare parts. The machine was only for sale in the US and UK, as well as Japan, France, Germany.
Ten TAMs were sent to Apple in Australia. At least two of these were given away as prizes to the public and one went on display in Apple’s Sydney HQ. Woz got one as a gift, and one was seen in Jerry’s apartment on Seinfeld for several seasons.
The machine came with a leather CD case and a leather holster for a matching pen and pencil set, and also included the unheard of luxury of a man in a tuxedo coming to your house to deliver, set up, and help you learn how to use your new computer.
While it might not look like it by today’s standard, when released, the TAM was shockingly thin. At 14.9 lbs and just 10" deep, it seemed impossibly thin. It’s obvious that the TAM was Apple’s most forward-thinking machine of the late 1990s.
The arrangement of the LCD, vertical optical drive and overall orientation was re-used when Apple introduced the first iMac G5 in August 2004. The use of a trackpad with a desktop system has also come back, in the form of the Magic Trackpad.
The TAM was more than just forward-thinking though — it was nice. The keyboard and trackpad were flanked in leather, and the pad itself could be popped out and used to either side. (A small leather insert found underneath the keyboard to fill the gap.) The sound system was far better than anything Apple had shipped up to that point, and with the TV tuner card, the system could be used as a media center, not just a computer.
In fact, the TAM shipped with a large, external, Bose-designed subwoofer that doubled as the machine’s power supply. This component connected to the main machine with a custom-built connector. This connector doesn’t age well, and on many remaining TAMs may suffer from broken pins or even rust.
Inside, the TAM was basically a Power Macintosh 6500 with a built-in TV/FM card. The machine ran Mac OS 7.6.1 through 9.1, and required a special version of Mac OS 8. Here are some specs:
Because of its PowerPC 603e processor, the TAM cannot run OS X without the addition of a third-party G3 processor upgrade and the use of the once-popular XPostFacto software. Even then, the TAM is best served by some variant of the classic Mac OS.
Its price was cut to $1,999 after Jobs returned to Apple, and the TAM quietly went away.
While Apple didn’t make many of the machines, and it didn’t sell well, the TAM has become a rare collectable, and marks everything that was right — and wrong — about Apple in the late 1990s.
Alfred is so ingrained in my workflow, that a Mac without it feels broken.
Rupert Murdoch, in a News Corp press release:
From its launch, The Daily was a bold experiment in digital publishing and an amazing vehicle for innovation. Unfortunately, our experience was that we could not find a large enough audience quickly enough to convince us the business model was sustainable in the long-term. Therefore we will take the very best of what we have learned at The Daily and apply it to all our properties. Under the editorial leadership of Editor-in-Chief Col Allan and the business and digital leadership of Jesse, I know The New York Post will continue to grow and become stronger on the web, on mobile, and not least, the paper itself. I want to thank all of the journalists, digital and business professionals for the hard work they put into The Daily.
While I have no idea what The Daily needed to be bringing in to be “sustainable in the long-term,” my guess is that the large overhead — coupled with News Corps’ usual greed — doomed this thing from the start.
While it certainly is a blow to the idea of a digital-only magazine (which is weird, as everyone is declaring print to be dead), I don’t think it’s the end of this type of publication. That said, this new way of publishing requires a new way of doing business, and that’s something Murdoch just doesn’t understand.
Thomas Brand:
Will I come back next year? You bet, but with two other full marathons planned for 2013, maybe I should run the half instead. The St. Jude is an amazing race that I encourage every long distance runner to experience. Memphis may not be the most exciting marathon course, but the feeling you get encouraging all of those kids to grow up, and run big, more than makes up for it. It was an honor running for St. Jude, and I want to thank everyone once again for letting me experience it.
My thanks to Thomas for running, and to everyone who made this possible. As of this writing, our team has raised $15,109.
This is an impressive hardware mod.
I’ve taken every single generation of iMac apart, and I can tell you, this thing is a very different beast inside.
Using glue to hold the LCD in place is lame, and I worry about how iMacs that have been taken apart several times will fare. That said, with just one fan (instead of the previous machine’s 3) and so many SSD options, the new machines have far fewer moving parts, which are always more prone to failure. That said, Apple’s choice to use laptop hard drives makes me sad.
(Interestingly, the 27-inch iMac seems to house a 3.5-inch drive.)
Unlike previous reports, iFixIt’s teardown shows that the RAM in the 21.5-inch model is not soldered to the logic board. Getting to it, however, requires taking the whole damn thing apart. I don’t know why Apple didn’t include the service door on this machine like it does on the 27-inch iMacs, but I hope it’s something they add in a later revision. I can deal with non-replaceable RAM in notebooks, but in a desktop machine, it’s a serious WTF decision, as desktops often have a longer lifespan than notebooks.
Looking through this report, I’m impressed at what Apple has done with the new iMacs. Apple’s been shipping the same basic design since the iMac G5, but the company keeps re-working the internals to make everything thinner and more power efficient.
However, these machines look like they are more difficult to repair than previous models, and while I’m no longer taking apart sick Macs for a living, I feel for those who do.
This YouTube playlist includes all of the 485 ads Apple has aired on television.
In an interview with Om Malik:
I am over laptops and the posture that comes with them. I am coding a lot less, so I use my computers a lot less. I still want to simplify even further and carry just one device. So, I want to try the iPad Mini with cellular antenna as my only device and as a phone replacement, and use Skype and/or Google Voice instead.
Who needs an iPhone? Not this guy.
Colugo is the easiest way to share photos privately with your friends and family.
Colugo is a simple solution to a simple organization and communication problem. Colugo doesn’t use gimmicks like other apps do. No “magic” albums or location based sharing or other features that may sound cool in theory, but when you actually use them you find they are not very useful (at best), and a privacy nightmare (at worst). Colugo is private photo sharing done right.
Want to share some of your photos publicly and others privately – in a single app?
With Colugo you can! Make one album for the world to see, and “publish” it. Keep your other albums private, viewable by only those you invite.
Tired of returning from a party and having to contact all your friends for pics?
With Colugo you won’t have to. Partygoers can take pictures directly into a party album you create and you all share.
Apple Support:
This update addresses an issue with the 27-inch LED Cinema Display that may prevent sound from playing back through the speakers on the display.
Please leave your 27-inch LED Cinema Display attached to your Mac during the update process. Your screen may go black momentarily while the update is installing.
Just ran this on my display with no issues. Hopefully it fixes the bug, which has driven me crazy for months.
Starting at $1299 for a 2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with 8 GB of RAM and a spinning hard disk, the new iMacs are now for sale. The 27-inch models ship in a couple of weeks. For $4,249.00, you can load up one of the bigger machines with these goodies:
I ordered 5 entry-level models today for work.