Fron the Learning in Hand blog:
I thought it would be interesting to compare iPhone 3G S with one of Apple’s desktop computers from 20 years ago, Apple IIGS. The “GS” in IIGS stood for graphics and sound. However, it’s clear that today’s iPhone is much better with graphics and sound. The “S” in 3G S stands for speed. Compared to IIGS, 3G S certainly is the speedier computer. The similarities of these two computing devices pretty much stop at their names.
Check out the last item featured in Gizmodo’s weekly Photoshop contest.
If this were real, I’d be ordering one right now.
OS 9—killed off several years ago— has been almost forgotten. But almost.
Enter Classilla, a project to get a modern port of Mozilla’s browser running on OS 9:
Classilla is bringing back web browser support to your classic Macintosh – built on WaMCoM, a port of Mozilla to classic Macintosh systems, using the same technology underpinning the popular Firefox browser. It’s completely free and it’s open source, and it’s standards-compliant. Use it without cost or restriction; or, if you’ve got the skills, hack it and make it your own. Classilla brings your wonderful old Power Macintoshes back to life and back online.
The best part? It’s in stop motion:
This tip deserves to be in the OS X hall of fame. I’ve implemented it on both my Macs already.
Are software touchscreen keyboards good for everyone? Certainly not. But this is another aspect of the Apple Way. Apple tries to make things that many people love, not things that all people like. The key is that they’re not afraid of the staunch criticism, and often outright derision, that comes with breaking conventions.
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That the iPhone — or specifically its software touchscreen keyboard — does not appeal to everyone is not a problem. Nothing appeals to everyone. Even if you try to make something that appeals to everyone by adding every single clamored-for feature, you wind up with something like Windows that does not appeal to people with a taste for the elegant and refined.
This is very, very cool.
I want to point out that this map is actually provided by the town as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. I am not kidding.
Look, the town population is only about 1700. That’s smaller than a lot of high schools. I can understand that they don’t have a trained cartographer on staff, and when someone decided to make a map, they were not going to be using the latest and most advanced tools that professional cartographers use. But if you want to make a map with giant pixels, try MS Paint (or your preferred equivalent). It is, in fact, significantly harder to make a blocky pixel map in Excel. It’s a spreadsheet program. It’s designed to crunch numbers and show you if the town can afford this year’s hayride. It takes some doing to get pictures out of it.
(Video via Laughing Squid via The Memphis Blog)
I had to replace the unibody on a MacBook Pro yesterday, which requires taking everything in the notebook apart and moving it into the new case. Two hours later, it was like new.