The one about the Apple II is especially interesting.
Category: General Tech
Susan Kare Selling Prints of Classic Icons
Susan Kare is offering signed prints of original Mac OS icons, including the Bomb, the Smiling Mac and even the Alert icon.
Prices are pretty reasonable, at least for the smaller sizes:
- 8.5” x 11” edition of 200: $89
- 17” x 22” edition of 200: $129
- 24” x 30” edition of 100: $349
- 30” x 40” edition of 100: $499
These prints will make great gifts for any hardcore Apple nerds in your life. Needless to say, I’m probably ordering the dogcow one for myself.1
What’s Next for Delicious
Dropbox Hits 1.0
The easy-to-use, super reliable file sync software Dropbox wasn’t even a 1.0 product until this morning, which is kind of hard to believe, given how well it works.
Seriously, it’s awesome. It makes iDisk look like it was built by 8 year olds. If you aren’t using it, you should go sign up. If you do so via that link, we’ll both get some extra space, even on free accounts.
On Challenger
Gizmodo has a great photo up of the space shuttle Challenger being driven to the launch pad for its first flight ever.
The photo is chilling, considering what would happen just a few years later.
Trivia: I was born the exact day the shuttle exploded, killing all seven onboard. The 25th anniversary is about 6 weeks away.
The End of Delicious?
It looks like Yahoo’s cost-cutting efforts go beyond its recent layoffs. The company plans to “sunset” (i.e., shut down) a number of products including social bookmarking service Delicious, according to what looks like a leaked slide from a company-wide presentation.
The risk of losing data when a company closes a service is a very real part of cloud computing.
Update: Here’s how to move your Delicious links over to Google’s cloud. Which is probably a little more stable than Yahoo’s at this point.
On the Nook Color
Nate Anderson on the Nook Color:
The Nook Color is a nice first effort at an Android tablet from Barnes & Noble, though it would benefit from cutting back on the Christmas cookies. It has the potential to become more valuable still with a well-curated app store in the new year, but hints from Barnes & Noble have suggested that we’re likely to get things like reading-related cooking apps (which pair, conceptually at least, with cookbooks) rather than the sorts of tools that would give the Nook broader appeal.
Email Protected by Fourth Amendment
The Electronic Frontier Foundation:
In a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers. Closely tracking arguments made by EFF in its amicus brief, the court found that email users have the same reasonable expectation of privacy in their stored email as they do in their phone calls and postal mail.
On Headlines
Chairmen Gruber:[1. In a footnote to an article on app economies.]
Sensational headlines are one of the worst aspects of web-based news media. Pre-web, there wasn’t much temptation for publications to juice their headlines, with the notable exception of tabloids. In print, all publications care about is the circulation for entire issues. With the web, particularly with CPM advertising, publications are motivated to drive traffic to each individual article. Total page views, rather than issue sales, are the metric, and one easy way to juice page views is to use sensational headlines.
RIM Tablet on Video
They may be a little late to the game, but this UI is a pretty impressive combination of the best ideas from iOS and WebOS. I’m surprised this looks so good.
I do have one question, though. With touch-sensitive bezels, how do you hold the device with one hand?
[via DF]
Zuckerberg Signs Giving Pledge
The billionaire founder of social network Facebook Inc. has agreed to give the majority of his wealth to charity, part of a broader group of rich entrepreneurs committing to philanthropy earlier in their lives.
Mark Zuckerberg has signed onto the “Giving Pledge,” which asks its signatories to commit publicly to give away the majority of their wealth.
The 26-year-old is one of 16 billionaires new to the pledge, which now totals more than 50 donors. New names include AOL co-founder Steve Case, investor Carl Icahn and former junk-bond king Michael Milken.
What a Shocker: Woz Has Fake White iPhone 4
Mark Gurman at 9 to 5 Mac is reporting that the white iPhone 4 Woz showed off in a video with CNN is a fake. Here is what Woz wrote to an inquisitive 9 to 5 Mac reader:
This Chinese teen sold the white parts on the internet. I got in early (although the kid had already made $130K) and got my front and back plates and modified my iPhone 4.