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A Kickstarter Progress Report

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I just wanted to provide a quick update on how things are progressing:

  • Stickers have been ordered and should be here in the next week or so to start packing.
  • The photography and layout for the calendar are both complete, and I am currently working on another round of fact-checking. I hope to have a draft to the printer by Friday!
  • I have all the plumbing set up for surveys to go out via BackerKit. As in previous years, you’ll get an email from BackerKit once I start collecting addresses in about a month. If you use “Sign in with Apple” or Apple’s “Hide my Email” feature, you will probably never see that email. If you can send me a private message on Kickstarter with an actual email address, that would be swell. If not, I’ll be chasing you down via Kickstarter PM with your survey link.
  • If you wish to add items to your order, the time to do that will be when you get your BackerKit survey. Add-ons will include past wallpapers and .ics files, as well as a one-time-only pack of all 12 stickers that have been created or this campaign over the last three years. ????

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These Stickers Are Very Good

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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.

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Introducing the 2024 Apple History Calendar⇢

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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.

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The Apple History Digital Calendar & Wallpapers Now For Sale⇢

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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.

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Announcing the Rogue Amoeba Historic Screenshot Archive⇢

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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.

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

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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.”

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