512 Pixels

Boston.com has some awesome shots of yesterday’s eclipse — and of people enjoying it.

Apple isn’t supporting some machines with Mountain Lion that Microsoft is with Windows 8.

Simon Royal at Low End Mac builds a case that 10.4 was the best version of OS X ever shipped. I tend to agree. Tiger certainly was better than the versions that preceded it, but far simpler (and more stable) that the version after.

To really see what Aaron is up to, check out the manifesto. It’s pretty awesome.

Matthew Panzarino:

After the deletion and restoration of Toy Story 2, the team was likely hoping for an uneventful path to release, but it was not to be.

In the Christmas of ’98, after the release of A Bug’s Life and the promotional tour was done, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter and legendary story man Joe Ranft all came to the production team to take a look at Toy Story 2.

It was not a good film.

Skyfall is coming in November.

Want.

Ken Shirriff has torn down an iPhone USB charger, and the results are impressive:

Apple’s power adapter is clearly a high-quality power supply designed to produce carefully filtered power. Apple has obviously gone to extra effort to reduce EMI interference, probably to keep the charger from interfering with the touchscreen. When I opened the charger up, I expected to find a standard design, but I’ve compared the charger to the Samsung charger and several other high-quality industry designs, and Apple goes beyond these designs in several ways.

Steve Blank, a professor at Berkeley and Stanford and Silicon Valley entrepreneur:

Silicon Valley historically would invest in science, and technology, and, you know, actual silicon. If you were a good VC you could make $100 million. Now there’s a new pattern created by two big ideas. First, for the first time ever, you have computer devices, mobile and tablet especially, in the hands of billions of people. Second is that we are moving all the social needs that we used to do face-to-face, and we’re doing them on a computer.

And this trend has just begun. If you think Facebook is the end, ask MySpace. Art, entertainment, everything you can imagine in life is moving to computers. Companies like Facebook for the first time can get total markets approaching the entire population.

Late last week, Myke and I discussed the St. Jude marathon, advertising on websites, paywalls and using sources correctly.

Oh, and my robotic arm.

Recovering from surgery and jacked up on pain pills, I decided yesterday to make some changes to the site:

• Just about everything is in Chaparral Pro, a typeface by Adobe
• Highlighting text is more fun
• The meta data that appeared between a post’s headline and body is gone. I’m working on a solution to show the date an item was published

Additionally, iPad users are now served up the “desktop” version, regardless of device orientation.