In 2003, iLife was a huge selling point for the Mac. It made managing photos, making movies and burning DVDs all easy (and even fun!) for users who found more pro-focused apps difficult to approach.
At Macworld 2004 — 15 years ago this weekend — Steve Jobs introduced GarageBand.
I’ve watched this keynote section before, but in reviewing it this week, I was struck by how underrated it is. I think it’s in the top handful of Jobs performances on stage.
For eight months this year, I used a flip phone. For most of those eight months, I hated myself and everyone else.
I tried — and failed — at this years ago, for all the reasons Kehe writes about in his article.
China’s latest lunar mission is about to touchdown on the far side of the moon, and New Horizons has completed its flyby of Ultima Thule.
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Tim Cook has published a letter to Apple investors1 announcing that the company has revised its guidance for Q1 2019. I generally find this side of Apple’s business far less interesting than its products, but this is worth reading.
In short, the company has announced its revenue will be less than it predicted, due to a bunch of factors, including on-going struggles in China, “foreign exchange headwinds” and multiple constrained products, including the Apple Watch Series 4, iPad Pro, AirPods and the MacBook Air.
It’s been pretty quiet on my YouTube channel, but I’m kicking off 2019 with something fun: A look at the most beloved notebook in Mac history, the 12-inch PowerBook G4.
This week on Ungeniused, we are ringing in the new year:
Every January 1, New Yorkers count in the new year by dropping a ball. As it turns out, that’s is more complicated than it would seem.
Turns out, that time ball is way heavier than it looks.
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Let’s say you would like to know what week of the year a certain date falls on. FileMaker Pro and ClarisWorks both have a WeekofYear function which returns the number of weeks from January 1 based on a supplied date. If you want to calculate the number of weeks starting at a date other than January 1, as in a fiscal year beginning date, you can use the following calculation given your file contains the field ProjectDate:
Alex Blumberg interviewed Ron Johnson on Gimlet’s podcast, Without Fail. It’s a super interesting conversation about Johnson’s role in creating Apple’s retail arm, his time at J.C. Penny (and how that didn’t go to planned) as well his new company. It is a fantastic interview and I enjoyed every moment of it.
On this week’s episode of Connected, we reviewed 2018, including our predictions from way back in January, and talked about what news ended up being important in the long run.
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Fifty years ago, while aboard Apollo 8, William Anders took what is perhaps the most iconic photo of the 20th century:
Dubbed Earthrise, it was the first image of our entire planet taken by someone not on it.
Anders has written about the image over on Space.com:
One of my assignments was to photograph the lunar surface to facilitate the evaluation of potential landing sites. I brought a 250 mm lens to bring that alien terrain into better view. On our fourth orbit, the spacecraft was oriented in a different direction. A startling image captivated the three of us.
On this week’s Upgrade, Jason and Myke are joined by the spirits of Apple’s past, present, and future.
I’ll let you guess which one I played.